The Satellite station in Jakarta office receives data from NOAA Satellite and Processes this data.

1. Detection Of Hot Spots by NOAA

NOAA circulates the earth every one hundred minutes at an altitude of 850km. Data from NOAA can be received everyday at specific time. NOAA is equipped with a sensor called AVHRR (Advance Very High Resolution Radiometer). AVHRR detects the temperature at ground level by using mainly near infrared rays. Hot Spot is the terminology for a pixel, which has a higher temperature than the particular threshold captured by satellite digital data. The size of a pixel is 1.1 km times, 1.1 km and the threshold values applied for the infrared channel are 315K (42oC) for day capturing and 310K (37oC) for night capturing When cloud covers the land, Hot spots cannot be detected.

The capturing areas of FFPMP 2 cover mainly Sumatra and Kalimantan. Among other are Sulawesi, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore and the southern parts of the Malay Peninsula.

2. Analysis and Provision of Data

The FFPMP 2 Jakarta office receives Hot Spot data for daily analysis. Data are divided by land ownership and land use classification and mapping. The analyzed data are sent to four national park project sites, nature resource conservation offices, regional forest services, and other related institutions through the Directorate of Forest Fire Control of the Ministry of Forestry.They use the data to conduct countermeasures and feedback from the results.

FFPMP 2 posts Hot Spot data on the FFPMP2 web site. Data can also be sent through email. FFPMP 2 is now developing the fire spread index map by using GIS technology. This study is to obtain the information of the risk of fire spreading in order to give early warnings.