CSIRO LAND and WATER

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Sentinel Dynamic Fire Location Mapping
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Near- Real Time Emergency Mapping
Sentinel Satellite Mapping of Fire Hotspots

• Environmental Remote Sensing Group
• CSIRO Land and Water
• Defence Imagery
• Geospatial Organisation

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Collaborators

• FundingDefence Imagery and Geospatial
  Organisation (DIGO)
• ImageryGeoscience Australia (GA)
• ImplementationCSIRO
• Using NASA and University of Maryland algorithms
• Based on GeoMAC fire site hosted by the USGS.

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DIGOs needs

• Support Defence personneldeployed in civil
  emergencies
• Continental solution
• Identified MODIS data as a possible solution

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Key Requirements

• All Australia Hotspot Mapping by December 2002
• Satellite to Website in One hour.
• MODIS sensor selected
• for its dynamic range
• its revisit frequency
• Terra and Aqua platforms

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Key Requirements

• Background imagery
• for context
• underneath the hotspots
• by 6 am AEST (1800 UTC).
• Maps with fire locations delivered as
• ?electronic graphic images? (web map interface)
• faxable B/W map products
• email data distribution.

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SENTINEL ProjectDaily Hotspot Detection Example
Dec. 26 Jan. 10
Sequential days in different colours
January 1 24 02
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Terra Satellite
Launched December 18,1999
MODIS
MOPITT
ASTER
MISR
CERES
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MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS)

• NASA, Terra Aqua
• launches 1999, 2002
• 705 km polar orbits, descending (1030 a.m.)
  ascending (130 p.m.)
• Sensor Characteristics
• 36 spectral bands ranging from 0.41 to 14.385 µm
• cross-track scan mirror with 2330 km swath width
• Spatial resolutions
• 250 m (bands 1 - 2)
• 500 m (bands 3 - 7)
• 1000 m (bands 8 36)
• 2 reflectance calibration accuracy
• onboard solar diffuser solar diffuser stability
  monitor

http//modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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MODIS Synoptic CoverageJune 24, 2002
Aqua image three hours later
Terra image
(images courtesy of the NASA MODIS Science Team)
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Other Natural Events that requiresub-daily
Monitoring Tracking
Dust Cloud October 23, 2002
1005 am (Terra)
135 pm (Aqua)
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Other Natural Events that Require Daily
Monitoring Tracking
Typhoon Silaku off Japan Sept. 4/2002
Phytoplankton Blooms Gulf of St. Vincent, Feb.
19, 2002
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Implementation

• Peter Dyce Alan Marks
• CSIRO Land and Water

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HOTSPOT DETECTION
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INFRASTRUCTURE
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Canberra
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PRODUCTS
Hotspotdatafile
-19.525,147.465,322.6,1.0,1.0 -19.527,147.475,331.
0,1.0,1.0 -19.703,145.773,333.0,1.1,1.0 -20.023,14
5.398,332.1,1.1,1.0 -20.566,148.250,330.5,1.0,1.0
-20.293,146.196,330.7,1.0,1.0 -20.294,146.206,342.
2,1.0,1.0 -20.296,146.216,342.7,1.0,1.0 -20.250,14
5.858,329.5,1.1,1.0 -20.305,146.214,330.0,1.0,1.0
-20.261,145.867,330.3,1.1,1.0 -20.314,146.213,331.
3,1.0,1.0 -20.315,146.223,337.1,1.0,1.0 -20.325,14
6.221,332.5,1.0,1.0 -20.595,145.525,330.7,1.1,1.0
-20.669,145.464,332.4,1.1,1.0 -20.935,145.180,365.
2,1.1,1.0


Hotspot data map layer
Geographic Data provides context.
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Internet Dissemination
Canberra
Internet
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The SENTINEL Bushfire Website
www.sentinel.csiro.au
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• Web Maps are Dynamic.
• Fire Locations are displayed in relation to
  other Geographic data
• Maps are rendered and displayed on according to
  user interaction
• Contextual layers can be added or removed.
• Maps can be panned and zoomed.
• Maps Layers are scale sensitive providing more
  information at large scales without cluttering
  the display at small scales.

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Sentinel Website - links
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Sentinel Website - Links
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Sentinel Website
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Sentinel Website
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Sentinel Website
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Sentinel Website
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Sentinel Website
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Sentinel Website
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Future Earth Observing System Concept
SENTINEL AUSTRALIA
Delivery System
FireMap
LandCam
CoastCam
RiverCam
Top Level Projects

• Wealth from Oceans
• Coastal Managers
• HC-FP
• Fisheries/Aquaculture
• Rainforest-Reef Joint Bid

• DIGO
• EMA
• RFS

• E-Australia FP
• HC-FP
• NRM Landcare
• Rainforest CRC

• MDBC
• NRM Boards

Linkages
Specialised Projects
SugarCam
ReefCam

• QSL
• Canegrowers, Mills

• GBMPA/AIMS