Photo: Greenpeace

http://fires.globalforestwatch.org

Susan Minnemeyer, World Resources Institute & Adrienne Allegretti, Blue Raster

Credit: Digital Globe

A PLATFORM FOR MONITORING AND RESPONDING TO FOREST AND LAND FIRES USING NEAR REAL-TIME INFORMATION

Fires – a longstanding problem

Why the concern about fires?• Health impacts of smoke and haze• Illegal land burning• Damage to forest, plantations, • Economic impacts • Climate impacts, especially from peat fires

…could better information change business as usual?

2015 FIRE SEASON – WORST IN ALMOST 20 YEARS, DUE TO EL NINO

Photo: CIFOR

OIL PALM AND PULPWOOD PLANTATION EXPANSION DRIVES LAND FIRES IN INDONESIA

Photo: Austronesian Expedition

Singapore Transboundary Haze Pollution Act

Indonesia ratifies ASEAN haze treaty

Photo: Greenpeace

Indonesia ratifies ASEAN haze treaty

Photo: Greenpeace

GFW Fires Strategy

1. Provide better information and fill data gaps• Reduce response time to fires• Better understand fire drivers• Combat illegal land burning• Drive better media coverage

2. Provide information and recommendations to key decision makers

3. Empower civil society and public to demand an end to business as usual

• NASA Active Fires• Digital Globe imagery• Crowdsourced fires and burn scars • Latest Landsat 8 imagery• Air quality• Wind direction• Fire risk (coming soon)• Twitter conversations (coming soon)

NEAR REAL TIME DATA|

• Indonesia concession data: oil palm, pulpwood, and logging

• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certified concessions

• Peat lands• Protected areas• Forest moratorium• Archived fire data

CONTEXTUAL DATA|

FIRES TRANSPORT TOXIC HAZE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ASIA

FIRES CONCENTRATED IN SOUTH SUMATRA AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH KALIMANTAN

2015: DAILY EMISSIONS FROM INDONESIA FIRES EXCEED THOSE OF THE US ECONOMY

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TOMNOD SURFACES IMAGERY TO CROWDSOURCING VOLUNTEERS

USERS TAG ACTIVE FIRES AND BURN SCARS

OVER 200,000 PEOPLE HAVE PARTICIPATED IN GFW CAMPAIGNS WITH OVER 6,000 FIRES AND BURN SCARS MAPPED

BEHIND THE SCENES - DATADaily Data Updates

FIRESFIRE RISK

WINDAQI

FIRES

ArcGIS for Server

PEATCONCESSIONSPROTECTED AREASPROVINCESMORATORIUM AREAS

DATA ITERSECTION

ArcGIS API for JavaScript

ArcGIS for Server

AWS

SESArcGIS Online

AWS

Fire Alert API

BEHIND THE SCENES – FIRE ALERTS

Results - increase in fires outreach

• Increased capacity for outreach • Blogs, social media, TV, radio and

print/online media• GFW Fires go-to source for latest

fire information• Dozens of interviews, over 1,100

news articles

Results - Use of analytics and infographics in media

QuartzOct 26, 2015

Results – Identification of key drivers & proposed solutions

• Sustainable commodities • Stop development on

peat• Improve land

management • Enforce laws against

burning• Reduce human health

impacts

Results – Engagement with companies

• Zero deforestation commitments

• Fire alert subscriptions• Wood fiber companies

engaging with communities

COMING SOON: FIRE RISK MAPS –PARTNERSHIP WITH CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

COMING SOON: FULLY MOBILE, RESPONSIVE DESIGN

SUSAN MINNEMEYER, WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE, sminnemeyer@wri.orgADRIENNE ALLEGRETTI, BLUE RASTER, aallegretti@blueraster.com

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