7th Workshop on Forest Fire Management - EARSeL, European ...

PREFACE
In the last decades, the improved spatial and spectral capability of active
and passive sensors has opened new challenging prospective for the use of
EO (Earth Observation) technologies for the management and monitoring of
forest fires. The increasing development of ground, aerial and space remote
sensing techniques and the tremendous advancement of Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) have focused a great interest in the use
of remote sensing and ICT for supporting forest fire management and monitoring
in:
- pre-fire planning and management;
- fire detection and monitoring;
- post-fire evaluation and management;
- post-fire vegetation recovery assessment.
Additional challenges to this field of research are related to the crucial
importance of the integration of remote sensing with other traditional
technologies and ancillary data. Such an integration requires great efforts
aimed at creating a strong interaction among scientists and managers interested
in using remote sensing and ICT for forest fire management and monitoring.
The continuous collaboration among scientists working in different
fields can strongly contribute to take benefits from the new sensors, techniques
and methodological approaches for a wide range of investigation
and application fields. A constructive and complementary multidisciplinary
approach can open a revolutionary scenario unthinkable several decades
ago.
In this cultural framework, the EARSeL Special Interest Group (SIG) on
Forest Fire acts to establish contacts and foster interaction among scientists
and managers interested in using remote sensing data (from ground,
aerial and satellite) and Information Technologies to support and improve
traditional approach for forest fire management and monitoring.
In the context of the EARSeL FF-SIG activities, we have been pleased to
organize the VII International <strong>Workshop</strong> “Advances on Remote Sensing and
GIS applications in Forest Fire Management: Towards an operational use of
Remote Sensing in Forest Fire Management”. The workshop is organized by
the Institute of Environmental Analysis of the National Council Research in
collaboration with the University of Alcalá and the European Space Agency.
The event has been carried out with the patronage of the Italian Protection
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