- Title:
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The NAFI Website: A dynamic, user-driven tool for montitoring landscape-scale fires
- Date:
- September 2010
- Organisations
- AFAC 2010 Conference
- Authors:
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Peter Jacklyn, Charles Darwin University
Stream 2
Download the presentation slides here. A summary is available from the link above. - Location:
- Australia, Australia
Overview
In the early 2000s three fire monitoring websites were developed to display the recently available MODIS satellite data: the Sentinel website developed by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia; the Firewatch website developed by the WA Department of Land Administration (now Landgate); and the North Australian Fire Information (NAFI) website developed by the Tropical Savannas CRC.
Unlike the other two sites the NAFI website is restricted to northern Australia, and to a large extent uses data from other organisations (including hotspots from Landgate and Geoscience Australia) but presents these data in a way that is useful for northern fire managers. The NAFI website has been shaped by the distinctive features of north Australian fire management and the result is a quite different website that is now widely used across northern Australia. The NAFI site today has features that might be useful for other fire managers across Australia and this presentation will try to explain what these useful features are and how they arose.
