Associate Professor John Louis
BSc PhD FAustMS
Associate Professor in Mathematics
Office Location
Room: 302
Building: 01
Mailing Address
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga
NSW 2678
Australia
Telephone:+61 2 6933 2543
Fax: +61 2 6933 2080
Email: jlouis@csu.edu.au
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Brief Biography
A/Professor John Louis has extensive research and teaching background in physical oceanography, mathematical & statistical modelling and agricultural & environmental remote sensing applications. He was the foundation director of the Spatial Analysis Research Network (SPAN) within Charles Sturt University and in recent years focused his research in the development low cost imaging systems and their application to precision agriculture and environmental modelling. He has over 45 scientific publications, has peer reviewed articles for international journals, been a member of two CRC’s, has successfully supervised and examined doctoral research programs and has had a significant role in research grants & consultancies (1990 – 2006) totalling over $2m .
Research Focus
Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Multispectral Airborne Video System, Mathematical & Statistical Modelling in Agricultural, Environmental & Hydrology Applications.
Teaching Responsibilities
Mathematics
Course Coordinator BSc [Mathematics major]
Administrative Responsibilities
Sub Dean, Mathematics & Statistics
Faculty Board
Faculty Research Committee
Faculty Courses Committee
Professional Activities
Referee For International Journals
International Journal of Remote Sensing
Australian Journal of Grape & Wine Research
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Series B
Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
New Zealand Journal of Marine Freshwater Research
Journal of Physical Oceanography
Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
Internal reviewer for CSIRO
Society Membership
Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society (1997)
Awards
Awarded the 2005 John I Davidson prize for the best practical paper in the international journal, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)
Consultancies
- NSW Agriculture Research Consultancy, 1999-2000, $11,000
Statistical Analysis of RiceCheck Database
- Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 2003, $10,000
Initial Sensitivity Analysis of the Murray Flow Assessment Tool (MFAT)
Selected Publications
[1] |
Buckley, D.J., Anderson, G.A., Louis, J.P. and Vizard, A.L, 2007, Using Utility Score Curves to Assess the Economic Value and Utility of Fetal Nuchal Translucency Thickness Screening for Trisomy 21, American Journal of Epidemiology, (Submitted) |
[2] |
Dehaan, R., Louis, J., Wilson, A., Hall, A. and Rumbachs, R, 2007, Discrimination of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus sp. Agg.) using hyperspectral imagery in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia. ISPRS J. Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, (In Press) |
[3] |
Delves, T., Weedon, M. and Louis, J. , 2007, Modelling Winery Refrigeration Efficiency , Proceedings, 13th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Adelaide, 28 July – 2 August 2007 |
[4] |
Hall, A. and Louis, J. , 2007, Vineclipper: a proximal search algorithm to tie GPS field locations to high resolution vine imagery , Proceedings, 13th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Adelaide, 28 July – 2 August 2007. |
[5] |
Hall, A., Louis, J. and Lamb, D.W, 2007, Evaluating the relative contributions of grapevine canopy area and grapevine canopy NDVI to LAI of mechanically-pruned grapevines using high spatial resolution remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment (Submitted) |
[6] |
O’Neill, C. J., Humphreys, E., Louis, J. and Katupitiya, A. , 2007, Comparison of sprinkler, sub-surface drip and furrow irrigated maize in southern NSW, AJEA (Submitted) |
[7] |
Ciavarella, S., Blakeney, T., Batten, G., Bowman, A., Louis, J. & Rumbachs, R., 2006, Remote Sensing of Nitrogen in Rice Crops, 12 th Australian Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference, 9 th – 10 th May 2006, Roclhampton, Queensland, Australia. |
