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Sense4Fires Experimental Database V0.1 online

We are very pleased to announce that the first model results are available in an experimental database. The database contains outputs of the respective project partners and their developed methods for the study regions Amazon, southern Africa, and Siberia.

Cardiff University

Fuel consumption and fire emissions derived from a fire type classification and Sentinel-3 and VIIRS FRP observations

TU Dresden

Fuel loads, fuel consumption and fire emissions derived from the S4F data-model fusion approach

KNMI

CO and NOx fire emissions derived from Sentinel-5p

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EGU General Assembly 2023

The Sense4Fire project partners attended and presented at EGU General Assembly 2023 at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany from the 23rd-28th April

Matthias Forkel (TU Dresden) Effects of land use, fuel loads and fuel moisture on fire intensity and fire emissions in South America derived by reconciling bottom-up and top-down satellite observations

(Presentation available here)

Christine Wessollek (TU Dresden) Estimating biomass compartments and surface fuel loads by integrating various satellite products with a data-model fusion approach

(Presentation available here)
Living Planet Symposium 2022

The Sense4Fire project partners attended and presented at the Living Planet Symposium at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany from the 23rd-27th May

Jos de Laat (KNMI) On the use of daily Sentinel-5p trace gas and aerosol observations for characterising small-scale localised wildfires

(Presentation Available Here)

Vincent Huijnen (KNMI) Using Sentinel-5p trace gas and aerosol observations of fire plumes to constrain a global composition model: a critical assessment

(Poster Available Here)

Read more: Sense4Fire at The Living Planet Symposium 2022 - Posters and Presentations Now Available

The Sense4Fire project is part of the ESA Carbon Science Cluster and is a two-year cooperation project (August 2021 – July 2023) between the Technische Universität Dresden, Cardiff University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

The aim of Sense4Fire is to increase the scientific understanding of fire dynamics and their role in the carbon cycle by integrating observations from the Sentinels into new Earth observation products.

We understand fire dynamics as all processes that contribute to pre-fire conditions of the land surface (i.e. fuel loads and fuel moisture), fire behaviour (fire ignitions, spread, speed, size, burned area, thermal emissions and radiative power), combustion and production of fire emissions (combustion completeness, biomass burning, composition of emissions) and the effect of fire emissions on atmospheric composition (injection height, smoke plumes, atmospheric gas composition, aerosols).

The aim will be assessed in various test sites and in the three proposed regions of interest, namely Brazil, southern Africa, and Russia/Siberia. The aim will be addressed within the duration of this activity by two specific objectives.

Read more: About the Project

Partners

The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is a full-curriculum university with 18 faculties in five schools and has about 32,000 students and over 8,200 employees. TUD is one of the eleven ‘Universities of Excellence’ in Germany and the only one in eastern Germany.

At TUD, the Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing (JProf. Matthias Forkel, https://tu-dresden.de/geo/envrs) was established in September 2019 at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Department for Geosciences, Faculty for Environmental Sciences.

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The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) is the Dutch national weather service and centre for climate research. The institute combines in house operational as well as strategic research tasks. As an integral part of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment KNMI provides advice on weather and climate to national, regional and local authorities on a day-to-day basis. KNMI is participating in many European projects on both climate and space research and keeps close ties with many of its stakeholders.

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Cardiff University is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales and member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities. Cardiff University contains three colleges: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; and Physical Sciences and Engineering and offers a broad curriculum to its 30,000 students.

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