Fields of Research

Photogrammetry and remote sensing
Physical geography and environmental geoscience
Forestry management and environment
Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling
Terrestrial ecology
Landscape ecology
Sensor technology (incl. chemical aspects)
Agriculture, land and farm management
Geomorphology and earth surface processes
Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
Environmental management
Natural resource management
Human information interaction and retrieval
Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
Pollution and contamination
Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling
Crop and pasture biochemistry and physiology
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Instrumental methods (excl. immunological and bioassay methods)
Tree improvement (incl. selection and breeding)
Population ecology
Ecological applications
Agricultural land management
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges
Physical oceanography
Analytical spectrometry
Fire ecology
Analog electronics and interfaces
Vertebrate biology
Volcanology
Information modelling, management and ontologies
Geomatic engineering
Genetics
Horticultural crop growth and development
Image processing
Other earth sciences
Conservation and biodiversity
Horticultural crop protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)
Surveying (incl. hydrographic surveying)
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Ecological physiology
Ecosystem function
Agricultural biotechnology
Sustainable agricultural development
Navigation and position fixing
Photovoltaic devices (solar cells)
Agronomy
Forestry fire management
Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
Biological adaptation
Surface water hydrology
Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
Global change biology
Climate change science
Soil physics
Agricultural engineering
Plant physiology
Oenology and viticulture
Visual effects
Natural hazards
Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
Climate change impacts and adaptation
Environmental education and extension
Other environmental sciences
Aerospace engineering
Evolutionary impacts of climate change
Computer vision

Research Objectives

Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Other environmental management
Assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems
Application software packages
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Terrestrial biodiversity
Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Softwood plantations
Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
Rehabilitation or conservation of terrestrial environments
Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Climatological hazards (e.g. extreme temperatures, drought and wildfires)
Sown pastures (excl. lucerne)
Forestry
Information systems, technologies and services
Plant extract crops
Management of water consumption by plant production
Air quality
Terrestrial systems and management
Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences
Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems
Natural hazards
Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences
Management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments
Native forests
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Tree nuts (excl. almonds and macadamias)
Hardwood plantations
Environmentally sustainable plant production
Climate change mitigation strategies
Horticultural crops
Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences
Understanding climate change
Environmentally sustainable information and communication services
Scientific instruments
Other information and communication services
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
Coastal and estuarine systems and management
Wine grapes
Understanding the impact of natural hazards caused by climate change
Soybeans
Other plant production and plant primary products
Marine biodiversity
Climate change models
Field grown vegetable crops
Maize
Protection and conservation of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Cannabis
The creative arts
Visual communication
Stone fruit (excl. avocado)

Career Best Publications

Development of a UAV-LiDAR System with application to forest inventory; Remote Sensing
Direct georeferencing of ultrahigh-resolution UAV imagery; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Existential uncertainty of spatial objects segmented from satellite sensor Imagery; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
HyperUAS - imaging spectroscopy from a multirotor unmanned aircraft system; Journal of Field Robotics
Indirect effects of invasive species removal devastate World Heritage Island; Journal of Applied Ecology
Interactive and visual fuzzy classification of remotely sensed imagery for exploration of uncertainty; International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Mapping landslide displacements using Structure from Motion (SfM) and image correlation of multi-temporal UAV photography; Progress in Physical Geography
Multivariate texture-based segmentation of remotely sensed imagery for extraction of objects and their uncertainty; International Journal of Remote Sensing
Sensor Correction of a 6-Band Multispectral Imaging Sensor for UAV Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing
Texture-based landform segmentation of LiDAR imagery; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture micro-topography of Antarctic moss beds; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Research Publications

