Publications

Conference papers

Wessels K.J., Prince S.D., Malherebe J., Small J. and P.E. Frost (2007) Can human-induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 68, 271-297.

P.E. Frost, H. Vosloo, D. Davis, S. Kumar, J. Decloites, & J. Schmaltz (2005)Development of an Advanced Fire Information System for Southern Africa De la Riva, J., Pérez-Cabello, F. & Chuvieco, E. (Eds) 2005 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment: 161-166 Universidad de Zaragoza. ISBN: 84-96214-52-4

Frost, P. and Vosloo, H. (2006). “Providing Satellite-based Early Warnings of Fires to Reduce Fire Flashovers on South African Transmission Lines”, 10th Biennial Australasian Bushfire Conference (Bushfire-2006), Brisbane, Australia. http://www.fireandbiodiversity.org.au/ ISBN: 1-84628-826-6

Frost, Philip; Annegarn, Harold, Providing satellite-based early warnings of fires to reduce fire flashovers on South Africa’s transmission lines, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International Date: 23-28 July 2007, Pages: 2443 - 2446 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423336

P.E. Frost, H. Vosloo and H. Annegarn, Providing Satellite based early warnings of fires to reduce fire flashovers on South Africa's transmission lines, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) 2 -13 July 2007, Perugia, Italy Invited Speaker

P. Frost, H. Vosloo, Providing satellite-based early warning of fires to reduce fire flashovers on South Africa’s transmission lines. Life in a fire-prone environment: translating science into practice. Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Australasian Bushfire Conference 2006. Brisbane, 6-9 June 2006. Brisbane: Griffith University

Roy, D.P., Trigg, S.N., Bhima, R., Brockett, B., Dube, O., Frost, P., Govender, N., Landmann, T., Le Roux, J., Lepono, T., Macuacua, J., Mbow, C., Mhwandangara, K., Mosepele, B., Mutanga, O., Neo-Mahupeleng, G., Norman, M., Virgilo, S., 2006, The utility of satellite fire product accuracy information - perspectives and recommendations from the southern Africa fire network, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44:1928-1930. ISSN: 0196-2892

Peer-reviewed journal papers that have been published or accepted:

P Frost, H Vosloo, Protecting Transmission, Quest: Science for South Africa, Volume 2, Nr 3, 2006, p 6-7

P Frost, H Vosloo, Fighting fire with technology, Afgriland, July/August, 2006, Vol 50 Nr 4.

R. Brits, A. P. Engelbrecht and F. van den Bergh, Particle swarm niching, Applied Mathematics and Computation, in press. (Accepted December 2006).

Van den Bergh F; Hauptfleisch AC, MARCUSIM: Mapping and Road Classification Using Satellite Imagery, literature survey, CSIR Tech. Rep., April 2006. Pta Gen 143610

Van den Bergh F; Parbhoo C; Tchangou I, Urban settlement classification: A multi-sensor study, CSIR Tech. Rep., March 2007. Pta Gen 143594

Book Chapter:

P Frost and R Scholes (2007) Advanced fire Information system In: The Full Picture. Edited by Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat. ISBN 978-92-990047-0-8

Presentations:

10th Biennial Australasian Bushfire Conference 2006. Brisbane, 6-9 June 2006 - Invited speaker

Eumetsat Geostationary fire workshop December 2006 - Invited speaker plus chair

Field work in support of the intercalibration of low resolution sensors - VITO