Active fire detection with Sentinel-3 data

EO4GEO Webinar

Active fire detection with Sentinel-3 data 2022-01-19T15:09:27+00:00

Product Description

A webinar on the basics of image processing for active fire detection, showing how to download, process, analyse and visualize the free data acquired by the Copernicus satellites.

Wildfires are a recurrent hazard in Europe and at the global level. They cause a large economic and environmental damages and often result in the loss of human lives. It is thus essential to provide early warning and to increase preparedness to prevent wildfires and, when this is not possible, to minimize the damages caused by them.

Losses by wildfires in Europe are conservatively estimated in about 2.700.000 Million Euro every year. Vegetation fires are usually very dynamic in their magnitude, impact, and location. That is why early information about active fires in remote areas such as forest or grasslands is very important.
Satellite imagery provides an ideal tool for large scale active fire monitoring due to its spatial and temporal coverage, furthermore data acquired form Copernicus Sentinel satellites are provided under open and free policy for all applications and uses.

The purpose of this webinar is to focus on the basics of image processing for active fire detection, showing how to download, process, analyse and visualize the free data acquired by the Copernicus satellites. We will use the ESA SNAP Sentinel-3 Toolbox to demonstrate the methodology to detect active fires with the SLSTR instrument onboard Sentinel-3.

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding how the data should be processed in order to be able to perform the analyses.

  • Understanding the concept and characteristics of Sentinel-3 SLSTR instrument and data it provides.

  • Getting to know the concept of active fire detection using Sentinel-3 data (night and day-time detection).

  • Identification of pixels containing active fires.

  • Visualizing the analyses results.

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Ownership

The webinar is organised by EO4GEO’s Associated Partner Serco EO Training in collaboration with the EO4GEO project.

serco training

Education level

Language

English

Creation date

28 October 2021

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