[8] |
Edmonds, T., Lunt, I.D., Roshier, D.A. and Louis, J., 2006, Annual variation in the distribution of summer snowdrifts in the Kosciuszko alpine area, Australia, and its effect on the composition and structure of alpine vegetation. Austral Ecology, Austral Ecology, 31, 837-848. |
[9] |
Hall, A. and Louis, J. (2006) , 2006, A Proximal Search Algorithm to Tie GPS Field Locations to High Resolution Vine Imagery , 13th Australasian Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Conference, Canberra. |
[10] |
Kemp, M., Louis, J., Hall, A., Bramley, R. , 2006, The Effect of Topographic Corrections on Trellis Crop Data , 13th Australasian Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Conference, Canberra. |
[11] |
Mount, N.J. and Louis, J., 2005, Estimation and propagation of error in measurements of river channel movement from aerial imagery. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 30(5), pp. 635-643 |
[12] |
Rowbotham, D., De Scally, F and Louis, J., 2005, The Identification of Debris Torrent Basins Using Morphometric Measures Derived Within A GIS. Geografriska Annaler, 87 A (4), pp 527-537. |
[13] |
Wootton, I.H., Louis, J., Bedgood, D., Grant, W. and Held, A., 2005, Orchard Scan: Mapping and extracting detailed information from high spatial multispectral images. Proceedings of SSC 2005 Spatial Intelligence, Innovations and Praxis, The national biennial Conference of the Spatial Sciences Institute, September, 2005, Melbourne, pp 582 – 591. Spatial Sciences Institute. ISBN 0-9581366-2-9 |
[14] |
Delves.T, Weedon. M, and Louis. J., 2004, Ananysis of heat loads and optimisation of refrigeration systems for wineries. ICEF9 International congress on engineering and food, conference proceedings CD ROM. Le Corum, Montpellier, 7 - 11 March, 2004. |
[15] |
Edirisinghe, A., Louis, J. and Chapman, G., 2004, Potential for Calibrating Airborne Video Imagery using Pre-flight Calibration Coefficients. Photogrammetric Engineering. & Remote Sensing Vol. 70, No 5, pp. 573 - 580. |
[16] |
Hall, A., Holzapfel, B., Lamb, D., Louis, J. and Smith, J., 2004, Precision viticulture: monitoring and managing vineyard variation with remote sensing. Quality management in Horticulture and Viticulture. 7th Int. Symp. on Technology Application in Hort- and Viticulture, Stuttgart, Germany, p 213-224, May 10-11 |
[17] |
Hall, A., Lamb, D.W., Louis J., and Holzapfel, B., 2004, Remotely Sensed Grapevine Canopy Descriptors: Relationships with Fruit Composition and Yield. Proceedings, 12th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Melbourne. |
[18] |
Lamb, D.W., Bunganaen, Y., Louis, J.P., Woolsey, G.A., Oliver, R.L. and White, G., 2004, Fibre evanecent field absorption (FEFA): an optical fibre technique for measuring light absorption in turbid water samples. Marine and Freshwater Research, 55, 533-543 |
[19] |
Lamb, D.W., Hall, A. and Louis, J., 2004, Airborne and satellite remote sensing of grapevines for vineyard management. Does image resolution matter? Proceedings, 12th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Melbourne. |
[20] |
Lamb. D., Hall. A., Louis. J., Frazier, P., 2004, Remote sensing for vineyard management. Does size really matter? The Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker, Annual Technical Issue, 139-142. |
[21] |
Rowbotham, D., de Scally, F., Louis, J. and Altas, I, 2004, Using Morphometric Measures Calculated from a DEM to Identify Debris Torrent Basins, Canadian Association Geographers Annual Meeting, Moncton N.B., May 2004 |
[22] |
Frazier, P., Page, K., Louis, J., Briggs, S. and Robertson, A., 2003, Relating river flow to wetland inundation using Landsat TM data. Int. J. Rem. Sens., Vol. 24, No. 19, pp. 3755 - 3770. |
[23] |
Frazier, P., Page, K., Louis, P. and Briggs, S., 2003, Effects of regulation on the wetland inundation regimeof the Murrumbidgee River, NSW. Ecological Society of Australia Conference, UNE, Armidale, December 15 - 19. |
[24] |
Gill, T. Dalgarno, B. and Louis, J., 2003, Developing a Reusable VRML Prototype for the Web-Based Simulation of Boiling Liquids. Journal of Graphics Tools (submitted). |
