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  Bushfire Hazard & Inreach Locations
  
  Abstract : Do not use this information to make decisions related to active fires or life-and-death...
  
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  Projection : EPSG:3857
  Bounding Box : 12339269.91059999912977219, -4176805.58850000007078052, 14339839.06499999947845936, -1632482.60899999993853271

  Bushfire Hazard & Inreach Locations

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  Bushfire Hazard & Inreach Locations

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  Bushfire Hazard & Inreach Locations 

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  Do not use this information to make decisions related to active fires or life-and-death situations. For the most complete and up-to-date information about an active fire, please visit your state's Fire and Emergency Services agency.
  
  For WA, this is EmergencyWA: https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/.
  
  The information available through this web map are approximations based on available data and may not show the most current situation.
  
  
  About GPS locations
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  - GPS locations are retrieved every 30min, continuously.
  - GPS positions are deleted automatically if they are older than 2 weeks.
  - The frequency at which the GPS reports its position can be modified in the GPS settings.
  
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  Digital Earth Australia and the North Australian Rangelands Fire Information (NAFI) Hotspots are not published in real time and should not be used for safety of life decisions.
  
  Hotspots is a national bushfire monitoring system that provides timely information about hotspots to emergency service managers and critical infrastructure providers across Australia. Updated with new information every 10 minutes, the mapping system uses satellite sensors to detect areas producing high levels of infrared radiation (called Hotspots) accurately to allow users to identify potential fire locations with a possible risk to communities and property.
  
  Please note the following limitations of detecting Hotspots from satellite sensors:
  
  - At best, hotspots information is 17 minutes old (this is how long it takes to download and process data into hotspots after each satellite pass).
  - For all other satellites, they pass over a given area between 2 to no more than 4 times a day, and each pass covers only a part of Australia, which means some fires are not detected because the satellite was not looking over that particular area.
  - The hotspot location on any map (no matter how detailed) is only accurate to at best 1.5 km
  - The size of the hotspot does not indicate the area of fire.
  - Not all hotspots are fires; they can also indicate black soil, gas fires, industry, furnaces, smoke plumes or hot rocks.
  - Not all hotspots are detected by the satellites. Some heat sources may be too small, not hot enough, or obscured by thick smoke or cloud.
  
  
  For additional information please visit
  https://www.firenorth.org.au/nafi3/views/help/Help_pdf.html
   

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  EPSG:3857 

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  12339269.91059999912977219, -4176805.58850000007078052, 14339839.06499999947845936, -1632482.60899999993853271

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