INNOVATION ACTIONS
This set of practical initiatives demonstrates and applies integrated solutions for managing extreme wildfires, combining new technologies, governance, and community preparedness across diverse landscapes.
Emergency, Risk Mapping and Sustainable Fire Management Models
- IA 1.1. Piloting an adapted Forest Fire Potential Polygons methodology to improve decision making on EWE
- IA 1.2. Testing key inputs for atmospheric data analysis using new knowledge and expertise on EWE
- IA 1.3. Piloting early-warning indicators of EWEs incorporating fire-weather and vegetation conditions
- IA 1.4. Integrated fire management model: bases, demonstration and piloting activities
Ecosystem Conservation and Landscape design
- IA 1.5. Demonstration of innovative post-fire restoration and adaptation strategies
- IA 2.1. Improving data acquisition for landscape design based on novel remote sensing methods
- IA 2.2. Scheduling and implementing novel management practices
- IA 2.3. Defining recommendations for improving security on WUI at multiple scales
- IA 2.4. Optimizing landscape configuration and fire management policies to minimize expected losses from EWE
- IA 2.5. Designing strategic networks of managed areas to improve suppression efforts against EWE
- IA 2.6. Designing post-fire restoration strategies
- IA 2.7. Landscape design strategies, using tactical planning methods
- IA 2.8. Trade-off ES assessment of fire-resilient landscape design
Economic drivers, Incentives and Insurance Solutions
Governance, society, communication and risk awareness
- IA 4.1. Fire forums
- IA 4.2. Testing a new methodology for risk communication to improve WUI homeowners’ culture of risk
- IA 4.3. Fire Education Platform – An immersive tool for policy-makers, schools and families
- IA 4.4. Fire-safe villages
- IA 4.5. Testing regional-level policy clinics for inclusive and coherent firesmart risk governance
- IA 4.6. Piloting a Firesmart planning platform and conceptualization tool
- IA 4.7. Testing an Interoperability evaluation tool
- IA 4.8 Demonstrating strategies and tools for smart communication to citizens
Advanced Technology Solutions - Support Tools for Integrated Fire Management
- IA 5.1. Demonstration of an integrative umbrella system for estimating EWE risk and impact in real time with HR weather data
- IA 5.2. Demonstration of real-time EWE simulation and smoke spread based on coupled fire-atmosphere approaches using of HR weather data
- IA 5.3. Advanced vegetation characterization based on Earth Observation data fusion and Artificial Intelligence over forestland ecosystems
- IA 5.4. Piloting models for fire combustion and Pyrocumulonimbus with use of HR data
- IA 5.5. Testing of vertical atmospheric structure models based on satellite constellation in EWE
- IA 5.6. Prototyping HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo Satellites) contribution to Europe’s resilience against EWE
- IA 5.7. Quantifying impacts of exposure to air pollutants from wildfires
- IA 5.8. Prototyping and testing innovative tools for EW ICS training certificates
- IA 5.9. Tools for international collaboration through shared operational information for specialized stakeholders
- IA 5.10. Development of a Pan-European system to define management priorities to mitigate fire impact