Elizabeth Morse-McNabb

State Government Victoria · Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources

Objective Successful control of an emergency animal disease outbreak requires the timely and accurate identification of properties of interest. The identification of commercial piggeries within study areas in the Goulburn–Murray Irrigation District in Victoria, Australia, is used to demonstrate the innovative application of object‐based image analy...

The use of remote sensing technologies has become an important tool to quantify large scale soil moisture variability on an almost daily basis, in particular for weather and climate applications, as well as national water accounting purposes. However, available soil moisture products were at a spatial resolution not suitable for precision agricultu...

Land Use Information is a key dataset required to enable an understanding of the changing nature of our landscapes and the associated influences on natural resources and regional communities. The Victorian Land Use Information System (VLUIS) data product has been created within the State Government of Victoria to support land use assessments. The p...

There is a demand for regularly updated, broad-scale, accurate land cover information in Victoria from multiple stakeholders. This paper documents the methods used to generate an annual dominant land cover (DLC) map for Victoria, Australia from 2009 to 2013. Vegetation phenology parameters derived from an annual time series of the Moderate Resoluti...

Measuring different indicators of production and soil health over the long term will help build a picture of soil health and productivity across the landscape. This paper examines the potential contribution of satellite imagery to this area. This investigation undertook a very long time series analysis of Landsat imagery (approximately 40 years) an...

There is a demand for regularly updated, broad-scale, accurate land cover information in Victoria from multiple stakeholders. This paper documents the methods used to generate an annual dominant land cover (DLC) map for Victoria, Australia from 2009 to 2013. Vegetation phenology parameters derived from an annual time series of the Moderate Resoluti...

Soil moisture is monitored regularly by several satellites, but the observation depth is only 10-20 mm, whereas to be useful for agricultural management an estimate is required for the root zone. Eight prediction algorithms, 5 derived from an exponential filter and 3 from regression models, were compared on data from 4 sites in southern Victoria to...

The purpose of this study was to begin to explore the relationships between Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) NDVI observations with both measured and simulated above ground biomass (AGB), fractional green cover (FGrC), and leaf area index (LAI) for wheat in Victoria. These initial comparisons of MODIS NDVI with both measurement...

The objectives of this research were to develop a MOD13Q1 EVI based land cover classification protocol to generate a land cover map of Victoria and evaluate the accuracy of this map. In 2009, an extensive geographically stratified random sampling design was constructed and undertaken across the whole state. Twenty-three MOD13Q1 EVI image products w...

The availability of the USGS Landsat archive, which spans nearly 40 years, has presented many opportunities for land cover mapping [1]. This study aimed to develop an approach using the USGS Landsat archive to produce land cover maps which could be used to assess changes in land cover over time. The study area was located in the Wimmera region of n...

The Victorian Land Use Information System (VLUIS) produces an annual land information product for the state of Victoria. It comprises three important characteristics of land information: tenure (ownership), use (property type), and cover (physical surface). The land cover component is created using a remote sensing approach. Using MODIS EVI 16-day...

Lessons of the past show that care for the soil is fundamental to the rise and sustainability of agrarian civilisations. The responsibility for this care devolves to individual farmers, land managers and investors in agricultural production, all of whom are, by default, soil custodians. Soil condition is affected by land use practices; understandin...

The ability of the current range of information sources and tools to support policy development and program monitoring is dependent on access to current and comprehensive land use and land management information. However, one of the major problems with these tools and frameworks is lack of access to current, reliable and repeatable land use and lan...

The aim in this project was to develop and pilot a method for classifying landholders into segments (that is, groups such that landholders exhibiting similar characteristics are in the same group, while landholders exhibiting different characteristics are in different groups) and to spatially map those segments. The expectation was that such a meth...