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Low Cost Space Based Monitoring of Forest Fires: An Overview of 2015-2016 Operational Experience of FIRESAT in the Basilicata Region

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This article is focused on the FIRESAT methodology developed for and funded by the Protezione Civile of the Basilicata Region. The fire monitoring system is based on satellite free of charge data and developed for the dynamic estimation of vegetation fire susceptibility and fire impact in forest and non-forestry ecosystems. The purpose of this fire risk system is the timely (daily) and detailed (from 1 km down to 30 m) monitoring of the vegetation and meteorological conditions which can affect the proneness of vegetation to fire. FIRESAT provides operational monitoring tools for a systematic forest fire management from risk estimation to fire severity mapping, including the estimation of fire damage on hydro-geological risk and vegetation fire resilience.

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The development of FIRESAT system has been funded by Protezione Civile of the Basilicata Region in the framework of collaboration and join experimentation conducted in the Basilicata region

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    Rosa Lasaponara, Angelo Aromando, Gianfranco Cardettini, Gabriele Nole & Biagio Tucci

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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Giuseppe Borruso

  5. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo M. Torre

  6. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  7. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  8. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  9. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Elena Stankova

  10. University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Alfredo Cuzzocrea

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Lasaponara, R., Aromando, A., Cardettini, G., Nole, G., Tucci, B. (2017). Low Cost Space Based Monitoring of Forest Fires: An Overview of 2015-2016 Operational Experience of FIRESAT in the Basilicata Region. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62404-4_53

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