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 2025-03-03

Resource Title North Australian 250m time since last burnt mapping 2000 to 2024 - geotiff

Format Name *.xml

Format Version Unknown

Key Dates and Languages

Date of creation 2025-03

Date of publication 2025-03

Date of revision 2025-03

Metadata Language eng

Metadata Character Set utf8

Dataset Languages eng 

Dataset Character Set utf8

Abstract Geotiff image of the time in years since areas were last burnt in northern Australia for the period 2000 - 2024 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 since that pixel has been detected as being burnt in the 25 year period 2000 to 2024 with no data indicating it has not been burnt in that period. 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 aprox. 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 time since last burnt mapping is based on GIS analysis of monthly burnt area mapping from each of the years 2000 to 2024. This data was produced through analysing the individual burnt area raster grids (in Arc-GIS) from 2000-2024 where grid cells were attributed with the values equal to the number of years since it had been last burnt up to a value of 25 - with a value of 26 if it had not been burnt at all in the period.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 2024

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 1.0

Version of the format 1.8.2

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 Australian Fire Information

Description Fire monitoring website for north Australian and remote area fire area managers

Function download