Impact summary
Living Coast project - Earth Observation for coastal areas in countries including Australia, Wales and Papua New Guinea.Beneficiaries
Governments, policy makers, third sector organisations and communities in Australia, Wales and Papua New Guinea.Other information
Geoscience Australia (in 2019) recognised the potential of the Living Earth approach for monitoring the landscapes of Australia from time-series of 30 m spatial resolution Landsat sensor data and, following a pilot study, provided funding to AU and Plymouth Marine Laboratory to develop and implement nationally. Working alongside the Living Wales project, the framework was implemented by the research team within the Open Data Cube, with this provided annual maps of land cover (1988-2020) for the Australian continent and islands. In the Living Coasts project, the team have worked with Geoscience Australia on developing and designing capacity for mapping of land/water covers in the intertidal and sub-tidal zones of Australia and internationally and identifying potential data sets (e.g., intertidal elevation) and algorithms (e.g., for seagrass mapping) for use in the project.Dr. Chris Owers is funded through CSIRO on the Living Coasts project and employs Chloe Fitzpartrick on the project. They have been developing python code for implementing the Evidence Based Change Framework to quantify change in land cover and environmental descriptors, annually and sub-annually and have contributed significantly to the development of coastal land monitoring in Papua New Guinea through CSIRO's EASI Open Data Cube Platform. Prof. Richard Lucas and Dr. Carole Planque (PI and Data Scientist on the Living Coasts project) have been designing the approach to detecting change based on evidence of impacts and driving pressures.
Geoscience Australia provided initial funding for the implementation of Living Earth (from 2018-2020) and have continued to develop the system in-house for national application. Staff has also been in at least fortnightly contact with the Living Coasts team, who have also been hosted by Geoscience Australia for meetings, discussions and workshops (in 2023 and 2024).
In Living Coasts, they have continued to provide data layers and information/insight into the mapping and monitoring of coastal (including intertidal and subtidal) landscapes and have proactively engaged with the science and application. Geoscience Australia have also promoted the use of the Earthtrack mobile application for map product validation and have been involved in previous and forthcoming publications and worked alongside CSIRO in the project.
Impact status | Open |
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Impact date | 2023 |
Category of impact | Civil Society, Policy and legislation |
Related content
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Activities
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Presentation given at Living Coasts - Bangor University 2024
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Invited to present at Living Coasts Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Festival of Tomorrow - Climate Citizens and Climate Action – Choose Our Future Together
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Presentation on Living Earth (including components of EO4AgroClimate) to Geoscience Australia (2023)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Living Coasts Geoscience Australia 2023
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
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Living Coasts Workshop 2024 at University of Wollongong
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
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Presentation hosted at Living Coasts EO Implementation Group Meeting 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Living Coasts Geoscience Australia 2024
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
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Presentation at Living Coasts James Cook University 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Living Coasts Review EO4AgriClimate Perth 2024
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, Seminar, or Course
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Research outputs
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A globally relevant change taxonomy and evidence-based change framework for land monitoring
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Operational continental-scale land cover mapping of Australia using the Open Data Cube
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Living Wales: Automatic and routine environmental monitoring using multi-source earth observation data
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (Non-Journal item)
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Projects
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EO4AgroClimate Living Coast
Project: Externally funded research