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Digital Earth Australia Hotspots WMS

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The Digital Earth Australia Hotspots web service has been developed as part of the Digital Earth Australia Hotspots national bushfire monitoring system. The service delivers hotspot data derived from (a growing number of) satellite-born instruments that detect light in the thermal wavelengths. The colour of the spot represents the time the Hotspot was last observed by a passing satellite (e.g. 0-2 hours). The colour does not indicate severity. Typically, the satellite data are processed with a specific algorithm that highlights areas with an unusually high temperature. In principle, however, Hotspots may be sourced from non-satellite sources.

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Title Digital Earth Australia Hotspots WMS
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3b532230-ae0f-4a0f-80dd-82e50c04eea8
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        108.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        167.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        167.0,
        -1.0
      ],
      [
        108.0,
        -1.0
      ],
      [
        108.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Digital Earth Australia Hotspots WMS". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/digital-earth-australia-hotspots-wms