NextGIS has wrapped up educational fire monitoring project that it created and coordinated together with Microsoft. The main goal of the project was to draw attention of beginning specialists to a problem of monitoring or wildfires using remote sensing data.
Full description of the project is available on GIS-Lab.info website.
Here are some of the main results of the project, we:
- created 10 manuals on how to get, import and process fire data (details)
- created a data base on russian-language publications on monitoring of wildfires using remote sensing data (details)
- collected and organized UN Forest Fire Statistics (details)
- advocated for and gathered sets of open geodata from project partners (details)
- carried out a student papers competition on the topic (details)
The project was carried out on GIS-Lab.info platform – leading practical portal for GIS and RS related questions in Russia. The project was supported by several organizations that specialize in fire monitoring: R&D Scanex, IKI RAS, Greenpeace Russia, Transparent World and University of Southe Dakota, USA.
Competition participants at the conference in IKI RAS
