The
following list of links to institutions working in wildland fire
in the Mediterranean Region are taken from the GFMC link section. Users of this web page are encouraged to
submit new links to be added to this list. For other thematic fire-related links
(e.g., remote sensing of vegetation fires, fire weather and climate forecasts,
natural disasters, and global environmental monitoring: see GFMC link section at
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/.
France
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Association Régionale de Défense de la Forêt Contre
les Incendies (DFCI)
http://www.feudeforet.org/english/forets_europe.htm
In the Aquitaine, there is one of the biggest forests in Europe, wooded with pinasters, on
an interrupted surface area of almost 1 million ha, also called "Forêt des Landes de
Gascogne - the Landes de Gascogne Forest". The website provides basic information on
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Centre d’Essais et des Recherches de l’Entente
(CEREN)
http://www.ceren.org/
The website provides an overview on the research work on flammability, protection
equipment, impacts of forest fires, and rehabilitation after fire (in French). |
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CEMAGREF Centre des Documentation Foret
Méditerranéenne et Incendie (DFCI)
http://www.aix.cemagref.fr/htmlpub/documentation/infos_dfci.htm
In the section Mediterranean Forest and Fire the DFCI provides the
electronic version of its fire bulletin and prvodes access to a photographic guide
and database <in French>.
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EFAISTOS
http://www.cindy.cma.fr/europe/efaistos/
The EFAISTOS project, financed by the European Union, constitutes the first part of the
European behaviour model for forest fire, taking into account the lower layers of the
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FireTorch
http://www.cindy.cma.fr/europe/firetorch/
FireTorch is a project financed by the European Union in which the
currently available knowledge on the use of prescribed burning in the Mediterranean
countries is collected and evaluated. The website provides information on the objectives
and the progress of the project. From this website a database can be downloaded which
contains the experience gained by prescribed burning so far. The information is provided
in English and French.
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Mediaforest – Landes Fire Department
http://www.mediaforest.net/english/incendie/index.html
This website describes a scientific and operational approach to forest fire. A detailed
documentation on fire experiments can be found at: http://www.mediaforest.net/incendie/incendie.htm |
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Ministry
for Agriculture and Fisheries (Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche)
http://www.agriculture.gouv.fr/accueilv4f.htm
The Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries of France is in charge of
forest fire protection. The website provides the last annual report.
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Promethee Database
http://www.promethee.com/promethee/index.htm
The Promethee database on forest fires was created in 1973 and contains
standardized fire statistical information of 15 provinces (départements) of the
Southeast of France beginning in the 1970's <in French>.
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PROMETHEUS Project
http://www.rtd.algo.com.gr/promet/index.htm
PROMETHEUS is a Management Information System dedicated to forest fire protection. The
project is realised in the frame of ENVIRONMENT and CLIMATE R&D Program of the
European Union and was implemented by a Consortium of seven European research
organisations co-ordinated by ALGOSYSTEMS s.A.
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Jewish National Fund (JNF) KKL
http://www.kkl.org.il/fire/english/default.htm
The Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Israel provides
information on forest fires in Israel, including a fire location map of October 1998.
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ESA/ESRIN
http://shark1.esrin.esa.it/
This web site of the ESA/ESRIN offers the Fire Atlas, a product of the ATSR and AVHRR
sensors. Fire events as recorded by the thermal sensors are provided for Africa, South
America and South East Asia for the period 1992-1994. Active fire data from Indonesia of
1997 are additionally provided in this very well-done atlas.
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Earth Watching
http://earth1.esrin.esa.it/
The Earth Watching home page provides new satellite imagery related to disasters like
flooding, volcanoes and fires. It gives a good overview of current events. From this web
site the FIRE and the IGBP-DIS products can be accessed, along with an extensive list of
publications and a bibliography
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Global Environment Monitoring
Unit
http://www-gem.jrc.it/
The GEM Unit (former Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit ) is among Europe’s main players in advancing Earth observation technologies and
methodologies, using remote sensing for the assessment of terrestrial and marine ecosystem condition and to monitor anthropogenic actions - such as deforestation and determine their impact on the global
environment.
One of the three thematic groups within GEM is TEM - Terrestrial ecosystem monitoring in EU development-assistance
priority regions. TEM provides a long-term picture of the conditions in ecosystems identified according to the priorities of EU
aid, development and international environmental policies,
including disturbance by fire:
http://www-gem.jrc.it/tem/Disturbance_by_fire/index.htm
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IGBP-DIS Global Fire Product
http://www.mtv.sai.jrc.it/fire/gfp/doc/data_archive.htm
The IGBP-DIS Global Fire Product Home Page is a response to a requirement
from Global Change scientists for better information on the occurrence and impacts of fire
on the Earth's surface.It provides a global picture of vegetation fire derived from
daily satellite observations (IGBP-DIS 1km AVHRR Product) over the period from April 1992
to December 1993.
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Association for Forest Development and
Conservation (AFDC)
http://www.afdc.org.lb
One of the main concerns of AFDC is to develop a
working mechanism to prevent and fight forest fires on the national
level involving the local community as the major stakeholder.
