1. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy

2. INDEX 1.ON-GOING INICIATIVES IN SPACE OBSERVATION OF FIRES 2.CURRENTLY AVAILABLE SPACE-BASED PRODUCTS 3.OPERATIVE SATELLITES OF USE FOR PREFER 4.FUTURE SATELLITE OF USE FOR PREFER 5.CONCLUSIONS Scope of WP 3.1: look at the data continuity for PREFER products

3. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy CEOS GTOS GOFC-GOLD Fire Mapping and Mon. Theme UN-ISDR GFMC GOALS:  generate EO data according to standards,  optimize the access to geo-information products  articulate the international requirements for the fire-related EO  make the best possible use of fire products from existing and future satellite missions. GMES Land Emergency Maritime INTERNAT. COORD. LARGE SCALE EO-BASED FIRE MONITOR. EC EFFIS ECVFire disturbance ESA

4. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy OPERATIONAL EO-BASED FIRE DATA OVER EUROPE  LAND COVER:  GIO-LAND CORE SERVICE  BURNT AREA  MODIS BURNT AREA PRODUCT  GIO-EMS CORE SERVICE  RUSH  NON-RUSH  EFFIS  RAPID DAMAGE ASSESSMENT  FIRE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT  ACTIVE FIRE  EFFIS  EUMETSAT- MSG-SEVIRI  HAZARD/ RISK ASSESSMENT  EFFIS  GLOBAL EARLY FIRE WARNING SYSTEM  ESA FIRE ATLAS (2012)  GLOBSCAR, L3JRC, …  GIO-LAND Core Service LAND COVER  MODIS Global burnt area  GIO-EMS Core Service  EFFIS  RAPID DAMAGE assessment  FIRE DAMAGE assessment BURNT AREAS  MODIS FIRMS  EFFIS  EUMETSAT- MSG-SEVIRI ACTIVE FIRE  EFFIS  GLOBAL EARLY FIRE WARNING SYSTEM  ESA FIRE ATLAS (not operative)  GLOBSCAR, L3JRC (not operative) HAZARD/ RISK ASSESSMENT Rush Non-Rush

5. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy CURRENT AVAILABILITY OF EO-BASED FIRE PRODUCTS  MODIS BURNT AREA PRODUCT MCD41 burnt areaMODIS 500 m  GIO-EMS CORE SERVICE  RUSH  NON-RUSH Several EO sources 1:5.000 – 1:500.000  EFFIS  RAPID DAMAGE ASSESS.  FIRE DAMAGE ASSESS  MODIS 250 m  IRS/DMC 56/32 m  HAZARD/ RISK ASSESSMENT  EFFIS  GLOBAL EARLY FIRE WARNING SYSTEM  Fire Danger (FWI)  Fire Danger (FWI), not downloadable METEO (NON-EO)  10 km /36 km  Global  ACTIVE FIRE  MODIS  EFFIS  EUMETSAT  Hotspots  Hotspots & Fire Radative Power  MODIS  MSG-SEVIRI  ENVISAT ATRS

6. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS PREP/PREV/RECOVERY  OPTICAL MSS  Vegetation presence and condition  RED: vegetation types  NIR: amount of live biomass, photosynthesis  SWIR: turgidity (plant’s moisture content)  RED-EDGE: chlorophiles (a, b)  THERMAL-IR: evaporation rates  RADAR  Amount and structure  C-band: land cover, soil moisture  L-band: land cover  P-Band: biomass CURRENT OPT. SENSORS FOR FIRE PREP./PREVENT/RECOVERY

7. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy CURRENT OPT. SENSORS FOR FIRE PREP./PREVENT/RECOVERY

8. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy CURRENTLY OPERATIVE SATELLITES OF USE FOR PREFER OPTICAL SENSORS  120 currently operating,  45 could be used for at least one of PREFER targets  pan-European coverage: 37 sensors High≤10m (9) Medium ≤ 32m (9) Very High ≤ 2’5m (5) Low (3)

9. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy FUTURE MISSIONS  Data continuation  SENTINEL-1  C-band SAR data  Medium resolution, revisit 1-3 days  High resolution covered with TerraSAR-X and Cosmo-SkyMed  Land cover mapping (under clouds), AG Forest biomass  Launch early 2014  SENTINEL-2  MSS (13 bands), 10, 20 and 60 m resolution  High  Medium resolution, revisit 5 days, large swath  Land services and disaster control  SWIR (vegetation stress monitoring, fire behaviour)  THERMAL –IR: evaporation rates, stress analyses  Launch end 2014 SPOT-4/5 ENV-AATSR ENV-MERIS SPOT-VEGT ENV-ASAR

10. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy FUTURE MISSIONS  SENTINEL-3  Instruments for marine observation  Low resolution, revisit 2 days  Land cover mapping, fire detection  Altimeter: Sea surface topography  Radiometer: Sea and Land Surface Temperature VIS, NIR (500 m), SWIR (0,3 km), TIR (1 km)  SENTINEL 4 and 5  Improved weather forecast  METOP SG  Aerosols optical depth, ash type  ALOS-PALSAR  Biomass

11. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy 1 Future sensors for Biomass Burning Monitoring I NTRUMENT / P LATFORM T YPE OF INSTRUMENT ( PREVIOUS SENSOR HERITAGE ) S PECTRAL FEATURES RETRIEVABLE B IOMASS B URNING P ARAMETERS T EMPORAL AND S PATIAL COVERAGE L AUCH DATE Oceand and Land Color Imager OLCI / Sentinel 3 Moderate-resolution optical imager (MERIS heritage) 21 channels in 400 – 1020 nm aerosol effective radius, aerosol type Polar (10:00) Pixel 300m Global coverage in 2 days 2014 Tropospheric Monitoring Intrument Tropomi / Sentinel-5P Cross-nadir scanning SW sounder (OMI heritage) 3 spectral bands in the range 270- 2385 nm AOD,Polar (13:30) Pixel 7 x 7 km Global coverage every day 2015 Advanced Baseline Imager ABI / GOES-R Moderate-resolution optical imager (GOES Imager heritage) 16 channels, balanced VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR and TIR 0.47 – 13.3 μm Aerosol particle size, Ash mass loading and height GEO – full disk every 15 min Pixel 0.5 km (VIS) 1 km (VIS-NIR) 2 km (TIR) 2015 Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer IASI / Metop-C EPS Cross-nadir scanning IR sounder 8461 channels in the range 3.62 -15.5 μm Ash concentration estimates Polar (09:30, 21:30) Pixel 12 km Near-global coverage twice/day 2018 Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 GOME-2 / Metop-C EPS Cross-nadir scanning SW sounder 4096 channels, with 200 polarisation channels in the range 240-790 nm AODPolar (09:30) Pixel 40 x 80 km 2 Global coverage every 3 days 2018 Flexible Combined Imager - FCI / MTG –I1 Moderate-resolution optical imager (SEVIRI heritage) 16 channels, balanced VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR and TIR from 0.44 to 13.3 μm AODGEO - full disk every 5 min Pixel 1 km (VIS-NIR), 2km (TIR) 2019

12. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy I NTRUMENT / P LATFORM T YPE OF INSTRUMENT ( PREVIOUS SENSOR HERITAGE ) SPECTRAL FEATURES RETRIEVABLE BIOMASS BURNING P ARAMETERS T EMPORAL AND S PATIAL COVERAGE L AUCH DATE InfraRed Sounder - IRS / MTG –S1 Cross-nadir scanning IR sounder (IASI heritage) 14.3 - 8.26 µm 6.25 – 4.6 µm IR ash concentration GEO pixel 4 km 30/60 mim 2021 UVN Sentinel-4 / MTG-S1 Cross-nadir scanning SW sounder (GOME2-OMI heritage) 3 channels covering the 305 – 775 nm –range AODGEO 25W – 30E/ 25N – 60N 10/20 min pixel 8x8 km 2019 UVNS Sentinel-5 / Metop-SG-A1 EPS-SG Cross-nadir scanning SW sounder (GOME2 heritage) 6 bands to cover the range 270- 2400 nm, AODPolar (09:30) Pixel 7 x 7 km Near-global coverage every day ≥ 2021 IASI-NG / Metop-SG- A1 EPS-SG Cross-nadir scanning IR sounder (IASI heritage) 16,920 channels in the range 3.62-15.50 μm Ash concentration estimates Polar (09:30, 21:30) Pixel 12km Near-global coverage twice/ day ≥ 2021 3MI / Metop-SG-A1 EPS – SG Moderate-resolution optical imager (Polder – Parasol heritage) 12 narrow- bandwidth channels 410 – 2130 nm coarse-fine mode, aerosol size, layer height Polar (13:30) Pixel 4 km Near-global coverage every day ≥ 2021 2 Future sensors for Biomass Burning Monitoring

13. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy DATA CONTINUITY IN PREFER PRODUCTRES/TIME REQDATA CONTINUITY VulnerabilitySpatial: High-Medium Temp: Low  RapidEye, Ikonos, Kompsat  Sentinel 2 FIre HazardSpatial: high-Mediaum Temp: high  Sentinel -2  NPP-VIIRS  Sentinel-3 Fuel typesSpatial: High-Medium Temp: high-medium  RapidEye  Landsat  Sentinel -2 Prescribe d burningSpatial: high-(medium) Temp: low  RapidEye  Ikonos  Sentinel 2 Severity damageSpatial: high-medium Temp: high Timeliness critical  Sentinel-2  PRISMA  ENVMAP Biomass burningSpatial::low Temp:hijgh Timeliness critical  NPP-VIIRS, OMI-AURA  MetOp-C, MetOp-SG, Sentinel 3, 4-P and Sentinel 5; MTG Burnt scar optical /SARSpatial:high Temp: high  RapidEye, Ikonos, Kompsat, OPSIS  TerraSAR-X and Cosmo-SkyMed SG Post fire vegetation recovery Spatial: high to Medium Temp: Low  RapidEye, Ikonos, Kompsat, OPSIS  Sentinel-2

14. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy Major issues  Cost of high resolution of VHR and HR optical and SAR data  Automatic data downloading  Specification of sensors  Spatial VS radiometric resolution  Sensor swath  Users’s (difficult) accessibility to the final products  Lack of integration of EO product with routinary procedures/protocols  … and other several issues not related to the spatial segment CONCLUSIONS

15. PREFER 1 st Annual Review Meeting, 5-6 Dec 2013, Milano-Italy