NERO Completed Grants
Short-Term Scientific Missions and other grants funded by NERO: what each grantee set out to do, what they achieved, and what it contributed to the Action.
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A fire radiative power tool co-designed with Andalusia’s INFOCA analysts
During a week with INFOCA’s fire analysis group in Seville, Bruno Aparício studied their real-time analysis workflow and built a tool, now used by analysts, to download and analyse satellite fire radiative power.
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Forensic reconstruction of the Varnavas wildfire at the National Observatory of Athens
Nikos Kamakiotis joined the National Observatory of Athens to work on forensic digital reconstruction of wildland-urban interface fires, applying it to the August 2024 Varnavas wildfire.
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From Sardinia to Portugal’s national incident room: real-time analysis of the Freixo de Espada à Cinta fire
Franco Casula of Sardinia’s Forest Corps joined Portugal’s National Wildfire Decision Support Cell, performed real-time wildfire analysis and reconstructed the Freixo de Espada à Cinta fire in a standard storytelling format.
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Bringing field data collection to Sardinia’s firefighting teams
Marcos Campos of Portugal’s civil protection authority visited Sardinian firefighting centres, introduced the NERO data collection app, and built a digital tool to replace daily paper reporting.
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What Abruzzo’s civil protection learned from Portugal’s wildfire analysis system
Luca Di Giammatteo of the Abruzzo Regional Civil Protection Agency studied Portugal’s operational wildfire analysis system, from in-field reporting apps to strategic operational analysis and weekly ANEPC briefings.
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Inside Portugal’s wildfire decision support cell: lessons for Türkiye
At Portugal’s National Wildfire Decision Support Cell, Kadir Alperen Coskuner analysed the Soutelo and Vimioso fires and compared Portuguese and Turkish decision-making, work that produced an openly published dataset.
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Pyroconvection in real-time wildfire analysis: the Serra da Estrela fire
Georgios Papavasileiou brought the National Observatory of Athens’ fire weather methods to Portugal’s wildfire decision support cell, analysing the pyroconvective stage of the 2022 Serra da Estrela fire.
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A Dutch fire service perspective from Portugal’s wildfire analysis cell
Eduard Kok of the Netherlands Institute for Public Safety joined Portugal’s wildfire analysis team, preparing strategic analyses himself, as north-west Europe prepares for larger and more extreme wildfires.
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Two Italian researchers in Portugal’s wildfire decision room: the Alcabideche-Cascais fire
Valentina Bacciu and Michele Salis of CNR-IBE joined Portugal’s National Wildfire Decision Support Cell during the Alcabideche-Cascais wildfire, learning real-time analysis from the operational side.
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Hungarian and Croatian firefighting compared: a mission to the University of Split
Péter Pántya of Hungary’s University of Public Service visited Split to compare firefighting formations, equipment and IT tools, including Croatia’s video surveillance system for forest fires.