A calibration procedure for field and UAV-based uncooled thermal infrared instruments; Sensors
A comparison of ALS and dense photogrammetric point clouds for individual tree detection in radiata pine plantations; Remote Sensing
A comparison of area-based forest attributes derived from airborne laser scanner, small-format and medium-format digital aerial photography; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
A comparison of terrestrial and UAS sensors for measuring fuel hazard in a dry sclerophyll forest; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
A Contextual Algorithm for Detection of Mineral Alteration Halos with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Including the Spatial Domain
A new type of vision under the ice: Exploring the potential of hyperspectral imaging cameras and digital photogrammetry to monitor ice algal communities and its environmental drivers; New Zealand Antarctic Science Conference
A rapid sampling method for vegetation terrain modelling and satellite image classification; Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2008
A robust rule-based ensemble framework using mean-shift segmentation for hyperspectral image classification; Remote Sensing
A synthesis of remote sensing tools to measure and monitor forest structure and carbon storage
a-shapes for visualizing irregular shaped class clusters in 3D feature space for classification of remotely sensed imagery; 2004 Visualization and Data Analysis Conference
Aerial 'OktoKopter' to map Antarctic moss; Australian Antarctic Magazine
An accuracy assessment of georeferenced point clouds produced via multi-view stereo techniques applied to imagery acquired via unmanned aerial vehicle; The 12th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
An adaptive texture selection framework for ultra-high resolution UAV imagery; 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
An assessment of the repeatability of automatic forest inventory metrics derived from UAV-borne laser scanning data; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
An Automated Technique for Generating Georectified Mosaics from Ultra-High Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery, Based on Structure from Motion (SfM) Point Clouds; Remote Sensing
An under-ice hyperspectral and RGB imaging system to capture fine-scale biophysical properties of sea ice; Remote Sensing
An under-ice RGB and hyperspectral imaging system to capture fine scale bio-physical properties of land-fast sea ice; Shedding Light on the Physical, Biogeochemical and Human Dimensions of Connectivity in Changing Polar Seas
Antarctic moss stress assessment based on chlorophyll content and leaf density retrieved from imaging spectroscopy data; New Phytologist
Assessing the Accuracy of Georeferenced Point Clouds Produced via Multi-View Stereopsis from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery; Remote Sensing
Assessing the effects of land use on floods in the Meuse and Oder catchment; Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part B: Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere
Assessing the feasibility of UAV-based LiDAR for high resolution forest change detection; The 12th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Assessing the impact of spectral resolution on classification of lowland native grassland communities based on field spectroscopy in Tasmania, Australia; Remote Sensing
Assessment of Antarctic moss health from multi-sensor UAS imagery with random forest modelling; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Assessment of forest structure using two UAV techniques: a comparison of airborne laser scanning and structure from motion (SfM) point clouds; Forests
Australian Antarctic Division Remote Sensing Heard Island Project 2008/2009 Milestone 2: Maps of the coastline, human footprint, glacial extent, lagoons 15 January 2009
Australian Antarctic Division Remote Sensing Heard Island Project 2008/2009 Milestone 3: Classification and change detection of vegetation. 10 March 2009
Australian Antarctic Division Remote Sensing Heard Island Project 2008/2009 Milestone 4: Final Report. 30 June 2009
Automated georectification and mosaicking of UAV-based hyperspectral imagery from push-broom sensors; Remote Sensing
Benchmarking the applicability of ontology in geographic object-based image analysis; ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Biodiversity in Grain & Graze Spatial Analysis Project Final Report
Biodiversity in Grain & Graze: Spatial Analysis Sub-project Milestone 3 Report Terrain analysis and preliminary findings, Spatial (landscape ecology) metrics interim results, and Data collation update
Biodiversity in Grain & Graze: Spatial Analysis Sub-project Milestone 4 Report Terrain analysis results, Spatial (landscape ecology) metrics results, and Data collation update
Bushfire risk assessment - an integrated approach using GIS; Spatial Science Institute Biennial International Conference SSC2007
Calibration of WorldView-2 satellite imagery to reflectance data using an empirical line method; Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE34)
Characterizing variations in growth characteristics between Douglas-fir with different genetic gain levels using airborne laser scanning; Trees
Classification of lowland native grassland communities using hyperspectral Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Imagery in the Tasmanian midlands; Drones
Classification of Subantarctic Vegetation on Heard Island based on High-Resolution Satellite Imagery; 2nd SCAR Open Science Conference 'Antarctica in the Earth System'
