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GOFC-GOLD Fire Implementation Team Meeting

Canadian Space Agency

Montreal, Canada

February 7-9, 2005

Presentations


Wildfire Issues and Fire Management in Canada (Bill de Groot, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre)

The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System in support of the National Forest Carbon Accounting System and the National Sustainable Development Strategy (Tim Lynham, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre)

Coarse Resolution Burned Area Mapping for Coarse Resolution Burned Area Mapping for CWFIS and Emissions Reporting (Robert Fraser, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Environmental Monitoring Section)

Estimating Canadian Wildfire Carbon Emissions: Fuels and Burning Conditions (Bill de Groot, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre)

Hotspot-assisted fire spread mapping and fuel consumption estimates (Peter Englefield, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre)

Operational Fire & Smoke Monitoring: NOAA's Hazard Mapping System and Associated Products (George Stephens, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD, Satellite Services Division, USA)

Field Assessment of Fuel Consumption and Fire Severity on Wildfires (Vern Peters, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre)

Fire Regimes: IGBP Fast Track Initiative (Mike Flannigan, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre)

Status of the Global Status of the Global Wildland Wildland Fire Network Fire Network and the Development on an International and the Development on an International Wildland Wildland Fire Fire Accord (Johann Goldammer, Global Fire Monitoring Center Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany)

Operational Global Geostationary Operational Global Geostationary Fire Network Update (Elaine Prins, NOAA/NESDIS/ASPT, USA)

Validation Networks and Protocols (David Roy, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA)

Burned Land Mapping in Latin America: The AQL 2004 Initiative (Hector del Valle, Landscape Ecology, Remote Sensing Applications, Centro Nacional Patagónico, Argentina)

Australian Burnt Area Mapping Validation Network (Grant Allan, Northern Territory Bushfires Council, Australia)

Rapid Fire Detection in Mexico and Central America Using Remote Sensins Methods (Bart Wickel, CONABIO, Mexico)

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GOFC/GOLD-Fire is one of the three themes of the overall GOFC/GOLD initiative. Maintained by Stefania Korontzi at University of Maryland, Department of Geography. NOTE: Many documents on this site are available in Adobe Acrobat format.