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Development of FireWatch-Indonesia - Lessons from Australia

Dr Richard Smith and Mr Ken DawbinSatellite Remote Sensing Services

Landgate

Leeuwin Centre for Earth Sensing TechnologiesGovernment of Western Australia

Support of AusAid, MoF, MoE and LAPAN is gratefully acknowledged



What is LANDGATE?

• WA Government’s Land Information Authority (1000 staff) with four main roles

1. Manage transfer of land ownership

2. Valuation of land for local taxation

3. Mapping and Survey of Land for 1) and 2)

4. Satellite remote sensing for land management • 30 staff with 8 PhDs• Run two satellite receiving stations• Routinely processes 25Gbytes data per day from over

seven satellites• AusAid work with MoF, MoE, LAPAN and Vietnam



Lessons Learnt from FireWatch

• Must be driven by end-user needs• Build using own skills – training important• Multiple satellites and other spatial data• Access to the Super Highway for the core node• Automated end-to-end to system• Appropriate delivery technology to end-users• Collaboration is important at all stages



Fire frequency 1997-2005, AVHRR

FireWatch developed to manage burning of Tropical Savannas in Northern Australia



FireWatchMapping the cumulative burnt area across Australia (please click image for animation)

FireWatch | VegetationWatch | OceanWatch | Pastures from Space | Land Monitor | AgImage

Using the archive of historic information



Tropical Rainforests of the World – from 16% to 6% in the 20th Century

Protecting Indonesia’s Rainforest is a big challenge



Reception of Satellite Data Across Australia – 7 satellites, 6 stations

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Use of real-time satellite data is vital

About 20 overpasses per day



Satellite Image Reception

Products

Access to Satellite Data received across Australia requires Collaboration

Collaborators: BOM; CSIRO; Geoscience Australia; Curtin University; Murdoch University, Also NT, Qld, WA Government Agencies and NASA



Landgate’s Satellite Remote Sensing Services

1. Wild fires detection and burnt area mapping - FireWatch

2. Change in forest cover to detect illegal clearing - Land monitor

3. Flood mapping and forecast - Floodmap

4. Drought and food security monitoring - Vegetation Watch

5. Intensive grazing management - Pastures from Space

6. Precision agriculture - AgImage

7. Ocean currents for fishermen - Fishing Hot Spots

Specialists in the near real-time processing and delivery of satellite information for:




FireWatch Website

Current Active Fires

Automatic processing of satellite imagery and delivery to web site 24 x 7.

Automatic delivery includes:

Fax

Email

SMS

FTP

KML, WMS and WMF services also available

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Many layers of information




View MODIS Overpass

Expand current

MODIS data




Zoom in on scene and display other integrated datasets




View Fire History Data




Fire scars evident in MODIS imagery




Automatic Fire Burnt Area Mapping from MODIS



The fire front can be seen from the hotspots and the area burnt over the previous week


FireWatchFire hotspots and burnt area maps of Australia for Emergency Management

Fire hotspots can be seen over the latest satellite image




FireWatchFire hotspots and burnt area maps of Australia for Emergency Management

Fire hotspots can be seen over the latest satellite image



FireWatchNear Real Time Satellite Images for Burnt Area, Smoke and Cloud Identification

Image Date:6th October 2004




Image Date:6th October 2004

FireWatchNear Real Time Satellite Images for Burnt Area, Smoke and Cloud Identification




FireWatchSmoke from fires can be tracked and mapped

Perth19th January 2005

300km




02/02/04

FireWatchLightning Strike Information, updated every 10 minutes aids fire managers




Lightning Strikes:1 November 2005

FireWatchLightning Strike Information, updated every 10 minutes aids fire managers

Fire Hotspots mapped over the following 2 days




FireWatchMapping the burnt area automatically - (please click on image below for animation)

This fire moved north parallel to the Stewart Highway in the NT.

A back-burn wasperformed to stop the fire spreadingnorth and was successful.

Eventually the movement of the fire to the East was stopped by a fire break inthe North-South direction.




FireWatchMapping active fires and burnt area automatically North Western Australia 2005 – using MODIS Imagery




How much data being handled?• Seven satellites NOAA15/16/17/18, Terra, Aqua, MTSAT-1R

processed in NRT each day

• 18GB/day of MODIS + 6GB AVHRR (24 GB/day) transferred each day through Aarnet.

