The partners of the IGN FI – RISCOGNITION – Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) – GEOFIT consortium met at the JRC (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) in Ispra, for a technical meeting with the members of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) team.
The consortium was awarded a contract by the JRC for the production of near-real-time data on the location of active fires and the mapping of burnt areas, in order to feed the EFFIS service, which continuously updates this data. EFFIS thus provides up-to-date and reliable information on forest fires in Europe to the European Commission and the European Parliament, but also and above all to the services responsible for protecting forests against fire in the EU and neighbouring countries.