Australia regularly experiences disasters triggered by natural hazards and New South Wales (NSW) the most populous State is no exception. To date, no publically available spatial and temporal analyses of disaster declarations triggered by hazards (specif
Cataract Scout Park (34°14′44″S, 150°49′26″ E), at which the COALA campaign took place, is located 20 km north-northwest of Wollongong on the east coast of NSW, Australia. The site is marked on the map presented in Fig.1. The areas surrounding the site are heavily forested. ...
Many oyster-growing estuaries were impacted by bushfires in their catchments, especially on the NSW south coast. Whilerain this summergave a reprieve from the fires, it can wash ash into the estuaries, bringing with it excessive nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) or trace elements (iron, manga...
Only about 1 per cent of the land burnt in NSW this bushfire season can be officially attributed to arson, and it is even less in Victoria, the ABC can reveal. The world has been shocked by the scenes of devastation as the unprecedented destruction of Australia’s horror bushfire season ra...
The RFS fire extent map above shows Lake George to the west, Tarago to the north and Mount Fairy to the South. The red boxed area is enlarged in the image below: STT operatives from NSW went to the burnt out area and confirmed, as depicted in a series of photos below (t...
Spatiotemporal factors influencing fire behaviour are classified using a self-organising map (SOM). Liang et al. [128] estimated the scale of a bushfire using the size of the burned area and the fire’s duration. The prediction models were established as a back propagation neural network (...
Smoke haze data were retrieved from New South Wales (NSW) government air quality measuring stations at Bulga (air station 1) and Singleton (air station 2) ~26 km north-west of the vineyards [29]. As a proxy for smoke exposure in the region, particulate matter measurements (PM10) averaged...