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Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2017/18

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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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 satellite 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 2017/18 fire year, including wildfires >100ha with fire start date between July 2017 and June 2018.

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Title Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2017/18
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a770ac85-cec5-4a86-9d99-49c1fd1370d2
Remote Last Updated 14/03/2024
Contact Point
Reference Period 01/01/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Fire Extent and Severity Mapping (FESM) 2017/18". 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-2017-2018