Australian Bush Fire Burned Area Visualisation

A visualisation of burned area satellite data for Australian bush fires.

Inspired by this BBC article about the 2019/2020 bush fire season.

Note that the burned area data are only available ~2 months after the first burn date (e.g., December data are only available in early February).

Data sources

• Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product (data, guide)
• NASA Blue Marble Collection (data)
• Australian Population Grid 2017 (data)

Instructions

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python burned_area_viz.py
$ gifsicle -i burned_area_output.gif -O3 --colors 256 --color-method blend-diversity -o burned_area_output_shrunk.gif