Exploring the suitability of integrating remote sensing information into daily fire danger rating

Project lead

Gianni Boris Pezzatti

Deputy

Marco Conedera

Project staff

Marco Conedera
Gianni Boris Pezzatti
Achilleas Psomas
Lars Waser

Project duration

2021 - 2024

Evaluate the feasibility and suitability of using information from freely available satellite data to provide a spatial explict estimate of forest fuels which could potentially burn, to be included in the national IGNIS platform. Specifically, the project should provide a simplified Swiss-wide forest fire-related characterization of forest fuel types (i.e., forests with similar pyrological characteristics) and calculate and analyse drought and fire-related remote sensing indices (and their combination) derived from multispectral Landsat and Sentinel-2 data.