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Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementReview of Remote Sensing Applications for NaturalResource ManagementPrepared forQueensland Department of Science, Information Technology and the ArtsandDepartment of Natural Resources and Mines19 December 2014 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDi
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementDOCUMENT TRACKINGItemDetailProject NameReview of Remote Sensing Applications for natural Resource ManagementProject Number14ARMNRM-0003Bruce WilsonProject ManagerPhone 07 3503 7193Office address Suite 1, level 3, 471 Adelaide Street Brisbane QLD 4000Prepared byBruce Wilson, Steve Jarman, Paul FrazierReviewed byRobert MezzatestaApproved byDr Ailsa KerswellStatusFINALVersion Number1Last saved on19 December 2014Cover photoUSGS/NASA Landsat 5 image (16/2/2010, showing Cooper Creek, southwestQueensland in floodThis report should be cited as ‘Eco Logical Australia 2014. Review of Remote Sensing Applicationsfor natural Resource Management. Prepared for the Queensland Department of Science, Innovation,Information Technology and the Arts and the Queensland Department of Natural Resources andMines’ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis document has been prepared by Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd.DisclaimerThis document may only be used for the purpose for which it was commissioned and in accordance with the contract betweenEco Logical Australia Pty Ltd and Queensland Department of Science, Innovation, Information Technology and the Arts. Thescope of services was defined in consultation with the Queensland Department of Science, Innovation, InformationTechnology and the Arts and the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines by time and budgetary constraintsimposed by the client, and the availability of reports and other data on the subject area. Changes to available information,legislation and schedules are made on an ongoing basis and readers should obtain up to date information.Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd accepts no liability or responsibility whatsoever for or in respect of any use of or reliance uponthis report and its supporting material by any third party. Information provided is not intended to be a substitute for sitespecific assessment or legal advice in relation to any matter. Unauthorised use of this report in any form is prohibited.Template 08/05/2014 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDii
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementContentsKey Findings and Recommendations . x1Introduction . 11.1Scope . 11.2Current RSC program . 21.2.1Infrastructure and other enabling functions . 21.2.2Datasets . 21.2.3Derived products . 41.2.4Applications . 42Methods . 52.1User needs . 52.1.1Identification of users . 52.1.2User interviews . 52.2Review of current arrangements . 52.3Evaluation of opportunities . 63User needs . 73.1DNRM . 83.1.1Compliance . 83.1.2Operations . 83.1.3Policy . 93.1.4Mining . 103.1.5Water . 103.1.6Salinity . 103.1.7Additional issues . 113.2DAFF . 113.2.1Grazing management . 113.2.2Assessment of agricultural lands . 123.3DPC/DNRM/DEHP - Reef Plan . 123.4DEHP. 133.4.1Petroleum & Gas . 133.4.2Coastal management . 143.4.3State of the Environment . 143.4.4Biodiversity . 143.5DSDIP. 153.6NPRSR - fire management. 153.7PSBA . 15 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDiii
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource Management3.8Regional NRM Bodies . 164Assessment of RSC products against user needs . 184.1Existing operational products . 184.1.1Unexplained clearing assessment . 184.1.2Compliance support . 184.1.3Reporting on clearing . 184.1.4Woody extent and change. 264.1.5Ground cover . 274.1.6Land use . 284.1.7Fire scars . 294.1.8CSG compliance . 304.1.9Natural disasters . 324.1.10 Weeds mapping . 324.2Products requiring further development . 334.2.1Hydrology . 334.2.2Lidar. 344.2.3Real time, high resolution monitoring . 364.2.3.1UAVs . 375Trade-offs in product delivery . 385.1Woody extent change data. 385.1.1Previous process . 385.1.2Updated process . 395.1.3Further refinement . 396Value for money . 416.1Contestability . 417Synergies between departments . 448Business continuity . 478.1HPC continuity options . 478.2Landsat platform . 499Current and future product communication. 509.1Web delivery of applications/visualisation tools . 509.1.1Current tools . 509.1.2Further developments . 509.1.2.19.1.2.2Web version of VegMachine . 50AusCover visualisation tools . 509.1.3Statistics reporting . 519.1.4Data delivery . 55 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDiv
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource Management10Research and Development resourcing . 5810.1Budgets and outputs . 5810.2The Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (JRSRP) . 5911Future research, programs and products . 6112Recommendations . 641.Unexplained clearing assessment . 642.Compliance support . 643.Reporting . 644.Woody extent and change in extent datasets . 645.Ground cover . 646.Land use . 647.Fire scars . 658.Lidar. 659.Hydrology . 6510.Funding of the RSC program . 6511.Business continuity . 6512.Web delivery of data and applications . 6513.Research and Development . 6513References . 66Appendix A User Needs Questionnaire . 71Appendix B List of Interviewees . 72Appendix C List of Non-respondents . 74Appendix D RSC Product List. 75Appendix E New and Developing Technologies . 84 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDv
