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Journal Articles

 

Published:

 

Lucas, R.M., Moghaddam, M. and Cronin, N (2004).  Microwave scattering from mixed species woodlands, central Queensland, Australia.  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (in press).

 

Lucas, R.M., Rowlands, A.R., Niemann, O. and Merton, R. (2004).   Hyperspectral Sensors:  Past, Present and Future:  In:  Advanced Image Processing Techniques for Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Data (Eds.  Pramod K. Varshney and Manoj K. Arora; in press).

 

Rosenqvist, A., Milne, A.K., Lucas, R.M., Dobson, C. and Imhoff, M.  Lucas, R.M. (2003).   A review of remote sensing technology for support to the Kyoto Protocol.  Environment, Science and Policy, Vol 6 (5), pp 441-445.

 

Lucas, R.M., Milne, A.K., Cronin, N., Witte, C. and Denham, R (2000). The Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data for Quantifying the Above Ground Biomass of Australia’s Woodlands.   Rangeland Journal, (22), pp124-140.

 

 

In progress:

 

Cronin, N., Lucas, R.M., Lee, A., Witte, C., Tickle, P (2004).   Relationship between FPC and SAR backscatter:  Potential for discriminating vegetation communities in semi-arid woodlands, Queensland.  International Journal of Remote Sensing.

 

Liang, P., Moghaddam, M., Pierce, L. and Lucas, R.M. (2004).  Radar backscatter model for multi-layer mixed species forests.  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (submitted).

 

Lucas, R.M., Cronin, N., Lee, A. and Moghaddam, M. (2004).  Integration of SAR and Landsat-derived Foliage Projected Cover for Woody Regrowth Mapping, Central Queensland, Australia.

 

Lucas, R.M., Lee, A., Cronin, N., Witte, C., Tickle, P. and Moghaddam, M. (2004).  Empirical relationships between AIRSAR backscatter and forest biomass, Queensland, Australia.  

 

Moffiet, T., Mengersen, K., Witte, C., King, R., Denham, R. (2004). Airborne laser scanning: Exploratory data analysis indicates potential variables for classification of individual trees or forest stands according to species. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. (Submitted 22nd July 2004)

 

Roxburgh, S.H., Mackey, B.G., Dean, C., Randall, L., Lee, A., and Austin, J. (2004) Soil organic carbon, soil bulk density and soil-surface fine litter stocks within open forest and woodland ecosystems near Injune, Queensland: implications for terrestrial carbon accounting (for submission to Australian Journal of Soil Research or Rangelands Journal

 

Tickle, P.K., Lee, A., Lucas, R.M., Austin, J. and Wittel, C. (2004).  Quantifying Australian forest and woodland structure and biomass using large scale photography and small footprint Lidar.   Remote Sensing of Environment (submitted).

 

Presentations by project

 

Conference Papers

Radar

 

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Lucas, R.M., Lee, A., Milne, A.K., Cronin, N. and Moghaddam, M.  (2003a). Remote sensing to support Australia’s commitment to international agreements:  A role for Synthetic Aperture Radar.  Proceedings 25th IEEE 2003 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toulouse, France (21-25 July, 2003).

 

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Moghaddam, M. and Lucas, R.M. (2003b).  Quantifying the biomass of Australian subtropical woodlands using SAR inversion models Proceedings 25th IEEE 2003 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toulouse, France (21-25 July, 2003).

 

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Lucas, R.M., Mitchell, A., Donnelly, B. and Milne, A.K.  (2003c). Characterising and mapping mangroves in northern Australia using stereo aerial photography and hyperspectral CASI data.  Proceedings 25th IEEE 2003 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toulouse, France (21-25 July, 2003).

 

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Lucas, R.M. and Milne, A.K. (2001a).  Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for woodland biomass estimation in Australia:  An overview Proceedings 23rd IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney Australia, (9-13 July 2001).

 

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Lucas, R.M., Tickle, P., Witte, C. and Milne, A.K. (2001b).   Development of multistage procedures for quantifying the biomass, structure and community composition of Australian woodlands using polarimetric radar and optical data. Proceedings 23rd IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney Australia, (9-13 July 2001).

