Information will be readily available and integrated in an advanced geographic information system, and available in a variety of thematic forms and media via the Internet, reports, a manual detailing management guidelines, maps and GIS coverag's in formats useful to land users, planners and managers, complemented with field days and workshops. Reference sites for long term monitoring of land condition and to extend information to land managers will be established. Polygon maps of the key areas have been digitised, with aerial photo mosaics as background. Compilation and manipulation of the associated database is underway. A strategy to solve this has been population of more recent and spatially correct vegetation mapping with a land system.
Further validation is required.
Compilation of the lower Balonne DEM has been completed, and analysis is ongoing. Less detailed DEM coverage of the entire study area is ready for use in the modelling process. Investigations of the usefulness of TM in modelling land units has commenced with varying success. One modelling session has been completed as an introduction to fuzzy modelling techniques. Investigations into what soil attributes are important to define various land types is continuing, and linguistic rules for this modelling are being developed.