General Properties

File Identifier 5EE5561D-87FF-4D19-948A-82D69AD2917D

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 2021-02-22

Resource Title North Australian and WA 250m burnt area mapping by month 2015 - geotiff

Format Name *.xml

Format Version Unknown

Key Dates and Languages

Date of creation 2016-04

Date of publication 2016-04

Date of revision 2021-02

Metadata Language eng

Metadata Character Set utf8

Dataset Languages eng

Dataset Character Set utf8

Abstract Geotiff image of fire affected areas in northern Australia and Western Australia for the year 2015 based on MODIS and MSI satellite sensors. The image has a resolution of 250m per pixel. Each burnt pixel is tagged with a Fire Scar ID (FSID) that corresponds to the date interval in which the burning was detected and is coloured to reflect the month that covers the largest part of the date interval. The FSID values, the associated mapping intervals and colours for that month are listed in a .csv file. The data extends across the WA rangelands (down to 34.5 degrees S), across the entire NT and the northern part of SA (down to 29 degrees S) and 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 and the Multispectral instrument on ESA's Sentinel-2 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 grid

Extent - Geographic Bounding Box

North Bounding Latitude -9.33

South Bounding Latitude -34.50

West Bounding Longitude 112.919

East Bounding Longitude 154.00

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 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

Description North Australian Fire Information website

Function