General Properties
File Identifier 5ACF3294-F715-4EC1-B5B4-C20A24112D9C
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 2026-03-02
Resource Title North Australia and WA 250m fire frequency mapping 2016 to 2025 - geotiff
Format Name *.xml
Format Version Unknown
Key Dates and Languages
Date of creation 2026-03
Date of publication 2026-03
Date of revision 2026-03
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Character Set utf8
Dataset Languages eng
Dataset Character Set utf8
Abstract Geotiff image of fire frequency in northern and rangelands Australia for the period 2016 - 2025 based on imagery from MODIS and MSI sensors. The image has a resolution of 250m per pixel and each burnt pixle is tagged with an attribute (Band 1) that corresponds to the number of years that pixel has been detected as being burnt in the 10 year period 2016 to 2025. The data is based on monthly fire scar mapping and extends across the WA rangelands, across the entire NT and across Qld (excluding SE Qld). The monthly fire scar mapping of landscapes north of 20 degrees S has been validated by aerial transects and checked using high resolution imagery across northern Australia.
Purpose Fire Management
Metadata Contact Information
Name of Individual Name withheld
Organisation Name Charles Darwin University
Position Name
Role pointOfContact
Voice
Facsimile
Email Address
Address Australia
Resource Contacts
Lineage Statement The fire frequency mapping is based on GIS analysis of monthly burnt area mapping from each of the years 2016 to 2025. This data was produced through summing the individual burnt area raster grids (in Arc-GIS) from 2016-2025 where grid cells for each year were attributed with the value of 1 if it had been burnt that year and 0 if it had not been burnt.The burnt area mapping was based on analysis of imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites and from the Multispectral instrument on ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite. At least two images of different dates were compared to detect fire affected areas. Image analysing software, manual inspection of the image and other datasets such as hotspot data were used to produce the final burnt area product that the fire frequencies are based on.
Jurisdictions
Northern Territory
Queensland
Western Australia
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
Metadata Security Restrictions
Classification unclassified
Authority
Use Limitations
Dataset Security Restrictions
Classification unclassified
Authority
Use Limitations
Extent - Geographic Bounding Box
North Bounding Latitude -9.0
South Bounding Latitude -40.0
West Bounding Longitude 112.0
East Bounding Longitude 155.0
Additional Extents - Geographic
Identifier NT
Identifier QLD
Identifier WA
Additional Extent - Temporal
From Date/Time 2016
To Date/Time 2025
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 6.0
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 North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information
Description Fire monitoring website for north Australian and remote area fire area managers
Function download