RST-FIRES, an exportable algorithm for early-fire detection and monitoring: description, implementation, and field validation in the case of the MSG-SEVIRI sensor

On the whole, RST-FIRES is shown to be 3 to 70 times more sensitive than all of the other considered SEVIRI-based products. This satisfactory result was not completely unexpected, considering the quite high false positive rate exhibited by RST-FIRES and the fact that other algorithms were designed to work in a wider area, from continental to the SEVIRI full disk.