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ITALSCAR
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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 Reference

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 Open file

IGARSS2003 paper Open file
 
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 Officer
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