Analysis of Forest Fire in Australia using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

The recognition and acknowledgment of the wildfires are of high significance, especially in countries such as Australia due to its intense bionetwork. Prompt bushfire detection is crucial to fire management as elimination of fire is quicker and more effective when the fires are on a small scale. Immediate detection allows emergency management to compose decisions that will save lives, time, and any loss. The imperceptible escalation in satellite sensory technologies has paved the way for opportunities in forestry monitoring and management practices requiring greater fidelity data on burning and other fire activities. The use of satellite imagery for fire detection is vital for the identification of emission approximations and bio conservatives studies. This composition uses the open source Near Real Time (NRT) data provided by the active fire map of Fire Information for Resource Management System by NASA. We used the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument mounted on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite that compiles and processes visible images along with infrared images that depict the geographical data. A Gridded Fire Hotspot sensor was also employed to identify the major fire hotspots of the country as well as provide data on the 2019-2020 bushfire season of Australia. In this paper, the received data is then analyzed further and monthly developments are observed and compared with the statistics.