A list of background documents, presentations and workshop outcomes can be found here.

published work

M Soto-Berelov, M., Haywood, A., Suarez, L., Jones, S., Wilkes, P., Stone, C., Woodgate, W., Mellor, A. A review of the forest characterisation framework for large areas using remote sensing. Submitted to Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science.

Suarez, L., Wilkes, P., Woodgate, W., Jones, S.D., Haywood, A., Soto-Berelov, M., Mellor, A. Large area assessments of Australian woody vegetation. Multi-phase approach from the selection of descriptors to full attribution. Submitted to Australian Forestry.

Phil Wilkes, Simon D. Jones, Lola Suarez, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew K. Skidmore. Mapping canopy height over a regional area with two-stage sampling using airborne LiDAR and multispectral imagery. Submitted to Remote Sensing.

William Woodgate, Mathias Disney, John D. Armston, Simon D. Jones, Lola Suarez, Michael J. Hill, Phil Wilkes, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor. Quantifying the impact of woody material and within-crown clumping on estimation of forest canopy gap fraction and Leaf Area Index. Submitted to Agriculture and Forest Meteorology.

Phil Wilkes, Simon D. Jones, Lola Suarez, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew K. Skidmore. Using discrete-return ALS for the assessment of vertical canopy structure across diverse forest types. Submitted to Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

2015. Phil Wilkes, Simon D. Jones, Lola Suarez, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew K. Skidmore. Understanding the effects of ALS pulse density for metric retrieval across diverse forest types. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 81 (8), doi: 10.14358/PERS.81.8.33

2015. Woodgate, W., Jones, S.D., Suarez, L., Hill, M.J., Armston, J.D., Wilkes, P., Soto-Berelov, M., Haywood, A., Mellor, A. (2015). Understanding the variability in ground-based methods for retrieving canopy openness, gap fraction, and leaf area index in diverse forest systems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 205(0), 83-95. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.012 

2015. Held, A., Phinn, S., Soto-Berelov, M., Jones, S. Introduction. In AusCover Good Practice Guidelines: A technical handbook supporting calibration and validation activities of remotely sensed data products. Edited by Alex H., S. Phinn, S. Jones and M. Soto-Berelov (in-press).

2015. Soto-Berelov, M, Jones, S, Farmer, E , Woodgate, W. Review of validation standards of Earth Observation derived biophysical products. In AusCover Good Practice Guidelines: A technical handbook supporting calibration and validation activities of remotely sensed data products. Edited by Alex H., S. Phinn, S. Jones and M. Soto-Berelov (in-press).

2015. Schaefer, M.T., Farmer, E., Soto-Berelov, M., Woodgate, W., Jones, S. Validation of LAI and FPAR products. In AusCover Good Practice Guidelines: A technical handbook supporting calibration and validation activities of remotely sensed data products. Edited by Alex H., S. Phinn, S. Jones and M. Soto-Berelov (in-press).

2015. Suarez, L., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Hueni, A., Chisholm, L.A. Vegetation spectroscopy. In AusCover Good Practice Guidelines: A technical handbook supporting calibration and validation activities of remotely sensed data products. Edited by Alex H., S. Phinn, S. Jones and M. Soto-Berelov. (in press).

2015. Suarez, L, Haywood, A, Jones, S, Wilkes, P, Woodgate, W, Soto-Berelov, M, Mellor, A. Australian large area woody vegetation assessment. ANZIF 2015. Beyond tenure. Managing forests across the landscape. 13-15 April 2015, Creswick (Australia).

2014. Wilkes, P., Jones, S.D., Suarez, L., Haywood, A., Mellor, A., Woodgate, W., Soto-Berelov, M., Skidmore, A. Estimating vegetation vertical structure at a regional scale. ForestSat, Riva del Garda, Italy. 4 - 7th November 2014. Forest Poster.

2014. Lola Suarez, Simon Jones, Andrew Haywood, Phillip Wilkes, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew Mellor (2014). Australian large area woody vegetation assessment. Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing Symposium, September 2014, Valencia (Spain).

2014. William Woodgate, Simon Jones, Lola Suarez, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Phil Wilkes, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor. (2014). Australian Woody Vegetation Landscape Feature Generation: a 3D modelling framework for indirect LAI retrieval assessment. Poster presented at the CRC-SI annual conference, Perth, Australia.

