EMSINA and National Bushfire Boundary Data
Members from the Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA) have been involved in the creation of a Nationally aggregated and harmonsied bushfire boundary product since the beginning of the Black Summer Bushfires in 2019/2020.
Utilising existing networks the Group has successfully partnered with a range of Government agencies, industry and research bodies to access, design, develop and deliver bushfire boundary related datasets to the Australian EM community.
The information presented below is a history of EMSINA's past and current involvement in the development of National Bushfire Boundary datasets:
EMSINA Involvement in the National Bushfire Boundary Data Development
2023-25
EMSINA is currently partnered with CSIRO (NBIC), Geoscience Australia and the Australian Government's Digital Atlas of Australia to deliver three bushfire boundary products; Near-Real-Time, 3 Hourly Accumulation, and Historical Bushfire Boundaries datasets and webservices. Read more...
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2021-23
EMSINA partnered with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Geoscience Australia and the Minderoo Foundation to deliver Historical Bushfire Boundaries datasets and webservices. Read more...
2019-21
In late 2019 Australia was experiencing widespread bushfires covering multiple states and territories. Emergency Management Australia requested EMSINA and Geoscience Australia to develop a near-real-time bushfire boundary feed that combined all the individual jurisdictional feeds into one National view. Read more...
