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The NRM Spatial Hub A tool to support on-farm adoption
Carbon Farming Futures Conference, Sydney Nov’ 2016
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• A partnership of over 20 organisations facilitated by 2 years of NLP funding (‘til June 2016), led by the Rangelands NRM Alliance and managed by the CRCSI.
• An easy to use on-line solution for mapping, assessing and monitoring properties
• Putting 25 yrs of Remote Sensing and GLM science to work using the latest cloud computing on on-line mapping and analysis technologies
• Stage 1 demonstration on 40 properties was completed in June 2016 and extended to over 300 properties.
• Stage 2 (‘til June 2017) is now being supported by the Rangelands NRM Alliance Regions, MLA, AWI, CRCSI and QLD Remote Sensing Centre
An Introduction to the Hub
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Current Demonstration Properties (Sept, 2016)
On-property training and extension workshops
User stories
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Infrastructure Mapping
• Access to commercial high res’ imagery
• Massive $ savings
• Easy to use tools
• Produces nationally standardised data
• Comprehensive database model inc: infrastructure, topographic, transport, cultural et.al features
• Time to move forward from Google Earth
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Asset Registers and reporting
• Detailed report on every property asset captured
• Ability to generate asset register and depreciation schedules for property valuation
Category Type Name Built Date Data Source
Asset Identifer
Capacity(litres)
Capacity(gallons) Status Duration of water
Livestock drinking source Funded by Comment Latitude Longitude
Latitude DMM Longitude DMM
Livestock Yards House Yards N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A -24.2965 146.6711
24° 17.789' S 146° 40.264' E
Water Dam Currajong Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.3872 146.7742
24° 23.229' S 146° 46.451' E
Water Dam Quartpot Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.3863 146.7504
24° 23.179' S 146° 45.023' E
Water Dam Duck Creek Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.3648 146.7714
24° 21.890' S 146° 46.286' E
Water Dam Middle Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.3596 146.7526
24° 21.578' S 146° 45.155' E
Water Dam Napunya Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 0 N/A -24.3328 146.744
24° 19.967' S 146° 44.638' E
Water Waterhole Refuge Hole N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.3084 146.7273
24° 18.506' S 146° 43.640' E
Water Dam McDonalds Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.2871 146.7562
24° 17.225' S 146° 45.370' E
Water Dam 11 Mile Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.2642 146.7437
24° 15.851' S 146° 44.621' E
Water Dam Ray's Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.2984 146.7867
24° 17.903' S 146° 47.205' E
Water Waterhole Rainmore Hole N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.2901 146.8004
24° 17.407' S 146° 48.026' E
Water Dam Gap Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 0 N/A -24.2506 146.7124
24° 15.037' S 146° 42.742' E
Water Water trough N/A
Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.2472 146.721
24° 14.834' S 146° 43.259' E
Water Dam 6 Mile Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.2315 146.7058
24° 13.889' S 146° 42.347' E
Water Dam 5 Mile Dam N/A Satellite imagery N/A N/A N/A Permanent Permanent 1 N/A -24.213 146.6901
24° 12.778' S 146° 41.407' E
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Land Type and Vegetation Mapping
• State integrated land types/veg for each state
• Managers can rename for local use
• Report issues
• Tools for creating/editing linework
• Provide the basis for carrying capacity assessment
• Can be used for CEA development
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Water and impact on production
• Calculate the net grazable area of current infrastructure
• Run scenarios
• Plan and cost new water
• Understand impacts on production and profits
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Infrastructure Planning • Plan the location
of new water
• Use the DEM to estimate rise and fall
• Calculate the length of pipe
• Export to GPS to ground-truth pipelines
• Turns days of work into hours
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Safe Carrying Capacity Tool
• Brings the GLM elements together
• Land type CC
• Watered area
• GLM Land Condition score for each paddock
• Calculates Paddock CC based on
• Current condition,
• Current water
• Potential in A condition
• Potential fully watered
• What’s the gap between current and potential?
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Standardised maps and reports
• Cartographic quality map.
• Tabular reports: on assets, paddock and land type areas, distance from water and carrying capacity
• Massive costs and time-savings for extension staff and property managers
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World Leading Remote Sensing Science • Methods and algorithms are based on ~20 yrs of development
by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program and TERN Auscover partners and others
• QLD Remote Sensing Centre, the Joint Remote Research Program, TERN Auscover and Geoscience Australia have been critical to the Hub’s development.
• Validated using ~2500 systematically collected field sites across all states/territories, and under continuous improvement
• When algorithms are revised the entire archive is re-processed
• National standard for collection
• Several hundred sites already in WA.
