Generation of Analysis of Essential Climate Variables from Satellite Data: the ESA fire_cci Project

Emilio Chuvieco

Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group,
University of Alcalá
Colegios 2, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

 

ABSTRACT

The European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) is part of the European contribution to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program. This program aims to generate long-term series of Essential Climate Variables (ECV), as defined by GCOS, to have a relevant role in the global Earth and climate system. This lecture will briefly review the framework of the ESA CCI program and the summary of the main outputs of phase-1 (2010-2014), to focus later on how the Fire disturbance variable was generated, validated and analyzed by end-users ( atmospheric and vegetation modeling communities).

Keywords: Climate Change, Fires, MERIS, European Space Agency

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BIO

Emilio Chuvieco is Professor of Geography and director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, where he coordinates the Master and Ph.D. program in Geographic Information Technologies, and leads the "Environmental Remote Sensing Research Group".

Visiting professor at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Barbara, the Canadian Remote Sensing Center and the University of Maryland. Advisor of 33 Ph.D. dissertations. Principal investigator of 27 research projects. Author of 26 books and 326 scientific papers and book chapters. 113 of those papers are indexed in Scopus, accounting for 2934 citations, with an h-index of 33. Including Spanish publications, the h-index is 47 from 7899 citations (from Google Scholar). All data refer to January, 1st, 2015.

Former president of the Spanish Remote Sensing Society and the Geographic Information Technologies group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. Corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences since 2004. He is the science leader of the Fire Disturbance ECV within the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative Program. After January, 1st, he is Co-Editor in Chief of Remote Sensing of Environment.

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