Research reports, journal articles and completed postgraduate theses - there are new publications online this month at the CRC.
This month, several new CRC research publications have become available on the website, including research reports, journal articles and completed postgraduate theses.
CRC reports
The annual report of the CRC, Highlights and Achievements + a year in review 2018-2019, provides a high-level reflection of the sixth year of the CRC with a look at some of the key moments of 2018-2019.
Dr Vinod Kumar, Dr Imtiaz Dharssi and Paul Fox-Hughes from the Bureau of Meteorology have written an annual report for the CRC project Improving land dryness measures and forecasts. The research has developed a prototype, high-resolution soil-moisture analysis system called JASMIN, which is a significant improvement in accuracy compared to currently used models.
Dr Alan March and Dr Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes from the University of Melbourne have written an annual report for the CRC project Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation. The project aims to produce new and innovative ways of integrating urban planning and natural hazard risk management.
The journal article Behaviour around floodwater: challenges for floodwater safety and risk communication by A/Prof Mel Taylor (Macquarie University), Dr Matalena Tofa (Macquarie University), Dr Katharine Haynes (University of Wollongong), Joshua McLaren(New South Wales State Emergency Service), Peter Readman, Diana Ferguson, Sasha Rundle and Danny Rose. The research from the CRC project Flood risk communication is published in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management. It discusses challenges to floodwater safety and risk communications and some approaches being taken to address them.
A Method for Validating the Structural Completeness of Understory Vegetation Models Captured with 3D Remote Sensing was published in Remote Sensing. The research by Samuel Hillman, Luke Wallace, Dr Karin Reinke, Dr Bryan Hally, Prof Simon Jones and Daisy Saldias (RMIT University) presents work under the CRC project Fire surveillance and hazard mapping which seeks to optimise the use of earth observing systems for active fire monitoring by exploring issues of scale, accuracy and reliability, and to improve the mapping and estimation of post-fire severity and fuel change through empirical remote sensing observations.
Constanza Gonzalez Mathiesen, Prof Alan March Justin Leonard, Mark Holland and RaphaeleBlanchi (University of Melbourne) published the article Urban planning: historical changes integrating bushfire risk management in Victoria in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management. The work is from the CRC project Urban planning and resilience to bushfires, which aims to contribute to understandings of ways of improving spatial planning capacity to identify, mainstream and change over time based on new considerations about bushfire risk management.