Edouard Martins, Julien Chimot, Oscar Henriquez, Bertrand Fougnie (EUMETSAT) - Operational monitoring of thermal hot spot events with the Sentinels by EUMETSAT Central Facility (CF)
Edouard Martins gives a brief introduction on the work of EUMETSAT and then focuses on monitoring thermal hotspots with Sentinel satellites.
EUMETSAT Central Facility (CF) is entrusted by the European Commission for the operational detection and monitoring of high thermal spots (wildfires, gas flares, volcanoes) from the Sentinel-3 (S3) satellites in Near Real Time (NRT), with emergency timeliness. The Copernicus S3 NRT Fire Radiative Power (FRP) observes global wildfires between 500 m and 1 km resolution, both at night and during the day. The public product is today under testing by the two Copernicus services dedicated to atmosphere monitoring and emergency management (CAMS and CEMS). Additionally, it is being completed by NRT quantification of pollutant observation from the Sentinel Constellation (S3 currently, S4 and S5 later on).