THE NEW GENERATION OF REMOTE SENSING SERVICES FOR OPERATIONAL FOREST FIRE-FIGHTING WITHIN GMES

摘要

Preview is a European VI Framework Programme project intending to setup the next generation of services for disaster management support, within the EC/ESA GMES initiative. A cluster of experienced organizations within Europe is preparing the basis of this new generation of services, compiled in a single portfolio covering all scales at pan-European level, built from final user needs and taking into account all previous efforts in the area. Forest fires, Windstorms, Plain floods and Flash floods, Earthquake & Volcanic risks, Landslides and Industrial accidents are considered. All the information services are developed, tested and validated at European scale with operational users on pilot test sites distributed over 9 countries. With respect to forest fires, the portfolio includes information services to be used before, during and after the crisis, built on top of rapid and customised platforms and embedded with the required information that is currently available. Fuel long-term variant parameters such as Fuel type, Load and Canopy cover with very high resolution imagery, a fire risk index improving the product resolution and type of input data considered. Hotspot detection maps and fireline monitoring based among others on new MSG SEVIRI sensor, fire propagation engines and tools for its operational use during the crisis phase; burned area assessment and development of new algorithms for fire severity estimation are some of the services discussed and analysed in this paper.