Publications

Andela, N., Morton, D. C., Schroeder, W., Chen, Y., Brando, P. M., and Randerson, J. T (2022).
Tracking and classifying Amazon fire events in near real time
Science Advances, 8, eabd2713, https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd2713.

Forkel, M., Wessollek, C., Huijnen, V., Andela, N., de Laat, A., Kinalczyk, D., Marrs, C., van Wees, D., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Fawcett, D., Kaiser, J.W., Klauberg, C., Kutchartt, E., Leite, R., Li, W., Silva, C., Sitch, S., Goncalves De Souza, J., Zaehle, S., and Plummer, S. (2025).
Burning of woody debris dominates fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado.
Nature Geoscience, 18, 140–147, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01637-5

Technical documents

A series of deliverables such as Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Documents (ATBD), Product Validation Reports (PVR) and Impact Assessment Reports (IAR) have been produced in Sense4Fire and published along with the Databases. In order to keep the list of deliverables concise for the potential user of our data products, we list and publish the documents that relate to a certain version of the database.

The fourth version of the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBDv4) provides an updated and complete description of the most recent versions (GFA-S4F-v0.3, TUD-S4F-v0.3, KNMI-S5p-v0.2) of three approaches used in Sense4Fire. The three approaches were previously described in ATBDv2.1 and ATBDv3 (Forkel et al., 2023b, 2024) as well as in the corresponding scientific publications (Andela et al., 2022; Forkel et al., 2025; de Laat et al., 2026). ATBDv4 documents advancements since ATBDv3, reflecting the integration of new Earth observation datasets and methodological developments in the approaches.

Presentations at conferences and workshops