NRM NETWORKS Peter Jacklyn & Felicity Watt
Feb 23, 2016
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.
DataHotspot 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 [email protected]
Felicity [email protected]