Fire Monitoring and Early Warning in the

Russian Federation, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service of Russia "AVIALESOOKHRANA"
http://www.nffc.aviales.ru/engl/main.htm 
The homepage of the National Aerial Fire Protection Branch "Avialesookhrana" of the Federal Forest Service of the Russian Federation provides daily updated NOAA-AVHRR images with locations of active wildland fires and weather information for the whole territory of the Russian Federation. The GFMC provides regular (daily or two-daily) updates on the Current Events web page (http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/current/globalfire.htm) which includes additional satellite images, e.g. MODIS and NOAA-AVHRR received by the Fire Laboratory, Krasnoyarsk, a GFMC partner.

Russian “Aerocosmos” Center
http://www.aerocosmos.info/
The homepage of the Russian “Aerocosmos” Center, based in Moscow, provides satellite imagery on wildland fires. The website is currently available in Russian only (status: December 2010). For fire imagery please use this web page:
http://www.aerocosmos.info/pozhari/

Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Center (ULRMC)
http://www.ulrmc.org.ua/
ULRMC operates as a Center of Excellence in Information Technologies and produces and provides commercially available geospatial information. Monitoring of wildland fires, including fire occurring on the radioactively contaminated zone around Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, is one of ULRMC activities. Maps of current wildfires can be a accessed directly at:
http://www.ulrmc.org.ua/services/export/fire/fire.asp

Remote Sensing Data of Wildland Fires in Kazakhstan
The Earth Observation Station of Kazakhstan (http://eostation.spaceres.kz/data/firemap.html) of the Department of Earth Research of the National Center of Space Research and Technologies (Almaty, Kazakhstan) receives and processes space data of the territory of Kazakhstan within a radius of more than 3000 km, including active wildland fires.


 

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