Wildland
fires have many serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional
economies and global climate change. In particular, peat and forest fires in
An
overarching objective of the project is to develop an Integrated Monitoring and
Modelling System (IS) for wildland fires. The IS is designed
(i) to detect major wildland, such
as peat and forest, fires, using satellite remote sensing,
(ii) to model both the spread of the fires in the terrain and the
atmospheric dispersion of the fire plumes in the atmosphere, and
(iii) to detect the fire plumes, and to find out the source areas
using a combination of ground-based air quality measurements and a long-range
transport modelling system.
The project
has also participated in organization of controlled forest fire dispersion measurement campaign in
the vicinity of the national supersite SMEAR2.