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Canberra Firestorm poster

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Bushfires ravaged around two-thirds of the Australian Capital Territory in January 2003. A firestorm on 18 January completely destroyed nearly 400 homes in Canberra. This Landsat 7 satellite image, acquired on 26 January 2003, shows burn scars caused by the bushfires. Land cover in this image is shown in pseudo-natural colour: active fire fronts appear as irregular, bright red lines in the south and south-west; burnt areas appear as dark red-brown; bushfire smoke appears as pale blue and healthy vegetation appears as green.

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Title Canberra Firestorm poster
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/210716c9-8c09-4ec5-892c-dc7426dc1cfd
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Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Canberra Firestorm poster". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/canberra-firestorm-poster