Combining vegetation indices, constrained ordination and fuzzy classification for mapping semi-natural vegetation units from hyperspectral imagery; Remote Sensing of Environment
Comparing methods to estimate perennial ryegrass biomass: Canopy height and spectral vegetation indices; Precision Agriculture
Comparison of MEMS-based and FOG-based IMUs to determine sensor pose on an unmanned aircraft system; Journal of Surveying Engineering
Constraints on transport and weathering of petroleum contamination at Casey Station, Antarctica; Cold Regions Science and Technology
Continuous and real-time indoor and outdoor methane sensing with portable optical sensor using rapidly pulsed IR LEDs; Talanta
Deployment and integration of cost-effective high resolution remotely sensed data for the Australian forest industry, Stone, C and Osborn, J (eds)
Detecting pruning of individual stems using Airborne Laser Scanning data captured from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Detecting shrub encroachment in seminatural grasslands using UAS LiDAR; Ecology and Evolution
Development of a UAV-LiDAR System with application to forest inventory; Remote Sensing
Development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for hyper-resolution vineyard mapping based on visible, multispectral and thermal imagery; 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
Direct georeferencing of ultrahigh-resolution UAV imagery; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Drones in a cold climate; Eos
Empirical line calibration of WorldView-2 satellite imagery to reflectance data: using quadratic prediction equations; Remote Sensing Letters
Employing ontology to capture expert intelligence within GEOBIA: automation of the interpretation process; Remote Sensing and Cognition: Human Factors in Image Interpretation
Error assessment and mitigation for hyper-temporal UAV-borne LiDAR surveys of forest inventory; SilviLaser 2011: 11th International Conference on LiDAR Applications for Assessing Forest Ecosystems
Error budget for geolocation of spectroradiometer point observations from an Unmanned Aircraft System; Sensors
Estimating bedding orientation from high-resolution digital elevation models; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Estimating tree and stand sapwood area in spatially heterogeneous southeastern Australian forests; Journal of Plant Ecology
Evaluating the robustness of point clouds from small format aerial photography over a Pinus radiata plantation; Australian Forestry
Evaluating tree detection and segmentation routines on very high resolution UAV LiDAR data; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Existential uncertainty of spatial objects segmented from satellite sensor Imagery; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Exploring uncertaintly in remotely sensed data with parallel coordinate plots; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Extracting LiDAR indices to characterise multilayered forest structure using mixture distribution functions; Remote Sensing of Environment
Field sampling from a segmented image; Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA)
Footprint determination of a spectroradiometer mounted on an unmanned aircraft system; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Forest‑sedgeland boundaries are historically stable and resilient to wildfre at Blakes Opening in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia; Landscape Ecology
From communities to individuals: using remote sensing to inform and monitor woodland restoration; Ecological Management and Restoration
From drones to phenotype: Using UAV-LiDAR to detect species and provenance variation in tree productivity and structure; Remote Sensing
Fuzzy classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation on Heard Island based on high-resolution satellite imagery; 2006 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Fuzzy Clustering for Seafloor Classification; Marine Geology
Gestural navigation in Google Earth; OzChi: Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Handheld laser scanning detects spatiotemporal differences in the development of structural traits among species in restoration plantings; Remote Sensing
Heard Island and the McDonald Islands - Outstanding Questions; 2nd SCAR Open Science Conference 'Antarctica in the Earth System'
High-resolution estimates of fire severity - an evaluation of UAS image and LiDAR mapping approaches on a sedgeland forest boundary in Tasmania, Australia; Fire
High-resolution sensing for precision agriculture: from Earth-observing satellites to unmanned aerial vehicles; SPIE 9998: Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVIII
HyperUAS - imaging spectroscopy from a multirotor unmanned aircraft system; Journal of Field Robotics
Implementation of quantitative bushfire risk analysis in a GIS environment; International Journal of Wildland Fire
Indirect effects of invasive species removal devastate World Heritage Island; Journal of Applied Ecology
Individual tree detection and crown delineation from unmanned aircraft system (UAS) LiDAR in structurally complex mixed species eucalypt forests; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Influence of cosine corrector and UAS platform dynamics on airborne spectral irradiance measurements; 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2018)
Influence of cosine corrector and UAS platform dynamics on airborne spectral irradiance measurements; Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IGARSS), IEEE International Symposium
