data.md

About the data

Data Flow

Sources

• Fires from Space: Australia by Carlos Paradis.
• List of 2019-2020 bushfires by state from Wikipedia.
• List of Major Bushfires in Australia from Wikipedia.
• 2019 - 2020 Australian bushfire season from Wikipedia.
• GeoJSON-formatted Australian state and township border data by tonywr71.
• Australian Climate Data from the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology.

Original Datasets

A few of the original datasets are stored in this repository as zip files in the Resources folder, for posterity. Other data was scraped from Wikipedia.

This repo uses Git LFS to store the large dataset files on GitHub. To install Git LFS, visit the Git-LFS site.

Database Structure

The australia_fire_db currently has the following collections:

• fires_modis - Includes Australian fire observations detected by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite sensors.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
acq_date	String
acq_time	Int
bright_t31	Double
brightness	Double
daynight	String
frp	Double
instrument	String
latitude	Double
longitude	Double
satellite	String

• fires_viirs - Includes Australian fire observations detected by VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) satellite sensors.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
acq_date	String
acq_time	Int
bright_ti4	Double
bright_ti5	Double
frp	Double
instrument	String
latitude	Double
longitude	Double
satellite	String

• historicalFires - Includes information about past Australian fire seasons.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
Date	String
Name	String
State(s)/territories	String
AreaBurned(ha)	Int
AreaBurned(acres)	Int
Fatalities	Int
PropertiesDamaged(HomesDestroyed)	Int
Year	Int

• temp_rainfall - Includes Australian average annual max temperature and rainfall observations from 1956-2019.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
Year	Int
Avg Annual Temp	Double
Avg Annual Rainfall	Double
temp_differnce	Double
rainfall_difference	Double

• bushfiresbyState - Includes information about the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season by state.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
State/Territory	String
Fatalities	Int
Homeslost	Int
Areaestimated(ha)	Int
Areaestimated(acres)	Int

• aus2019_2020 - Includes additional information about the 2019-2020 bushfire season.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
Fire	String
Name	String
State	String
Local Government Area(s)	String
AreaImpacted(ha)	Int

• fires_time_series - Includes the number of fire observations captured by NASA satellites each day during the 2019-20 Australia fire season. This collection is used to create the D3 time series chart for this project.

Field	Type
_id	ObjectId
acq_date	String
number_fires	Int