Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2017/18

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 2017/18 fire year, including wildfires >100ha with fire start date between July 2017 and June 2018.

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Title Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2017/18
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Licence cc-by
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Update Frequency notPlanned
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/a770ac85-cec5-4a86-9d99-49c1fd1370d2
Date Published 2021-05-14
Date Updated 2024-03-13
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Temporal Coverage 2019-01-01 -
Geospatial Coverage {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[140.27344,-36.35477],[140.27344,-27.99906],[155.08301,-27.99906],[155.08301,-36.35477],[140.27344,-36.35477]]]}
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Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water