Interactive and visual fuzzy classification of remotely sensed imagery for exploration of uncertainty; International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Interactive exploration of uncertainty in fuzzy classifications by isosurface visualization of class clusters; International Journal of Remote Sensing
Interactive Visualisation Techniques for Data Mining of Satellite Imagery; Spatial Science Institute Biennial International Conference (SSC)
Interactive Visualization of a Fuzzy Classification of Remotely Sensed Imagery using Dynamically Linked Views to Explore Uncertainty; 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in the Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Lagoon of Islands remote sensing vegetation mapping project
Lever-arm and boresight correction, and field of view determination of a spectroradiometer mounted on an unmanned aircraft system; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Leveraging machine learning to extend Ontology-Driven Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (O-GEOBIA): a case study in forest-type mapping; Remote Sensing
Macquarie under siege: how widespread is the grazing damage in Tasmania's sub-Antarctic World Heritage; School of Geography and Environmental Studies Conference 2007
Mammal Browsing Plantation Hotspot Analysis
Management implications of the Macquarie Island trophic cascade revisted: a reply to Dowding et al.(2009); Journal of Applied Ecology
Mapping grazed vegetation communities on Macquarie Island using a binary ensemble classifier; School of Geography and Environmental Studies Conference 2008
Mapping Grazed Vegetation Communities on Macquarie Island using a Binary Ensemble Classifier; 14 Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference Incorporating the North Australian Remote Sensing & GIS (NARGIS) Conference
Mapping invasive Fallopia japonica by combined spectral, spatial, and temporal analysis of digital orthophotos; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Mapping landslide displacements using Structure from Motion (SfM) and image correlation of multi-temporal UAV photography; Progress in Physical Geography
Mapping sub-Antarctic cushion plants using random forests to combine very high resolution satellite imagery and terrain modelling; PLoS ONE
Mapping the in situ microspatial distribution of ice algal biomass through hyperspectral imaging of sea-ice cores; Scientific Reports
Modeling realized gains in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) using laser scanning data from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS); Forest Ecology and Management
Modelling LiDAR derived tree canopy height from Landsat TM, ETM plus and OLI satellite imagery - A machine learning approach; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Monitoring forest structure to guide adaptive management of forest restoration: a review of remote sensing approaches; New Forests
Monitoring Heard Island Remotely
Multi-sensor Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for environmental remote sensing; Workshop on UAV-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation
Multivariate texture-based segmentation of remotely sensed imagery for extraction of objects and their uncertainty; International Journal of Remote Sensing
Natural 7DoF input for 3D navigation; 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2014
Natural 7DoF navigation and interaction in 3D geovisualisations; 20th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Object-based random forest classification of Landsat ETM+ and WorldView-2 satellite imagery for mapping lowland native grassland communities in Tasmania, Australia; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Obtaining biophysical measurements of woody vegetation from high resolution digital aerial photography in tropical and arid environments: Northern Territory, Australia; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Optimising airborne LiDAR surveys in the Antarctic pack ice zone; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly
Optimizing remotely acquired, dense point cloud data for plantation inventory. M Watt, C Stone (eds)
Optimizing spectral and spatial resolutions of unmanned aerial system imaging sensors for monitoring Antarctic vegetation; IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Panchromatic wavelet texture features fused with multispectral bands for improved classification of high-resolution satellite imagery; IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS Barcelona 2007: Sensing and Understanding Our Planet
Pansharpening and geometric rectification Quickbird imagery 2006 Heard Island
Photogrammetry for Forest Inventory: Planning Guidelines
Pixel Unmixing at the Sub-pixel Scale Based on Land Cover Class Probabilities: Application to Urban Areas; Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS
Poppy crop capsule volume estimation using UAS remote sensing and random forest regression; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Poppy crop height and capsule volume estimation from a single UAS flight; Remote Sensing
Population trends of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae breeding colonies: a spatial analysis of the effects of snow accumulation and human activities; Polar Biology
Population Trends of Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) Breeding Colonies: the Effects of Snow Accumulation and Human Activities; Spatial Science Institute Biennial International Conference SSC2007
