Wildfires are attracting significant attention from both the public and the local managers for their increasing impacts on the biosphere. In the recent years, we have witnessed a large number of extreme fire events all around the globe: Hawaii, California, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, that have significant impacts on both the environment and humans.
Participants of the upcoming 13th EARSeL Workshop on Forest Fires as well as any researcher working in this area are invited to submit to this collection on Forest Fires in European Journal of Remote Sensing.
European Journal of Remote Sensing is an Open Access and international peer-reviewed academic journal (SCIE with a 2022 impact factor of 4.0). It is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Italian Association of Remote Sensing (AIT).
Topics can include but are not limited to:
- Earth Observation (EO) regional and global algorithms and products
- Multi-scale and multi-sensor approach for fire monitoring and mapping
- Integration of SAR & Optical data
- Burned areas, active fires, fire radiative power, burn severity
- Fire risk, fire danger
- Modelling and assessment of fire and climate relationship (impacts on the atmosphere, fire emissions, impacts of climate change on fire regimes, fuel consumption)
- Modelling and monitoring fuel characteristics and conditions
- Post-fire monitoring of vegetation regrowth and vegetation regeneration
- Validation and accuracy assessment of EO products
The EARSeL Forest Fires Special Interest Group (FF SIG) was created in 1995 and fosters interaction among scientists and managers who are interested in using remotely sensed data and techniques to improve the traditional methods for fire monitoring.
The Special Interest Group is chaired by Dr. Daniela Stroppiana from the Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR), Italy, who welcomes scientists, researchers, managers, experts, sponsors interested in the thematic field of fires to the FF SIG Workshop which will be held in Milan, Italy from 19-20 September 2024.
