Agenda for the RedLaTIF 2021 Annual Meeting
Day 1 April 22, 2021 |
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Time (EST) | Topic/Activity | Presentation Title |
13:30 - 13:50 |
Welcome to the RedLaTIF Annual Meeting |
Advances of the RedLaTIF in Latin America, regional cooperation projects, virtual dissemination and training. (Nicolas A. Mari, INTA/IG, Argentina) |
13:50 - 14:10 |
GOFC GOLD | NASA LCLUC programmatic perspective on GOFC-GOLD RedLaTIF. (Garik Gutman, NASA HQ, USA) |
14:10 - 14:30 |
Developed applications in Bolivia |
Monitoring tools in the pre and post fire phases within the Google Earth Engine platform. (Armando Rodríguez, FAN, Bolivia) |
14:30 - 14:50 |
UN-SPIDER technical cooperation activities |
Experiences applied to the management of forest fires in Guatemala and Honduras. (Alexander Ariza, UN-SPIDER, Alemania) |
14:50 - 15:00 |
Coffee Break | |
15:00 - 15:20 |
Fire prevention in Mexico |
Threat index to biodiversity due to forest fires, based on the frequency and return period of fire. As well as analysis of burned areas. (Isabel Cruz, CONABIO, México) |
15:20 - 15:40 |
Fusion of optical and radar data applied to wetland fires |
Wetland fires of the Paraná Delta. Optical (Sentinel 2) and radar (Saocom-1, Alos Palsar 2 and Sentinel-1) synergy analysis. Integration of the biological and physical sensitivities of the sensors used. Effects of Fires of 2020 on large cities. (Héctor F. del Valle, jubilado del CENPAT, Argentina/Walter Sione, UADER/CEREGEO, Argentina) |
15:40 - 15:50 |
Coffee Break | |
15:50 - 16:10 |
Fire detection using geostationary satellites in Mexico |
Algorithm for detecting hot spots using GOES 16 imagery. Description of the operating system and its applications. (Lilia Manzo, UNAM, México) |
16:10 - 16:30 |
Fires and climate change in Chile |
Advances on the prediction of the probability of ignition and spread of forest fires in climate change scenarios in Chile. (John Gajardo, Universidad Austral, Chile) |
16:30 |
End of meeting, coordination for next day |
Day 2 April 23, 2021 |
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Time (EST) | Topic/Activity | Presentation Title |
11:00 - 11:20 |
Burned Area and Fire Risk Projects in the European community |
Recent advances from the FireCCI project (S-2 process on Africa; development of a new BA algorithm for the S-3 SYN product; from ESA and launch of a European project on fire risk (FirEUrisk). (Emilio Chuvieco, Universidad de Alcalá, España) |
11:20 - 11:40 |
CONAF activities in Chile |
Presentation of the work that CONAF is developing in the operational field to respond to forest fires in Chile. Examples of forest fire simulation, monitoring and their evolution will be shown, as well as advances in the calculation of burned area and severity using the Google Earth Engine platform. (Jordi Brul, CONAF, Chile) |
11:40 - 12:00 |
Active fire detection using geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data |
Update on GOES-R/ABI, JPSS/VIIRS, and Sentinel-3/SLSTR active fire algorithm status and applications (Wilfrid Schroeder & Ivan Csiszar, NOAA, USA) |
12:00 - 12:10 |
Coffee Break | |
12:10 - 12:30 |
Fire risk and validation of hotspots in Brazil |
INPE’s Fire Risk project results and the validation methodology of hotspots will be presented. (Fabiano Morelli, INPE, Brazil) |
12:30 - 12:50 |
Applied methodologies to Mapped Burned Areas in Chile |
Project results on the development of an automatic algorithm for mapping of burned areas in Chile using Google Earth Engine. (Patricia Oliva, Universidad Mayor, Chile) |
12:50 - 13:00 |
Coffee Break | |
13:00 - 13:20 |
Fire Severity, case studies in Mexico |
Detection of forest fire severity levels through satellite images. (Germán Flores, México) |
13:20 - 13:50 |
Development of satellite tools for time series analysis |
Interactive Workshop: "Tools for Analyzing Time Series of Satellite Imagery (TATSSI)." The workshop will demonstrate the processing of MODIS/VIIRS data focusing on the analysis of time series in order to analyze post-fire effects in various areas in Latin America. (Gerardo López, Assimila, UK) |
13:50 - 14:00 |
Coffee Break | |
14:00 - 14:20 |
Analysis of fires in Cuba | Analysis of the spatial-temporal behavior pattern of fire occurrences in vegetation in Cuba using satellite data. (Eva Mejías Sedeño, INSMET, Cuba) |
14:20 - 14:30 |
Proposal of Buying Thermal Camera and Drone | Nicolas A. Mari, INTA/IG, Argentina |
14:30 |
End of meeting, final words, and future perspectives |