Papers by Fabrizio Ferrucci
PREFER: a European service providing forest fire management support products
SPIE Proceedings, 2015
PREFER is a Copernicus project of the EC-FP7 program which aims developing spatial information pr... more PREFER is a Copernicus project of the EC-FP7 program which aims developing spatial information products that may support fire prevention and burned areas restoration decisions and establish a relevant web-based regional service for making these products available to fire management stakeholders. The service focuses to the Mediterranean region, where fire risk is high and damages from wildfires are quite important, and develop its products for pilot areas located in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and Greece. PREFER aims to allow fire managers to have access to online resources, which shall facilitate fire prevention measures, fire hazard and risk assessment, estimation of fire impact and damages caused by wildfire as well as support monitoring of post-fire regeneration and vegetation recovery. It makes use of a variety of products delivered by space borne sensors and develop seasonal and daily products using multi-payload, multi-scale and multi-temporal analysis of EO data. The PREFER Service portfolio consists of two main suite of products. The first refers to mapping products for supporting decisions concerning the Preparedness/Prevention Phase (ISP Service). The service delivers Fuel, Hazard and Fire risk maps for this purpose. Furthermore the PREFER portfolio includes Post-fire vegetation recovery, burn scar maps, damage severity and 3D fire damage assessment products in order to support relative assessments required in context of the Recovery/Reconstruction Phase (ISR Service) of fire management.
SIGRI project: Results of the products validation process
2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2012
ABSTRACT The SIGRI (Sistema Integrato per la Gestione del Rischio Incendi) pilot project, funded ... more ABSTRACT The SIGRI (Sistema Integrato per la Gestione del Rischio Incendi) pilot project, funded by ASI (the Italian Space Agency), aims at developing an integrated system for the management of the wild fire events. The system provides satellite based products capable of assisting all the phases of the fire contrasting activities: prevision, detection, and damage assessment/recovering. The SIGRI project aims at implementing consolidated methodologies and/or developing innovative tools and methods for the analysis of remote sensing data and the extraction of information useful to the application. This paper concerns the final phase of the SIGRI project: test and validation of algorithms developed. The validation of the generated products is a very important phase through which the products potentiality is assessed and the algorithms can be calibrated. In this paper we will discuss the results of a preliminary validation process.
Southern Italy Burn Scar Mapping by MYME2 Procedure using IRS-P6 LISS3
IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008
Abstract The amount and frequency of occurrence of wildfires in southern Italy were exceptional d... more Abstract The amount and frequency of occurrence of wildfires in southern Italy were exceptional during summer 2007. More than 7,000 major fire events are reported to have occurred from January to August 2007, for a total extent of burn surfaces exceeding ...
PREFER FP7 project for the management of the pre- and post-fire phases: presentation of the products
Advances in forest fire research, 2014
Italian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012
The demonstration of the products generated in the mainframe of the SIGRI project will be carried... more The demonstration of the products generated in the mainframe of the SIGRI project will be carried out on the following regions: Calabria, Sardinia and Liguria. The demonstration activities, in which ASI and DPC will be involved, aim at demonstrating the service functionality and the effective functioning of the end-to-end system. During the demonstration phase the products, will be generated for each one of the test area. The areas (Fig. 1) correspond to: Imperia province (Liguria), Locride province (Calabria) and Cagliari/Iglesias province (Sardinia). For these areas all the products foreseen for the specific system release will be provided. www.sigri.it Forest fires are in the focus of the SIGRI project (Integrated System for Fire Risk Management) funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The project, started late in November 2008 and is due for completion by end-2011. The EO part of the project is centred on: (1) SAR borne observation in the X-, C and the L-bands, (2) on TIR/MIR/SWIR/NIR-and Red, where appropriate-observation by opto-electronic payloads operating at all spatial resolutions from 2006 onwards (SEVIRI, MODIS, HRVIR, HRG, TM, ASTER, LISS-III) and (3) upon SAR very high resolution (Cosmo-SkyMed) and V-NIR observation by new commercial or dual-use satellites. The system, of which the appointed user is the Italian Dept. of Civil Protection (DPC), is expected to deal at once with law enforcement (burn scar mapping), preparedness (risk mapping and urban interface fire contingency planning) and operational issues (fire detection and propagation prediction). It will be demonstrated in three operational theaters (northern Italy-Liguria, southern Italy-Calabria, and the island of Sardinia), all characterized by high frequency of occurrence of fires, but greatly differing in terms of fires style. The SIGRI pilot project will be developed in the mainframe of the project "Civil Protection from forest fires". It should take into account the institutional requirements, as: the normative aspects in forest fires matter, the distribution of responsibilities and competence of the authorities involved in the following activities: planning and management of the land, dangerousness forecast and risk assessment, prompt fire detection, monitoring and management of the fire event, damage assessment. The principal user (reference user) of such a system would be the DPC. The demonstrative system will be structured in a way to be easily interfaced to the DPC infrastructures network and functional centers. Nevertheless, the system would be able to product information useful for supporting different user types having the role of responding, operationally, to the forest fire management according with the guideline and operational addresses indicated by DPC.
