ESAFireProducts

JohannesKaiserMaxPlanckInstituteforChemistry

Globalmapping ofburned areas:ESAFire_cci project

EmilioChuvieco &JohannesKaiserMaxPlanckInstitute for Chemistry

GrupodeinvestigaciónenTeledetecciónAmbientalUniversidaddeAlcalá

andthe members ofthe Fire_cci consortium

CCIProgramme

• ESAcontributiontoGCOS.• GenerationoftemporalseriesofECV.

Aerosol cci Cloud cci

Fire cci

GHG cci

Glaciers cciLand Cover cci

Ocean Colour cci

Ozone cci

Sea-level cci Sea Ice cci Sea Surface Temperature cci

Ice Sheets cci

CMUG

Soil moisture cci

BAalgorithmsforFire_cci

• MERIS(2003-2011)• MODIS(2000-2015)• Proba-V(launch2013)regionalsmallfiresdatabase

GlobalBAalgorithm (MERIS)

DoD andUncertainty (2008)

Burned Area

Biweekly products.TotalBA(2008/06/22)

Fire_cci BAproductv4.1

Observedareafraction(FOA)Seasonalmean(2005-2011)

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MeanannualBA(2005-2011)

Meanannualburnedareaproportion[%]

Regionaldifferences

Firesizedistributions

CONUS,yearlyBA,2005-2011

BAECVfromT.J.Hawbaker,etal.RSE 2017

GlobalBAproductsfromMERIS(andsoonMODIS)

• Pixelproduct:o 4variables:dateofdetection,uncertainty,burnedlandcover(derivedfromLC_cci)andsensordetecting.

o Monthlyfiles,continentaltiles,GeoTiffformat.

• Gridproduct:o 22variables:totalburnedarea,standarderror,%observedarea,numberofpatchesandburnedareaofeachlandcover.

o 15-dayfilesat0.25x0.25degree.o NetCDF4format.

SmallFireDatasets

Thefollowingburnedareatestproductarebeingproduced,fortheyears2015- 2016:

• AfricabasedonSentinel2data.• AfricabasedonSentinel1data,tocomplementthecloudy

regionsoftheSentinel2images.• TestsitesofAfricabasedonProba-V100m.• TestsitesofIndonesiabasedonSentinel1,andemission

calculation.• TestsitesofSouthAmericabasedonSentinel1.

DifferentSentinel1algorithmsarebeingusedforeachcontinent,andacomparisonofthesealgorithmswillbeperformedwithintheproject.

ActiveFireProducts

ActiveFireProducts

• ESAWorldFireAtlasfromnight-timeobservationsbyATSR-2andAATSR(1997-2011)

• soonFireRadiativePowerfromSLSTRonS3A/B

• long-termoperationalavailability

• onlymorningequatorcrossingtimes

Sentinel-3gasflaredetection(similartoVIIRSNightfire)

courtesyAlexand

reCaseiro,M

PIC

RelatedEuropeanFireProducts

• SEVIRIFRP:geostationaryevery15min• GlobalFireAssimilationSystem(GFAS)ofCAMS

• currentlybasedonMODISFRP,morearebeingadded• new:hourlyresolution

animationscourtesyTadas Nikonovas,KCL

SEVIRIFRPobservations GFASMODISFRPassimilation

Take-homemessages

• ESAisbuildingconsistent,well-characterisedburntareaproductsfromseveralsatellites.

http://www.esa-fire-cci.org/

• TheCopernicusProgrammeofEUprovideslong-term,operational,near-real-timecharacterisationofburntarea,fireradiativepowerandsmokeobservationsthroughtheo Sentinelsatelliteso CopernicusAtmosphereMonitoringService