Portable device for continuous sensing with rapidly pulsed LEDs - Part1: rapid on-the-fly processing of large data streams using an open source microcontroller with field programmable gate array; Measurement
Prediction of poppy thebaine alkaloid concentration using UAS remote sensing; Precision Agriculture
Pushbroom hyperspectral imaging from an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) - geometric processing workflow and accuracy assessment; International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics
Quantifying the effects of land management interventions on water quality in the Coal River Catchment; Joint Soil Science Australia and New Zealand Society of Soil Science Conference
Quantitative remote sensing at ultra-high resolution with UAV spectroscopy: A review of sensor technology, measurement procedures, and data correctionworkflows; Remote Sensing
Radiometric analysis of UV to near infrared LEDs for optical sensing and radiometric measurements in photochemical systems; Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Rapid collapse of a sub-Antarctic alpine ecosystem: the role of climate and pathogens; Journal of Applied Ecology
Recent advances in the developments of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for environmental mapping and monitoring on UAV applications; Belgian Earth Observation Days 2013
Remote sensing for mapping and monitoring vegetation on Heard Island; School of Geography and Environmental Studies 2005 Conference
Results from the BiGG project (Biodiversity in Grain & Graze); VegFutures
Retrieval of crude protein in perennial ryegrass using spectral data at the canopy level; Remote Sensing
Retrieval of hyperspectral information from multispectral data for perennial ryegrass biomass estimation; Sensors
Satellite imagery for change detection in the sub-Antarctic: Using Heard Island as a proof of concept; Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2008
Segmentation of multispectral high-resolution satellite imagery based on integrated feature distributions; International Journal of Remote Sensing
Semi-automated analysis of digital photographs for monitoring East Antarctic vegetation; Frontiers in Plant Science
Sensor correction and radiometric calibration of a 6-band multispectral imaging sensor for UAV remote sensing; The 12th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Sensor Correction of a 6-Band Multispectral Imaging Sensor for UAV Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing
Simplified radiometric calibration for UAS-mounted multispectral sensor; European Journal of Remote Sensing
Snow depth retrieval with UAS using photogrammetric techniques; Geosciences
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence measured from an unmanned aircraft system: sensor etaloning and platform notion correction; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Spatial co-registration of ultra-high resolution visible, multispectral and thermal images acquired with micro-UAV over Antarctic moss beds; Remote Sensing
Stability of species and provenance performance when translocated into different community assemblages; Restoration Ecology
Surface to Satellites: studying changing ecosystems on sub-Antarctic islands; School of Geography and Environmental Studies Conference 2009
Tasmanian Forest Agreement Verification: Indicative assessment using currently available remotely sensed imagery of forest disturbance in the areas proposed to be reserved under the Intergovernmental Forest Agreement
Texture-based classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities on Heard Island ; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Texture-based landform segmentation of LiDAR imagery; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Texture-based Segmentation of High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery for Identification of Fuzzy Objects; 7th International Conference on GeoComputation
Texture-Based Segmentation of Remotely Sensed Imagery to Identify Fuzzy Coastal Objects; GeoDynamics
The future of Earth observation in hydrology; Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
The impact of the calibration method on the accuracy of point clouds derived using unmanned aerial vehicle multi-view stereopsis; Remote Sensing
The National Banksia Environmental Awards 2008
Thermal sensor calibration for unmanned aerial systems using an external heated shutter; Drones
Time series analysis of landslide dynamics using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); Remote Sensing
Towards improved estimates of sea-ice algal biomass: experimental assessment of hyperspectral imaging cameras for under-ice studies; Annals of Glaciology
Tree crown segmentation and species classification in a wet eucalypt forest from airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data; International Journal of Remote Sensing
Ultra-high spatial resolution fractional vegetation cover from unmanned aerial multispectral imagery; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Uncertainties in Segmentation and their Visualisation
Uncertainty assessment of hyperspectral image classification: Deep learning vs. random forest; Entropy
Underwater Hyperspectral Imaging (UHI): a review of systems and applications for proximal seafloor ecosystem studies; Remote Sensing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing for hyper-spatial terrain mapping of Antarctic moss beds; School of Geography & Environmental Studies Conference 2011
