North Aust NRM/fire scientist - supporting best practice land management. Landscape knowledge visualisation and sim innovation. https://xitter.cf/t.co/toNK9ikBwn
Darwin N.T.
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Finally published! Supporting Indigenous rangers to restore fire practices using contemporary methods could have a substantial effect on desert fire patterns and may limit the extent and damage caused by fires in the northern spinifex desert
publish.csiro.au/wf/Fulltext…
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A bushfire in the NT which started last month, has now burnt through more than 1 MILLION hectares 🔥
It's classed as a "Terra Fire"
I spoke to @RohanFisher4 about this today on the Country Hour
abc.net.au/listen/programs/n…
📸 Credit: NAFI
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Can you guess how many hectares were burnt in the Northern Territory last month??
I spoke to NAFI’s @RohanFisher4 to find out: abc.net.au/listen/programs/n…
🔥(and here’s a quick video showing Oct in the Tanami)
I have been developing techniques for the automated assessment of 🔥events across Australia using NAFI (firenorth.org.au) data. These are the top 10 largest across Australia so far this year. 3 of them > 1 million ha (Terra-Fires, 100x mega fire). The year is not over.
NEW NAFI YEAR TO DATE QUICK REPORTING SITE. Launching today, a new site that pulls in the NAFI burnt area mapping across 80% of Australia and provides a summary of what's going on in your patch. ACCESS is here nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
In case anyone asks:
-2.1 million ha of wildfire so far in August
-267,200 ha burnt in the NT over the last 3 days
-570,000 ha burnt across North Aust over the last 5 days
Total area burnt in Spain so far this year 343,000 ha. Spain is being helped with firefighting aircraft
from France, Italy, Slovakia, and the Netherlands, while Portugal is receiving air support from Sweden and Morocco. Meanwhile, Australia is deciding whether or not these north Australian fires even actually exist if we don't 'see' them.
This fire south of Katherine (NT) has been burning for two weeks. As of yesterday has burnt 276,931ha. I produced this animation of its spread from Zoom Earth. We usually have fires as massive as this in September. An early start to the wildfire season this year!
Massive fires in the N.T. at the moment. Moving into a severe fire weather season and still no clarity on ALP funding NAFI. Looks like pastoral and other industries will be facing a potentially disastrous fire season blind this year. @TheNTNews @CattleCorp
This article should be titled, Labor Government looking to defund national fire service will see a massive increase in both fire disasters across 80% of Australia and GHG emissions. This should be a major election issue.
abc.net.au/news/2025-04-17/n…
Check out this amazing content Fire in motion: New animation platform and updates to key bushfire resources at CDU cdu.edu.au/news/fire-motion-…
More than 44,300 ha burnt through country west of Alice Springs including over the last week. Including a significant proportion of Tjoritja / West MacDonnell National Park.
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A quick animation of 2024 fires across Australia's most fire-prone landscapes. 485780 square km burnt. 45.57 million ha. What fire 'means' and its 'impact' is a matter of nuance and context. (LA fires 17 thousand ha).
I had a great chat with Sabra Lane on the ABC Good news Pod Cast late last year about fire in Australia. Reposting here in the context of the LA blaze's. abc.net.au/listen/programs/a…
I had a chat with ABC (Sabra Lane) earlier in the week about fire in Australia for the podcast Bright Side. It came together well, worth a listen abc.net.au/listen/programs/t…