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NRM & Local Government Planning Support Tool, Western Australia
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The NRM & Local Government Planning Support Tool focuses on providing locally relevant best planning practices for land use and development types in the Southern Region of Western Australia, and links to resources to support implementation of the best practices. Initially the focus is on rural residential/smallholding development and vineyards but will be expanded to other uses and development types over time. The support tool is based on a wiki or collaborative website which has been "seeded" with content through the a register or database of support material, together with hot links to live website with additional / current information and spatial products. This means that the content is easily updated and expanded. As it is a wiki, registered users can easily comment on the content and add suitable material where gaps may exist.

Peel-Harvey Decision Support System Biodiversity Toolbox

A decision support tool for biodiversity related issues.

Marxan
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Decision support for reserve system design. It finds reasonably efficient solutions to the problem of selecting a system of spatially cohesive sites that meet a suite of biodiversity targets. Given reasonably uniform data on species, habitats and/or other relevant biodiversity features and surrogates for a number of planning units Marxan minimizes the cost while meeting user-defined biodiversity targets. Ball, I. R. and H. P. Possingham, (2000)

SPIF - Scenario Planning and Investment Framework
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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

YieldProhphet

Yield Prophet® is a web enabled user interface to the cropping system simulator APSIM, a mathematical model of crop growth developed by the Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU).It is  designed to provide grain growers with real-time information about the crop during growth. To assist in management decisions, growers enter inputs at any time during the season to generate reports of projected yield outcomes showing the impact of crop type and variety, sowing time, nitrogen fertiliser and irrigation.

Yield and N Estimation for dryland cropping

Potential yields are defined by the amount of water made available to a crop. However, actual yield is often constrained by factors such as inadequate nutrition, disease or subsoil constraints dryland agriculture in southern Australia. The balance between availability of water and nitrogen has been shown to impact significantly on yield, grain quality and efficient use of resources. To help farmers achieve this balance, a simple spreadsheet model was developed for estimating potential yield and nitrogen fertiliser requirements.

Wetup

For trickle irrigation systems to deliver improved water and nutrient use efficiency, distance between emitters and emitter flow rates must be matched to the soil's wetting characteristics and the amount and timing of water to be supplied to the crop. Broad soil texture ranges are usually the only information related to soil wetting used in trickle system designs. WetUp allows calculation of wetting pattern dimensions for 29 individual soils covering a wide range of textures and soil hydraulic properties.

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.