Abstract

Greenpeace firefighting work: mapping, analysis, rapid response
Track: Forestry
Authors: Anna Komarova

In 2011 official data about burned area was more than 5 times diminished (our data - only forest burned area is more than 8.2 mln ha). State officials conceal the information about fires. It leads to great suffer for people and value wildareas and to increasing of fires. The mission of Greenpeace is to stop official lying and to make them really act.

GIS Unit/Firfighting project of Greenpeace Russia works in the next directions:

- rapid response and mapping for fire expeditions (we present the scheme of rapid response based on FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) for extinguish different types of wildfires);

- mapping burned area based on Landsat and Modis data (we present the result maps of 2010&2011 and methodology of mapping);

- prediction the next fire disasters ang monitoring strategy (we present the product 'Treats of Forest Fires in 2011' and interactive map of drained peatbogs).