Benefits

Fire and emergency services personnel gather at an experimental burn

Fire and emergency services personnel gather at an experimental burn

The National Bushfire Intelligence Capability (NBIC) is collaborating to deliver knowledge, data and mapping products providing a national picture of bushfire hazard and risk.

Benefits include:

  • A capability providing access for local, state and national users to consistent and up-to-date information.
  • More cost-effective creation and maintenance of information platforms and shared technologies.
  • More systematic data sharing among and within public and private sectors.
  • A stronger evidence base that includes climate change data for local, state and national hazard and risk management decision support.
  • Ongoing improvement of underpinning science and systems.
  • More effective and reliable capture of lessons learned for application to future fire events.