NRM NETWORKSPeter Jacklyn & Felicity Watt

NAFI:The North Australian Fire Information

Website

Overview

easily monitor bushfire activity and plan fire management activities

also used by researchers, NRM consultants...developed primarily for fire managers, who

continue to drive future directions of the site. In the future the site should receive a major

proportion of its funding from the Federal Government, given the site’s role in the planned GHG and Fire abatement projects across north Australia.

Data

Hotspot data sourced from WA Landgate and Geoscience Australia

Fire Scar data mapped by Bushfires NT (NT and WA) and Cape York Sustainable Futures (Qld)

Weather data from the Bureau of Meteorology

Background maps from Geoscience Australia

Increasing use of user-generated data

How the site is used

Planning & implement

ing early

season burns

How the site is used

Monitoring

wildfires

How the site is used

Monitoring

wildfires

How the site is used

Monitoring

wildfires

Patterns of use

Tools Recent Fire History maps

Mono-colour maps show time since last burnt and act as a guide to fuel levels.

Tools Recent Fire Reports

Fire Reports are now available for areas across northern Australia – click on the “Fire Reports” panel on the left.

Instant PDF reports of fire history for a given area

Tools Recent Fire Reports

Tools displaying user data

Upload your own data e.g. on firelines from APBs and view them as a private layer on NAFI.

New Site due for launch August 2012

The new NAFI site will be more like Google Maps

iPad test site – http://138.80.128.232/nafi2

New Site due for launch August 2012

Greater use of formats like kml files which will allow users to display NAFI data on other viewers like Google Earth and to display their own data on the NAFI site.

kml files

Peter Jacklyn peter.jacklyn@cdu.edu.au

Felicity Wattfelicity.watt@nt.gov.au