Presenting the Bushfire Data Commons Dashboard
Richard Sinnott1, Luca Morandini1 1The University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Abstract
The ARDC funded Bushfire Data Commons (BDC) established a range of projects focused on an ever increasing problem to Australia: bushfires. One of the projects focused on establishment of a front end dashboard to showcase the data sets and tools arising from the various BDC projects. This talk will provide an overview of the Cloud-based dashboard that was established and the technologies used. We explore the various data sets stemming from the different projects as well as other data sets of relevance to the bushfire research community. This includes:
•National air quality (building upon the AURIN funded National Air Quality Database high impact project – https://naqd.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au)
•Under-insured houses (Data from Spatial Urban Data Observatory (SUDO) – https://sudo.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au)
•Population statistics and the indigenous population (2021 Census, data from SUDO)
•Hospital admissions (data from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare – www.aihw.gov.au)
•Rare and threatened species (data from Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (formerly DELWP) – www.deeca.vic.gov.au)
•Historic fires including bushfires and prescribed burns (Data from Geoscience Australia – www.ga.gov.au)
•Fuel load data (Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network – www.tern.org.au)
•Satellite and raster data including data from the Sentinel-2 satellite.
The platform also offers an API that provides programmatic access to the data, e.g. through Jupyter notebooks. We present a range of examples of analytics around the data.
Biography
Professor Richard O. Sinnott is Professor of Applied Computing Systems and Director of the Melbourne eResearch Group at the University of Melbourne. He has been lead software engineer/architect on an extensive portfolio of national and international projects, with specific focus on those research domains requiring finer-grained access control (security) and those dealing with big data challenges. He has over 450 peer reviewed publications across a range of applied computing research areas.