A recently published paper, outcome of the Sense4Fire project, highlights a significant gap in how we understand the climate impact of Amazon wildfires. Using combined observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P missions, scientists have discovered that emissions from the 2024 fire season may have been up to three times higher than previously estimated. …
Apart from being known for its natural and historical heritage, Croatia is also recognised as a place with great renewable energy potential. At the same time, Croatia is grappling with dangerous seasonal forest fires, which are also a great challenge for the power network control. In the frame of an Implementing Arrangement with the Government …
The project is part of the programme element concerning the industrialization of AI Methods for Decision Intelligence in Climate and Security Applications, the project has the aim to develop capabilities to enhance fire incident response and evaluation with applications concerning decision making of industrial and public operators. It is based on Artificial Intelligence using multi-modal …
The objective of SENWISE is to develop high-resolution geoinformation tools to advance our understanding of land-atmosphere-human interactions and provide decision-relevant data for facilitating agriculture and forest management practices in Belgium, France, and Italy. This project will help better understand and investigate the synergies between the Copernicus Expansions missions ROSE-L, LSTM and CHIME for Land applications. …
As fire events become more intense and frequent, the urgency for effective and proactive fire science grows. The FLARE (Fire science Learning AcRoss the Earth System) Working Group, consisting of scientists from 14 countries and various disciplines, has produced a white paper to address the complexities of fire science from a holistic perspective. This paper …
ESA’s World Fire Atlas, an essential tool in wildfire monitoring, keeps detecting and mapping active fires globally since 2019 thanks to the SLSTR sensor aboard Sentinel-3. The tool already counted 258 fires in Canada in 2024 up to 13 May. At the same time, the extent of air pollution caused by these wildfires are highlighted …
The European Space Agency (ESA) is delighted to announce the reopening of the Sentinel-3A World Fire Atlas, now upscaled at global level, providing the latest data on fire occurrences since June 2016. Following a successful prototyping phase in summer 2019, during which it supported European civil protection agencies and firefighter forces, the Atlas is now …
Landscape fires, whether natural or human-induced, have a key impact on the Earth system via the release of pollutants, greenhouse gases and aerosols, affecting human health and climate. Over the next decades their role may increase related to drier and warmer conditions, exacerbating biome shifts and lowering biodiversity. In addition, this may provide one of …
The SeasFire project, funded by the ESA, is taking an innovative approach to predicting seasonal wildfire patterns in Europe. SeasFire uses cutting-edge technology, such as modern deep learning models and Earth Observation data, to explore the spatio-temporal connections between atmospheric conditions and fire regimes to gain valuable insights into predicting potential wildfires. The project aligns …
“I want to express my gratitude to the LFP programme and my managers in particular. The kind support I have received during these 24 months has been fundamental to the success of PYROPLANKTON in a particularly complex period at home regarding the work-family balance. I also strongly appreciate the programme’s genuine interest in supporting fundamental …