[25] |
Hall, A., Louis, J. and Lamb, D., 2003, Chacterising and mapping vineyard canopy using high-spatial-resolution aerial multispectral images. Computers & Geoscience, Vol 29/7 pp 813-822. |
[26] |
Louis, J . and Read, A , 2003, Initial Sensitivity Analysis of the Murray Flow Assessment Tool (MFAT) Report to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission Living Murray Initiative, August 2003. |
[27] |
Mount, N.J., Louis, J.P., Teeuw, R.M., Zukowskyj and Stott, T. , 2003, Estimation of Error in Bankfull Width Comparisons from Temporally Sequenced Raw and Corrected Aerial Photographs, Geomorphology, 56(1), 65 - 77. |
[28] |
Rowbotham, D., de Scally, F., Altas, I. and Louis, J., 2003, The use of DEM and GIS derived morphometric measures to identify debris torrent basins; presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, May 2003, University of Victoria. |
[29] |
Altas, I., Louis, J. and Yazici, A., 2002, An Analysis of a Web Forum in Distance and Face To Face Teaching of a First Year Mathematics Subject. 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, July 1-6, 2002. |
[30] |
Hall, A., Lamb, D.W., Holzapfel, B. and Lous, J. , 2002, Precision Viticulture; Airborne vineyard monitoring, presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Wine & Grape Industry Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, June 2002. |
[31] |
Hall, A., Lamb, D.W., Louis J., and Holzapfel, B., 2002, Optical remote sensing applications in viticulture - a review. Aust J. Grape & Wine Res., 8(1) 37-47. |
[32] |
Jellett, D, Louis, J. & Lamb, D., 2002, Correction of Bidirectional Reflectance in Remotely Sensed Vegetation Images. 38th Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) Conference, Canberra, ACT, 2-6 February 2002. |
[33] |
Edirisinghe, A, Chapman, G. and Louis, J., 2001, Radiometric corrections for multispectral airborne video imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering. & Remote Sensing, 67(8):915-922. |
[34] |
Edirisinghe, A, Chapman, G. and Louis, J., 2001, A simplified method for retrieval of ground level reflectance of targets from airborne video imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1127-1141. |
[35] |
Hall, A. Louis J.P. and Lamb, D.W., 2001, A method for extracting detailed information from high resolution multispectral images of vineyards. Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Geocomputation, September 24 - 26, 2001 (GeoComputation CD-ROM, ISBN 1864995637, Ed. D.V. Pullar), University of Queensland, Brisbane. 9 pp. |
[36] |
Hall, A., Lamb, D.W., Louis J., and Holzapfel, B., 2001, Airborne vinyard monitoring. Proceedings, 11th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Adelaide, Australia. |
[37] |
Lamb, D., Hall, A. and Louis, J., 2001, Airborne remote sensing of vines for canopy variability and productivity. Australian Grapegrower & Winemaker 449a, 89-92. |
[38] |
Lamb, D.W., Hall, A. and Louis, J.P., 2001, Airborne/spaceborne remote sensing for the grape and wine industry. Proceedings 5th National Conference on Geospatial Information & Agriculture, Incorporating Precision Agriculture in Australasia, Sydney pp. 600-608. |
[39] |
Louis, J ., 2001, Mathematics Teaching: Distance Education Techniques & Maple. 37th Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) Conference, Barossa Valley, South Australia, 3-7 February 2001. |
[40] |
Louis, J ., 2001, What do Mathematicians do? Daily Advertiser, 29 May 2001 |
[41] |
Louis, J ., Ellem, B and McDonald, S., 2001, A Statistical assessment of the ricecheck database, Farrer Centre Consultancy Report, Charles Sturt University. |
[42] |
Louis, J.P. , 2001, Spatial Sciences at CSU: Future Directions, A short review & strategic plan, Faculty of Science & Agriculture, Charles Sturt University, 23pp, May 2001. |
[43] |
Spackman, S., Lamb, D.W, Louis, J. & McKenzie, G., 2001, Remote sensing as a potential precision farming technique for the Australian rice industry. Proceedings National Conference on Geospatial Information & Agriculture, Incorporating Precision Agriculture in Australasia, 5th Annual Symposium, Sydney, 403-405. |
