Geographia Technica, No. 1/2007, pp. 77 - 82

BURNT AREA STATISTICS USING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE – THE KASSANDRA 2006 FIRE CASE STUDY

A. POLYCHRONAKI, M. MATEESCU

ABSTRACT - High licensing costs of proprietary GIS software led to the development of a free, open-source package for Burnt Area Statistics (BAS2), providing not only reporting but also 3D rendering. Operation of the BAS2 tool has been validated by applying the same analysis using ArcGIS, for the Kassandra (2006) forest fire, finding virtually no difference in computed outputs.

Keywords: open-source, burnt area statistics, Kassandra fire, software, analysis

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