2013. Barbara A. Rasaiah, Tim J. Malthus, Chris Bellman, Laurie Chisholm, John Gamon, Andreas Hueni, Alfredo Huete, Simon D. Jones, , Cindy Ong, Stuart Phinn, Chris Roelfsema, Lola Suarez, Philip Townsend, Rebecca Trevithick, Mat Wyatt. Approaches to establishing a metadata standard for field spectroscopy datasets. Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2013), July 2013, Melbourne.

2013. William Woodgate, Mathias Disney, John Armston, Simon Jones, Lola Suarez, Michael Hill, Phillip Wilkes, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor. The impact of sensor characteristics for obtaining accurate ground-based measurements of LAI. The proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2013), July 2013, Melbourne.

2013. Simon Jones, Andrew Haywood, Lola Suárez, Phil Wilkes, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew Mellor, Christoffer Axelsson (2013). Literature review for determining optimal data primitives for characterising Australian woody vegetation and scalable for landscape-level woody vegetation feature generation. CRCSI Project Report, 53 pages, January, 2013. 

2013. Phillip Wilkes, Simon Jones, Lola Suarez, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor, Mariela Soto-Berelov, William Woodgate. MAUP-and-LiDAR derived canopy structure (A CRCSI 2.07 Woody Attribution paper). Proceeding of the 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2013), July 2013, Melbourne.

2013. Phillip Wilkes, Simon Jones, Lola Suarez, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor, Mariela Soto-Berelov, William Woodgate. Derivation of canopy complexity with LiDAR at the landscape scale. Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information Annual Conference, 19-21 November, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2013. William Woodgate, Simon Jones, Lola Suarez, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Phil Wilkes, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor. (2013). P 2.07 Australian woody vegetation landscape feature generation: Ground-based LAI retrieval comparison. Poster presented at the CRCSI annual conference, Christchurch, NZ.

2013. Mariela Soto-Berelov, Simon Jones, Andrew Mellor, Darius Culvenor, Andrew Haywood, Lola Suárez, Phillip Wilkes, William Woodgate, Glenn Newnham. A collaborative framework for vegetated systems research: A perspective from Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2013), July 2013, Melbourne.

2013. Lola Suarez, Simon Jones, Andrew Haywood, Phillip Wilkes, William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Andrew Mellor. Woody vegetation landscape. Woody vegetation landscape feature generation from multispectral and LiDAR data (A CRCSI 2.07 Woody Attribution paper). Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2013), July, Melbourne.

2013. William Woodgate, Mariela Soto-Berelov, Lola Suarez, Simon Jones, Michael Hill, Chris Axelsson, Phil Wilkes, Andrew Haywood, Andrew Mellor. (2013). Representativeness and comparability of ground-based Leaf Area Index measurements across a number of TERN/AusCover study sites. Poster presented at the TERN symposium, Canberra, Australia.

2012. Hueni, A., Chisholm, L., Suarez, L., Ong, C., Wyatt, M. Spectral Database Development for Australia. Proceedings of the Geospatial Science Research Symposium GSR2, December 2012, Melbourne. ISBN: 978-0-9872527-1-5.

2012. Suárez, L., Youngentob, K., Jones, S., Soto-Berelov, M., Wilkes, P., Axelsson, C., Woodgate, W., Haywood, A., Mellor, A. A field sampling protocol for foliage chemistry assessment: Applicability over varied forest sites in Australia. GSR2, December 2012, Melbourne. ISBN: 978-0-9872527-1-5.

2012. Axelsson, C., Jones, S., Haywood, A., Suarez, L., Wilkes, P., Woodgate, W., Soto-Berelov, M.,Mellor, A. Key attributes for monitoring and assessing Australian forests: a land management perspective. GSR2, December 2012, Melbourne. ISBN: 978-0-9872527-1-5.

2012. Woodgate, W., Soto-Berelov, M., Suarez, L., Jones, S., Hill, M., Wilkes, P., Axelsson, C., Haywood, A., Mellor, A. Searching for an optimal sampling design for measuring LAI in an upland rainforest. GSR2, December 2012, Melbourne. ISBN: 978-0-9872527-1-5.

2012. Wilkes, P., Jones, S., Suarez, L., Haywood, A., Soto-Berelov, M., Mellor, A., Axelsson, C., Woodgate, W. Deriving metrics of vertical structure at the plot level for use in regional characterisation of S.E. Australian forests. GSR2, December 2012, Melbourne. ISBN: 978-0-9872527-1-5.

roadshows and presentations

Roadshow Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth from June – November 2014

Workshop in Melbourne, August 2014

Workshop in Canberra, February 2013