Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984586

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984586

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Active-passive microwave soil moisture remote sensing: Towards sustainable land and water management from space. Soil moisture is a highly critical resource for the Australian agricultural economy which is stressed by climate change. Daily monitoring of paddock scale soil moisture from space represents a powerful tool to inform land management, allowing accurate crop yield and pasture growth predictions. At the continental scale, soil moisture information will result in better weather, climate and extreme flood prediction skill and the ability to assess the effects of future climate change on Australia. It is therefore imperative that active-passive soil moisture retrieval algorithms be developed specifically for the Australian environment in order to take full advantage of the SMAP remote sensing mission when it is launched in 2012.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $540,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Environmental Engineering Modelling | Farm Management, Rural Management And Agribusiness | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change | Field crops | Land and water management |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Environmental Engineering Modelling | Farm Management, Rural Management And Agribusiness | Field crops | Land and water management | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Surfacewater Hydrology

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