June 2025
Sense4Fire Continues – New Fire Emission Products Coming in Late 2025 and 2026
On June 19, 2025, TU Dresden signed a new contract with the European Space Agency to extend the successful **Sense4Fire** project. The collaboration with the established consortium — **TU Dresden**, **KNMI**, and **BeZero Carbon** — will continue throughout 2025 and 2026, focusing on the development of innovative fire emission products.
Upcoming Products (2026)
New Fire Emission Products for Africa
Fire emissions will be reprocessed for Africa (2019–2025) using the GFA-S4F and TUD-S4F approaches. The new version will integrate updated, high-resolution land cover data from ESA WorldCover and take into account fuels from shrubs.
High-Resolution Fire Emission Estimates
The TUD-S4F approach will be adapted to high spatial resolution (20 m) to estimate fuel loads and fire emissions in selected African study regions (2016–2025). This will utilize land cover from ESA WorldCover, as well as leaf area index and burned area data derived from Sentinel-2.