Felix Lipkin

Mobile Field Data Collection for Post Bushfire Analysis and African Farmers

In recent years CSIRO has been trialling field data collection using mobile devices such as phones and tablets. Two recent tools that have been developed by CSIRO are the CSIRO Surveyor (Post Bushfire House Surveyor) and DroidFarmer. Challenges tackled include mapping field documents to mobile data through QR (Quick Response) codes, rapid input of survey data, accurate capture of GPS locations and offline operation. Throughout this paper we detail the design choices made for these systems. We give details of how well field data collection was performed and discuss our planned future developments in this space.

Automatic Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Images for Urban Form Assessment

A system for generating information for an urban inventory by analysing remotely sensed or ground based sensed images is described. The urban inventory contains information about all land parcels in an urban area and the information is stored in a GIS database. The analysis system uses the semi-hierarchical multiresolution MCV image labeling algorithm and ensemble SVM classifiers to detect building footprints, trees and other urban land cover classes. The system has high accuracy for building footprint and tree detection on the data on which it has been tested.