Dissemination of the project in the main study sites
The fieldwork of the project has been completed, as the in situ dissemination about the project, project objectives and first findings. In every village we have worked, the project has been presented to the regional and local authorities, and to the local population. In some cases, the communication was addressed by organizing a meeting with the authorities and representatives of all the families in the village (e.g. image below in Mozambique) and in others the project was communicated at multiple stages, to the different administrations and participants involved in the project field activities – samplings, interviews, and workshops-. We hope all of the participants and people we have contacted with have spent nice moments with us while we learned from each other.
In May 24, the project advances were presented to students and professors at ESNEC-Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
The presentation caused great interest in the academic community, leading to a nice round of questions and discussions.
The first scientific research article of the project reveals the possibility of accurately refining historical burned area data
The characterization of fire regimes must be based on accurate burned area spatial data. Thus, in this work we checked and highlighted the biases of the commonly used coarse-resolution products (MODIS) by comparing them with recent fine-resolution Sentinel-2 burned area data. Our main contribution was to provide solutions to compensate the detected biases, and to identify some of the main sources of error of burned area detection across sub-Saharan Africa. We invite you to take a look here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1569-8432(23)00172-3
Comunicating the project on site!
To motivate further engagement from people of those institutions already involved, as well as to reach the broad public we have made and distributed posters among our partner institutions in Madagascar and MPA!
Check our project also in some of the institutions and participant’s webpages!
Initial workshop
Our first activity has been the SNIS workshop. There, we met SNIS representatives and leaders form the other granted projects. Likewise, our coordinator, Christian Kull, had the opportunity to introduce our project, as well as the usefulness and consequences of landscape fires. Watch him in this video!