Fires in Australia's forests 2011–16 (2018)

*Fires in Australia’s Forests 2011–16 (2018)* is a continental spatial dataset\r\nof the extent and frequency of planned and unplanned fires occurring in\r\nforest in the five financial years between July 2011 and June 2016,\r\nassembled for *Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018*. It was\r\ndeveloped from multiple fire area datasets contributed by state and\r\nterritory government agencies, after consultation with Australia’s Forest\r\nFire Management Group. The fire dataset is then combined with forest\r\ncover information sourced from the *Forests of Australia (2018)* dataset: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/forests-of-australia-2018, \r\nand forest tenure information sourced from the *Tenure of Australia’s\r\nForests (2018)* dataset: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/tenure-of-australia-s-forests-2018\r\n\r\nThe dataset was compiled by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and\r\nResource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) for the National Forest\r\nInventory (NFI), a collaborative partnership between the Australian and\r\nstate and territory governments. The role of the NFI is to collate, integrate\r\nand communicate information on Australia's forests. The NFI applies a\r\nnational classification to state and territory data to allow seamless\r\nintegration of these datasets. Multiple independent sources of external\r\ndata are used to fill data gaps and improve the quality of the final dataset.\r\n\r\nForest areas burnt by fire are allocated by the month of the fire to a\r\nfinancial year (July–June inclusive). Where more than one fire event\r\noccurs on any one hectare during a financial year, only the first fire is\r\nrecorded for that area in the financial year. Fires are also classified into\r\ntwo categories, planned and unplanned, based on the fire seasonality and\r\nadvice from state and territory agencies.\r\n\r\nThe *Fires in Australia’s forests 2011–16 (2018)* dataset is produced to fulfil\r\nrequirements of Australia's *National Forest Policy Statement* and the\r\n*Regional Forests Agreement Act 2002* (Cwth), and is used by the Australian\r\nGovernment for domestic and international reporting.\r\n\r\nThis dataset is provided as part of the five-yearly Australia's State of the Forests Report Series. Further information can be found on the Forests Australia website: http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/sofr/sofr-2018

《2011—2016年澳大利亚森林火灾（2018）》是一套大陆尺度空间数据集，记录了2011年7月至2016年6月间5个财政年度内，澳大利亚森林中计划性与非计划性火灾的发生范围与频次，该数据集为编制《2018年澳大利亚森林状况报告》而生成。

数据集由澳大利亚各州及领地政府机构提供的多套火灾面积数据集整合而成，整合工作经澳大利亚森林火灾管理小组（Australia’s Forest Fire Management Group）协商后推进。随后，该火灾数据集将与《2018年澳大利亚森林》（Forests of Australia (2018)）数据集（来源：https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/forests-of-australia-2018）中的森林覆盖信息，以及《2018年澳大利亚森林权属》（Tenure of Australia’s Forests (2018)）数据集（来源：https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/tenure-of-australia-s-forests-2018）中的森林权属信息进行合并。

本数据集由澳大利亚农业与资源经济科学局（Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, ABARES）为国家森林清查项目（National Forest Inventory, NFI）编制，该项目是澳大利亚联邦政府与各州及领地政府的合作项目。国家森林清查项目的核心职责为收集、整合并传播澳大利亚森林相关信息，其通过统一的国家级分类标准对各州及领地的数据集进行标准化处理，以实现各数据集的无缝整合。此外，项目还引入多套独立外部数据源填补数据缺口，以提升最终数据集的质量。

被火灾焚毁的森林区域将按照火灾发生月份归属至对应财政年度（7月至次年6月）。若某一公顷林地在单个财政年度内发生多次火灾，仅记录该年度内的首次火灾事件。同时，依据火灾发生季节特征及各州和领地政府机构的专业建议，火灾被划分为计划性与非计划性两类。

《2011—2016年澳大利亚森林火灾（2018）》数据集的编制旨在满足澳大利亚《国家森林政策声明》及《2002年区域森林协定法案（联邦）》（Regional Forests Agreement Act 2002 (Cwth)）的相关要求，可供澳大利亚政府用于国内及国际报告编制工作。

本数据集作为每五年一期的《澳大利亚森林状况报告系列》的组成部分发布。更多相关信息可访问澳大利亚森林官方网站：http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/forestsaustralia/sofr/sofr-2018