Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada – October 30, 2025: The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) launched its new online course, Remote Sensing of Wildfire Management, on the UNU Online Learning Centre. The course is designed to empower professionals and postgraduate students working on wildfires, agricultural drought, forest management, and climate adaptation, with the crucial skills needed to tackle the escalating global challenge of wildfires using state-of-the-art satellite technology,
This 8-hour, self-paced course explains fire occurrence, behavior, and fuel management, with a focus on remote sensing. Participants explore the "fire triangle" (fuel, heat, oxygen), vegetation heat and fuel conditions, and their effects on forests, the wildland-urban interface, and carbon emissions using free satellite data.
Enrollment is now open for this certified course. https://lc.unu.edu/courses/course-v1:UNU-INWEH+INWEH-27+2025-T2/about
“If you want to master the exploitation of free satellite data to understand fuel moisture and vegetation physiology for effective wildfire management, enrol in this course today," said Dr. Mir Matin, Manager, Geospatial, Climate and Infrastructure Analytics Programme at UNU-INWEH. Also explore more courses on the UNU Online Learning Centre.
