This scoping project meets the need for a consolidated understanding of the quality, purpose and availability of bushfire datasets in Australia. It responds to findings – from the 2020 Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements and the 2020 NSW Independent Bushfire Inquiry – that Australia does not have a national centralised bushfire information database.
Researchers are now seeking information about bushfire data and datasets. Submit information here.
Examples of the types of bushfire-related data researchers are looking for includes:
- environmental (e.g., vegetation, climate related, topography, etc.)
- social (e.g., travel/daily activity diaries, demographic information, mitigation behaviours, preparedness/risk assessments, etc.)
- economic (e.g., economic impacts of disasters, mitigation costs, etc.)
- emergency (e.g., evacuation/public response behaviour, emergency response logistics, etc.)
- built environment (e.g., building damage, building and planning, utility and infrastructure access, post-bushfire surveys, regulations, etc.)
- bushfire (e.g., extent, ignition, etc.)
- any other data you think might be relevant to understand bushfires.
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