This presentation describes some achievements from the on-going JST-JICA “Wildfires and Carbon Management in Peat Forest in Indonesia” project, particularly those from the Fire Detection and Fire Prediction System (FF) component. In general, the FF component consists of two activities, i. e. wild/peat fire control system and mapping and modeling land cover. The objectives of the wild/peat fire control system activity are to improve fire hotspot algorithm, estimate carbon emission by biomass burning among different ecotypes, transfer in-situ fire information to each region, and construct the prediction model of wild fire occurrence. While the objectives of the mapping and modeling land cover activity are to construct the model of water regime (soil moisture), make the maps of land cover/land use change, and establish the spectral library (plant/soil) in the investigation areas. The Block C and Block B of the ex-Mega Rice Project sites in Central Kalimantan province have been chosen as the pilot project areas.   

To this stage, the refined MODIS fire hotspot algorithm and the ground water table have been developed and uploaded daily in the local LAPAN’s server. In addition, the annual land cover/land cover change maps, the 16-day NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), and several dominant tree spectral reflectances are ready to be integrated and analyzed. In the near-future, the fire alert system will be built in the form of short message service (sms) sent to the firefighters and other related stakeholders.