General Properties

File Identifier

C49E92EA-E821-47AF-8AC6-B5C2DDE31605

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

2016-07-26

Resource Title

North Australian and WA MODIS burnt area mapping by month

2015 - shapefile

Format Name

*.xml

Format Version

Unknown

Key Dates and Languages

Date of creation

2016-04

Date of publication

2016-04

Date of revision

2016-07

Metadata Language

eng

Metadata Character Set

utf8

Dataset Languages

eng

Dataset Character Set

utf8

Abstract

Shapefile of fire affected areas in northern Australia and Western

Australia for the year 2015 based on NASA's Moderate Resolution

Imaging Spectroradiometer. The data are vector ploygons derived

from an image with a resolution of 250m per pixel and each

polygon is tagged with a firescar identifier (FSID) corresponding

to the mapping interval in which the burnt area within the polygon

was detected (as described in the .csv file) and the month that

covers the largest part of the mapping interval. The data extends

across the WA rangelands (down to 34.5 degrees S), the entire

NTand northern SA (down to 29 degrees S) and across all of Qld

(down to 29 degrees S). Mapping landscapes north of 20 degrees

S has been validated by aerial and on-ground transects across

northern Australia.

Purpose

Fire Management and Emissions Reporting

Metadata Contact Information

Name of Individual

Name withheld

Organisation Name

Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research, Charles Darwin University

Position Name

 

Role

pointOfContact

Voice

 

Facsimile

 

Email Address

 

Address

 

 

 

 

Australia

Resource Contacts

Name of Individual

Name withheld

Organisation Name

Charles Darwin University

Position Name

 

Role

resourceProvider

Voice

 

Facsimile

 

Email Address

 

Address

Charles Darwin University

 

Darwin NT 0909

 

Australia

Lineage Statement

Burnt area mapping is based on analysis of imagery from the

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra

satellite. At least two images of different dates are compared to

detect fire affected areas. Image analysing software, manual

inspection of the image and other datasets such as hotspot data

are used to produce the final product.

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

vector

Extent - Geographic Bounding Box

North Bounding Latitude

-10.6

South Bounding Latitude

-28.98

West Bounding Longitude

114.12

East Bounding Longitude

153.27

Additional Extents - Geographic

Identifier

AUS

Additional Extent - Temporal

From Date/Time

2015-01-01

To Date/Time

2015-12-31

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

ESRI shapefile

Version of the format

N/A

Amendment number

 

Specification

 

File decompression technique

 

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

managers

Function

download