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Monday, July 9
8:30Registration
9:00Institutional welcome
9:10Introduction to GOFC- Fire and the Objectives of the Workshop
C Justice 
9:30Progress report on the work of the Interagency Task Force Working Group 
Wildland Fire of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) 
JG Goldammer
9:50CEOS Land Product Validation subgroup: goals and initial GOFC Focus
J Morisette, J Privette, and C Justice
10:10Remotely sensed fire data for biomass burning atmospheric emission estimates : the needs 
C Liousse
 
10:30Coffee Break
 
FIRE PRODUCT VALIDATION SUMMARIES AND STATUS
SESSION 1. ACTIVE FIRE STATUS AND VALIDATION RESULTS
11:00Current Status of the World Fire Web
S Pinnock
11:15The ATSR World Fire Atlas and its Validation
O Arino
11:30DMSP Fire Detection and Validation
C Elvidge
11:45MODIS and TRMM Active Fire Products and Validation Results
L Giglio
12:00Brazilian AVHRR Fire Validation
JA Pereira and A Setzer
12:15Exploitation of Surface Albedo Derived from Meteosat Data to  
Characterize Land Surface Changes: the case of vegetation fires
Y Govaerts, B Pinty, JMC Pereira, and B Mota
12:30Evaluation of the IGBP-DIS Global FIRE and ATSR World Fire Atlas products for monitoring boreal forest fires
E Kasischke, J Hewson, B Stocks, A Sukhinin
 
12:45Lunch Break
 
14:30SESSION 2. BREAKOUTS (PARALLEL SESSIONS)
Group 1 - Next steps in active fire validation, developing validation protocols and reporting guidelines
Group 2 - Developing a global network of fire validation sites 
Group 3 - Refining GOFC-Fire Goals and implementation steps
 
16:30Coffee Break
 
16:45SESSION 3. REPORT BACK
Conclusions and recommendations
17:30Close
 
 
Tuesday, July10
SESSION 4. BURNED AREA STATUS AND VALIDATION RESULTS
 
9:15Mapping and validation of burned areas across the forest in North America
Z Li
9:30Direct broadcast of fire and smoke derived from MODIS data
W-M Hao
 
GBA2000 SPOT-VGT Burned Area Validation
9:45An overview of the GBA-2000 project: mapping the areas burnt globally in 
2000, using SPOT-VGT imagery.
J-M Grégoire
10:00Operational Implementation of Burnt Area Algorithms for GBA2000:
Initial Results for Australia and Africa 
K Tansey and J-M Grégoire
10:15Methodology for the assessment of algorithms performance and final products
S Flasse, P.A. Brivio, S Trigg, L Boschetti, P Ceccato
10:30Burnt Area maps over Australia from VGT images: algorithm development and accuracy assessment
D Stroppiana
 
10:45Coffee Break
 
11:15Features of burned area mapping in forests of Siberia using S1-VGT data
D Ehrshov
11:30Burned area mapping in Canadian forests using SPOT VEGETATION 
R Fraser
11:45Validation of Burned area products over Central Africa.
P.A. Brivio, M. Maggi, E. Binaghi, I. Gallo
12:00Validation of Burned area products over Southern Africa.
L Boschetti, S Trigg, A Jacques, P Ceccato, S Flasse
12:15Burned area mapping in Southeastern Africa using SPOT VEGETATION: methods and validation.
J Silva, J-M Grégoire, A Sá, and J Pereira
 
12:30Lunch Break
 
SAFARI 2000 MODIS Burned Area Validation 
14:30SAFARI 2000 (S2K) MODIS Burned Area Validation Overview
D Roy, P Frost, C Justice, T Landmann, K Mhwandagara, F Mkosana, J Pereira, 
J Le Roux, B Tacheba, A Zacharias
15:00S2K Namibia Field Work and MODIS Validation
J. Le Roux
15:15S2K Northern Mozambique Field Work and MODIS Validation
M Vasconcelos, A SÁ, J Silva, N Ribeiro, A Awasse, P Mushove, J Pereira
 
15:30Coffee Break
 
16:00Discussion
16:45Close for the day
19:15Departure for Workshop Dinner, from Gulbenkian Foundation
 
Wednesday, July 11
SESSION 4. BURNED AREA STATUS AND VALIDATION RESULTS (cont.)
9:00The ATSR World Burn Scar Atlas (GLOBSCAR) and its Validation
M Simon
9:45Australian AVHRR Validation Experience
J Russell-Smith
10:00AVHRR PAL 8km Global Burned Area Mapping and Validation
P. Barbosa
 
10:15Coffee Break
 
SESSION 5. BREAKOUT SESSIONS
10:45Group 1 - Developing burned area validation protocols
Group 2 - Defining LPV - Fire activities
Group 3 - Assessment of progress on previous meeting recommendations 
and crafting the recommendations for this meeting.
 
12:45Lunch Break
 
14:30SESSION 6. REPORT BACK
Conclusions and recommendations
15:15Discussion of Strawman Recommendations from the Meeting
16:30Close of Meeting

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