**Part 3 Fires 141**  Chapter 7 **Advances in Remote Sensing of Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery Monitoring – A Review 143**  Ioannis Gitas, George Mitri, Sander Veraverbeke and Anastasia Polychronaki Chapter 8 **The Science and Application of Satellite Based Fire Radiative Energy 177**  Evan Ellicott and Eric Vermote **Part 4 Models 193**  Chapter 9 **Resilience and Stability Associated with Conversion of Boreal Forest 195**  Jacquelyn Kremper Shuman and Herman Henry Shugart Chapter 10 **Reconstructing LAI Series by Filtering Technique and a Dynamic Plant Model 217**  Meng Zhen Kang, Thomas Corpetti, Jing Hua and Philippe de Reffye **Part 5 Applications 229**  Chapter 11 **Mapping Aboveground and Foliage Biomass Over**

**the Porcupine Caribou Habitat in Northern Yukon and Alaska Using Landsat and JERS-1/SAR Data 231**  Wenjun Chen, Weirong Chen, Junhua Li, Yu Zhang, Robert Fraser, Ian Olthof, Sylvain G. Leblanc and Zhaohua Chen

