South Africa’s Fire Early Warning System
Direct Broadcast
Receiving Station
Satellite Application
Centre (SAC)
Centre (SAC)
South Africa
Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) wamis.co.za
University of
Maryland
Maryland
Web Fire Mapper
maps.geog.umd.edu
Rapid Response
System
SMS/Text messages
ESKOM
Disaster
Management Unit
Weather Service
Forest Department
E-mail Alerts
End users
Diane Davies & Suresh Kumar, UMD - GEOG