ESI's Ana Prados' research featured in Spanish Science News article

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:58:35 -0400
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A recent Remote Sensing paper by Ana Prados, "Key Governance Practices that Facilitate the Use of Remote Sensing Information for Wildfire Management: A Case Study in Spain," was featured in an article in Sinc, Ciencia Contada en Espanol titled "Vivir donde el fuego siempre vuelve."

In the Sinc article, they discuss Dr. Prados' paper, which "outlines the results of interviews held with 50 stakeholders across Spain (firefighters, government agencies, private sector, universities). It identified 6 key factors in satellite data governance for wildfire management in Spain: 1) the strength of the stakeholder networks, 2) open data access, 3) capacity building, 4) governance frameworks, 5) Institutional buy-in, and 6) translation of satellite information; and proposed a methodology that other countries or subnational entities can adopt for identifying their own data governance factors." Dr. Prados also refers to the use of INFOCAM, a site that provides information on forest fires in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.