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Natural Resource Management

Incident Channel & State Mobile Radio Networks

Client: Fire Management, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria

The State Mobile Radio (SMR) Network consists of 97 locations and the Incident Channel (IC) Network of 51 locations across Victoria. These sites form the communications backbone of emergency response in the State of Victoria and are used by many agencies (SMR only) involved in emergency management. The Fire Management Branch of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) utilises this network of receivers to coordinate fire management activities.

Having obtained radio propagation models for each receiver, Fire Management had a need to publish this data as a set of information products compatible with their existing information distribution systems and the NRE Corporate Geospatial Data Library (CGDL). The challenge was to integrate the individual datasets to produce a Victoria - wide composite of maximum signal strength dataset and to identify which of the receiver stations “heard” that signal strength.

Spatial Vision developed a suite of integrated datasets from radio receiver strength information modelled for the individual radio network sites. The data was developed from signal propagation models for each site and supplied in ASCII grid format with a nominal cell resolution of approximately 83x83 metres.

Fire Management used the State-wide dataset for planning overviews, and as such the raster information product outputs were further generalised to 250 metre cell resolution. The spatial datasets were provided as ArcInfo GRID and ArcView Shape files.

Demonstrated Capabilities

Data integration and development
Data transformation and enhancement
Development of automated integration procedures

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Resources

Milos Pelikan implemented all aspects of this project.

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Technologies Applied

ArcInfo GRID
ArcView
Adobe Acrobat PDF

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Resources - Natural Resource Management Websites

National Land and Water Audit The National Land and Water Audit provides data, information and nationwide assessments of Australia's land, water and biological resources to support sustainable development.

Australian Natural Resources Atlas The Australian Natural Resources Data Library. The place to look for natural resources data and information about that data

Department of Sustainability and Environment - Land Management Victoria's approaches to land management including references to the Catchment Management Authorities.

ASRIS
Australian Soil Resource Information System (ASRIS) provides online access to the best publicly available information on soil and land resources in a consistent format across Australia.

NSW Catchment Management Authorities An overview of Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) have been established across the State by the New South Wales Government.