New RedLaTIF website
Posted:
8/5/2008
The Latin American Forest Fire Remote Sensing Network, a regional GOFC-GOLD Fire network, has redesigned its website. The website contains updated information on network participants, projects and related events.
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Declaration of the EARSeL Special Interest Group (SIG) on Forest Fires.
Posted:
5/2/2008
The Declaration is an important outcome of the The 6th International Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group (SIG) on Forest Fires heldl in Thessaloniki, Greece from 26 - 29 September 2007.
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New Indonesian fire project funded by AusAid
Posted:
3/15/2007
The project is a 12 month collaborative effort between the Indonesian Ministries of Forestry and Environment and the Department of Land Information’s Satellite Remote Sensing Services in Western Australia to develop capacity for the use of fire hot spot information.
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Presentations from the 2005 International EOS/NPP Direct Readout Meeting are available
Posted:
9/7/2006
The presentations inlude useful information for users of direct-readout systems to generate a number of products, including fire. Some presentations also provide details on the future NPP and NPOESS missions.
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Development of an International Wildland Fire Accord
Posted:
9/14/2005
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Updated Executive Summary from the Workshop on Global Geostationary Fire Moniroting Applications is available.
Posted:
1/30/2005
The workshop was held on 23-25 March, 2004, in Darmstadt, Germany. Click on the above link fo a detailed Executive Summary. Note that this includes several updates compared to the previously posted version.
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Focus on India
Posted:
12/21/2004
There have been some major developments related to space-based fire observations in India. Click on the link above for details.
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Presentations from the CEOS Workshop on Rapid Response Systems are available.
Posted:
11/21/2004
The workshop was help in Wuhan, China, on 5-6 May 2004. Many presentations covered fire monitoring from satellites. Click here to access the worshop website.
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The ATSR World Fire Atlas data for 2002 and January to October 2003 are now available.
Posted:
11/14/2004
From 1 January 2003, the AATSR instrument on board ENVISAT has replaced the ATSR-2 intrument on board ERS-2.
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Landsat Continuity Data Mission status
Posted:
10/29/2003
Read open letter about the status of this important source of fire product validation data.
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BIRD satellite observes progression of fires in British Columbia
Posted:
9/23/2003
The Bi-spectral Infrared Detection satellite has recently observed fire complexes in British Columbia over three consecutive nights. Imagery from these observations is shown in this PowerPoint presentation. This study demonstrates the excellent regional overview capabilities of the BIRD satellite.
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International Wildland Fire Summit approaching
Posted:
9/23/2003
See comprehensive information on the summit at the GFMC website .
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Expert Meeting for Southern African Countries
Posted:
3/14/2003
Satellite Applications Centre/CSIR is hosting an Expert Meeting on "Low to Medium Resolution Satellite Sensors and Disaster Monitoring" on the 5th and 6th of June in Pretoria, South Africa. It will be a closed meeting bringing together representatives from 25 institutions that are developing or are interested in developing projects in the area of space technology and disaster management. For more information see the Information Note (PDF format).
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Space Technology and Disaster Management Workshop
Posted:
3/14/2003
The next workshop on space technology and disaster management, organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, will be for the European region and will be held in Romania from 19-23 May 2003. The Information Note and the Application Form can be downloaded from the UNOOSA website at http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SAP/stdm. Deadline for application is 12 April 2003.
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Fire danger products over Southeast Asia are available
Posted:
3/13/2003
The products are results from the Southeast Asia Fire Danger Rating System Project, a 5.5 year Canadian International Development Agency initiative. The project is executed by the Canadian Forest Service with partner agencies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and at the ASEAN level. The URL for the regional site is http://nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/seasia/en/index_e.html. (Links to the Indonesian and Malaysian sites can be found under the "Links to other Initiatives" choice in the left side menu bar.) Further information can be also found in the project’s newsletter (PDF format).
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GLOBSCAR products are available
Posted:
1/28/2003
GLOBSCAR products (global burnt areas in 2000 using ATSR-2) are now available for the user community. The dataset can be found at the VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological Research) Geosuccess website at http://www.geosuccess.net under the burn scar detection section.
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Fire-related sessions at EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly in April 2003
Posted:
1/14/2003
Assembly being held in Nice, France, 6-11 April. The program of this event, held jointly by the European Geophysical Society, the American Geophysical Union and the European Union of Geosciences, includes several sessions with relevance to fires. Abstract submission deadline is January 15. For details visit the meeting website at http://www.copernicus.org/egsagueug/index.html.
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The final version of the Global Burnt Area 2000 inventory is available
Posted:
12/12/2002
The final version of the Global Burnt Area-2000 map (GBA20000) has been released. This version includes reprocessed data over several regions based on user comments. Documentation on qualitative evaluation and algorithms are also found on the product's website at http://www.gvm.jrc.it/fire/gba2000/index.htm.