• The most recent publication for ground cover is the report prepared for reef you can download
https://publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/ad30c88c-185d-4d9a-9971-69968f958a70/resource/350aeffd-ff8f-4876-a12f-7eb8d4e6f991/download/coverundertreesreportrp64gfinal.pdf
• There's a list of relevant publications on the metadata pages for ground cover and fractional cover at
http://data.auscover.org.au/xwiki/bin/view/Product+pages/Landsat+Seasonal+Fractional+Cover
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Ground Cover – Seasonal Status
• National coverage every 16 days @ 25m resolution since 1987
• The “general punter” could never access the data.
• Land manager can report on changes in fractional cover or fractional ground cover for the last ~30 yrs
• Report on any spatial unit: property, paddock, land types, user defined
• Export to a table
• Takes ~10 secs on a flakey mobile phone connection
Spring 2014 Spring 2014 Autumn 2015
Winter 2015 Spring 2015
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Reporting on the Impacts of Investment in TGP Fencing
Autumn 2010 Autumn 2012 Autumn 2013
Autumn 2014 Autumn 2015 Winter 2015
(Total Grazing Pressure)
TGP Fence
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Property Benchmarking
• Land manager can benchmark changes in cover on any spatial reporting and benchmarks: property, buffer, paddock, land types, user defined
• Export to a table
• Takes ~30 secs on a mobile phone connection
• Sharing code with FORAGE and VegMachine
• This examples compares the property with the surrounding area.
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Paddock Benchmarking
• Land manager can benchmark changes in cover on a: property, buffer, paddock, land types, user defined area
• Export to a table
• Takes ~30 secs on a mobile phone connection
• Sharing code with FORAGE and VegMachine
• This graph shows how the highlighted paddock (blue) compares to the paddock above over time.
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Pasture Cover and Growth
• Select any period.
• This e.g. is all months of 2015
• Rank persistence of cover for every pixel on the property
• What’s the growth variability?
• What’s the utilisation variability?
• What’s the standing biomass?
• What can I do about it?
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Monthly Ground Cover Reporting
An area near Morven,
Qld in June 2015. The
red areas have more
than 50% bare ground
Processing EVERY new
Landsat Scene every
month.
Still in BETA
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Drought and Condition Assessment • Ranking of total
ground cover for the current season relative to the same season back to 1987
• This example is the 2015 Spring compared to all Springs back to 1987
• Red-orange is the lowest 20% of spring cover back to 1987
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Regional Benchmarking and “Portfolio” Reporting
• Reporting on ground cover
• Benchmarking within and between properties and projects
• Regional reporting on project and program performance
• Quantify the impacts of management and practice change
• Commencing the dev’ of a dedicated regional reporting module in Aug.
• Setup a quarterly report that gets automatically produced.
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Recent User Surveys – The Benefits
• 90% of respondents said they found the Hub easy to use.
• 95% said the Hub has the potential to measurably improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of their property.
• More than 50% felt the Hub would save them between 10 and 30 labour days a year.
• 75% said it would measurably increase safe carrying capacity through better pasture utilisation.
• 72% rated this type of technology as important to making their business both viable and sustainable in the future.
The survey also revealed that about half the respondents considered their properties to be around 50% developed. They could conservatively increase annual revenue by more than 35% through improved pasture utilisation and increased stocking rates. This increase does not include the improvements in property value, risk management and labour savings that would also result.
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Future Application Development
• Pasture biomass and budgeting
(79%)
• Integration with paddock record
keeping systems (74%)
• Land Condition Assessment (inc.
more advanced methods, monitoring
sites and photo points) (72%)
• Improved land typing (67%)
• Drought Assessment (65%)
• Biodiversity planning and
management (58%)
• Carbon and ecosystem services
(54%)
• Land valuation (51%)
• Biosecurity including pest and weed
management (49%)
• Fire planning 37%
(feedback from land managers)
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“Digital Farm Map” – Farmer Coop
Integration with Farm management software
Bottom-up MERI and contribution to SOE Reporting
A new pathway for bringing state and national investments in ICT, data and science to property managers
Integration of biodiversity information into property plans
Community engagement and awareness
Supporting Supply chains, tracing and consumer confidence
Forage budgeting, animal science, property level drought assessments etc
Carbon Trading Ecosystem Services markets
Biosecurity Fire and Emergency Management
Weather and climate information
Banking, due diligence and insurance
Infrastructure planning
Supporting Leasehold lands renewal & compliance
A digital farm is a key enabler
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Thanks for your time
www.nrmhub.com.au Phil Tickle – Program Manager, CRCSI
Stage 1 of the Hub was supporting by funding from the Australian Government and Meat & Livestock Australia, as well as the following patners.
