THIS PROPOSAL AIMS TO ADVANCE A SUITE OF ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM A NETWORK OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SENSORS REPRESENTING THE FIRST OF ITS KIND TO UNDERGO A COMPREHENSIVE DATA VALIDATION AND HARMONIZATION PROCESS. GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION WAS FIRST PROPOSED IN 1992 WITH THE EARLY VERSION OF THE WILDFIRE AUTOMATED BIOMASS BURNING ALGORITHM (WFABBA) WHICH WAS APPLIED TO 7 KM DATA DERIVED FROM THE VISIBLE SPIN SCAN RADIOMETER ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER (VAS) ONBOARD THE GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE. THE WFABBA PRODUCT REACHED OPERATIONAL MATURITY IN THE EARLY 2000 S USING SUBSEQUENT GOES SERIES 4 KM MULTISPECTRAL DATA COINCIDING WITH THE INITIAL RELEASE OF GLOBAL FIRE PRODUCTS BASED ON 1 KM DATA DERIVED FROM THE MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS) ONBOARD THE EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM (EOS) TERRA AND AQUA SATELLITES. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EOS AND GOES (AND OTHER SIMILAR GEOSTATIONARY) PROGRAMS FAVORED FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE MODIS GLOBAL FIRE PRODUCTS WHILE DATA QUALITY AND AVAILABILITY CONSIDERATIONS LIMITED PROGRESS ABOUT A GLOBAL GEOSTATIONARY NETWORK OF FIRE DETECTION PRODUCTS. IN THE LAST TWO YEARS HOWEVER A NEW GENERATION OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SENSORS ENTERED OPERATIONS OFFERING GREATLY IMPROVED CAPABILITIES FOR ROUTINE FIRE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION. BUILDING ON THESE NEW CAPABILITIES WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A GLOBAL GEOSTATIONARY NETWORK OF FIRE PRODUCTS TO COMPLEMENT EXISTING POLAR ORBITING SATELLITE FIRE MONITORING DATA SETS WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO PRODUCT VALIDATION AND DATA HARMONIZATION. WE WILL USE PROVEN METHODOLOGIES TO DERIVE REFERENCE ACTIVE FIRE DETECTION DATA FROM LANDSAT-8 OPERATIONAL LAND IMAGER (OLI) AND SENTINEL-2A/ B MULTISPECTRAL IMAGER (MSI) AND COMPLEMENT THOSE WITH FIRE CHARACTERIZATION DATA (FIRE RADIATIVE POWER) FROM THE VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS) IN ORDER TO VALIDATE OPERATIONAL FIRE PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM THE ADVANCED BASELINE IMAGER (ABI) ONBOARD GOES THE SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRA-RED IMAGER (SEVIRI) ONBOARD METEOSAT AND THE ADVANCED HIMAWARI IMAGER (AHI) ONBOARD THE HIMAWARI GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE SERIES. THE USE OF STANDARDIZED REFERENCE DATA AND METHODS WILL ENABLE DIRECT COMPARISON OF VALIDATION RESULTS AND FURTHER HARMONIZATION OF PRODUCTS LEADING TO AN IMPROVED NETWORK OF GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE FIRE PRODUCTS. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA VALIDATION AND HARMONIZATION PROCEDURES SHOULD PROMOTE ACTIVITIES UNDER THE GROUP ON EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND THE GLOBAL WILDFIRE INFORMATION SYSTEM (GWIS) ADDING NEW CAPABILITIES TO THE CURRENT GLOBAL FIRE DATA VIEWER ALONG WITH IMPROVED DATA CHARACTERIZATION AND DOCUMENTATION. WE WILL WORK WITH GWIS LEADERSHIP TO ENSURE THAT HARMONIZED DATA SETS AND THE COMPANION DOCUMENTATION ARE INTEGRATED INTO THE ONLINE DATA PORTAL AND THAT DATA FORMATS AND DISTRIBUTION OPTIONS COMPLY WITH USER REQUIREMENTS. OUTREACH AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES WILL BE PURSUED IN COORDINATION WITH REGIONAL FIRE NETWORKS PROVIDING ORIGINAL MATERIAL TO EDUCATE FIRE DATA USERS AND PRACTITIONERS ON THOSE NEW CAPABILITIES.

University Of Maryland, College Park, College Park MD

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