Accordingly, and through its different Units, AFDC is creating a team of
volunteers from local community members who are competent and
well-trained to combat forest fires in the most important conservation
areas. Direct
link to the website of the Forest Fire Fighting Programme:
http://www.afdc.org.lb/pages-HTML/AFDC-PROGRAMMES/centre-forest-fighting.htm
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Associação para a Promoção da Qualidade de
Vida do Meio Rural
http://www.mr2000.pt/
This website of the "Association for the Promotion of Quality of Life in the Rual
Space" provides comprehensive information on "Prevention, Safety and Combat of
Forest Fires" (in Portuguese)
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Direcção Regional de Agricultura de
Trás-Os-Montes
http://aquinta.espigueiro.pt/dratm/InformacaoTecnica/queimadas/queimadas.asp
The Regional Directorate of Agriculture of Trás-Os-Montes provides safety guidelines for
conducting prescribed burning (in Portuguese)
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Fire Information System of the Centro Nacional de
Informação Geográfica
http://scrif.cnig.pt/default.htm
(Portuguese)
http://scrif.cnig.pt/default_i.htm
(English)
This comprehensive website covers a large fire information system for Portugal. It
provides the Forest Fire Risk Cartography (CRIF = Cartografia de Risco de Incendio
Florestal) which was created in 1994 under an agreement of the Ministries of Interior
Administration, Land Administration and Planning, Agricultural and Environment and Natural
Resources. CRIF aims to provide a cartography based in land zones with forest fire risk.
In mid 1998 the CRIF Group developed a WWW server in order to show group activity and to
put on-line forest fires information. During 1998 a new protocol was signed with Civil
Protection National Service, to produce software to manage emergency situations. The
website provides information with maps on:
- Water resources
- Fire brigades
- Lookout (fire watch) towers
- Air fields
- Facilitation in identification of locations, including GPS
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Instituto de Meteorologia (IM): Meorological
Support to Forest Fire Prevention
http://www.meteo.pt/FogosMR/FogosIngles.html
The collaboration with the operational entities, in real time (normally from June to
September), includes the following daily general information:
meteorological observations from the national station network; weather charts; national
and regional weather forecast bulletins; satellite imagery; wind field forecast for 24
hours with 3 hours intervals. As specific information, the IM computes and delivers:
forest fire danger index computed for about 60 meteorological stations; charts with forest
fire risk classes by regions; charts with the forecast of forest fire danger indices
tendency; weather bulletin for 48 hours forecast, specific for fire prevention.
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Ministry of Agriculture, General Directorate for Forest Protection
http://www.dgf.min-agricultura.pt/
A special forest fire website is available in the homepage (in Portuguese): http://www.dgf.min-agricultura.pt/flor/fogos/index.htm
This website provides weekly updates of the fire situation during the current fire season
(by district, region, comparison with earlier years, large fires):
http://www.dgf.min-agricultura.pt/flor/fogos/rs_menu.htm
Fire
statistics 1980-1999 and Forest
fire map 1980-1999 |
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Núcleo de Investigação Científica de
Incêndios Florestais
http://www.nicif.pt/Nicif/tnmapa.html
The website of the "Nucleus for the Scientific Investigation of Forest Fires" at
the University of Coimbra provides information on forest fire research projects (in
Portuguese).
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European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories
(EARSeL)
Special Interest Group on Forest Fires (FF-SIG)
http://www.geogra.alcala.es/earsel/SIG_group.htm
The University of Alcalá (Spain) hosts the web site of the EARSEL
Special Interest Group on Forest Fires. The intention of the web site is
to foster communication among members, by maintaining a web site where
project results and papers can be disseminated, and personal links between
researchers and student mobility be promoted.
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Incendios
Forestales – Forest Fires
http://www.incendiosforestales.org/
This comprehensive website on forest fires in Spain is a joint effort by
the Colegio
de Ingenieros de Montes and the Ministry
for Environment. The website offers comprehensive information on all
areas concerned with forest fires (fire prevention, suppression, technical
equipment used in Spain, practical advice, fire meteorology, risk maps,
legislation). Comprehensive fire statistical databases cover the period
starting1961. Most detailed statistical data are available starting 1991.
The link section provides international links explained in Spanish. This
link section is largely identical with the GFMC link section; thus Spanish
speaking readers are encouraged to search at:
http://www.incendiosforestales.org/buscador_web/portal.asp
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MEGAFiReS Project
http://www.geogra.alcala.es/Megafires/web-me.htm
The general goal of this project was to establish an integrated framework
to analyse satellite remote sensing images for operational management of
large wildland fires in Mediterranean countries. The project tried to
improve cartographic and statistical information which is critical to the
three phases of fire management: pre-fire planning (fire risk), fire
suppression (detection and fighting) and post-fire evaluation (fire
effects). All these aspects were considered with a global Mediterranean
perspective.
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Laboratorio de Teledetección
http://www.latuv.uva.es/
The laboratory has developed a forest fire risk index. Examples of 1999
for Spain and its neighbour countries are available at http://www.latuv.uva.es/incendios/incendios.html.
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