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Service_Topic='ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORIES', Service_Term='FIRE
ADVISORIES', Service_Specific_Name='WILDFIRES'] European Forest
Fire Information System (EFFIS) Entry ID: EFFIS Abstract: The
European Commission DG Joint Research Centre set up since 1999 a
research group to work specifically on the development and
implementation of advanced methods for the evaluation of forest
fire risk and mapping of burnt areas at the European scale.
These activities led to the development of the European Forest
Fire Information System (EFFIS). Since the year 2003 EFFIS is
... part of the Regulation (EC) No 2152/2003 (Forest Focus) of
the European Council and Parliament on monitoring of forests and
environmental interactions. All the EFFIS activities are
coordinated with DG Environment to reach the final users, Civil
Protection and Forest Services, in the Member States. EFFIS is
aimed to provide relevant information for the protection of
forests against fire in Europe addressing both pre