 

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Paterson, M., Lucas, R.M. and Chisholm, L. (2001c).  Differentiation of selected Australian woodland species using CASI data.   Proceedings 23rd IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney Australia, (9-13 July 2001)

 

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Cronin, N.L.R., Lucas, R.M., Witte, C. and Milne, A.K. (2001e).  Synthetic Aperture Radar for above ground biomass estimation in Australia’s woodlands.   Proceedings 23rd IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney Australia, (9-13 July 2001).

 

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Lucas, R.M., Cronin, N., Milne, A.K., Witte, C., Denham, R. and Dong, Y. (2000a).  Carbon losses from land cover change in Australia:  A role for SAR.  Proceedings 22th IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii (24-28 July, 2000).

 

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Cronin, N., Lucas, R.M., Milne, A.K. and Witte, C. (2000c).  Relationships between the component biomass of woodlands in Australia and data from airborne and spaceborne SAR.  Proceedings 22th IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii (24-28 July, 2000).

 

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Lucas, R.M., Cronin, N., Milne, A.K., Dong, Y. and Witte, C. (1999b).  Estimating woodland biomass stocks in Queensland using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data.  Report to the Bureau of Resource Sciences, Canberra.

 

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Lucas, R.M., Cronin, N., Witte, C., Denham, R., Dong, Y. and Milne, A.K. (1999c).  The Integration of JERS-1 SAR, Landsat TM and Land Cover Change Datasets for Quantifying the Carbon Dynamics of Queensland's Woodlands.  Proceedings, 4th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia. (CDROM)

 

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Lucas, R.M., Cronin, N., Milne, A.K., Dong, Y. and Witte, C. (1999d).  Estimating woodland biomass stocks in Queensland using AIRSAR and Landsat Thematic Mapper Data. Proceedings, 4th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia (CDROM).

 

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Lucas, R.M., Mitchell, A., Milne, A.K., Dong, Y., and Donnelly, B. (1999e).  The use of aerial photographs and AIRSAR data for assessing the structure of mangroves, Kakadu National Park.  Proceedings, 4th North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS Conference, Darwin, Australia (CDROM)

 

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Witte C., Norman P.L., Lucas R.M., Denham R.  and Milne. A.K., (1998).  Synergistic use of JERS-1 SAR and Landsat TM for estimating the stem biomass of Eucalyptus and Callitris woodlands in south-central Queensland.  Proceedings, 9th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference, Sydney, Australia.

 

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Integrated Sampling Strategies

 

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Lee, A., Norman, P., Wood, M., Davey, S. (2003) Integrated sampling strategies – application at the regional and continental levels for monitoring sustainable forest management. Proceedings Joint Australia and New Zealand Institute of Forestry Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand,  (27 April -01 May 2003)

 

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Lee, A.,  Tickle, P.K., Austin, J.  Witte, C., Lucas, R.M., Jones, K., R. Denham, Davey, S. (2002) Evaluating integrated multi-scale frameworks for strategic forest inventory and monitoring in Australian heterogenous woodlands. Proceedings 24th IEEE 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toronto Canada, (24-28 June 2002) vol III, pp 1783-1785

 

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Tickle, P.K., Lee, A.,  Witte, C., Lucas, R.M., J. Austin (2002) The role of small-footprint LiDAR in multi-resource inventory and monitoring of Montreal Process C&I. The Australian Workshop on Airborne Laser Altimetry for Forest and Woodland Inventory and Monitoring, Brisbane Australia, (18-19 April 2002).

 

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Lee, A.,  Tickle, P.K.,  Witte, C., Austin,  J., Lucas, R.M., Jones, K.,  Denham, R. (2002) Above-ground biomass estimates using systematic sampling frameworks integrating LiDAR with other remotely sensed data. The Australian Workshop on Airborne Laser Altimetry for Forest and Woodland Inventory and Monitoring, Brisbane, Australia, (18-19 April 2002).

