Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC) Tool 1 – Global Landscape Fire Information System

Brief description of the tool: Globally fires affect several hundred million hectares of natural and cultural landscapes every year. In some fire-adapted or fire-dependent vegetation types these fires are essential for maintaining the functioning of ecosystem processes. Similarly, fire application in many cultural landscapes is equally important for maintaining stability and productivity of land-use systems. However, fires have serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and ecosystems in non-fire-prone biomes. The Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) has been created – among other reasons – as a repository and portal for landscape fire documentation, information and monitoring, which is publicly accessible through the Internet. The regularly updated national-to-global wildland fire products of the GFMC are generated by a worldwide network of cooperating institutions and individuals. Working at the interface between the science community and the user community, the research and development work of the GFMC is targeted at providing capacity building and delivering problem-oriented products and solutions. The GFMC is also serving in policy advising, formulation and high-level political activities. The GFMC is the largest global environmental online repository and as of early 2016 offers 160,000 web pages and / or documents. Target groups: Decision makers in all countries and international organizations.

Related resources:

• Tool 1 – Global Landscape Fire Information System
• Tool 2 – Regional Wildland Fire Networks under the Aegis of the Global Wildland Fire Network
• Tool 3 – International and Regional Advisory Bodies / Services for Landscape Fire Management
• Tool 4 – Global Wildland Fire Early Warning System and Global Portal for National and Regional Wildland Fire Early Warning
• Tool 5 – International Support Tools / Services for Wildfire Emergency Response
• Tool 6 – Services of Regional Fire Management Resource Centers Associated with GFMC
• Tool 7 – National Round Tables on Landscape Fire Management
• Tool 8 – Systematic Application of Outreach Work in Participatory (Community-Based) Integrated Fire Management
• Tool 9 – Capacity Building in the Application of Principles of Integrated Fire Management in Biodiversity Management, Nature Conservation, and Protected Areas Management

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