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

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Agency, Italian National Forestry Service, BELSPO, Comune di Matera and
the sponsorship of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), University of Basilicata,
Regione Basilicata-Consiglio Regionale, (Agency for the Tourism) APT-
Basilicata, Consorzio TERN (Technology for Earth Observation and Natural
Risk - TEcnologie per le osservazioni della Terra ed i Rischi Naturali) and
Geocart srl.
Matera workshop is the latest in a series of technical meetings organised
by the EARSeL SIG on Forest Fires after its foundation in 1995. Previous
meetings were held in Alcalá de Henares (1995), Luso (1998), Paris (2001),
Ghent (2003), Zaragoza (2005) and Thessaloniki (2007) resulted in outstanding
progress made in forest fire research.
The Proceeding book includes papers divided in 4 sections which focus the
following topics:
- Pre-fire planning and management;
- Validation of Remote Sensing Products for fire management;
- Fire Detection and fire monitoring;
- Burned land mapping, fire severity determination and vegetation recovery
assessment.
Rosa Lasaponara Emilio Chuvieco
Local workshop chair EARSeL FF-SIG Chair