Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100572

Funded Activity Summary

MoistureMonitor: A multi-mission soil moisture monitoring system for a water limited future. A long-term soil moisture record for Australia is critical to understanding climate change feedback mechanisms and their impacts on water management. This project will validate, downscale and harmonise soil moisture retrievals from three satellite missions across this decade, each using a new and different low resolution antenna technology and interpretation approach. Moisture Monitor, the framework to deliver this soil moisture record, will be verified using airborne campaigns and hydrological monitoring infrastructure in the Murrumbidgee catchment. Important outcomes will be validation of a new soil moisture satellite and development of a high resolution soil moisture product for improved land and water management and policy for Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 30-06-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $547,515.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Water Resources Engineering | Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Surfacewater Hydrology | Geomatic Engineering |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Weather | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Water Management

Other Keywords

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Water Management | Geomatic Engineering | Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Surfacewater Hydrology | Water Resources Engineering | Weather

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