Supervisor

Dr Karen Joyce Charles Darwin University

The management of BNH in northern Australia requires a detailed understanding of risk factors at a landscape scale.

Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs or ‘drones’) have the ability to capture very high detail imagery in a time and cost effective manner for the purpose of environmental monitoring. They provide the ability to repeatedly visit and monitor small areas, where the conditions may be frequently changing, at scales that are not achievable with other satellite or manned platforms. This gives a niche capability to acquire high resolution data for the purpose of calibrating and validating broader area remote sensing products. This project will focus specifically on the use of UAVs for calibrating and validating remote sensing models relating to fire, fuel loads, and ecosystem recovery in savannahs.