Data User Programme

ITALSCAR

Burned Forest Mapping from Space

Generation of Burn Scars Maps on forested areas and of the associated catalogue, over the entire Italian territory for 4 consecutive years, with the objective to support the operational Fire Disaster Management of the Italian Civil Protection Authorities.

PROJECT REFERENCES
Name	ITALSCAR
Title	Regional Burned Forest Mapping in Italy
Programme	DUP 1 (Data User Programme - Phase 1)
Theme	Risk Management
Cost	> 800 K
Type	Large Scale Service Demonstration
Application	Forest Fire Land Use - Land Use Change
Status	completed in 2003
Satellites	ERS, LANDSAT 5, LANDSAT 7
Sensors	ETM, SAR, TM

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Objectives

The main objective of the ITALSCAR project is to generate reference Burn Scars Maps (BSM) and the associated catalogue, based on the use of historical Remote Sensing data from European Earth Observation (EO) satellite missions, for supporting the operational Fire Disaster management over Italy at national and at regional level.

In addition to the generation of the BSM products required by the Italian Civil Protection Authority, the Contractors have been asked to perform an assessment of the quality of the service provision and to cost a sustainable service provision.

Finally, the Contractors have also been tasked to establish a BSM System Qualification Standard that could be applicable at European Level to similar information systems that would be developed on national or regional initiatives.

Results

ITALSCAR Executive Summary

IGARSS2003 paper

PROJECT CONSORTIUM

Companies

TELESPAZIO : TELESPAZIO S.P.A., Italy (Prime contractor)
VITROCISET : VITROCISET S.p.A., Italy (Prime contractor)
CESIA : Centre for the Application of Computer Science in Agriculture, Italy (Subcontractor)
INTECS HRT : INTECS Hard Real Time S.p.A., Italy (Subcontractor)
MESTOR : MESTOR Software and Consulting, Italy (Subcontractor)
SARMAP : SARMAP S.A., Switzerland (Subcontractor)

USER PARTNERSHIP
Users	DPC : Italian Civil Protection Authority, Italy

CONTACT POINTS
Project Manager	Marco Bordin Vitrociset S.p.A. - Space Division SW development & services manager Via Tiburtina, 1020 I-00156 ROME ITALY Tel: +39 06-88204355 Fax: +39 06-4102483 Email: marco.bordin@vitrociset.it Carlo Coretti Telespazio S.p.A. Via Tiburtina, 965 I-00156 Roma - ITALY Tel: +39 06-4079.3686 Fax: +39 06-4079.6202 Email: Carlo_Coretti@telespazio.it
Technical Officier	Marc Paganini European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP Via Galileo Galilei I-00046 Frascati (RM) ITALY Tel: +39 06-941.80563 Fax: +39 06-941.80552 Email: marc.paganini@esa.int