QGIS for North Australian Fire Managers

Gulf Savannah NRM presents a workshop on using QGIS for managing fires on your property. QGIS provides a set of powerful tools for understanding the risks and opportunities for managing fires on your country. Being able to bring in maps that tell you where you have burnt in the past, where are fire might burn in the future can inform your strategies for strengthening fire breaks and responding to fires.

In this training, we will work through exercises that will introduce you to spatial data (digital maps) and how you can use them for your fire information. This includes:

1. An introduction to the QGIS layout

• Data structure and interrogation

2. Installing and exploring the NAFI plugin

3. Understanding fire history

• Making a fire history report (Creating a map layout)
• Saving your fire history maps

4. Building your fire spread landscape maps

5. Saving your projects

6. Grabbing latest hi-resolution imagery to check your burns.

• Understand what spatial resolution is and why it’s important for monitoring fires.
• Downloading latest fire imagery.

7. Creating planned burn lines for mobile (Avenza)

Bring your laptop and smart phone.

Catering is provided, but only if you remember to register!