The GWIS/GOFC meeting brought together international remote sensing experts in the field of fire to deliberate on existing information from various sources. The aim was to consolidate information on different aspects of fire at both regional and national levels to provide a comprehensive understanding and evaluation of fire regimes and their effects on a global scale. Additionally, the meeting provided a forum to discuss and support operational wildfire management at both global and national levels. Members of the GWIS and GOFC-GOLD fire implementation team (Fire IT) explored various options for enhancing satellite remote sensing research on fires in different countries. Following the meeting, a WildfireSAT meeting was scheduled during November 16th and 17th, 2023.

Venue and Local host: Canadian Space Agency, Montreal, Canada

 

6^th GWIS and GOFC-GOLD Fire IT meeting

14^th - 15^th November 2023

Meeting Venue

Canadian Space Agency

6767 Route de l'Aéroport Borough of Saint-Hubert Longueuil, Quebec J3Y 8Y9

Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, November 14th

9:15 – 10.00 Opening

• Welcome – Canadian Space Agency
• Agenda and Objectives of Meeting - J. San-Miguel, D. Roy, M. Wooster [presentation]
• GOFC-GOLD Regional Network Update - Krishna Vadrevu (NASA Marshall) [presentation]

 

10:00 – 10:30 Session on Active Fire, Burned Area products and Mapping #1 (Chair: Martin Wooster) 

[25 minute presentation, 5 minutes for questions]

• An update on the fire mapping and monitoring activities at NOAA/NESDIS, Ivan Csiszar, Wilfrid Schroeder, Mike Pavolonis (National Oceanica and Atmospheric Agency, USA) [presentation]

10:30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12:20 Session on Active Fire, Burned Area products and Mapping #2 (Chair: Ioannis Gitas) 

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• NASA Fire Products Update, Louis Giglio (Univ. of Maryland, USA) [presentation]

• Strategies for the validation of EO-based Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products: approaches based on product inter-comparisons using near simultaneous or non-simultaneous detections, Bernardo Motta (National Physical Laboratory, Climate Earth Observation, U.K.) [presentation]

• NRT wildfire mapping and validation, Duarte Oom (European Commission, JRC, Italy) [presentation]

• Deep learning high resolution burned area mapping, David Roy (Michigan State University, USA) [presentation]

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14.30 CEOS LPV Burned Area protocol discussion led by Bernardo Motta 

14:30 – 15:10 Session on Operational Systems #1 (Chair: Francesca di Giuseppe) 

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• Updates to NASA FIRMS Global and FIRMS US/Canada, Diane Davies (NASA, USA) [presentation]

• The Role of ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Transboundary Haze Pollution Control: towards FOLU Net Sink 2030 and Haze Free ASEAN by 2030, Israr Albar (SEARRIN, Indonesia) [presentation]

15:10-15:40 Coffee Break [30 minutes]

15:40 – 17:10 Session on Operational Systems #2 (Chair: Krishna Vadrevu) 

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• Greek Observatory of Forest Fires: Advances in operational services at national level, Ioannis Gitas (Univ. Thessaloniki, Greece) [presentation]

• Inclusion of fire-atmosphere information for decision making in firefighting operations, Mercedes Bachfisher (Firefighting Services, Catalonia, Spain) 

• The WMO's recently established VFSP-WAS center: WMO North American Regional Vegetation Fire and Smoke Pollution Warning and Advisory Centre (RVFSP-WAC), Guillaume Marcotte (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada, Gouvernement du Canada) [presentation]

• Regional and global approaches on wildfire management, Jesus San-Miguel (JRC, Italy) [presentation]

19:30 End of Day 1

Wednesday November 15^th

09:10 – 10:30 Session on Fire Emissions, Prescribed Burns, and Fire Measurements (Chair: Marta Yebra) 

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• Progress on fire emissions modelling: GFED5, Guido van der Werf (Univ. Amsterdam, NL) [presentation]

• Direct Estimation of Fire Emissions from Geostationary Sensors, Martin Wooster (King's College/NERC, U.K.)

• Advances in the use of remote sensing for prescribed burn planning, implementation, and evaluation, Adam Leavesley (ACT Parks and Conservation Service, Australia) [presentation]

• California Canyon Fire Experiment and the new imaging system SWIS (SJSU Wildfire Imaging System), Craig Clemens (San Jose State Univ., CA, USA) [presentation]

10:30 – 11.00 Coffee break [30 minutes]

11:00 – 12:20 Session on Fire Risk and Fuel Consumption #1 (Chair: Adam Leavesley) 

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• Enhancing Fire Resilience through Remote Sensing: Prevent Rather Than Cure, Marta Yebra (Australian National University, Australia) [presentation]

• Upscaling field estimates of fuel consumption to event scale, Andrew Hudak (US Forest Service, USA) [presentation]

• Estimating forest canopy consumption: a LiDAR-optical multisensor approach, Luigi Boschetti (University of Idaho, USA)

• Integrated fire risk assessment in Europe & Post-fire damage assessment and estimation of emissions, Patricia Oliva (Univ. Alcala, Spain) [presentation]

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break [1 hour 40 minutes]

14:00 – 14:40 Session on Fire Risk and Fuel Consumption #2 (Chair: Luigi Boschetti) 

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• Update on Global fire danger products and forecast evaluation, Robert Field (Univ. of Columbia, USA) [presentation]

• ML methods in fire forecasting, Francesca di Giuseppe (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, U.K) [presentation]

14.40 – 15.00 WildFireSat and Overview of the November 16^-17 WildFireSat meeting –Johnston Joshua/Stephanie DeBoer [presentation]

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break [30 minutes]

15.30 – 16.30 Session on New Programs (Chair: Andrew Hudak)

[15 minute presentations, 5 minutes for questions and speaker turnaround]

• WMO GAW global initiatives, Radenko Pavlovic (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada, Gouvernement du Canada) [presentation]

• CEOS wildfire pilot, Mark De Jong (Natural Resources Canada, Canada) [presentation]

• Overview of the NASA FireSense program and 2023 fall campaign, Jacquelyn Shuman (NASA AMES) [presentation]

16:30– 16:45 Formulation of a 12-month plan for GOFC Fire GWIS Priorities (Chair:  David Roy)

16:45 – 17.00 Summary of the meeting – announcement/discussion of next meeting (J. San-Miguel, D. Roy, M. Wooster)

 

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