List of works by Nikos Koutsias

A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach to Study the Long-Term Vegetation Recovery of a Fire-Affected Pine Forest in Southern Greece

A Revised Historical Fire Regime Analysis in Tunisia (1985–2010) from a Critical Analysis of the National Fire Database and Remote Sensing

A forward/backward principal component analysis of Landsat-7 ETM+ data to enhance the spectral signal of burnt surfaces

A process-based land use/land cover change assessment on a mountainous area of Greece during 1945-2009: Signs of socio-economic drivers

scientific article published on 26 February 2017

A rule-based semi-automatic method to map burned areas: exploring the USGS historical Landsat archives to reconstruct recent fire history

An autologistic regression model for increasing the accuracy of burned surface mapping using Landsat Thematic Mapper data

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Assessment of Post-fire Soil Erosion Risk in Fire-Affected Watersheds Using Remote Sensing and GIS

Burned area mapping in Mediterranean environment using medium-resolution multi-spectral data and a neuro-fuzzy classifier

Burned area mapping using logistic regression modeling of a single post-fire Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper image

Classification analyses of vegetation for delineating forest fire fuel complexes in a Mediterranean test site using satellite remote sensing and GIS

Comparing ten classification methods for burned area mapping in a Mediterranean environment using Landsat TM satellite data

Comparing the spectral signal of burned surfaces between Landsat 7 ETM+ and Landsat 8 OLI sensors

Correcting the Fire Scar Perimeter of a 1983 Wildfire Using USGS-Archived Landsat Satellite Data

scholarly article by Foula Nioti et al published October 2011 in GIScience & remote sensing

Decreasing Fires in Mediterranean Europe

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Determining Fire Dates and Locating Ignition Points With Satellite Data

Differences of fire activity and their underlying factors among vegetation formations in Greece

Do Factors Causing Wildfires Vary in Space? Evidence from Geographically Weighted Regression

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Ecological adaptations of plants to drought influencing the recent fire regime in the Mediterranean

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Fire occurrence zones: kernel density estimation of historical wildfire ignitions at the national level, Greece

scholarly article by Nikos Koutsias et al published 14 April 2014 in Journal of Maps

Fire occurrence zoning from local to global scale in the European Mediterranean basin: implications for multi-scale fire management and policy

Geographical patterns of Corine land cover diversity across Europe

Increasing extremes of heat and drought associated with recent severe wildfires in southern Greece

scholarly article by Dimitrios Sarris et al published 19 December 2013 in Regional Environmental Change

Landscape – wildfire interactions in southern Europe: implications for landscape management.

scientific article published on 08 July 2011

Lightning-ignited wildfires and long continuing current lightning in the Mediterranean Basin: preferential meteorological conditions

scientific article published in 2021

Linking fire ignitions hotspots and fuel phenology: The importance of being seasonal

scientific article published in 2017

Logistic regression modelling of multitemporal Thematic Mapper data for burned area mapping

article published in 1998

MONITOR: Hazard monitoring for risk assessment and risk communication

Mapping and interpreting historical land cover/land use changes in a Natura 2000 site using earth observational data: The case of Nestos delta, Greece

Mapping wildfire occurrence at regional scale

scholarly article by Juan de la Riva et al published August 2004 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Mapping wildfire occurrence at regional scale

scientific article published in 2004

Maps of fire occurrence – spatially explicit reconstruction of recent fire history using satellite remote sensing

Modelling long-term fire occurrence factors in Spain by accounting for local variations with geographically weighted regression

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Modelling surface runoff to evaluate the effects of wildfires in multiple semi-arid, shrubland-dominated catchments

scholarly article by Elias Moussoulis et al published 11 May 2015 in Hydrological Processes

Modelling the eco-cultural niche of giant chestnut trees: new insights into land use history in southern Switzerland through distribution analysis of a living heritage

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Monitoring and Projecting Land Use/Land Cover Changes of Eleven Large Deltaic Areas in Greece from 1945 Onwards

scientific article published in 2020

Monitoring land use/land cover transformations from 1945 to 2007 in two peri-urban mountainous areas of Athens metropolitan area, Greece.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Multivariate analysis of landscape wildfire dynamics in a Mediterranean ecosystem of Greece

scholarly article by Kostas D Kalabokidis et al published September 2007 in Area

Object-based classification using Quickbird imagery for delineating forest vegetation polygons in a Mediterranean test site

Object-based classification using a synergy of high spatial (IKONOS) and high spectral (ASTER) satellite data in a rural NATURA 2000 deltaic area

On the relationships between forest fires and weather conditions in Greece from long-term national observations (1894–2010)

Post-fire regeneration patterns of Pinus nigra in a recently burned area in Mount Taygetos, Southern Greece: The role of unburned forest patches

scientific article published in 2014

Precipitation dominates fire occurrence in Greece (1900–2010): its dual role in fuel build-up and dryness

Predicting wildfire spread and behaviour in Mediterranean landscapes

scholarly article by Michele Salis et al published 2016 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Relationships between vegetation indices and different burn and vegetation ratios: a multi-scale approach applied in a fire affected area

Robust projections of Fire Weather Index in the Mediterranean using statistical downscaling

article published in 2013

SVM-Based Fuzzy Decision Trees for Classification of High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Images

scholarly article

Sensitivity of spectral reflectance values to different burn and vegetation ratios: A multi-scale approach applied in a fire affected area

Sensitivity of vegetation indices to different burn and vegetation ratios using LANDSAT-5 satellite data

Spatial patterns and genetic structures within beech populations (Fagus sylvatica L.) of forked and non-forked individuals

article by A. Dounavi et al published 1 July 2010 in European Journal of Forest Research

Species-based versus habitat-based evaluation for conservation status assessment of habitat types in the East Aegean islands (Greece)

Spectral and Spatial-Based Classification for Broad-Scale Land Cover Mapping Based on Logistic Regression

scientific article published on 08 December 2008

Temporal variations and change in forest fire danger in Europe for 1960–2012

scientific article published on 03 January 2021

The outstanding synergy between drought, heatwaves and fuel on the 2007 Southern Greece exceptional fire season

scholarly article by Célia M. Gouveia et al published March 2016 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The role of fire as a long-term landscape modifier: Evidence from long-term fire observations (1922–2000) in Greece

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Where did the fires burn in Peloponnisos, Greece the summer of 2007? Evidence for a synergy of fuel and weather

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