| General Properties |
| 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 late fire frequency mapping 2000 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 late (after July 31) fire frequency in northern Australia for the period 2000 - 2025 based on MODIS and MSI satellite sensors. The image has a resolution of 250m per pixel and each burnt pixel is tagged with an attribute (Band 1) that corresponds to the number of years that pixel has been detected as being burnt after July 31st in the 26 year period 2000 to 2025. The data is based on monthly fire scar mapping and extends across the WA rangelands, across the entire NT (down to 26 degrees S) and across northern Qld down to approx. 20 degrees S. 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 late fire frequency mapping is based on GIS analysis of monthly burnt area mapping from each of the years 2000 to 2025. This data was produced through summing the individual burnt area raster grids (in Arc-GIS) from 2000-2025 where grid cells for each year were attributed with the value of 1 if it had been burnt later than July 31 that year and 0 if it had not been burnt or burnt earlier than July 31.The burnt area mapping was based on analysis of imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites and 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 2000 |
| 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 |