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2nd GOFC/GOLD Workshop on Geostationary Fire Monitoring and Applications

EUMETSAT

Darmstadt, Germany

December 4-6, 2006

Oral presentations


General Overview of International Geostationary Satellite Fire Monitoring Capabilities, Review of Last Meeting & Objectives for this Meeting (E. Prins, UW-Madison CIMSS)

Overview of GOFC/GOLD Fire Project (I. Csiszar, UMD-College Park )

WMO and Overview of GEOSS/GEO Fire Components (M. Brady, Natural Resources Canada / GOFC-GOLD Project Office)

CGMS Role and Fire Recommendations (P. Valabrega, EUMETSAT)

Update on U.N. Fire Related Activities, Emissions Inventory and Discussion (J. Goldammer, Max Planck Institute GFMC)

Status of the Meteosat Missions (Y. Govaerts, EUMETSAT)

The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) (J. Kibler, NOAA/NESDIS )

Application of Fire Monitoring By Using FY-2C Geostationary Meteorological Satellite and Other Satellites (L. Cheng, NSMC - China)

Remote Sensing of Fires in Australia and First Results of Using MTSAT-1R for Fire Detection in Australia and South-East Asia (S. Maier, SRSS - Australia)

The Role of Remote Sensing to Support Active Fire Mapping, Post-Fire Rehabilitation and Forest Monitoring within the USDA Forest Service (T. Bobbe, USFS - USA)

Development of a Fire Information System: Monitoring Fires Underneath Transmission Lines (P. Frost and H. Vosloo, CSIR – South Africa)

Status and Plans for Global Geostationary Fire Detection and Monitoring with the WF_ABBA (E. Prins, UW-Madison CIMSS)

Geostationary Fire Detection and Characterisation: New Method and Results from One Year of SEVIRI Data (M. Wooster, Kings College)

GOES Rapid Scan Wildfire ABBA (C. Schmidt, UW-Madison CIMSS)

Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE): 7 Years of Lessons and Prospects (J. Reid, NRL-Monterey)

Recommendations for a Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) as Part of GMES (J. Kaiser, ECMWF)

Identifying and Reducing Key Uncertainties in Biomass Burning Emissions in a Model Based on Active Fire Detection (E. Hyer, NRL-Monterey)

SEVIRI/MSG Sensor Early Fire Detection Performance Assessment (G. Laneve, University of Rome CRPSM)

Validation of Active Fire Products from Four Satellites Using Fire Perimeter Surveys from Canadian Fire Agencies (T. Lynham, Canadian Forest Service)

GOES Active Fire Product Validation Using High Resolution Data (W. Schroeder, UMD – College Park)

Posters


Fire Detection Over Africa Using MSG/SEVIRI Data (M. Amraui, UTAD, Portugal)

Global mapping of fire-affected area using multi-temporal MODIS data: the MCD45 product (D. Roy, South Dakota State University)

Characterizing and Understanding the Differences Between GOES WF_ABBA and MODIS Fire Products (J. Hoffman, CIMSS/U. Wisconsin)

Monitoring Fire Activity in a Mediterranean Ecosystem Using SEVIRI Geostationary Imagery: A Case Study (I. Palumbo, JRC)

The EUMETSAT Operational Active Fire Monitoring (H.-J. Lutz, EUMETSAT)

A Tool for Early Warning and Monitoring of Fire: MSG Active Fire Monitoring Product (A. E. Tekeli, Turkish State Meteorological Service )

Building a GEO Community of Practice for Forest Observations (M. Brady, Canadian Forest Service)

Global Early Warning System for Wildland Fire: the Links to Multi-Hazard Approches in Early Warning (Global Wildland Fire Early Warning Consortium)

The use of Remote Sensing Products for Early Wildland Fire Warning and Detection: Copntributory Projects within GOFC-GOLD-Fire (Global Wildland Fire Early Warning Consortium)

Robust satellite techniques (RST) for forest fire detection (Carolina Filizzola, IMAA-CNR)

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