ABSTRACT
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 157 Theoretical Background ..................................................................................... 160
Real-Time Fire Monitoring ............................................................................ 160 Burn Scar Mapping ........................................................................................ 161
NOA’s FireHub Real-Time Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring Service ...... 163 The System Architecture ............................................................................... 163 Methodology and System Operations......................................................... 167
NOA’s FireHub BSM and Damage Assessment Service ............................... 169 Evaluation of Fire Products and Services ........................................................ 176
Real-Time Fire Monitoring Service .............................................................. 176 BSM-NOA Service .......................................................................................... 179
Discussion and Conclusions .............................................................................. 181 Acknowledgments .............................................................................................. 182 References ............................................................................................................. 183
primarily as a result of socioeconomic changes, increasing dramatically the catastrophic impact of wildres. Despite the recent advances in reghting tactics and means and the increased amount of resources allocated for re suppression, the efciency of the adopted strategy has been decreasing over the last four decades, with both number of res and burnt area increasing (Bassi et al. 2008).
