1. Low Cost Space Based Monitoring of Forest Fires: An Overview of 2015-2016 Operational Experience of FIRESAT in the Basilicata Region
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Angelo Aromando, Rosa Lasaponara, Gianfranco Cardettini, Gabriele Nolè, and Biagio Tucci
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,business.industry ,Operational monitoring ,Forest fire management ,Fire management ,Environmental resource management ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Monitoring system ,02 engineering and technology ,Vegetation ,01 natural sciences ,Risk estimation ,Fire risk ,Environmental science ,Satellite images ,Sentinel ,business ,Resilience (network) ,Protezione civile Basilicata region ,021101 geological & geomatics engineering ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
This article is focused on the FIRESAT methodology developed for and funded by the Protezione Civile of the Basilicata Region. The fire monitoring system is based on satellite free of charge data and developed for the dynamic estimation of vegetation fire susceptibility and fire impact in forest and non-forestry ecosystems. The purpose of this fire risk system is the timely (daily) and detailed (from 1 km down to 30 m) monitoring of the vegetation and meteorological conditions which can affect the proneness of vegetation to fire. FIRESAT provides operational monitoring tools for a systematic forest fire management from risk estimation to fire severity mapping, including the estimation of fire damage on hydro-geological risk and vegetation fire resilience.
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- 2017
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