Urban Monitor: Enabling effective monitoring and management of urban and coastal environments using digital aerial photography

[摘要] This project builds on work from the Urban Monitor initiative, which has established quantitative methods, standards and systems for monitoring urban, peri-urban and coastal environments for natural resource management and planning using digital aerial photography and other data. Though still under development, this potentially includes monitoring changes in: estuarine, river and wetland foreshores; non-irrigated native bush areas; urban canopy cover, irrigation uniformity and efficiency in public and private open space; areas undergoing urbanization; and groundwater dependent vegetation. The products have been used to assess changes in urban land use and likely impacts on hydrology and identifying changes in vegetation presence and condition for land managers.This report describes the generation of spatial information including estimates of ground elevation, heights of features above the ground, vegetation extent and its height. These information were provided in both map and digital formats to agencies engaged in the Strategic Assessment of environmental values in the Perth-Peel region. The purpose of this report is to describe the data and methodology, the information products derived, and the interpretation and use of the products.

[发布日期] 2012-10-06 [发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)