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementList of figuresFigure 1 RSC products arranged into program hierarchy . 3Figure 2: Numbers of users interviewed by group . 7Figure 3 Policy and planning instruments associated with RSC products . 26Figure 4: Comparison of imagery used for CSG Infrastructure mapping . 31Figure 5: Lidar assessment of flood damage on the Lockyer Creek . 32Figure 6: Standard Lidar products . 35Figure 7: Extent of Airborne Lidar coverage stored by RSC . 35Figure 8: Pléiades satellite imagery after oil spill on left and after clean up on right. . 36Figure 9: Riegl RiCOPTER (from Riegl 2014a) . 37Figure 10: Comparison of the previous and updated SLATS product delivery process . 40Figure 11: RSC program funding arrangements . 46Figure 12: AusCover product download, visualisation portal . 52Figure 13: AusCover portal visualisation tool - seasonal fractional cover . 53Figure 14 The chopper tool . 53Figure 15: Example of data visualisation available on the AussieGRASS web site . 54Figure 16: Wetland extent summary tool . 54Figure 17: WorldView-3 imagery . 85Figure 18: The A-Train . 86Figure 19 3D LiDAR vegetation height data from the Riegl RiCOPTER for a corridor study (from Riegl,2014b) . 91Figure 21: the BRAMOR rTK and launch system . 92 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDvi
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementList of tablesTable 1: Summary of RSC products, identified needs and limitations . 19Table 2: RSC products with a potential delivery market . 43Table 3 Summary of major RSC datasets by department use . 45Table 4 Indicative annual funding of the RSC program . 45Table 5: Downloads for some RSC datasets for 2013 from QGIS web site. . 55Table 6: Proportion of R&D budget for some private companies . 59Table 7: List of future R&D projects . 61Table 8: A –Train Satellites (from NASA 2014) . 86Table 9: Example UAV Applications . 89 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDvii
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource iodiversity Planning AssessmentsCASACivil Aviation Safety AuthorityDAFFDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and ForestryDEHPDepartment of Environment and Heritage ProtectionDEWSDepartment of Energy and Water SupplyDNRMDepartment Natural Resources and MinesDSDIPDepartment of State Development, Infrastructure and PlanningDSITIADepartment of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the ArtseLVASelectronic Land and Vegetation Administration System (a DNRM database)FPCFoliage Projective CoverGDEGroundwater Dependent EcosystemGISGeographic Information SystemMDBMurray Darling BasinMSESMatters of State Environmental SignificanceNAFINorth Australian Fire InformationNPRSRNational Parks, Recreation, Sport and RacingNRMNatural Resource Management (as in the non-government Regional NRM bodies)PAAProtected Agricultural AreasPALUProtected Agricultural Land UsesPMAVProperty Maps of Assessable VegetationPSBAPublic Safety Business AgencyQFESQueensland Fire and Emergency ServicesQGISQueensland Government Information ServiceQLUMPQueensland Land Use Mapping ProgramRPI ActRegional Planning Interest Act 2014RSCRemote Sensing CentreSCAStrategic Cropping AreasSCLStrategic Cropping LandsSEAStrategic Environmental AreasSLAMState Land Assets ManagementSLATSState Landcover and Tree Study ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDviii
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementVMAVegetation Management Act 1999 ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDix
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementKey Findings and RecommendationsThe Remote Sensing Centre (RSC) produces a wide range of products which are extensively usedacross the Department of Natural Resources and Mines (DNRM) and other Queensland GovernmentDepartments particularly the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP), theDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and the Department of State Development,Infrastructure and Planning (DSDIP). Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd (ELA) was engaged to conduct auser needs analysis followed by a review of the current RSC deliverables and their fitness for purposefor DNRM policy, planning, operational and legislative compliance needs.User needs and RSC productsThe major RSC products, an assessment of their fitness for purpose and recommendations for theirfuture production include:Unexplained clearing assessmentThe unexplained clearing assessment produced by the RSC provides DNRM with the means toprioritise areas for subsequent compliance investigations.Recent modifications to the process used to produce this assessment by the RSC has enabled aninterim product to be delivered 1 month after the last image is captured for the reporting period. Thisrevised process has addressed many of the previous limitations in relation to timing to meet DNRMcompliance needs.Recommendations for future developments include quantification of the differences between theinterim and final woody data sets so users can assess any systematic differences and investigatingprocesses that can prioritise specific areas or issues (nominated by DNRM) for finalisation of data toenable more real-time monitoring for auditing self-assessable codes under the VegetationManagement Act 1999.Compliance supportThe RSC provides technical support for DNRM for more detailed compliance cases includingprosecutions under relevant legislation.It is recommended that this service should be reviewed within the context that overall demand inrelation to vegetation matters has reduced in recent years, although the size of individual cases mayhave increased and the service could be extended to other matters such as water.Reporting on tree clearingIn the past two tree-clearing reports have been produced each year: a SLATS report which providesinformation on total woody clearing broken down by region, local government, catchment etc. and aSLATS supplementary report, which breaks the total area cleared down by type of clearing – thinning,fodder harvesting etc. The information in the SLATS report and the SLATS supplementary report isused across the Queensland Government and is accepted as the point of truth for tree clearing datawith a high acceptance by non-government stakeholders. These reports are not currently widely usedby the DNRM users interviewed, although the Land and Mines Policy Section indicated that thesupplementary report was still required for monitoring policy implementation.It is recommended that the RSC should produce a clearing report with the area cleared broken downby clearing type (fodder, thinning etc.) to provide fuller context for the tree clearing figures. ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDx