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3rd International Wildland Fire Conference and Exhibition
10/3/2003
- 10/6/2003
Sidney, Australia
Posted:
12/12/2002
The conference will be held in Sidney, Australia on 3-6 October 2003. For details visit the conference website at http://www.wildlandfire03.com/home.asp. Abstract submission deadline is January 10, 2003.
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GOFC-Fire S.E. Asia meeting and call for papers announced
Posted:
10/14/2002
The meeting will be held as a special session of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) Earth Monitoring and Disaster Warning Working Group (EM-WG),
January 21-24, 2003 Fukuoka, Japan. For details see meeting announcement in PDF or MSWord format, or visit http://www.jp.apan.net.
(When you click the APAN link, you may be asked if you want to install a language pack. If you click "Cancel" in the Language Pack Installation dialog box, an English version of the APAN site should then open normally.)
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Beta version of the Global Burnt Area-2000 product available
Posted:
10/14/2002
The beta version of the Global Burnt Area-2000 map (GBA20000) is now available for review and comments. This product is an inventory of the areas burnt during the year 2000, as derived from the 1 km resolution SPOT VEGETATION satellite imagery.
Information and products can be found at:
http://www.gvm.sai.jrc.it/fire/gba2000_website/index.htm
and/or
http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/earlywarning/preview/ims/gba/
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MSG-1 launched
Posted:
9/19/2002
The first satellite of the geostationary Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) series was successfully launched on August 28, 2002. The SEVIRI instrument on board MSG will allow active fire monitoring at high temporal frequency. Read about MSG and the launch at http://www.eumetsat.de/en/index.html.
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Fire-related sessions at the joint July 2002 IEEE IGARSS and the 24th Canadian Symposium on
Remote Sensing
Posted:
7/19/2002
Various fire-related oral and interactive presentations occurred within the sessions "Disaster Management and Support" and "Fires and Fire Danger Monitoring". FMI visit the Symposium's website at http://www.igarss02.ca/index.html.
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NOAA-M launched
Posted:
6/26/2002
The newest member of the polar orbiter NOAA series has
been launched onto a 10:00 am sun-synchronous orbit on June 24, 2002. The
satellite carries the six-channel AVHRR with the switchable channel 3A/3B
(1.6/3.7 micron). Channel 3B provides the capability of daytime active
fire detection.
Link to details on the NOAA Office of Systems Development website at
http://www.osd.noaa.gov/news/articles/noaa_M_success.htm.
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NOAA-16/AVHRR channel 3B turned on during the daytime over Colorado, USA
Posted:
6/17/2002
The usual operating schedule of the switchable AVHRR channel 3A/3B (1.6/3.7 micron) on board NOAA-16, the currently operational "afternoon" NOAA satellite, is to turn 3A on for daytime and 3B for nighttime. Due to the unprecedented wildfires in the state of Colorado, USA, in support of the fire monitoring and suppression activities, channel 3B will be turned on over the region for the next two weeks. For further updates, see the SATOPS Morning Report on the NOAA Office of Satellite Operations website at http://www.oso.noaa.gov/daily-news.
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Special session on fire-related studies at the Spring 2002 meeting of the American Geophysical Union
Posted:
6/1/2002
This special session was devoted to a wide range of fire-related studies including remote and in situ observation of
all fire attributes (hot spots, burned scars, and smoke particulate and gas emissions) and applications of the observations in understanding
fire impact on, and interaction with, weather, climate, environment and ecosystem; modeling fire spread and smoke transportation;
as well as policy issues related to wildfire management.
FMI visit the meeting website at http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm02top.html.
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AQUA satellite launched
Posted:
5/4/2002
On May 4, 2002 the second satellite of the Earth Observing System (EOS) series was launched onto an afternoon sun-synchronous orbit. On board Aqua is the second MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument, which provides global, medium-resolution near-real time measurements useful for fire mapping. FMI visit http://aqua.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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SPOT5 successfully launched
Posted:
5/3/2002
The SPOT5 satellite, carrying the VEGETATION instrument was launched on May 3, 2002. For further details, visit the SPOT web site at http://www.spot.com/.
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ENVISAT-1 satellite launched
Posted:
2/28/2002
On February 28, 2002, the Envisat-1 satellite was successfully launched by the European Space Agency. On board the satellite is the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, which has 15 programmable channels to measure the reflected solar radiation in the VIS and NIR spectral region at 300 m resolution. Potential applications include burned area mapping. FMI visit http://envisat.esa.int.
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BIRD satellite launched
Posted:
10/22/2001
The Bi-spectral Infrared Detection satellite, carrying the two-channel infrared Hot Spot Recognition Sensor system (HSRS) and the Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner (WAOSS-B) was launched on October 22, 2001. HSRS, which is dedicated to fire detection and analysis, provides MIR and TIR meaurements at 370 m resolution. FMI visit http://spacesensors.dlr.de/SE/bird/index.shtml.
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