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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
CWR Seminar : Urban Monitor – a fine-scale monitoring opportunity Other events...
This talk describes the development of a fine-scale monitoring system for urban and peri-urban environments using Greater Perth as a case study. The method is similar to that used in the Land Monitor Project which monitored changes in land and vegetation condition throughout south-western Australia using satellite data.

Aerial photography has traditionally being used for photogrammetric purposes but the switch to digital capture allows it to be used for monitoring provided suitable standards of data capture and analysis are applied. By rectifying and radiometrically calibrating data to a common baseline it is possible to identify changes in a number of features. The method also enables annual digital surface models to be developed.

Urban and coastal areas are the habitat of choice for most Australians. They are dynamic, with many environmental issues in the areas of planning, service provision, resource management and resource allocation. Routine digital aerial photography which is captured at least annually can be used for monitoring land use changes, tracking environmental indicators and changes in surface elevations with high accuracy. The talk will outline progress made by the Urban Monitor Project Consortium since its first capture of data from Greater Perth in 2007.

About the speaker,

Dr Don McFarlane has degrees in geology, natural resource management and hydrogeology from the University of WA and is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment. After a research career in the WA Department of Agriculture where he led the Soils and Catchment Hydrology Research Groups he became a Director within the Water and Rivers Commission where he led the Science and Resource Management Divisions. In 2004 he was awarded the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal for leading the Land Monitor project. His current interests include water yield estimation under climate change, managing groundwater resources and using treated wastewater to reclaim urban wetlands.

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Speaker(s) Dr Don McFarlane, Portfolio Coordinator (WA) Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, CSIRO
Location Blakers Lecture Room, Ground Floor, Mathematics Building, University of Western Australia
Contact Askale Abebe <[email protected]> : 6488 7565
URL http://www.healthycountry.com/people.htm
Start Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:00
End Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:00
Submitted by Askale Abebe <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:55
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