en 
an 
preted 
he 
her 
O 
ms 
es 
11 
ind 
tal 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
Grateful acknowledgement is due to the Forests Commission, Victoria, 
for providing the colour aerial photographs of the Mt Buffalo fire, to- 
gether with the photointerpreted map, planimetric maps and other information. 
The authors also acknowledge the significant contribution to this 
project by members of the Picture Processing and Graphics Section of the 
Division of Computing Research, CSIRO, particularly Dr John O'Callaghan. 
Mr Ian Craig of the Division of Forest Research, CSIRO, rendered 
valuable assistance and critical comment throughout the project. 
Acknowledgement is also made to Dr A. Green of the Division of Mineral 
Physics, CSIRO, who prepared the first generation imagery of the fire area. 
LITERATURE CITED 
Benson, M.L. 1976 : Position paper on forestry as it relates to the Australian 
requirement for Landsat data. Aust. Comm. for E.R.T.S. 15P- 
Dexter, B.D., Heislers, A. and Sloan, T., 1977 : The Mount Buffalo Fire. 
Bull. no. 26, Forests Commission, Victoria.  32p. 
FORWOOD, 1975 : Report of the Forestry and Wood-Based Industries Development 
Conference. Canberra. 94p. 
Green, A., 1977 : Landsat image production and analysis in Australia. 
CSIRO Workshop/Symposium on Remote Sensing, Perth. 6p. 
Kirby, C., 1974 : Temporal analysis of ERTS imagery in the boreal forest 
region. Canadian Surveyor, vol. 28, no. 2, pp.142-146. 
Luke, R.H. and McArthur, A.G., 1978 : Bushfires in Australia. Aust. Govt 
Publ. Serv., Canberra. 359p. 
McMurtry, G.J., Borden, F.Y., Weeden, H.A. and Peterson, G.W., 1974 : The 
Penn State ORSER system for processing and analysing ERTS and other 
MSS data. In Remote Sensing of Earth Resources, F. Shahrokhi ed. 
vol. III. Univ. of Tennessee Space Inst., Tullahoma. pp.721-740. 
Myers, B.J. 1978 : Mapping the area burnt in prescribed burning operations 
using large-scale colour aerial photographs. Australian Forestry, 
vol. 41, no. 1. ' pp.19-28. 
O'Callaghan, J.F. and Aujesky, A., 1977 : DISIMP users manual. Working 
paper PPG-77-3, CSIRO Division of Computing Research.