Martin Wooster (LSASAF/ King´s College) - Meteosat Second and Third Generation Active Fire, FRP & Fire Emissions: Products, Content & Performance
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Description
Martin Wooster discusses the LSA SAF Fire Radiative Power (FRP) product derived from geostationary satellite imagery and the improvements in active fire detection offered by MTG compared with MSG.
Content
The session will cover the Geostationary FRP products from the EUMETSAT LSA-SAF that provide a record of active fire detections, fire radiative power (FRP) and smoke and carbon emissions over Europe, Africa and parts of South America, most recently from MTG with significant performance improvements compared to MSG. The methods used, the available products, and their performance will be reviewed in this session.