**Advances in Remote Sensing of Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery Monitoring – A Review**

Ioannis Gitas1, George Mitri2,

Sander Veraverbeke3,4 and Anastasia Polychronaki1 *1Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 2Biodiversity Program, Institute of the Environment, University of Balamand and Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Balamand, 3Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent 4Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, CA, 1Greece 2Lebanon 3Belgium 4USA* 