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing for hyperspatial terrain mapping of antarctic moss beds based on structure from motion (SfM) point clouds; 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Remote Sensing for Hyperspatial Terrain Mapping of Antarctic Moss Beds based on Structure from Motion (SfM) point clouds; Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE34)
Unmanned aircraft system advances health mapping of fragile polar vegetation; Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Unveiling the complex structure of Tasmanian temperate forests with model-based Tandem-X tomography; 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2018)
Use of the Bradley-Terry Model to Assess Uncertainty in an Error Matrix from a Hierarchical Segmentation of an ASTER image; Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing
Using a micro-UAV for ultra-high resolution multi-sensor observations of Antarctic moss beds; 22nd International Society for Photogammetry and Remote Sensing Congress
Using a micro-UAV for ultra-high resolution multi-sensor observations of Antarctic moss beds; The 12th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for ultra-high resolution mapping of Antarctic moss beds; Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference
Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for ultra-high resolution mapping of Antarctic moss beds; School of Geography & Environmental Studies Conference 2010
Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to capture micro-topography of Antarctic moss beds; International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Using digital surface models from UAS imagery of fire damaged sphagnum peatlands for monitoring and hydrological restoration; Drones
Using topographic attributes to predict the density of vegetation layers in a wet eucalypt forest; Australian Forestry
Visualization for exploration of uncertainty related to fuzzy classification; 2006 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Visualization of Hyperplanes for SVM classification; IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS Barcelona 2007: Sensing and Understanding Our Planet
Watching rabbits from space; Spatial Science
Wavelet Texture Features for Improved Classification of Quickbird Imagery; Spatial Science Institute Biennial International Conference SSC2007

Research Projects

15th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference - Alice Springs, AUS - 2010; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
A new integrated approach for ecologically sustainable forest management; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Advancing Antarctic science with a new High Altitude Platform capability; Australian Research Council (ARC)
airLIFT - an airborne active chlorophyll fluorescence sensing system for assessment of photosynthetic activity in plant; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Biodiversity in Grain and Graze: Spatial Analysis, Soil and Invertebrate sub-project; Land and Water Australia (LWA)
Deployment and integration of cost-effective, high spatial resolution, remotely sensed data for the Australian forestry industry; Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA)
Design of communication gateways for micro-sensing devices deployable on insects; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Development and Application of a Novel Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Crops and Natural Ecosystems; Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF)
Identifying and Modelling Hydrological Processes within a Wet Eucalypt Forested Catchment on Jurassic Dolerite Soils - Dominik Jaskierniak; Forestry Tasmania (FT)
Life on the edge advancing health assessment of Antarctic plant communities; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Mapping and Monitoring Saltmarsh Ecosystems in Tasmania with Novel Remote Sensing Techniques; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Mapping Antarctic climate change in space and time using mosses as biological proxies; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Modelling and Mapping Near-shore Fast Ice Distributions and Dynamics: A Spatial Perspective; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Modelling and Visualising Uncertainty in Remotely Sensed Image Classification and Change Detection: Mapping and Monitoring Vegetation on Heard Island; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Modelling spatial patterns and identifying environmental drivers for temporal change in Antarctic moss communities; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Monitoring Environmental Changes on Macquarie Island Using Satellite Imagery; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Optimizing remotely acquired, dense point cloud data for plantation inventory; Forest & Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA)
Precision and accuracy of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) positioning with SBAS, SBAS DFMC and PPP - Application in Precision Agriculture: Project Demonstrator 8103; Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI)
Reassessment of intertidal macroalgal communities near to and distant from salmon farms and an evaluation of using drones to survey macroalgal distribution; Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC)
