Product features

Intuitive web interface

• Latest satellite images (MODIS, VIIRS, Landsat, Sentinel-2)
• Basemaps in various flavours
• Active fire detections from MODIS, VIIRS and Meteosat (where available) updated hourly or even every 15 minutes (Meteosat)

Burned area mapping

• With Sentinel-2 at 20 m resolution
• Timely information – provided as images become available
• Maps with colour coded information on day of burning
• Visualized with a time slider
• Original satellite images available as a backdrop

Fire emissions

• Derived from our Sentinel 2 high resolution or MODIS 500 m burned areas + heat relase measured from active fires
• Maps of burned biomass per m²
• Information on click for each fire displayed in info box or sidebar
• Chart information for each fire

Interactive statistics

• Long time series of burned areas and fire emssions help establish an emissions baseline for climate mitigation projects.
• Baseline with uncertainty margins helps assess project feasibility quickly
• Statistics on affected land cover, time of burning, comparison to management objectives, and more..

Fire Situation Dashboard

• Map with current fire situation
• Current fire activity / carbon emissions
• Fire weather information
• Current burned area information

Fire risk and management support

• Vulnerablity analysis
• Management plan
• Record and analyze fire management activities
• Fire return interval
• Potential fire behaviour
• Land surface temperature

Online fire modelling (beta)

• Automated fire spread modelling
• Modelling of fire intensity and fire perimeters
• Based on satellite-detected fire fronts or user input
• Useful for fire situation analysis, planning of prescribed fires, forensic fire analysis, study of fire impacts, training and awareness.