A long term, international,
collaborative research project
Aims
The Injune project aims to prove a long-term field base
for research on landscape level processes and global change science. The
project involves collaboration between the following agencies:
v The School of Resources,
Environment and Society (SRES) at The Australian National University (ANU),
including the WildCountry Science Project
v The Cooperative Research
Centre for Greenhouse Accounting (CRCGA)
v The Bureau of Rural Sciences
(BRS)
v The Queensland Department of
Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (QDNRME)
v The Institute
of Geography and Earth Sciences (IGES), University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA),
UK
v School
of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), the University of New
South Wales, Australia (UNSW).
The project has the
further aim of fostering close interaction between the contributing projects in
order to develop an integrated understanding of landscape-level processes and
their significance to global change.
Projects
Currently, there are
three main themes with a number of contributing projects. The broad themes are focused on:
1.
Improving the Measurement of
biogeophysical and human elements in the landscape
2.
Integrating the various landscape elements through
simulation Modelling
3.
Application of the results to
new areas of research in the landscape, including studies of biodiversity
assessment and conservation planning
Within each theme,
studies are focusing on:
a) The
influence of environmental heterogeneity on primary productivity and carbon
dynamics.
b) The
effects of land management on land cover change.
c) The
development of methods for understanding the information content and new forms
of remote sensing data, including that provided by polarimetric/interferometric
radar, lidar and hyperspectral sensors, and the formulation of new methods of
vegetation survey.
d) Relationship
between site productivity and biodiversity.
Measurement Theme
Aim: To improve understanding of landscape variability through enhanced methods of measuring vegetation, above ground biomass, and changes in land cover over time. |
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Projects:
1.
Rapid estimation of vegetation structure,
composition and biomass using integrated sampling schemes (CRCGA project
2.4)
2.
Enhanced vegetation structure and biomass estimation
using airborne scanning LIDAR (ANU PhD research in conjunction with CRCGA)
3.
Vegetation composition, structure and biomass estimation using
RADAR and hyperspectral data (ARC SPIRT grant led by UWA/UNSW)
4.
Land Use and Land Cover Change (CRCGA project
undertaken by BRS)
5.
Integrating remote sensing data (MISR, LIDAR,
LANDSAT) for foliage cover assessment (QDNRME / University of Queensland /
University of Newcastle projects)
Modelling Theme
Aim: To develop landscape scale carbon dynamics models for the
Injune study area |
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Projects:
1.
Carbon Dynamics (CRCGA)
2.
Terrain
influences on carbon dynamics (still in development) (ANU, CSIRO)
Application Theme
Aim: To extend landscape dynamics model output to site productivity and biodiversity assessments. |
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Projects:
1.
Bird Biodiversity and Habitat (ANU)
Further Information
List of publications and presentations
List of current and past researchers
Historical timeline for the Injune study area
List of datasets used in the research
Site map <link>
List of useful links
and agencies <link>