The Digiscape Future Science Platform: what’s new in agtech?
Date
20 August 2019
Time and Venues
Venues |
Local Time |
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Adelaide Waite Campus – B101-FG-R00-BoardWICWest |
12:00 pm |
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Armidale – B55-FG-R00-Small |
12:30 pm |
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Bribie Island – B01-FG-Small |
12:30 pm |
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Brisbane St Lucia QBP – Rooms 5.281 and 2.234 |
12:30 pm |
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Canberra Black Mountain – Discovery Lecture Theatre |
12:30 pm |
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Irymple (See Natalie Strickland) |
12:30 pm |
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Narrabri B03-FG-R00-ATCA |
12:30 pm |
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Perth Floreat B40-F1-R46-Rossiter Room |
10:30 am |
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Sandy Bay (Hobart) – B2 F1 R22 Forest View Room |
12:30 pm |
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Toowoomba – Media Lab Room |
12:30 pm |
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Townsville (see Liz Do) |
12:30 pm |
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Werribee (Melbourne) – Peacock Room |
12:30 pm |
Speaker
Andrew Moore, Leader, Digiscape Future Science Platform
Synopsis
Digiscape is one of CSIRO’s ten Future Science Platforms (FSPs). FSPs are part of wider strategy to shift CSIRO’s portfolio of work toward more ambitious efforts that carry higher risk, and to draw on capacities across the Organization. The intent of the Digiscape FSP is to harness the digital revolution for Australian farmers and land managers.
In this talk, Andrew will
- give an update on our work to build a series of tools that combine monitoring and forecasting technologies in order to enable better decisions in important parts of the Australian land sector (grains, aquaculture, high-value irrigated crops, the GBR hinterland and GHG mitigation)
- provide an introduction to Senaps-LAND, the platform of software, information, computations and principles that underpins Digiscape
- suggest some ways in which Senaps-LAND might be re-used across CSIRO’s research and development in the land sector
- reflect on what Digiscape participants have been learning about making “digital+domain” a reality
About the speaker
Andrew Moore leads the Digiscape Future Science Platform. Andrew started his scientific career as an ecologist, studying plant-animal interactions in the South Australian arid zone and then building and analysing simple models of vegetation dynamics at the ANU. His focus shifted from natural to agricultural ecosystems when he joined CSIRO in the far-off days of 1989, to build a grassland model that became part of the GRAZPLAN decision support tools. In addition to the application of mathematical models to agricultural decision-making, Andrew’s research interests include integrated crop-livestock systems and understanding the interactions between provisioning services and other ecosystem services in farming lands. He is based at the Black Mountain precinct.
This is a public seminar.
Open-access to The CSIRO Discovery Theatre @ Black Mountain