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CSIRO scientists are making sure that WA farmers get first hand experience at understanding how science and satellites can tell them about how productive their paddocks are now, have been in the past, and will be in the future.
Scientists from CSIRO's Division of Mathematics and Statistics are attending this year's JERAC Agricultural Science Expo, an annual event organised for Western Australian farmers and scientists to meet and discuss ideas and results of agricultural research.
CSIRO researchers will be sharing their work on remote sensing with local farmers. Farmers will have the opportunity to view their own properties on satellite images and, with the use of computers, can examine in detail how productivity differs between each paddock and even within each paddock.
The researchers will also be there to describe their work on interpreting satellite images to detect areas affected by salinity, waterlogging and wind erosion, all factors that reduce the productivity of agricultural land.
CSIRO scientists are also examining the changing patterns of agricultural land over time, calculating which regions are at risk from the effects of salinity, erosion or waterlogging in the future.
More information on JERAC '95 from:
Dorothy Hurst
On CSIRO's Remote Sensing:
Dr Norm Campbell
Photo opportunities:
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