European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)

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1 Emergency Management Service Early Warning Systems European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) Joint Research Centre Copernicus EMS User Workshop, March 2016, Ispra Follow us on: Copernicus EU CopernicusEU

2 Fire danger exchange 1998 need for harmonization establishment of EFFIS

3 Definition and scope of EFFIS Users System established by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and DG Environment (ENV) as focal point for information on forest fires in Europe (1998) Provides EU level assessments during both pre-fire and post-fire phases, thus supporting fire prevention, preparedness, fire fighting and post-fire operations Complements national fire information systems through the provision of harmonised data, methods and standards EC Services, European Parliament, national/regional forest fires and civil protection services of EU and non-eu countries FAO, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, FAO Silva Mediterranea Operation and development Development by the JRC. Until 2015, operation supported by the EC Directorate Generals ENV, ECHO, JRC From Oct onwards, operation financed by GROW EFFIS becomes part of Copernicus EMS.

4 EFFIS Network area covered by the system 4

5 Network of 39 Countries, over 2.4 million records Recently in the EFFIS network In the EFFIS network PT, ES, FR, UK, IT, CH, DE, SE, NO, BE, CZ, AT, SI, HR,FI, PL, SK, HU, MK, GR, EE, LV, LT, RO, BG, TR, CY, IE, MA, LB, ME, BS, KO, AL, RU, ALG, LEB, MOR, TUN

6 EFFIS under the Copernicus Program

7 EFFIS landing page 7

8 Copernicus Components Emergency Management Services Early Warning Systems - European Forest Fire Information System Since 2016 the following EFFIS components will be operated outside JRC: (1) Fire danger forecast Short and long-term fire danger forecast Monthly and seasonal fire weather forecast (2) Active fire and burnt area mapping Active fire mapping MODIS/VIIRS Medium spatial resolution (approx 300 m) near-real time mapping of burnt areas (twice a day in pan-european region) (MODIS/VIRS/Sentinel3) High spatial resolution weekly burnt area mapping product (Landsat/Sentinel-2)

9 Fire danger forecast ECMWF (16 km 10 day forecast) MeteoFrance (10 km 3 day forecast) DWD (25 km 6 day forecast) FWI Anomalies deviation form historical average FWI Percentiles - % with respect to historical values

10 Long-term fire weather forecast

11 Monthly Forecast Seasonal Forecast Temperature Temperature Rainfall Rainfall

12 Copernicus Components Emergency Management Services Early Warning Systems - European Forest Fire Information System Since 2016 the following EFFIS components will be operated outside JRC: (1) Fire danger forecast Short and long-term fire danger forecast Monthly and seasonal fire weather forecast (2) Active fire and burnt area mapping Active fire mapping MODIS/VIIRS/Sentinels Medium spatial resolution (approx 300 m) near-real time mapping of burnt areas (twice a day in pan-european region) (MODIS/VIIRS/Sentinel3) High spatial resolution (e.g. Sentinel2, Landsat res.) weekly (or bi-weekly) mapping of burnt areas product (Landsat/Sentinel-2)

13 Post-fire assessments Active fire detection (hot spots) -Location -Landcover affected 13

14 Post-fire assessments Burnt area mapping (Rapid Damage Assessment) -Location -Fire duration -Total burnt area -Landcover affected 14

15 Post-fire assessments Fire severity Based on the Relative Difference Normalized Burn Ratio (Miller et al. 2009)

16 Copernicus Components Emergency Management Services Early Warning Systems - European Forest Fire Information System The following modules will be operated by the JRC: (3) Enhancements of other existing modules of EFFIS e.g. fire database, fire emissions and dispersion, soil erosion, vegetation regeneration, fire spread prediction for large fires, etc. (4) Dissemination services operation of web services & contact with countries (5) Development of a Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) in cooperation with GOFC Fire IT (Global Observation of Forest Cover Fire Implementation Team) and GEO (Group on Earth Observations).

17 Thank you