 

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Lee, A., Chikumbo, O., Davey, S. Tickle, P.K. (2001) Enhanced visualisation capability for forest management optimisation results. Proceedings, International Congress on Modelling & Simulation (ModSim), Canberra, Australia. (10-13 Dec 2001)

 

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Tickle, P.K., Witte, C., Lee, A., Lucas, R.M., Jones, K.,  Austin, J.  (2001) Use of Airborne Scanning Lidar and Large Scale Photography within a Strategic Forest Inventory and Monitoring Framework. Proceedings 23rd IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Sydney Australia, (9-13 July 2001)

 

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Lucas, R.M., Tickle, P.K and Carter, J. (1999a). A proposed framework for the inventory and monitoring of Australia’s forests.  National Carbon Accounting System, Expert Workshop Report, (23-25 June, 1998), pp 263-281.

 

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Lucas, R.M. and Tickle, P.K. (1999i).  Ground measurements, remote sensing and biomass estimation in the Australian context.  In: Remote Sensing and the Kyoto Protocol (Eds. A. Rosenqvist, Imhoff, M., Milne, A. and Dobson, C.).  ISPRS/University of Michigan Workshop Report. 

 

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Lidar Biomass

 

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Lee, A., Lucas, R. M., Brack, C. (2004) Quantifying vertical forest stand structure using small footprint lidar to assess potential stand dynamics. Proceedings, NATSCAN – Laser scanners for forest and landscape assessment – instruments, processing methods and applications 03-06 October, Freiburg, Germany. 

 

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Lee, A- (2004) Optimising field data using Lidar: making sure the trees are where you think they are - issues for biomass estimation - Fifth Australasian Postgraduate Workshop on GISc, Social and Environmental Modelling.  1-6th February, 2004, ANU research station at Kioloa, South Coast NSW, Australia.

 

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Lee, A. Brack, C. (2003) Using Lidar to describe forest stand structure and potential growth stage – Proceedings Modelling Forests from Leaves to Landscape - Research Working Group 2 workshop.  1-3 December 2003, Melbourne, Australia.

 

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Land Cover Change

 

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Randall, L. S., Lee, A. Austin, J., Barson M. (2002) Estimation of land cover and biomass change from remotely sensed data. Proceedings 24th IEEE 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toronto Canada, (24-28 June 2002)

 

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Randall, L., Dean, C, Lee, A, Mackey, B. and Roxburgh, S. (2003) Carbon cycling in the Australian landscape - utilising land use/land cover change data. Poster presented at the International Association of Landscape Ecologists Conference, July 13-17, Darwin, Australia

 

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Carbon Dynamics

 

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3 presentations by S. Roxburg, L. Randall, & A. Lee. (May 2004) “Combining data and models to explore the dynamics of carbon within the Injune study area”. CRC for Greenhouse Accounting Annual Science Conference, South Durras, Australia.

 

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Davies, I., Roxburgh, S. (2003). COINS - an integrative modelling tool for greenhouse accounting and natural resource management. .  Poster presented at the Integrated research on coupled human environmental systems land open science conference, December 1-5, Morelia, Mexico.

 

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Roxburgh, S., Austin, J., Dean, C., Lee, A., Mackey, B., Randall, L. (2003). Assessing the impact of land cover change on the dynamics of carbon within a managed woodland in Queensland, Australia: an example of model-data fusion.  Poster presented at the Integrated research on coupled human environmental systems land open science conference, December 1-5, Morelia, Mexico.

 

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Roxburgh, S., Austin, J., Dean, C., Lee, A., Mackey, B., Randall, L. (2002). Soil carbon content and soil carbon pool structure in a managed open woodland: preliminary results and implications for modelling soil carbon dynamics. Poster presented at CRC for Greenhouse Accounting belowground carbon workshop, November 2002, Canberra, Australia.

 

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MISR

 

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Armston, J.D., Phinn, S.R., Scarth, P.F., and Danaher, T.J. (2004). Analysis of Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) measurements in the Queensland Southern Brigalow Belt. Proceedings 12th Australian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Fremantle.

 

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