Terrain

Terrain or topography has a large influence on bushfire behaviour. Slope is considered in the NBIC workflow. For landscapes with a significant expanse, such as Australia, achieving consistent, high resolution and low error estimates of elevation is challenging.

Data

Terrain is represented by Geoscience Australia’s Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) Smoothed Digital Elevation Model (DEM-S).

A map of Australia that shaded to represent terrain slope in degrees produced using the NBIC terrain analysis methodology

A map of Australia that shaded to represent terrain slope in degrees produced using the NBIC terrain analysis methodology

Terrain slope in degrees produced using the NBIC terrain analysis methodology