Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities - Grant ID: LE0882509

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LE0882509

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

High resolution airborne radar for environmental research: soil moisture, vegetation, salinity and terrain mapping. There is a rapidly increasing demand for a range of environmental data. For example, information on soil moisture status is required for efficient and sustainable water use. Moreover, irrigation practices and large scale clearing have led to serious land degradation through increased salinity from rising water tables. Combined soil moisture and salinity measurement will provide important insight to this complex issue. Further, understanding the complex and rich biodiversity of Australian flora and its adaptation to droughts and fire is essential to ensuring Australian ecosystem longevity. Knowledge of flora changes through time as a function of soil moisture content and salinity is key to gaining this understanding.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2008

End Date: 06-2010

Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

Funding Amount: $400,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Terrestrial Ecology | Surveying | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Land and water management |

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