Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100200

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140100200

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Characterising changes in Australia’s vegetation for biomass monitoring, carbon accounting and fire hazard mapping. To reduce the uncertainties in estimating and predicting vegetation biomass and to aid in the development of climate change strategies, this project will formulate and explore the first detailed long term aboveground vegetation biomass carbon record for Australia using a series of satellite passive microwave instruments. The spatiotemporal variation in biomass carbon over past decades will be investigated to better understand how it responds to changing climate and human activities. Such information will allow more accurate estimation of future vegetation dynamics and carbon storage. Moreover, an enhanced bushfire danger index that incorporates aboveground biomass information will be developed to more precisely predict the potential damage.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $385,279.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified | Ecological Applications

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Ecosystem Assessment and Management at Regional or Larger Scales | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments |

Other Keywords

Ecological Applications | Ecological Impacts of Climate Change | Ecosystem Assessment and Management at Regional or Larger Scales | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Natural Hazards in Forest and Woodlands Environments | Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified

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