2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2010
SEVIRI Onboard Meteosat Second Generation, and the Quantitative Monitoring of Effusive Volcanoes in Europe and Africa
IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008
Abstract The spectral and radiometric performance of payload SEVIRI onboard the geostationary pla... more Abstract The spectral and radiometric performance of payload SEVIRI onboard the geostationary platform MSG-2, make its data particularly well suited not only to the detection of the onset of volcanic activity, but also to the measurement of thermal radiant fluxes and ...
MODIS Borne Analysis of Long Series of Radiant Fluxes at Active Lava Lakes
IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008
Abstract We report on the mid-to-long term spaceborne measurement of thermal energy radiated by v... more Abstract We report on the mid-to-long term spaceborne measurement of thermal energy radiated by volcanic, meltlava lakes' at Nyiragongo volcano (Congo, permanent 2006-2007), and at Karthala volcano (Comoros) during its eruptive bursts of October 2000, July and ...
Thermal Monitoring of Major Active Volcanoes Worldwide by Synergetic Merge of High- and Lowresolution Payloads ASTER, ETM+, TM and MODIS
2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2006
Abstract We present here a solution to thermal volcano monitoring, based on the synergetic merge ... more Abstract We present here a solution to thermal volcano monitoring, based on the synergetic merge of up to four multispectral payloads and the use of ad hoc developed computing routines" MyVOL" and" MyMOD". The latter, are based on auto-adaptive, automated ...
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2008
The spaceborne thermal monitoring of the great eruption of Pu'u 'O'o-Kupaianaha in Hawaii (1987 t... more The spaceborne thermal monitoring of the great eruption of Pu'u 'O'o-Kupaianaha in Hawaii (1987 to present) was attempted, integrating high-resolution SWIR-TIR and lowresolution MIR-TIR observations. Data acquired by multispectral payloads ASTER and MODIS onboard spacecraft Terra, and MODIS onboard Aqua, were processed behind real time by the use of computing routines "MyVOL" and "MyMOD" based on assessed theory and designed for real-time operations. The process was tested against the 2000-2005 eruptive history, both in geometry and volume dynamics of the lava flow. Here, instant lava effusion rates obtained from approximately 1800 cloud-free (over a total > 3000) day-/nighttime MODIS scenes and 12 cloud-free (over a total of 30) nighttime ASTER scenes are compared with each other and with volcanological ground truth composed of gas (SO 2)and electromagnetic potential (very low frequency)-derived eruption rates. Remote-sensed eruption rates are consistent with ground truth from approximately 1 m 3 /s up to the peak effusion rates of 1.2-1.3 million m 3 /day observed in 2005.
A review of the volcano-magnetic effects observed between 1981 and 1995 on Mount Etna (Italy)
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy, 2000
ABSTRACT Detection of local magnetic field perturbations has often been proposed for monitoring t... more ABSTRACT Detection of local magnetic field perturbations has often been proposed for monitoring the modifications within the volcanic edifice of the stress field or of the thermodynamic state and providing a tool for prediction of eruptions. In order to evaluate the suitability of magnetic monitoring on Mt. Etna, we analysed two historic series of magnetic data recorded there: i) during the 1981 eruption and ii) immediately after 1989 eruption. Moreover, we examined time series associated with the intense explosive activity of Etna in 1995 summer provided by the present permanent magnetic network which was set up between 1994 and 1995.
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