Earth Observation

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Barbara Harrison has worked with remote sensing data and Earth Observation applications since the early 1980s. Her recent experience as a partner at Digital Concepts includes:

  • Author and senior editor of Australian series of tertiary textbooks entitled Earth Observation: Data, Processing and Applications (10 of the 11 sub-volumes are now freely available from https://www.eoa.org.au/earth-observation-textbooks);
    • Earth Observation: Data Earth Observation: Processing Earth Observation: Applications
  • Part of study team for CEODA-R&D report (Continuity of Earth Observation Data for Australia: Research and Development Dependencies to 2020) (CSIRO, 2012); and
  • Preparation of the CEODA-Ops report (Continuity of Earth Observation Data for Australia: Operational Requirements to 2015 for Lands, Coasts and Oceans (Geoscience Australia, 2011).

Her previous employment in Earth Observation includes:

  • Senior Research Fellow at University of Wollongong (Harrison, B.A., and Bradstock, R.A. (2010) Current Use of Remote Sensing to Map and Monitor Fire in Australia. CERMB Report for NSW Rural Fire Service.); and
  • Senior Experimental Scientist at CSIRO Division of Water Resources where Barbara worked as part of the microBRIAN team in the roles of software developer, applications specialist and science writer (Harrison, B.A., and Jupp, D.L.B. (1989) Introduction to Remotely Sensed Data: Part ONE of the microBRIAN Resource Manual. CSIRO, Melbourne. 156p; Harrison, B.A., and Jupp, D.L.B. (1990) Introduction to Image Processing: Part TWO of the microBRIAN Resource Manual. CSIRO, Melbourne. 256p.).