The European Space Agency (ESA) Fire Climate Change Initiative (Fire CCI) project, led by University of Alcala (Spain), is part of ESA's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) to produce long term datasets of Essential Climate Variables derived from global satellite data.

The Fire CCI focuses on the following issues relating to Fire Disturbance: Analysis and specification of scientific requirements relating to climate; Development and improvement of pre-processing and burned area algorithms; Inter-comparison and selection of burned area algorithms; System prototyping and production of burned area datasets; Product validation and product assessment