People

University of Adelaide

Expertise: Hyperspectral sensing, multitemporal analysis, remote sensing applications for environmental assessment
AusCover Products: MODIS and Landsat fractional cover, airborne and field data for calibration sites
Partnerships: SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

University of Queensland

Expertise: Landsat multi-temporal analysis, vegetation structure mapping and monitoring, LiDAR data processing, hyper-spectral image processing, field data collection, integration of image and field data, remote sensing applications for environmental assessment and monitoring.
AusCoverProducts: National Landsat based fractional cover; National Landsat based Persistent Green Vegetation Fractional Cover; Foliage Project Cover; LiDAR derived products for all AusCover supersites; Field and airborne data collection coordination; AusCover Geo-Wiki
Partnerships: Joint Remote Sensing Research Program

CSIRO, Geoscience Australia, ABARES

TERN AusCover Products: Fractional Vegetation, USGS Land Products

Australian National University (ANU)

Expertise: The use of remote sensing data to retrieve biophysical properties of vegetation, such as fuel load and moisture content for spatial fire risk analysis and canopy conductance for carbon sequestration and water balance studies.

Expertise: Fuel load mapping, bushfire patchiness, dynamics and extent
AusCover Products: Sub-pixel fire patchiness, fire frequency, near real-time burnt area, burnt area and approximate day of burn
Main partnerships: Charles Darwin University, Northern Australia Fire Information (NAFI)

Dr Stefan Maier
MAITEC

GPO Box U19,
Charles Darwin University,
NT 0815.

Phone: 04-2703-2159
EMAIL Stefan

University of Tasmania

Expertise: UAV technologies for ecosystem research and natural resource management
AusCover Products: UAV datasets for ecosystem monitoring (coming soon)

A/Prof Arko Lucieer
Geography & Spatial Sciences Discipline

University of Tasmania
Private Bag 76
Hobart TAS 7001

Phone: 03 6226 2140
EMAIL ARKO

RMIT, and Bureau of Meteorology

AusCover Products: NDVI and Grass Curing, Gridded Meteorology Surfaces and AWAP, Cal/Val Standards, Greenbook Coordination

Dr Ian Grant
Data Quality & Improvement Section

Bureau of Meteorology
GPO Box 1289
Melbourne VIC 3001

Phone: 03 9669 4080
Fax: 03 9669 4168
EMAIL IAN

University of Technology, Sydney; University of Wollongong

AusCover Products: Land Surface Temperature, Phenology