Satellite remote sensing has supplied many techniques for mapping the extent of the burned areas, as well as analyzing post-fi re land cover changes. As a quick and low-cost method it is used for detecting and monitoring forest fi res on a large scale. This work presents a list of forest fires of the area bigger than 1000 hectares in Europe in 2011 and the main causes of this natural disaster. Following the document concerned with burnt areas issued European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) an analysis of the basic climatic and height characteristics impact was prepared. To prepare a list of definite areas some considerations of method were performed. Total burnt forest areas including broad leaves forests, coniferous, mixed forests, sclerophyllous vegetation and transitional woodland scrubs (based on the Corine legend) bigger than 1000 hectares were separated. The territories situated out of Europe were removed. As a result of the analysis the list of 17 burnt forest areas was created. This work also shows a brief characteristics of the forest fi res problem in Europe as well as an influence of the global climate change. Furthermore, there are presented planning, management and prevention tasks in the Mediterranean region in Europe, to understand the exact distribution of large scale forest fires.
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