fighting climate change by fighting fires - esri fedgis 2016 presentation
TRANSCRIPT
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, [email protected] ALLEGRETTI, BLUE RASTER, [email protected]
fires.globalforestwatch.org
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