Press Release - July 27 2006
The Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner (OESC)
has engaged Spatial Vision and its team (Beca, RMIT Centre
for Risk & Community Safety and Ecology Australia) to
undertake a project that will enable the consequences of wildfire
on assets to be described, classified, quantified, and mapped
in a uniform way across the state. The outputs of the project
will support a range of stakeholders and end-users responsible
for wildfire management planning.
The project has been funded as a result of recommendations
arising from the Report of the Inquiry into the 2002-2003
Victorian Bushfires.
The products developed by the project will primarily be used
as planning tools and service the prevention and preparedness
components of wildfire management. The products should also
provide useful strategic information for response and recovery
phases of wildfire management and should be sufficiently flexible
to be applicable for hazards other than wildfire.
The project will involve substantial consultation with key
stakeholders to identify and describe the consequences of
wildfire on assets in a consistent state-wide framework. It
will also make an important contribution to the development
of a more holistic approach to wildfire management by delivering
consistent statewide products that support wildfire planning
and decision-making on both public and private land.
The Wildfire Project will develop a:
- Methodology to identify, classify, quantify and evaluate
the consequences of wildfire on assets in the natural environment
(including life, property and the environment) throughout
Victoria; and
- Statewide wildfire consequence map and dataset(s) consolidated
from existing datasets, presented in a uniform and accessible
format that supports integrated wildfire planning and decision
making across the Victorian Department of Sustainability
and Environment (DSE), Country Fire Authority (CFA) and
Local Government.
The project consists of three stages as follows:
- Literature Review and Stakeholder and User Consultation
Strategy
- Methodology Development
- Spatial Product Development
The project team has completed Stage 1 of the Project which
included delivery of the Stakeholder and User Consultation
Strategy and the Data and Literature Review which examined
existing research and literature where these learnings may
benefit the Wildfire Project.
In late May and early June 2006 a series of workshops were
held focussed on informing potential users about the Wildfire
Project and obtaining feedback on the proposed project methodology.
This proposed methodology is currently being finalised and
work on development of the spatial products will commence
shortly. The project is due for completion in mid-October
2006.
For further information please contact :
Stephen Farrell
Ph: (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au
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