Key topics

remote sensing

Remote sensing is the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.

Item	Type		Key Topics
Optimising SAR-based flood extent assimilation for improved hydraulic flood inundation forecasts	Biblio	save (15.25 MB)	flood, remote sensing
A comparison and validation of satellite-derived fire severity mapping techniques in fire prone north Australian savannas: Extreme fires and tree stem mortality	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands	Biblio		environments, fire, remote sensing
Near real-time extracting wildfire spread rate from Himawari-8 satellite data	Biblio	save (3.36 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Deriving comprehensive forest structure information from mobile laser scanning observations using automated point cloud classification	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts – final project report	Biblio	save (1.94 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Improving flood forecast skill using remote sensing data	Project		flood, forecasting, remote sensing
Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions	Project		fire, modelling, remote sensing
How does remotely sensed degree of curing and fuel load vary in grasslands and effect modelled fire spread?	Project		fire, remote sensing
Fuels3D - final project report	Biblio	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Disaster landscape attribution: Annual project report 2014-2015	Biblio	save (1.55 MB)	fire impacts, remote sensing
Non-destructive estimation of above-ground surface and near-surface biomass using 3D terrestrial remote sensing techniques	Biblio		environments, modelling, remote sensing
Improving flood forecast skill using remote sensing data	Biblio	save (448.66 KB)	flood, forecasting, remote sensing
Towards comprehensive characterisation of flammability and fire danger	Biblio	save (1.57 MB)	fire, remote sensing, risk analysis
Development of a Multi-Spatial Resolution Approach to the Surveillance of Active Fire Lines Using Himawari-8	Biblio	save (16.22 MB)	fire severity, remote sensing
Disaster Landscape Attribution: Fire Surveillance and Hazard Mapping, Data Scaling and Validation Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (987.79 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Biblio	save (538.96 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Hierarchical integration of individual tree and area-based approaches for savanna biomass uncertainty estimation from airborne LiDAR	Biblio		Northern Australia, remote sensing, savanna grasslands
Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
A radiative transfer model-based method for the estimation of grassland aboveground biomass	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Guidelines on the optimal use of remote sensing data to improve the accuracy of hydrologic and hydraulic models	Biblio	save (1.66 MB)	flood, forecasting, remote sensing
Improving land dryness measures and forecasts	Project		fire, flood, remote sensing
Advances in the remote sensing of active fires: a review	Biblio	save (1.79 MB)	emergency management, fire, remote sensing
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning	Biblio		fire, fire severity, remote sensing
Limitations of high resolution satellite stereo imagery for estimating canopy height in Australian tropical savannas	Biblio		Northern Australia, remote sensing, savanna grasslands
Assessment of the Dual Polarimetric Sentinel-1A Data for Forest Fuel Moisture Content Estimation	Biblio	save (9.79 MB)	modelling, remote sensing, soil moisture
Flood mapping under vegetation using single SAR acquisitions	Biblio		flood, hydrology, remote sensing
A Broad-Area Method for the Diurnal Characterisation of Upwelling Medium Wave Infrared Radiation	Biblio	save (3.37 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite - annual report 2019-2020	Biblio	save (859.87 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Mitigating the Effects of Severe Fires, Floods and Heatwaves Annual Report 2014	Biblio	save (1.12 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project		fire, fire weather, remote sensing
Evaluation of daily soil moisture deficit used in Australian forest fire danger rating system	Biblio	save (2.64 MB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
Next generation Fuels 3D remote sensing	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
Remote sensing applied to bushfire	Project		fire, remote sensing
Estimating fire background temperature at a geostationary scale - an evaluation of contextual methods for AHI-8	Biblio		fire, modelling, remote sensing
A Live Fuel Moisture Content Product from Landsat TM Satellite Time Series for Implementation in Fire Behavior Models	Biblio	save (4.32 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, remote sensing
The influence of soil moisture on surface and sub-surface litter fuel moisture simulation at five Australian sites	Biblio		fuel reduction, remote sensing, soil moisture
Planned burn mapping in Victoria using remote sensing	Project		prescribed burning, remote sensing
Soil and fuel moisture precursors of fire activity during the 2019-20 fire season, in comparison to previous seasons - Black Summer final report	Biblio	save (15.37 MB)	forecasting, land management, remote sensing
The Vegetation Structure Perpendicular Index (VSPI): A forest condition index for wildlife predictions	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing