Ecosystem monitoring after a forest fire is based on the study of vegetation dynamics. Remote-sensing analysis makes an important contribution to finding quantitative differences in green biomass and soil-plant water amounts, permitting the examination of the ecosystem's capacity to return to its former condition (i.e. before the fire), namely its resilience. This article describes ecosystem monitoring in Slovenia, where Landsat data from this area has been analyzed with gvSIG’s remote sensing extension.
