Applications Projects
The Terrestrial Mapping and Monitoring stream within CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics conducts research and applications work to
provide information for resource assessment and management.
The Terrestrial Mapping and Monitoring team focuses on the analysis and processing of remotely sensed and
other spatial data, and has been working in this field since 1987. The
emphasis is on the analysis of long-term sequences of images to determine
trends in land condition, and the integration with related spatial data
sets to predict areas at risk from degradation.
Current Project Information
Australian Greenhouse
Office Land Cover Change Project
Australia has an imperative to develop a credible response to monitoring
of Greenhouse gas production at the national level. In particular, land
use change under current Kyoto rules, and under anticipated developments
of those rules, requires a credible quantitative methodology and an
operational system to deliver land-cover change greenhouse monitoring. The
mapping and monitoring group is addressing this issue in partnership with
the AGO through the development and operational implementation of
quantitative monitoring technologies.
Land Monitor
A collaborative project that monitors land condition throughout the
south west agricultural area of WA. Land Monitor is an operational project
that routinely applies methods developed by CMIS Mapping and Monitoring
team to produce information products to aid land management at farm,
catchment and regional scales.
Rangelands Monitoring
Time series of remotely
sensed imagery are processed and analysed to identify where and when the
country has changed, and to produce summaries of change in condition over
time. Results are used for reporting, communication and understanding of
rangeland changes at a range of scales.
Woody vegetation
history
Multitemporal sequences of calibrated Landsat TM images are being used to
show patterns of disturbance and recovery in forest and remnant
vegetation.
Completed projects
Salt Scenarios 2020
A collaborative project, funded by the National Land and Water Audit, to
perform predictions of areas at risk from salinity in the future and
determine the economic costs and benefits of different management
scenarios.
Completed Project Reports
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