Research & publications
The Tropical Spatial Sciences Group is linked to the Australian Research Council Key Centre and Co-operative Research Centres listed below within Charles Darwin University.
- Research programs have expanded rapidly over the last five years.
- Postgraduate students specialising in spatial technologies play a pivotal role in the development of research centres based in the region.
- The group has developed advanced training that has been customised for the tropical landscapes Australia and the Asia/Pacific region.
- The consequence of this training allows postgraduates to realise their potential role in the scientific development of remote sensing and GIS.
- In recent years CDU's remote sensing and GIS staff have been consistently successful in attracting competitive research grants.
- The program participants liaise with and provide research support for regional research organisations and government agencies such as DPI, ERISS, DBIRD and CSIRO, etc.
- Over the years, the team has worked extensively with AIDAB, UN/ESCAP and a range of other funding agencies to design and provide technology transfer programs for developing countries.
Current Department projects
include:
● Land Clearing in Darwin rural area and its sociological implications
● Greenhouse gas-emissions from bushfires
● Modelling and Control of Mosquito-borne disease in Darwin using long-term modelling
● Aboriginal Land Management in Central Australia
● Scenario Modelling for Climate Change in Tropical Landscapes
● Integrated Scenario planning across shared Landscapes
● Quantifying Spatial structures in North Australian Landscapes
● Assisting Indigenous Resource management
● Biophysical modelling water quality in Darwin rural groundwater-dependant ecosystems
● Spatial Mapping of water balance accounts in the Daly Basin
● Prioritizing and mapping marine-significant ecosystems in the NT
● The Timor-Leste Marine habitat mapping for Tourism and Fisheries development Project
