STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Karin Reinke
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Phone:
+61399250422
Email:
karin.reinke@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research interests
- Spatial data quality, uncertainty and issues of scale
- Vegetation assessment and monitoring using remote sensing and GIS
- Wild/Prescribed fire management applications using remote sensing and GIS
Primary supervisor
- PhD, 'Remote sensing of vegetation response to prescribed burning in a grassy dry forest of south-eastern Australia', Current student
- Masters by Coursework, 'Determination of NSC in C4 pastures through spectroscopy', Current student
- Masters by Coursework, 'GIS design for cultural assets and values in a changing landscape', Current student
- Masters by Coursework, 'Modelling tea-tree (Leptospermum laevigatum) distribution in Wilson’s Promontory National Park', Current student
- Masters by Coursework, 'A rapid assessment approach for estimating solar photovoltaic capacity of roof tops', Completed 2012
- Masters by Coursework, 'Newnes Plateau high altitude swamp monitoring using an unmanned aerial vehicle', Completed 2012
Secondary supervisor
- PhD, 'Validating the TET-1 satellite sensing system in detecting and characterizing active fire ’hotspots', Current student
Editor
- Jones, SD & Reinke, KJ (eds.) 2009, Innovation in Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Springer, Berlin, Germany.
Theses
- Reinke, KJ 2002, 'Communicating Thematic Uncertainty in Spatial Databases', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne.
- Reinke, KJ 1996, 'The use of GIS in understanding the flight behaviour of wandering albatross', MAppSci thesis, The University of Melbourne.
Semester 1
- ENVI1096/1098 - Resource Management 1
Semester 2
- ENVI1100/1125 - Resource Management 2
- ENVI1192/1193 – Environmental Sustainability
Semester 1
- ENVI1096/1098 - Resource Management 1
Semester 2
- ENVI1100/1125 - Resource Management 2
- ENVI1192/1193 – Environmental Sustainability
- Bachelor of Applied Science, Deakin University, Australia
- Master of Applied Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Grad Cert in Tertiary Teaching and Learning, RMIT, Australia
- Interpretation Ranger, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Wilson’s Promontory National Park)
- GIS Officer, Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (Melbourne)
- Spatial Analyst, Bureau of Resource Sciences (Canberra)
- GIS Consultant, Geomatic Technologies (Melbourne)
- Spatial Analyst, Department of Sustainability and Environment (Melbourne)
- Chatzopoulos Vouzoglanis, K.,Reinke, K.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Jones, S. (2023). One year of near-continuous fire monitoring on a continental scale: Comparing fire radiative power from polar-orbiting and geostationary observations In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 117, 1 - 13
- Engel, C.,Jones, S.,Reinke, K. (2022). Fire Radiative Power (FRP) Values for Biogeographical Region and Individual Geostationary HHMMSS Threshold (BRIGHT) Hotspots Derived from the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) In: Remote Sensing, 14, 1 - 9
- Chatzopoulos Vouzoglanis, K.,Reinke, K.,Soto-Berelov, M.,Engel, C.,Jones, S. (2022). Comparing geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite sensor estimates of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) during the Black Summer Fires (2019-2020) in south-eastern Australia In: International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31, 572 - 585
- San Martin Saldias, D.,Aguayo, L.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,McLennan, B. (2022). Perceptions of land use and land cover analysed using geospatial data In: Applied Geography, 146, 1 - 10
- Valenzuela Quinteros, A.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2022). A new metric for the assessment of spatial resolution in satellite imagers In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 114, 1 - 19
- McGlade, J.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2022). The potential of low-cost 3D imaging technologies for forestry applications: Setting a research agenda for low-cost remote sensing inventory tasks In: Forests, 13, 1 - 27
- Bergado, J.,Persello, C.,Reinke, K.,Stein, A. (2021). Predicting wildfire burns from big geodata using deep learning In: Safety Science, 140, 1 - 12
- Hillman, S.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2021). A comparison between TLS and UAS LiDAR to represent eucalypt crown fuel characteristics In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 181, 295 - 307
- Engel, C.,Jones, S.,Reinke, K. (2021). Real-time detection of daytime and night-time fire hotspots from geostationary satellites In: Remote Sensing, 13, 1 - 18
- Taneja, R.,Hilton, J.,Wallace, L.,Reinke, K.,Jones, S. (2021). Effect of fuel spatial resolution on predictive wildfire models In: International Journal of Wildland Fire, 30, 776 - 789
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Current Supervisions5 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
Spatial analysis and animal telemetry, issues of spatial data quality, uncertainty and scale in environmental information, remote sensing and analysis of vegetation condition and wildfire.
- Soil Carbon Research. Funded by: Grantham Foundation Grant from (2023 to 2025)
- Real time fire analytics. Funded by: SmartSat CRC from (2021 to 2024)
- Remote sensing of fuel to improve fire behaviour predictions in Mallee and Heathy shrublands (Candidate: Simeon Telfer). Funded by: CRC for Bushfires Scholarship from (2021 to 2024)
- Using earth observation to better understand the effects of aerial firefighting (Project code: BSF02). Funded by: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Contract from (2021 to 2021)