Did you maybe mean one of these? paleogeography, pyrography
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Wiktionary
- n. rare The geographical study of the spread of fire.
Etymologies
- pyro- + geography (Wiktionary)
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“In research, called the first of its kind, scientists used European Space Agency thermal-infrared satellite sensor data in their global study of pyrogeography -- the distribution and behavior of wildfire.”
“Researchers used thermal-infrared sensor data obtained between 1996 and 2006 from European Space Agency satellites in their study of pyrogeography - the distribution and behavior of wildfire - on a global scale.”
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nateritter vielmetti.typepad.com also refers to pyrogeography in the del.icio.us/technorati tag for Nate Ritter's (my) Twitter reporting on the San Diego fires of 2007. Dec 11, 2007
seanahan "Remote sensing specialist", a.k.a, quack. Oct 24, 2007
edwardvielmetti Biogeographer and remote sensing specialist Stephen Yool runs the Pyrogeography Research Laboratory (PRL). The PRL specializes in the biogeography of wildfire - pyrogeography, to coin a term.
Oct 23, 2007