2010-07-08
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Title
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Environmental Informatics for the Development of Landscape Scale Monitoring and Modelling
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Australian $
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$181,616
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Chinese $
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In-kind
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Duration
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12 months
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Key Chinese Agencies
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Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, the Scientific Arm of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping
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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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Has commenced
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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
AusAID and MOFCOM have approved the ADD in April 2010.
The contract was signed between CSIRO and GHD late june 2010.
CSIRO had its first donor network on the subject of flood and landslide disaster forecasting in Beijing 22 June 2010 under the support and coordination of PCO.