Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2019/20

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Fire severity is a metric of the loss of biomass caused by fire. In collaboration with the NSW Rural Fire Service, DPE Remote Sensing & Regulatory Mapping team has developed a semi-automated approach to mapping fire extent and severity through a machine learning framework based on sentinel 2 satellite imagery. The statewide severity map has standardised classes to allow comparison of different fires across the landscape. The FESM severity classes include: unburnt, low severity (burnt understory, unburnt canopy), moderate severity (partial canopy scorch), high severity (complete canopy scorch, partial canopy consumption), extreme (full canopy consumption).

This dataset represents the 2019/20 fire year including all wildfires >10ha with a fire start date between July 2019 and June 2020.

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Title Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2019/20
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Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/573e4720-87b5-482b-a097-5500caa9f828
Date Published 2021-05-13
Date Updated 2024-09-16
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Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water