Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0776483

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0776483

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Assisted GPS and Advanced Positioning For Emergency Services. Many volunteers have lost their lives fighting bushfires in Australia. Fires are becoming more numerous and more fierce. Some of those firemen could have been saved if better information was available: where they were, where the firefront was and how it was progressing. This project aims to save lives by solving part of this problem: locating and reporting the position of the remote firefighter by making GPS work reliably under trees. This will also make search and rescue operations safer and more efficient. The technology can transfer readily into the location-based services market which is set to boom in the next decade. This project helps maintain momentum in Australia's world-class but small positioning industry.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-09-2009

End Date: 29-09-2012

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $153,762.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Navigation And Position Fixing | Radio Communications And Broadcasting Not Elsewhere Classified | Geomatic Engineering |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other | Communication equipment not elsewhere classified

Other Keywords

Communication equipment not elsewhere classified | Geomatic Engineering | Navigation And Position Fixing | Other | Radio Communications And Broadcasting Not Elsewhere Classified

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