Medium and High Resolution Multispectral Data from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 for Active Fire Monitoring and Post-Fire Assessment of Burned Areas: A Case Study on Vesuvius

This paper presents an approach to process open access medium and high resolution multispectral images for both active fire monitoring and post-fire damage assessment. The performance of a recently introduced spectral index for active fire detection (AFD3) is assessed and a processing workflows for burning area estimation is applied to a reference case study, using only data provided by the NASA Landsat-8 and ESA Sentinel-2 missions. The reported results shows satisfactory performance, that can be further improved integrating such products in exiting services based on other missions like MODIS and VIIRS.