Forest Fires from Space – Skogbrannseminar

In cooperation with Nilu and Tartu Observatory, we welcome you to a seminar on forest fires and earth observation.

There will be presentations from Nilu and Tartu Observatory on their project on Arcitic Peat- and Forest Fires, as well as other relevant projects.

More speakers and program will be announced soon.

The event will be hybrid, and can be attended in person or remotely on Teams. Please register here.

Program:

09:00                  Welcome – NOSA

09:10                   NILU

- The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) – Johannes Kaiser

- Source regions of fire emission observed during aircraft campaigns and in-situ networks - Sabine Eckhardt

- Arctic Peat- And Forest-fire Information System - Kerstin Stebel

10:30                   Break

10:45                   Arctic Peat and Forest Fires – Margit Aun, University of Tartu

11:00                   Active fire detection and burnt area estimation using Sentinel 1-3 in boreal forests – Jan Peter George, University of Tartu

11:15                    Norwegian Meteorological Institute

                            Forecasting of forest fire – Håkon Mjelstad

                            Calculating forest fire weather index (FWI) – Frederik De Roo

                            Improving input (soil moisture and snow cover) using satellite data and ground model – Jostein Blyverket

12:00                   Lunch

12:45                   Estimating vegetation height – Øivind Due-Trier, Norwegian Computing Centre

13:00                   Maps as tools in forest fires - Ola Kleppe, Ada Technologies

13:10                   Responding to forest fires - Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB)

14:00                   Discussion

15:00                   End of event