CSIRO and AFAC to build data-driven bushfire prediction platform
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) have signed an agreement to develop a bushfire simulation tool to be used by fire and emergency services agencies across the country.
The bushfire simulation tool to be called Spark Operational will be based on CSIRO's Spark fire prediction platform, which uses existing fire behaviour data to produce predictions, statistics, and visualisations of bushfire spread.
It will be developed so that fire and emergency agencies will be able to tailor the tool to reflect specific landscapes and bushfire behaviour in their local environment, while also allowing for the agencies to combine it with climate and vegetation models to help estimate fire-based risks as a result of climate change.