UNE’s App. Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre - Special Achievements

Written By Catherine James

Background

Over the past 2 years the University of New England’s Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing (AARSC) team have achieved many successful outcomes. These projects have significantly raised industry awareness amongst agricultural agencies with programs having been adopted commercially and receiving national and international recognition, while simultaneously encouraging collaboration and engagement across industry divisions and Government.

Achievements

  • AARSC announced as winners of the Australian Earth Observation Best Research Team

  • James Brinkoff (Associate Professor) recognised by Google as one of the most influential researches

  • Global industry keynote presentations relating to World Avocado congress (NZ) and Agricultural Technology (Florida)

  • Mapping individual commodities at the national and international level

  • Crop health, Yield forecasting via ‘time series’ and calibration tree methodologies including the development of the ‘CropCount’ minimum viable product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-59n25QHoHk)

  • Development of applied remote sensing short courses for high school students to increase industry awareness and provide guidance on using freely available imagery sources and processing software

  • Academic publication of new and novel methodologies

  • Creation and delivery of spatial remote sensing specific education material that inspires the next generation or enables the current one

  • Initiating national and international collaboration for the improved utilisation of remote sensing products and technologies

Products

  • The Australian Protected Cropping Map dashboard

  • The Queensland Soybean Map dashboard

  • The Australian Tree Crop Map (ATCM) dashboard

  • Real-time remote-sensing based monitoring for the rice industry

  • Yield forecasting of all New South Wales sugarcane crops (Sunshine sugar)

  • Mapping and yield forecasting of South African macadamia (South African Macadamia SAMAC)

  • Mapping of South African pecans (South African Pecan Nut Producers Association SAPPA)

  • Yield forecasting and aflatoxin monitoring of Peanut (3 peanut shellers United States)

  • Delivering remote sensing short courses to Catholic Colleges Parramatta in term 4 2022 (year 9 students)

Acknowledgements

  • Earth Observation Australia

  • NSW Government - Department of Planning and Environment

  • University of Queensland

  • National and International collaboration and recognition

    • ESRI

    • MAXAR

    • NCLUMI

    • Ugandan Worldbank, Ministry of Agriculture and Bureau of statistics

    • South African Macadamia SAMAC

    • Sunshine sugar

    • COSTA citrus and avocado orchards

    • COALAR funded project with ProCitrus

To find out more

Contact

Andrew Robson -            andrew.robson@une.edu.au ; aarsc@une.edu.au;

James Brinkhoff -            james.brinkhoff@une.edu.au

Craig Shephard -              craig.shephard@une.edu.au

Links

Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre

Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre - University of New England (UNE)

Industry Web Applications and Maps

Industry Web Applications and Maps - University of New England (UNE)

Catherine James
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