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Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2016/17

Created 06/06/2025

Updated 06/06/2025

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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 and Landsat satellite imagery. Fire Extent and Severity Mapping for the 2016/17 fire year is based on Landsat 8 imagery. Fire Extent and Severity Mapping from the 2017/18 fire year onward is based on Sentinel 2 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 2016/17 fire year, including wildfires >100ha with fire start date between July 2016 and June 2017.

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Title Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2016/17
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/36fda88b-bd75-42df-97ae-9ee653e29a7a
Remote Last Updated 19/03/2024
Contact Point
New South Wales Datasets
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Reference Period 01/07/2016 - 30/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2016/17". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-fire-extent-and-severity-mapping-fesm-2016-2017