December 2011
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Title
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P0045 Environmental Informatics for the Development of Landscape Scale Monitoring and Modelling
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Australian $
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$349,780
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Chinese $
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In-kind
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Duration
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20 months
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Key Chinese Agencies
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Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, the Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center
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Australian Contractor
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CSIRO/Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences
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Status
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The main project has been completed. An extension on dam break has commenced in August 2011.
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Objectives
The project is to develop environmental monitoring and modelling using Remote Sensing for Chinese nature reserves as well as to develop dam-failure flooding simulation and forecasting systems for China.
It has synergies with another proposal that was recently funded under the ACEDP, the joint application by Australia’s Southern Cross University and the Qinghai Forestry Bureau an ‘Establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) methodology for Forestry Ecological Program in Qinghai to Support National Level Policy Decision Making Using Multiple Criteria Analysis Tools’ project.
Key Activities / Components
1. Water resource modelling and monitoring in the Three Gorges area
2. Environment monitoring in Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve by remote sensing, GIS, and GPS
3. Mixed sensor systems for estimating 'Land Use and Land Use Change in Forestry' ( LULUCF) China
4. The development of a China Dam-break flooding simulation and forecasting system
Contribution to ACEDP Program Outcomes
The project will contribute to the ACEDP two policy outcomes. Specifically, it will provide a scientific base for the national decision makers in environment protection and disaster management and has the potential to strengthen linkages and policy dialogue among Australian and Chinese research institutions.
Highlights
With the main project being completed, we are now running the simulations needed for the final deliverables of the Dam Breaking extension project with a final report due in January 2012. Four Staff from SASMAC visited CSIRO between 21st October to 18th November 2011. The aim of the visit was to set up and run simulations of dam break scenarios for the Sanwan Reservoir chosen from the field trip in September.
A final workshop is scheduled for 16 February 2012.