Product catalogue
Historical Bushfire Boundaries - Version 1.0
<div>This dataset was produced under Stream 1 - Work Package 4 of the 2021-23 Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Bushfire Data Challenge Project; a collaborative partnership between the ARDC, Geoscience Australia, and the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network. The Project’s aim was to bring together a single nationally consistent and harmonised historical bushfire boundary data derived from the authoritative state and territory agencies. Geoscience Australia's role within this project was to; negotiate access to the data, collate and transform the data into the National Standard and then deliver the 'Historical Bushfire Boundaries' data through a static file and a webservice.</div><div><br></div><div>More information about the ARDC Project and Work Package 4: <br> https://ardc.edu.au/program/bushfire-data-challenges/</div><div>
More information about the Fire History Data Dictionary: <br> https://www.afac.com.au/insight/doctrine/article/current/fire-history-data-dictionary</div><div><br></div><div>The Historical Bushfire Boundaries dataset represents the aggregation of jurisdictional supplied burnt areas polygons stemming from the early 1900's through to 2022 (excluding the Northern Territory). The burnt area data represents curated jurisdictional owned polygons of both bushfires and prescribed (planned) burns. To ensure the dataset adhered to the nationally approved and agreed data dictionary for fire history Geoscience Australia had to modify some of the attributes presented.</div><div><br></div><div>The information provided within this dataset is reflective only of data supplied by participating authoritative agencies and may or may not represent all fire history within a state.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Important:</b> The Northern Australia Fire Information (NAFI) data has been intentionally omitted from this dataset (refer to Lineage).</div>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-03-03T20:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-03-15T00:38:31
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147763
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147763
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Ryu, G.
Internal Contact Author Charalambou, C.
Internal Contact Editor Orr, K.
Internal Contact Custodian Orr, K.
Internal Contact
- Purpose
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The creation a of a baseline national fire history dataset aligned to the nationally approved and agreed fire history data dictionary
- Status
- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Place and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Orr, K.
Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1900-01-01 2022-06-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- Project
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Bushfire
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Bushfires
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Fires
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Environmental
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Resource constraints
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY-ND
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4.0
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details User Any
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- Other restrictions
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operated on by
- Title
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries WFS
- Citation identifier
- 148543
- Citation identifier
- f24e65d6-0d06-4fb2-b339-e59ac4ebe2fa
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operated on by
- Title
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries WMS
- Citation identifier
- 148542
- Citation identifier
- bc2f7697-5a2a-4df3-bed3-1a78ee242e3a
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Operated on by
- Title
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries MapServer
- Citation identifier
- 148540
- Citation identifier
- 3daa2573-7c12-4392-bd0a-96d6ff4a6b58
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Bushfire Historical Extents - Version 3.0
- Citation identifier
- 149978
- Citation identifier
- eb1209b4-99cf-4265-965c-ad9ca1a702c7
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Informed
- Title
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries - Version 2.0
- Citation identifier
- 149017
- Citation identifier
- cb5b5914-d952-4cbd-8919-2941c1ac9272
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- OnLine resource
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Download Data (zip) [427.6 MB]
Download Data (zip) [427.6 MB]
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zip
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unzip
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- OnLine resource
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries WFS
Historical Bushfire Boundaries WFS
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OGC WFS
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- OnLine resource
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries WMS
Historical Bushfire Boundaries WMS
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OGC WMS
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Historical Bushfire Boundaries MapServer
Historical Bushfire Boundaries MapServer
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ESRI Map Service
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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<div>This dataset represents an aggregation of each jurisdiction (except the Northern Territory) fire history data up to the end of the 2021-22 bushfire season. Participating agencies included: </div><div>- Australian Capital Territory Emergency Services </div><div>- New South Wales Rural Fire Service </div><div>- Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service </div><div>- South Australia Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources </div><div>- Tasmania Department of Natural Resources and Environment </div><div>- Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning </div><div>- Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. </div><div><br></div><div>Due to data licensing restrictions and or unavailability of data not all of the jurisdictional historical bushfire data was made available for this project (The Project is aware that sources other than those listed above also create historical bushfire data). This is a known limitation of the dataset and because the maintenance schedule of this dataset in unknown there are no plans undertake revisions with new inclusions. </div><div>In the absence of data from the NT consideration was given to using the Northern Australia Fire Information (NAFI) data as an alternate source of historic bushfire data. However, after consultation it was decided by the Steering Committee that the NAFI data was not fit for purpose because it was not supplied by the government agency responsible for authoritative historic bushfire data. </div><div><br></div><div>The data provided was placed into a data workflow to map existing attributes into the schema agreed to by the participating state agencies and the Australian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council (AFAC):</div><div> https://www.afac.com.au/insight/doctrine/article/current/fire-history-data-dictionary.</div>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 4283)
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/a82c263f-dba6-457a-aafd-bf869fe7171a
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Orr, K.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/147763
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-06-19T06:15:39.731Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-14T01:46:33
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-06-19T06:16:45.539Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551