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementThe current pdf type report should be replaced with an online web-based reporting tool, possibly inpartnership with the State of the Environment reporting, that provides users with statistics for theirarea of interest.Woody extent and change in extent datasetsThese datasets and derived products are used for a range of auditing, monitoring and assessmentactivities within DNRM, Reef Plan reporting and implementation, biodiversity assessments by DEHP,inputs into grazing management tools by DAFF and a range of applications by regional NaturalResource Management (NRM) bodies.The derivation of these data from the freely available US Landsat imagery from the US GeologicalSurvey provides a highly cost effective product that has a high acceptance from users. The scale ofresolution of these data is seen as a limitation by users for property level assessments, althoughusers showed a high level of awareness of the fit for purpose applications and need to incorporateother higher resolution data when required.The continued production of this dataset is essential to meet a range of whole of government needs,although further improvements in automation and timeliness would increase its utility for DNRMpurposes.Ground coverThe ground cover dataset provides essential inputs into a range of applications particularly forreporting on the catchment loads and ground cover target in the Reef Plan and grazing managementapplications for Reef Plan implementation and grazing/drought management applications used byDAFF and the grazing industryIt is recommended that this dataset continue to evolve and improve to meet the current a future needsidentified in this report.Land useThe land use data provide input into a range of applications and used by a wide range of QueenslandGovernment agencies. Major uses include incorporation into agricultural land use planning and triggermaps and assessments under the Regional Planning Interest Act 2014 (RPI Act) by DNRM, DAFFand DSDIP and Reef Plan reporting and implementation. These data are delivered by the RSC inpartnership with DNRM regional staff.A main limitation of the land use data raised by users is the ad hoc nature of updates to the mappingwhich is associated with the ad hoc nature of funding such as reef catchment science in combinationwith a range of other short term funding sources. It is recommended that more frequent and/orconsistent updates are produced, particular in areas where land use changes more frequently, with aforward schedule so users can see when areas will be updated.Fire scarsThe RSC fire scar mapping is used for assessment of fire hazard and risk by the Public SafetyBusiness Agency (PSBA) and as a potentially useful product by a range of other users. This is arelatively new product that requires a greater level understanding about how it is best used. It isrecommended that RSC engages with users to clarify the role of the RSC fire scar mapping in relationto other products available and its application in specific situations. ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDxi
Review of Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resource ManagementLidarLidar imagery can provide high resolution, three-dimensional information that can be used to meet awide range of vegetation and land surface data needs across DNRM (in relation to vegetation andmining) and other agencies. Currently Lidar data are not very cost effective as they are expensive andthe existing coverage from airborne platforms is confined to small areas. However, Lidar datacoverage is becoming more widespread with potentially more cost effective delivery options (e.g. fromspace) becoming available in the near future.It is recommended that the RSC continue to capture all Queensland Government available Lidar dataonto the RSC computer system; develop standard products that can be used for vegetation and; landassessments and make these products discoverable and accessible to users.HydrologyA wide range of remote sensing needs were identified in relation to management of surface water andground water by DNRM, and in relation to coal seam gas project compliance in DEHP and DNRM.While some of these needs can be addressed by some current water related RSC products, many ofthese needs require new products to be developed with appropriate resource allocation.Value for money and synergies between DepartmentsThe RSC program and long term monitoring datasets enable the production of applications andproducts that provide defensible science and spatial data that are used to underpin a range ofQueensland initiatives across a range of agencies. The extensive use of the freely available Landsatimagery for many of the RSC datasets enables the production of cost effective data compared toother options available in the market.In particular the core landscape monito
BPA Biodiversity Planning Assessments CASA Civil Aviation Safety Authority DAFF Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry DEHP Department of Environment and Heritage Protection DEWS Department of Energy and Water Supply DNRM Department Natural Resources and Mines DSDIP Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning
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