Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Pilliga Region

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 satellite imagery.

The method uses 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).

Here we provide historical severity mapping for the Pilliga region from 1989/90 to 2015/16, which is based on Landsat satellite imagery. From 2016/17 to the current fire year, this region is covered in the statewide FESM data, which is based on Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.

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Title Historical Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) - Pilliga Region
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Licence cc-by
Data Status
Update Frequency notPlanned
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/b34b9818-a8d9-497f-8dde-c25481d57f2f
Date Published 2023-12-03
Date Updated 2024-02-26
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Temporal Coverage 1989-07-01 - 2016-03-06
Geospatial Coverage { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ 148.491211, -31.370445 ], [ 148.491211, -30.266579 ], [ 149.875488, -30.266579 ], [ 149.875488, -31.370445 ], [ 148.491211, -31.370445 ] ] ]}
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Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water