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03 June 2008
Geospatial Science Receives Two ARC Linkage Grants
A visualisation of street scape in Barwon Heads. Image courtesy of William Cartwright.
Two Geospatial Science research projects have been successful in the recent round of Australian Research Council Linkage (ARC-L) funding. The grants awarded to Geospatial Science are two of only seven ARC-L grants awarded to RMIT University.
These projects are among only three in the field of Geomatic Engineering which will receive funding (the other is based at the University of Melbourne). The two projects will receive funding amounting to $536,322 and $76,880 respectively, plus additional partner organisation cash contributions.
The project titled “Geo placed Knowledge: developing a methodology for provisioning stakeholders in natural environments management with integrated media tools” will be conducted in collaboration with Parks Victoria. The objectives of this research are to employ the concept of a geo knowledge tool to construct a virtual geographical information repository. It will build and evaluate the effectiveness of a Web delivered GeoKnowledge tool to facilitate better access to (geo) information about the nation. It will develop 'rules' for guiding the design of content, information prospecting support, data mining and interface access within the context of a contemporary atlas. Finally, it has an underlying goal to understand the complexities of provisioning and providing a Web delivered tool that can be employed by multi disciplinary teams for understanding geographical information about national parks throughout Australia.
This project will be conducted by Professor William Cartwright and Associate Professor Colin Arrowsmith along with Dr Laurene Vaughan and Dr. Brian Morris from Applied Communication.
Global climate change and its associated risks are serious issues because the resultant storms, fires, floods, droughts and cyclones are weather events affecting Australia. However, the predictability of such phenomena is seriously limited due to sparse atmospheric sensor distribution. The project titled “Based Radio Occultation for Atmospheric Sounding, Weather Forecasting and Climate Monitoring in the Australian Region”, conducted in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), will investigate new space borne and ground-based radio occultation techniques, atmospheric sounding technologies and their fusion to overcome such constraints. This project is dedicated to developing superior national capabilities in anticipating, analysing and investigating critical meteorological threats to Australia. This research will significantly upgrade Australia's meteorological services and contribute to the global community.
This project will be conducted by Associate Professor Kefei Zhang, Dr Falin Wu, Professor Chris Rizos (UNSW), Dr S Lim (UNSW), Professor J Lee Marshall (BoM), Dr A Rea (BoM) and Dr Y Kuleshov (BoM).
Congratulations to everyone involved.