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 …
Joan is a biogeochemical oceanographer dedicated to understanding the links between the physical (blue) ocean (temperature, salinity, density, currents) and the biogeochemical (green) ocean (plankton, organic matter, fish). Joan holds a BSc on Fundamental Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) and a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry from Sorbonne Université (Paris, France). He has …
Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Joan Llort. In recent years, exceptionally large wildfires have been recorded in Australia, California, the Mediterranean region, and the Arctic. While there exists an established research effort on how Climate Change is leading these megafires and on how they are affecting land ecosystems, recent observations show that …
The Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (AI4EO) Wildfires project began in December 2020 and run for 8 months, focussing on developing and demonstrating a burned area (BA) mapping service that combines EO data, specifically Sentinel-2 optical data, with an AI-enabled algorithm. The project consortium is led by CGI UK, utilising their legacy of developing cloud-based …
