Explore Fireline Intensity Potential raster data to better understand the risk of bushfire at your property in Australia.
The National Bushfire Intelligence Capability recently released a raster dataset of Fireline Intensity Potential for the Australian eastern states (excluding WA).
Fireline intensity (FLI) potential relates to the rate of energy released from an advancing firefront, indicating the severity of a bushfire’s behaviour, and is expressed as the rate of heat output per unit length (kW/m2) along the fire’s front.
I use ProRaster Scientific to convert the large COG rasters supplied by the NBIC into MRR format classified rasters, reducing the file size by a factor of 60X. One of these rasters is available for download on the Roberts Geospatial Engineering website. I then explore the dataset and relate the information to three locations where I have experienced historical fire behaviour.
National Bushfire Intelligence Capability
research.csiro.au/nbic/
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0:00 Introduction
1:46 Creating a legend
4:17 Processing to a classified virtual raster
5:18 Exporting to a classified MRR
6:01 Final MRR files
6:40 Comparing fire return 20-50-100 years
8:27 Comparing current and future weather scenarios
9:55 Data on my website
10:47 Exploring the data - Copacabana
13:04 Exploring the data - Adelaide Hills
17:35 Exploring the data - Melbourne
18:12 Exploring the data - Blue Mountains