MEEO s.r.l
FANGS: Fire Applications with Next-Generation Satellites
This Jupyter Book showcases a series of case studies and associated workflows in Jupyter notebooks for fire applications using proxy data from MTG and Metop-SG. Each case study focuses on a specific past fire event to demonstrate how data from MTG and Metop-SG can be used for operational and monitoring purposes. Different stages of the fire life cycle are highlighted.
We are collaborating with MEEO S.r.l on the FANGS contract. The team, headed by Sabrina Szeto and Simone Mantovani developed training support material and application cases focussing on fire detection and monitoring of the fire life-cycle. The developed training support material makes use of proxy data from precursor instruments of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation (EPS-SG) satellite missions. The training material is developed in the form of modular Jupyter notebook case studies on the 2020 wildfires in California, USA and the Mediterranean wildfires in 2021.
Each case study module consists of two to six narrative notebooks describing the event and how the upcoming MTG and EPS-SG satellites will improve the capabilities to monitor the full fire life cycle, together with figures comprising maps and animations of satellite data products for each event. The narrative notebooks highlight different parts of the fire life cycle - from pre-fire risk, active burning and smoke transport to assessing post-fire impacts. Each figure in the narrative notebooks is linked to a workflow notebook showing how the proxy data was processed to showcase the upcoming data from MTG and EPS-SG. In total, 24 notebooks were developed comprising 5 application case studies and 19 workflow notebooks.
These notebooks have been made available for self-paced learning to a wider user community online.
Events where our notebooks and training have been featured include:
23 - 27 May 2022: Living Planet Symposium
6 July 2022: EUMETSAT Short Course #34 - Wildfire Monitoring with Next-Generation Satellites
8 September 2022: European Metereological Society Annual Meeting (Discover, process and visualize data for wildfire events in Europe)
19 - 23 September 2022: EUMETSAT 2022 - Meteorological Satellite Conference (Fire Applications with Next-Generation Satellites: Case Studies and Jupyter Notebooks)
18 - 21 October 2022: Earth Observation Products for Wildfires Monitoring and Forecast Workshop 2022