Projects

Current projects

Digital earth observation based solution for coastal water quality.

Water quality degradation due to climate and anthropogenic changes is a common challenge in both South-East Asian and Australian estuarine and coastal waters.

Inland Water Quality Project

CSIRO has developed an adaptive linear matrix inversion (aLMI) model which can retrieve optically active water quality variables: chlorophyll, non-algal particulates (sediments) and coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM) (Brando et al, 2012).

Coastal outflows

Project title: Coastal outflows. Project Outline: Pollution associated with coastal outflows from estuaries is a threat to biodiversity in NSW […]

Forecasting coastal water quality using earth observations for future resilience

Project Goal: The project will aim to develop a novel water quality forecast model to enable better coastal ecosystem management. This new modelling approach will rapidly integrate large volumes of satellite and in-situ earth observations of climate, terrestrial and ocean parameters in a cloud computing platform to provide coastal water quality forecasts across Australia.

Darkwater Inland Observatory Network (DION)

DION Vision: To contribute quality assurance observations to global calibration and validation efforts, leading to increased fidelity of satellite-derived water […]