Remotely sensed forest water use in space and time; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Satellite Image Classification for Mapping Vegetation on Macquarie Island; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Satellite Imagery for Change Detection in the sub-Antarctic using Heard Island as a Proof of Concept; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Sensor calibration facility for spectral and thermal remote sensing; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Solutions for the optimal use of remotely acquired, high resolution data by the forestry sector; FWPA - National Institute for Forest Products Innovation (FWPA - NIFPI)
Spatial Analysis of Changing Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Windmill Islands and the Sub-Antarctic; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Surface to Satellites: Protecting Biodiversity on Macquarie Island; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
The 14th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference in Darwin; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Thermal infrared image sensing from Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for precision viticulture; Wine Australia (WineAust)
Towards a large-scale Antarctic Nearshore and Terrestrial Observing System (ANTOS): Scaling and optimising unmanned airborne observations of moss ecosystems; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
UAV-g 2013 (unmanned aerial vehicles for geomatic applications); University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Ultrahigh-resolution remote sensing for assessing biodiversity hotspots; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Understanding Energy Flow Through Ecosystems: an Ant-centric Approach to Ecosystem Health and Productivity; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Understanding The Impact of Change on Australia's World Heritage Subantarctic Islands; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Use of drone technology in seabird population studies; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Using pre and post LIDAR to assess the severity of the 2019 Tasmanian Bushfires; Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC (BNHCRC)
Lagoon of Islands Vegetation Mapping Project
AusCover Facility
AusCover Tasmania Node
Biodiversity in Grain and Graze: Spatial Analysis Sub-Project
Building a UAV Capacity for TERN
DPI UAV LiDAR
Improving the absolute accuracy of temperature measurements derived from low cost, UAS based, thermal cameras.
Mobile Autonomous Platforms: An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and an Autonomous Boat for environmental sensing
Professional guidance with spatial analysis of plantation mammal browsing risk assessment
Proof of Concept (Sony)
Remote Sensing of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Sony PoC III Project
Tasmanian Forest Agreement Independent Verification Group - Remote Sensing Image Analysis Phase 1
TERN Landscapes UAS instruments and platforms
TerraLuma Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for mine, quarry and stockpile surveys
Unmanned aerial vehicles for enhanced monitoring: the future of precision agriculture

Research Candidate Supervision

Aged Care for Older Tasmanian People- A Spatial Approach for Addressing Disparities and Planning Services
Applying Remote Sensing Data in Identifying Vegetation Communities across the Magela Creek Catchment
Carbon Dynamics of Anthropogenic Forest Use with Resource Extraction and Recovery, in Relation to Climate Change Science and Biodiversity
Design of communication gateways for micro-sensing devices deployable on insects
Develop an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Based on a Remote Controlled Helicopter for Multiscale Sampling of Vegetation
Developing Methods and Producing Estimates for the Tree Resource outside Forest- As a Contribution to Natural Resources Policy Formulation
Development of Methods and Algorithms to Extract Forest Inventory Measures from Airbourne Image and LiDAR Data
Dynamics of Tasmanian Terrestrial Vegetation (Conservation Ecology and Physical Geography) - Historical and Environmental Determinants of Eucalyptus Obliqua and E.
Estimation of Snow Properties using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Gestural Interaction Techniques for Spatio-Temporal Data
Methods for Mapping the Tundra Vegetation of Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island
Modelling the Effects of Forest Regeneration on Streamflow Using Forest Growth Models
Object-Based Image Analysis of Ultra-High Resolution Imagery Acquired over a Saltmarsh Environment by and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
Optimising airbourne LiDAR positioning for remote area geophysical surveys
Optimising an Advanced VTOL UAV for Novel Environmental Remote Sensing Applications
Quantifying the Effects of Land Management Interventions on Water Quality in the Coal River Catchment
Remote Sensing for Land Cover Classification and Change Detection
The Development and Application of a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Laser Scanning System for Forest Management
The Potential Role of Cessation of Logging in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degredation in Papua New Guinea
Tracking Fishermen- Using GIS to Characterise Spatial Distribution of Fishing Effort in the Tasmanian Abalone Fishery
Ultra-High Resolution Atmosphere Monitoring by Integrated Miniaturised Spectro-Chemical Sensors on Small and Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Using Bayesian Belief Networks to Model Urban Bird Macroecology
Vegetation change on sub-antarctic Macquarie Island
Vegetation Mapping with Object-Based Classification Methods of GIS Technology.