Providing a clear picture of landscape dryness

摘要

Fire and land managers are now benefiting from the world's first near-real-time web application that uses satellite data to provide a clear picture of live fuel moisture and soil moisture content at a continental scale, improving the understanding of the flammability of trees, shrubs and grass. Developed through the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC's Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts project, the Australian Flammability Monitoring System (AFMS) uses satellite data to collect spatial information on live moisture content and flammability, allowing users to see where there are high levels of vegetation and soil dryness - perfect conditions for a bushfire. It displays this information on an interactive online map, making it easier and faster to access, so that fire behaviour analysts, fire managers, land managers and prescribed-burning planners can better plan and manage fire and firefighting resources.