General Properties 
Parent File Identifier 37470057-51E8-49B1-9727-30C7F72AFF09 
Hierarchy Level dataset 
Hierarchy Level Name dataset 
Standard Name ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata 
Standard Version 1.1 
Date Stamp 2026-03-02 
Resource Title North Australia and WA 250m late fire frequency mapping 2000 to 2025 - geotiff 
Format Name *.xml 
Format Version Unknown 
Key Dates and Languages 
Date of creation 2026-03 
Date of publication 2026-03 
Date of revision 2026-03 
Metadata Language eng 
Metadata Character Set utf8 
Dataset Languages eng  
Dataset Character Set utf8 
Abstract Geotiff image of late (after July 31) fire frequency in northern Australia for the period 2000 - 2025 based on MODIS and MSI satellite sensors. The image has a resolution of 250m per pixel and each burnt pixel is tagged with an attribute (Band 1) that corresponds to the number of years that pixel has been detected as being burnt after July 31st in the 26 year period 2000 to 2025. The data is based on monthly fire scar mapping and extends across the WA rangelands, across the entire NT (down to 26 degrees S) and across northern Qld down to approx. 20 degrees S. The monthly fire scar mapping of landscapes north of 20 degrees S has been validated by aerial transects and checked using high resolution imagery across northern Australia. 
Purpose Fire Management 
Metadata Contact Information 
Name of Individual Name withheld 
Organisation Name Charles Darwin University 
Position Name  
Role pointOfContact 
Voice  
Facsimile  
Email Address  
Address  Australia 
Resource Contacts 
Lineage Statement The late fire frequency mapping is based on GIS analysis of monthly burnt area mapping from each of the years 2000 to 2025. This data was produced through summing the individual burnt area raster grids (in Arc-GIS) from 2000-2025 where grid cells for each year were attributed with the value of 1 if it had been burnt later than July 31 that year and 0 if it had not been burnt or burnt earlier than July 31.The burnt area mapping was based on analysis of imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites and the Multispectral instrument on ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite. At least two images of different dates were compared to detect fire affected areas. Image analysing software, manual inspection of the image and other datasets such as hotspot data were used to produce the final burnt area product that the fire frequencies are based on. 
Jurisdictions 
 Northern Territory 
 Queensland 
 Western Australia 
Themes and Categories 
Topic Category environment 
Status and Maintenance 
Status completed 
Maintenance and Update Frequency notPlanned 
Date of Next Update  
Reference system 
Reference System EPSG::4283
(Geodetic Datum of Australian 1994) 
Data Scales/Resolutions 
Resolution 250 m 
Spatial Representation Type 
Spatial Representation Type grid 
Metadata Security Restrictions 
Classification unclassified 
Authority  
Use Limitations  
Dataset Security Restrictions 
Classification unclassified 
Authority  
Use Limitations  
Extent - Geographic Bounding Box 
North Bounding Latitude -9.0 
South Bounding Latitude -40.0 
West Bounding Longitude 112.0 
East Bounding Longitude 155.0 
Additional Extents - Geographic 
Identifier NT 
Identifier QLD 
Identifier WA 
Additional Extent - Temporal 
From Date/Time 2000 
To Date/Time 2025
Distribution Information 
Distributor 1 
Distributor 1 Contact 
Name of Individual Name withheld 
Organisation Name Charles Darwin University 
Position Name  
Role distributor 
Voice  
Facsimile  
Email Address  
Address Charles Darwin University 
 Darwin NT 0909 
 Australia 
Distributor 1 Format Information 
Name of the format Geotiff 6.0 
Amendment number  
Specification 8 bit Geotiff 
File decompression technique LZW 
Distributor 1 Digital Transfer Options Information 
Units of distribution  
Transfer size  
Distributor 1 Online information 
Linkage www.firenorth.org.au 
Protocol  
Application profile  
Name North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information 
Description Fire monitoring website for north Australian and remote area fire area managers 
Function download 
