BUILDING INFORMED RESPONSE PLANS FOR FUTURE BUSHFIRES --- Following on from the 2019/20 catastrophic bushfire season in Australia, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements identified remote sensing technologies such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) as critical tools that have the potential to revolutionise how communities prepare for, manage, and mitigate bushfire hazards and risks. Aerometrex has developed an innovative methodology using LiDAR to produce regional bushfire fuel load datasets across large areas of eucalypt woodlands and forests typical of bushfire-prone areas across many parts of Australia. Of the three primary parameters that govern the behaviour and potential severity of a bushfire - fuel load, topography, and weather - fuel load is the only parameter that can be actively managed in order to help mitigate the risk associated with bushfires. Our Bushfire Fuel Load Data Suite provides end-users with a greater understanding of fuel load.
