Session: FW-4
Active Fire Information - Current Capabilities

Chair

Tim Lynham

Time

11:00 - 12:20 on Wednesday, 21st of June 2017

Venue

SH-2620

11:00

The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System: the online Hub of Wildfire-related Information in Canada

John Little (Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada)
11:20

Operational Implementation of the Advanced Fire Information System

Philip Frost (CSIR)
11:40

ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Latest developments involving Landsat-Class, S-NPP/VIIRS and GOES-R/ABI active Fire detection Products

Wilfrid Schroeder (University of Maryland)
12:00

Earth Observation Satellite Data to Support Wildfire Response: A Case Study of the Fort McMurray Horse River Fire

Jinkai Zhang (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Jean-Simon Michaud (Hatfield Consultants), Andy Dean (Hatfield Consultants), Jamie Gairns (Hatfield Consultants), Bob Sleep (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Bogoljub Stankovic (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry)