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João M. N. Silva
Researcher at University of Lisbon
Publications - 64
Citations - 2026
João M. N. Silva is an academic researcher from University of Lisbon. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vegetation & Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1654 citations. Previous affiliations of João M. N. Silva include Center for Global Development & Technical University of Lisbon.
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Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data
Kevin Tansey,Jean-Marie Grégoire,Daniela Stroppiana,Adélia Sousa,João M. N. Silva,José M. C. Pereira,Luigi Boschetti,Marta Maggi,Pietro Alessandro Brivio,Robert H. Fraser,S. P. Flasse,Dmitry Ershov,Elisabetta Binaghi,Dean Graetz,Pascal Peduzzi +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, an inventory of burned areas at monthly time periods for the year 2000 at a resolution of 1 km2 has been produced using satellite data and has been made freely available to the scientific community.
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The GBA2000 initiative: Developing a global burnt area database from SPOT-VEGETATION imagery
TL;DR: The scientific community dealing with modelling of emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols from anthropogenic sources demands reliable and quantitative information on the magnitude of biomass bu... as discussed by the authors, which is difficult to obtain.
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Seasonality of vegetation fires as modified by human action: observing the deviation from eco-climatic fire regimes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the global patterns of fire seasonality, which they relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and land-use variables, with detailed analyses from single 1°× 1° grid cells.
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Adaptation to climate change at local level in Europe: An overview
Francisca C. Aguiar,Julia Bentz,João M. N. Silva,Ana Lúcia Fonseca,Rob Swart,Rob Swart,Filipe Duarte Santos,Gil Penha-Lopes +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 147 Local Adaptation Strategies (LAS) in Europe and identified the main barriers and triggers for climate change vulnerability, including insufficient resources, capacity, political commitment and uncertainty.
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Comparison of burned area estimates derived from SPOT-VEGETATION and Landsat ETM+ data in Africa: Influence of spatial pattern and vegetation type
TL;DR: In this article, an algorithm for burned area mapping in Africa based on classification trees was developed using SPOT-VEGETATION (VGT) imagery, which was compared with 30 m spatial resolution maps obtained with 13 Landsat ETM+ scenes, through linear regression analysis.