Sven-Erik Enno, Andrea Meraner and Bartolomeo Viticchié (EUMETSAT) - Showcasing MTG-LI data during forest fire events
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Application
Description
Sven-Erik Enno introduces the LI instrument and its use for fire detection, while Andrea Meraner provides a data analysis example of a fire related to lightning.
Content
The Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Lightning Imager (LI), declared operational on October 31, 2024, is a new European Instrument devoted to the real-time monitoring and characterization of lightning activity over Europe, Africa, the eastern part of South America, and a large portion of the Atlantic Ocean. This presentation will demonstrate LI's observational capabilities from hemispherical climatological statistics to local-scale forest fire events. In addition, we show examples of lightning-ignited fires as observed by LI and FCI, the multispectral imager onboard MTG.