• Aarnet bandwidth 100MBits/s limited by firewall, potential much higher

• FireWatch 5GB/month, all services 9GB/month delivered to clients daily

• To provide MODIS from Darwin to LAPAN or MoF for processing - 6GB/day



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Internet Delivery of Products and ServicesAll products shown are available on-line from Landgate with same interface

Landgate Farm Channel

FireWatchhttp://Firewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au

Pastures from Spacehttp://www.pasturesfromspace.csiro.au

Aid for Rural Valuation

Land Monitorhttp://LandMonitor.landgate.wa.gov.au

AgImagehttp://agimage.landgate.wa.gov.au

FireWatch | VegetationWatch | OceanWatch | Pastures from Space | Land Monitor | Internet Delivery



Delivering other information using FireWatch Technology

Land cover change – illegal clearing?



Result of Bandwidth

Asian Pacific Advanced Network – available for FireWatch Indonesia



Appropriate Delivery TechnologyFrom the Nodes to End-Users

• Fax

• email

• Other web sites (FTP, WMS, WFM, KML)

• SMS

• Indosat 3.5G Broadband 18Mbs for new and novel delivery systems



1. Impact of FireWatch on Fire management in Tropical Savannas?

Quite simply FireWatch has totally transformed operational fire management across the northern Australia

2. What has been the significance of the on-line delivery to end users who make the critical management decisions ?

Availability of reliable, timely mapping data from satellite has transformed our operations.

Assessment of FireWatch by Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith, Northern Territory:



3. Future of FireWatch for Carbon Accounting?

Enormous, given that burning of savannas is an accountable activity under the Kyoto Protocol.

Equally significant to the fire-prone savanna landscapes in Indonesia, especially where vulnerable small forest patches are embedded in the savanna matrix

4. Future developments of FireWatch ?

Building on Western Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (WALFA) project, especially in eastern Indonesia and Papua.

$1million pa for 17 years will be payed to WALFA by Conoco-Philips for its oil refining in Darwin.

Questions to Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith, Northern Territory:



Summary of Lessons Learnt

• Landgate FireWatch – a good model for FWI• Build using own skills – Training vital at all levels• Must be driven by end-user needs• Multiple satellites and other spatial data• Automated end-to-end to system• Access to the Super Highway for the core nodes

(LAPAN, MoF and MoE for fire data)• Appropriate delivery to end-users (eg. Indosat 3.5G)• Collaboration is important at all stages



Development of FireWatch-Indonesia

- Lessons from Australia

Thank YouAny questions?

Dr Richard Smith and Mr Ken DawbinSatellite Remote Sensing Services, Landgate

Government of Western Australia

Support of AusAid, MoF, MoE and LAPAN is gratefully acknowledged



WAFMA area 28,000 km2


Satellite Remote Sensing Services, LandgateEmissions abatement opportunities from savanna burning

• Kyoto Protocol—Prescribed burning of savannas a listed accountable activity in the Agriculture sector

• reported in Australia’s NGGI – annually ~2-4% of Australia’s GHG emissions

• includes all fire emissions from tropical savannas and temperate grasslands –assumes all fires anthropogenic

• currently only CH4, N2O accounted for, but other GHG gases to be included in future (CO, VOCs, NOx)

• economic opportunity – does not involve C property rights (e.g. C sequestration in plantations), but accounts for abatement of GHG emissions from savanna fires relative to baselines



Metcalfe’s law of the Internet [1]:

Benefit = (No. Users)2 x βwidth

[1] Metcalfe’s law extended in this proposal to include bandwidth βwidth

Outcomes achieved through use of Internet and associated ICT



VegetationWatchGreen Vegetation Cover and its change in response to rainfall, across Australia

Continental Scale





Continental Scale

Farm Scale





Continental Scale

Farm Scale

Paddock Scale





The Agricultural area in the South-West of Western Australia can be seen changing in green vegetation cover during the season, as crops and pastures respond to rainfall.




FireWatch Website

Public Access andSecure AccessLogin Required




FireWatch Website

Subscriber Login





At Regional Level




At Paddock Level



Future of ICT

• Many believe that ICT revolution is over, others that the last 20 year was a warm up

• The real revolution is about to begin as the complementarities begin to work together

• ICT will transform every aspect of business, life and society

From: CSIRO Solve 11, May 2007

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