Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

A study on forest fire danger rating using Meteosat thermal infrared data is being carried out and applied in the Piemonte region (Northwestern Italy). The purpose of the study is to analyse the relationships existing between fire occurrence and Meteosat data. A period has been chosen among those with average fire severity and with satellite image availability. The Piemonte region has then been divided into subareas of homogeneous environmental characters. The hypothesis of employment of a different fire danger level in each area is being tested. Among the data provided by the satellite thermal infrared channel and used to relate with fire occurrence, the sum of emissions in the last days without rain, emission at midday and emission at dawn have been included. The state-of-the-art of the research of' a fire danger meter based on the probability level of fire occurrence using Meteosat data is presented.