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Environmental Reporting Tool

This is a service provided by the Australian Government that allows the user to find out what evironmental assets of national significance are in a certain area. This includes identification of threatened species, important wetlands, heritage sites, pollutant emissions and more.

Peel-Harvey Decision Support System Biodiversity Toolbox

A decision support tool for biodiversity related issues.

SPIF - Scenario Planning and Investment Framework

SPIF is a GIS-based decision support tool designed for extension staff and NRM planners. Outputs include maps and spreadsheets with a summary of the multiple growth, carbon sequestration, biodiversity and economic benfits from different types of forest systems. Functions: - Target where to grow within a catchment or on a farm for growth and carbon sequestration; salinity reduction, reduced water impacts and biodiversity enhancement. - Assess the merits revegetation plan design and expectations, comparing multiple forestry scenarios and measuring outcomes. - Measure the growth rates and economic return from different planting designs on your property/estate. - Compare the water use / benefit tradeoffs for water, carbon, biodiversity, economics from different forestry and traditional farm enterprise*. Geographies: Data are available for SW Goulburn Broken and Corangamite CMA region in Victoria at 1 hectare (100x100m) resolution and at 1KM for the entire Australian continent after March 2008. Access: - February 2008: via web on Google Earth - Now: on CD charlie.hawkins@csiro.au (0438429280) * Subject to data availability

TT.1 Targets Tool

TT.1 is an interactive spatial decision support system developed to assist the catchment planning process in NSW. It should be universally applicable although it has not been tested in other areas. Provide decision support for spatial planning at catchment scale, in particular, spatial allocation of investment to achieve natural resource management targets.

TOPOG

Predict the effect of management decisions on water, sediment, nutrient and pesticide yields with reasonable accuracy on large, ungauged river basins. TOPOG is a terrain analysis-based hydrologic modelling package. TOPOG describes how water moves through landscapes; over the land surface, into the soil, through the soil and groundwater and back to the atmosphere via evaporation. Conservative solute movement and sediment transport are also simulated.

Spatialise

Spatialise is a spatial multi-criteria analaysis system. It can be used to answer questions such as:

  • Where to prioritise which environmental actions
  • Siting production systems in the landscape
  • Prioritising energy and water options
South Australian Biodiversity Assessment Tool (SABAT)

The South Australian Biodiversity Assessment Tool (SABAT) uses a GIS database and functions to allocate a Biodiversity Significance Score (BSS) to a patch of native vegetation or revegetation.

Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)

Predict the effect of management decisions on water, sediment, nutrient and pesticide yields with reasonable accuracy on large, ungauged river basins. SWAT is a public domain model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, Texas, USA.

Social and Demographic Analyses

Social and demographic analyses uses existing data to examine and describe social and socio-economic characteristics of regional communities and resource industries. It displays the results as a GIS format. To identify links between resources and communities, resources, people and industry and predict the impact of change in resource use on the community and industry.

Risk Assessment, Prioritisation and Understanding Process (RAPUP)

The Risk Assessment, Prioritisation and Understanding Process (RAPUP) uses local and expert knowledge and readily available GIS technology to structure decision making around priorities. It allows sub-catchment groups to assess the impacts of their actions and to understand and visualise what is happening in their local catchment.