Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C515498/1
A geostationary fire product for Africa.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor MJ Wooster, King's College London, Geography
- Grant held at:
- King's College London, Geography
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Earth Surface Processes
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Radiative Processes & Effects
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Abstract:
- The importance of information on global biomass burning to studies of landcover/landuse change, land-atmosphere carbon fluxes, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric radiative transfer, and variations in regional or global climate are now well recognized by the international scientific community. Biomass burning shows very strong, diurnal, seasonal and interannual variability, meaning that only satellite Earth Observation offers potential for effectively quantifying its variation. The community has stressed the importance of routine, intercomparable fire products, available over a long-enough time periods to support science investigations and modelling. Up to now, information on the full diurnal variability of fire was available only over the America's (via GOES geostationary satellites), whereas the quantification of the amount of energy being radiated during combustion (the so-called Fire Radiative Energy, which relates to the rate at which biomass is being burnt) was provided only by MODIS (four times daily, mostly for periods outside of the afternoon peak fire period). We propose to generate the first Geostationary Fire Product for Africa using the new geostationary SEVIRI instrument, providing Fire Radiative Energy retrievals at sub-hourly timesteps compatible with the most stringent temporal requirements of the environmental science and modelling communities, and for the continent responsible for by far the greatest proportion of biomass burning activity worldwide. A twelve-month static product will be generated, accompanied by a near real-time service that will deliver the product into the future via direct reception and processing of SEVIRI. These products will provide new insights into biomass burning regimes on the African continent, and as such will be widely used by the UK and international environmental science and modelling communities.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C515498/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- EO Programmes Pre FEC2
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- EO Enabling Fund
This grant award has a total value of £50,913
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £27,733 | £516 | £3,092 | £6,815 | £12,757 |
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