Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150103135

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150103135

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Seeing the good from the trees: remotely sensing the urban forest. Urban forests provide a range of ecosystem services including temperature regulation and rainfall capture, but measuring these benefits is currently prohibitively costly and inaccurate. This project aims to develop a new model of urban forest ecosystem services that uses remotely sensed three dimensional data to map canopy cover. A model using this data, which is being collected by an increasing number of governments, represents a novel advance on the established methodology that requires expensive and time-consuming fieldwork. The advancements expected to be made in this project will mean that environmental planners will be able to better plan the urban forest so that cities are more liveable and resilient in the face of climate change.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 10-03-2015

End Date: 30-06-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $274,326.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Land Use and Environmental Planning | Urban and Regional Planning |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Urban and Industrial Land Management | Urban Land Policy | Forest and Woodlands Land Management

Other Keywords

Forest and Woodlands Land Management | Land Use and Environmental Planning | Urban Land Policy | Urban and Industrial Land Management | Urban and Regional Planning

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