Supervising Scientist Division

NARGIS 95: Proceedings of the North Australian Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Forum

Supervising Scientist & AURISA (eds)
AGPS Canberra, 1995
ISBN 0 644 35753 3

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Proceedings contents

Preface, N Campbell
NARGIS 95: A summation, N Campbell

List of Papers

GJE Hill
Remote sensing, GIS and the CRC for sustainable development of tropical savannas: What are the implications for northern Australia?

P Ryan, J Russell-Smith & R Durieu
Long term satellite monitoring of fire regimes in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

G Allan & A Willson
Learning more about fire in the Top End: Processing and interpreting spatial and temporal fire history data derived from NOAA AVHRR satellite images

RL Craig, FL Evans, RGC Smith, MT Steber & A Wyllie
Firewatch: The use of NOAA-AVHRR data for the detection of bushfires in Western Australia

B Wood
The needs of policy and decision makers

P Grue
Project management of a new GIS implementation

M Kitchin & R Thackway
Assessing comprehensiveness of ecosystems within protected areas in Australia

V J Neldner
Predicting the distribution of individual plant species using a vegetation map coverage

JF Wallace, SL Furby & NA Campbell
Methods for monitoring vegetation using multi-date image data

R Peever
Change detection: An aid to local authority mosquito monitoring

W Ahmad & GJE Hill
Land cover classification of the Mary River floodplain with an emphasis on the effect of salt water intrusion

M Nunez, JD Kalma & PM Fleming
Satellite mapping of solar radiation in northern Australia

AA Held, D Pidsley, TJ Hatton & DLB Jupp
Use of Landsat TM data to scale measurements of evapotranspiration in the Northern Territory of Australia

G Humphreys, S Tickell & D Yin Foo
Integrated hydrogeological evaluation of developments to Ord River irrigation area

MC Evans & AM Williams
Integration of satellite imagery and GIS for natural resource management in the mining industry

LAI Wyborn, EA Jagodzinski & M Ratajkoski
The Pine Creek metallogenic GIS — Turning 45 years of geoscientific paper products into a more accessible and applicable digital package

K Danaher
Documenting Queensland’s fish habitat resources: The mapping of mangrove communities with Landsat Thematic Mapper data

AC Burgon & R C Allan
A multicriteria model and GIS in communications planning: An integrated approach

J Beringer, T Keenan & N Tapper
Evolution of maritime continent island thunderstorms under varying meteorological conditions

JC Flack
The role of process networks in binding remotely sensed data to a GIS

IT Grierson & MM Lewis
Airborne video: An adjunct to ground studies for rangeland remote sensing

A Milne, G Morgan & T Orr
Opportunities for use of synthetic aperture radar data for ecological and terrain studies in northern Australia

AK Skidmore
GIS technology and the organisation

T Menzies
The geocentric datum of Australia 1994 (GDA-94): A new spatial referencing system for geographic data

JA Bellamy, D Lowes, RJ Bischof, C McAlpine & IM McLeod
Linking spatial data and knowledge-based systems to model cattle grazing utilisation patterns in rangelands

DJ Puniard
High resolution space imagery: What, when and how?

D De Vries
Pre-dawn thermal infra-red imagery: An airborne acquired user-friendly data set

List of Poster papers

J Beringer
Evolution of maritime continent island thunderstorms under varying meteorological conditions

A Bull
Environmental information through the Internet

HT Calvert, KH Wyrwoll & D Yin Foo
Use of remote sensing for studying the geomorphological evolution and quaternary palaeohydrology of Lake Woods, Northern Territory

S Tickell
Dryland salinity hazard map of the Northern Territory

D Thomas & W Fraser
Volcanic ash detection using AVHRR data at the Darwin Bureau of Meteorology

RA Karfs
Remote sensing and land resource monitoring in the Victoria River district, Northern Territory

D-M Audas
Rangeland tenure of Australia: Integrating data from multiple systems, platforms and institutions

G Jacobson, M Jamieson, P Jolly, J E Lau, T Sawenko, M Sollieux & J Wischusen
Wiluraratja Kapi (The western water project): Towards a decision-support system for groundwater in aboriginal lands

List of Research bites

G Morgan
Comparisons of TM and SAR imagery

A Perry
Terrain modelling with Vulcan

P Brocklehurst & B Fitzpatrick
Mapping the mangroves of the Northern Territory coast

RT Kingsford
Modelling waterbird populations, mapping wetlands and creating databases for the wetlands of the Murray-Darling basin

M Genner, SE Martin & NWJ Hazelton
Decision-making processes using GIS

SE Martin
Geophysical applications of GIS

Preface

The original NARGIS was born from an idea of a small group that there ought to be a few other people around who would be interested in having a ‘get together’ to discuss remote sensing and GIS work in the Top End of Australia. The notion was of a small gathering which would bring perhaps 30 to 50 people together, mainly from the Northern Territory but also from Queensland and Western Australia.

The response to NARGIS 93 of 90 plus participants from all over Australia with a couple of overseas speakers as well was far beyond the organisers greatest expectations, and almost beyond the capacity of the meeting room at the Darwin Museum. At the end of NARGIS 93 the hope was expressed by many that the event should become a regular item on the calendar, perhaps every two years. Thus NARGIS 95 was born.

With a few of the old committee and several new members the plans were laid and the event relocated to a conference centre in order to accommodate the anticipated growth in the audience. The final turnout for NARGIS 95 was over 120 which showed that the technologies of remote sensing and GIS are alive and well and expanding across the NARGIS catchment of northern Australia. It also justified the move to the new venue!

The proceedings which follow record almost all the presentations made during NARGIS 95. We have chosen to use as a foreword the summary from the forum rapporteur Norm Campbell. We feel that his concise summation and excellent personal critique of the whole event perfectly sets the scene for the presentations that follow. We hope you agree.

One of the last items on the NARGIS 95 agenda was the future of NARGIS. After discussions it was agreed that there would be a NARGIS 97. Representatives from Queensland agreed to assume the responsibility for forming an organising committee and initially James Cook University will be the base for that committee. We wish them well and look forward to meeting you again then.