[44] |
Frazier, P., Page, K., Briggs, S., Louis, J. and Robertson, A., 2000, Relationships between flows and floodplain inundation. Murrumbidgee 2000. Wagga Wagga. 18-19 July 2000. |
[45] |
Frazier, P., Page, K., Louis, J. & Robertson, A., 2000, Relating River Flow to Wetland Inundation on the Mid-Murrumbidgee River Using Landsat TM Data. Workshop on Remote Sensing of Wetland Inundation: Workshop WS5 held in conjunction with the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference, Adelaide, August 20, 2000. |
[46] |
Frazier, P., Page, K., Louis, J., Briggs, S. and Robertson, A., 2000, Remote sensing of floodplain inundation: A case study on the Murrumbidgee River . 9th Australia and New Zealand Geomorphology Group Conference. Wanaka, 11-15 December 2000. |
[47] |
Lamb D.W., Spackman S., Louis J., McKenzie G., Black S. & Medway J., 2000, Forecasting Yield in Rice Using Remote Sensing and Crop Growth Models. 2000 Symposium on Australian Research & Application of Precision Agriculture, University of Sydney, 4th August, 2000. |
[48] |
Lamb, D., Spackman, S., Louis, J. Black S. and Medway J., 2000, Using airborne multispectral digital imagery of rice crops to refine nutrient prescription models. 4th International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition. |
[49] |
Livingston, B., Frazier, P. & Louis, J.P., 2000, Remote Sensing of Riverine Water Bodies. Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, Australia, August 21-25, 2000. pp.1119 - 1123 |
[50] |
Louis, J ., 2000, Mathematics Teaching: Distance Education Techniques & Maple. Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) ACT Branch Meeting, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Campus, Friday 8th December 2000. |
[51] |
McKenzie, G.L., Louis, J.P. & Lamb, D.W., 2000, Design and Calibration of a Multispectral Airborne Digital Imaging System (MADIS). Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, Australia, August 21-25, 2000, pp.312 - 318 |
[52] |
Spackman, S., Lamb, D., Louis, J., Black, S. and Medway, J., 2000, Using multispectral digital imagery to manage within-paddock variability in rice production. Remote Sensing in Agriculture Conference, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 26-28 June 2000. |
[53] |
Spackman, S., McKenzie, G., Lamb, D. and Louis, J., 2000, Retrieving biophysical data from airborne multispectral imagery of rice crops. Proceedings, Geoinformation For All, XIXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16 - 23 July 2000, International Archives of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, B7, pp. 1447-1451. |
[54] |
Spackman, S.L, Lamb, D.W., Louis, J., 2000, Using multispectral digital imagery to manage within paddock variability in rice production. Asp. Appl. Bio. (Eds R.J. Bryson, W. Howard, A.E Riding, L.P. Simmonds, M.D. Steven), Association of Applied Biologists, 60: 99-106. |
[55] |
Spackman, S.L., McKenzie, G.L., Louis, J.P. & Lamb, D.W., 2000, Using Multispectral Digital Imagery to Extract Biophysical Variability of Rice to Refine Nutrient Prescription Models. Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, Australia, August 21-25, 2000. pp.431 - 436 |
[56] |
Edirisinghe, A., Louis, J. and Chapman, G., 1999, Radiometric calibration of multispectral airborne video. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 20, No. 14, pp. 2855 - 2870. |
[57] |
Louis, J , Ellem, B. and McDonald, S., 1999, RiceCheck Preliminary Assessment Report. Farrer Centre Consultancy Report, Charles Sturt University. |
[58] |
Louis, J.P. , 1999, Mathematics & Statistics at CSU: Future Directions, A short review & strategic plan, Faculty of Science & Agriculture, Charles Sturt University, 21pp, October 1999. |
[59] |
Spackman, S., Lamb, D. and Louis, J., 1999, A Birdseye view of Rice Yield Variability. Australian Grain, Vol 9, No 5, pp viii -ix. |
[60] |
Chisholm, L. and Louis, J., 1998, Forest moisture stress determination using pixel unmixing and multispectral imagery. Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 20-24 1998. Vol 1, Paper 94, pp. 3104 - 3113. |
[61] |
Edirisinghe,A., Louis, J. and Chapman,G., 1998, Estimation of Path and Environmental Reflectance From Calibrated Multispectral Airborne Video Data. Proceedings of the 9th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 20-24 1998, Vol 1, Paper 5, pp. 1701 - 1710. |
[62] |
Louis, J. and Page, K., 1998, Are HSC Mathematics & Science in Decline. Aust. Math. Soc. Gazette, Vol 25, Number 2, pp 93-97. |
[63] |
Chisholm, L. and Louis, J., 1997, Investigation of multispectral techniques for discrimination of forest moisture stress. Toward 2000 Conference, Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Australia, July 1997. |
[64] |
Louis, J. , Tillman,P. and Altas, I., 1997, Integration of MapleV with the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum. Symposium on Modern Undergraduate Mathematics "What can we do to improve learning?", Brisbane, Australia, 24 - 26 November 1997 |
[65] |
Altas, I., Louis, J., Moore, R. ,Rezny, M. and Belward, J., 1996, A Variational Image Enhancement Algorithm on Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) Environment. Jour. of Math. S., Vol 7, No 1, 53-63. |
[66] |
Bossomaier, T., Gates, B., Green, D., Louis, J. and Moore, W., 1996, Geographic Information Systems at Charles Sturt University. AKCLIS Workshop, Sydney, July 18-19, 1996. |
[67] |
Lamb, D. and Louis, J., 1996, The Development & Application of an Airborne Video System for Resource Management. Proceedings of the 8th Australiasian Remote Sensing Conference, Canberra, March 25-29. |
[68] |
Louis, J.P. and Lamb, D., 1996, Airborne Video in the Riverina: A Case Study, Workshop on Remote Sensing in Agriculture: Some Recent Applications of Remote Sensing Technology in Agricultural Land Use. 8th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference, Canberra, March 25, 1996. |
[69] |
Altas, I., Louis, J. and Belward, J., 1995, A Variational Approach to the Radiometric Enhancement of Digital Imagery. IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 4 (6), 845-849. |
[70] |
Dass, C.R., Nichol, A.W., Harden, T.J., Angel, L. and Louis, J.P., 1995, Growth Inhibition of Streptococcus salivarius subspecies thermophilus by Activation of the Lactoperoxidase Antibacterial System. Australian Society for Microbiology, Annual Meeting, Canberra, September 1995. |
[71] |
Louis, J.P ., 1995, Statistical Calibration of Multi Spectral Air Video Data. Conference on Decision Support Systems for Farming, NSW Agricultural Research Institute, Wagga, 9 August 1995. |
[72] |
Louis, J.P. , Lamb, D., McKenzie, G., Chapman, C., Edirisinghe, A., Mc Leod, I. and Pratley, J., 1995, Operational use and Calibration of Airborne Video Imagery for Agricultural & Environmental Land Management Applications. Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference on Colour Photography and Air Videography, American Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, Terre Haute, Indiania, 1- 3 May 1995, Ed P.W. Mausel (ASPRS: Bethesda, MD, USA), 326 - 333. |
[73] |
Nichol, A., Dass, C., Harden, T., Angel, L. and Louis, J., 1995, Self-induced inhibition of growth of Streptococcus salivarius variant thermophilus by activation of the lactoperoxidase system. Aust. J. of Dairy Technol. 50, 41-46. |
[74] |
Altas, I., Rezney, M., Louis, J., Burrage, K., Moore, R. and Belward, J., 1994, A new image enhancement algorithm on MasPar and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) Environment. Proceedings of the International EUROSIM Conference on Massively Parallel Processing, 21-23 June 1994, Delft, Holland. |
[75] |
Altas, I., Louis, J., Fellows, G., and Tsang, P., 1993, Internet: A new Initiative in Teaching Parallel Processing. Proceedings of 5th Annual Convention and Conference, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 12-15 December 1993, Auckland, New Zealand, Ed R.M. Sharp and H. Silyn-Roberts, pp. 290-296. |
[76] |
Louis, J.P. and Altas, I., 1993, Decorrelation of Multispectral Imagery using Variational Minimisation Techniques. Australian Pattern Recognition Society, 2nd Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 8-10 December 1993, Sydney, Australia, Ed. K.K. Fung and A. Ginige, pp.587-593. |
[77] |
Louis, J.P. and Altas, I., 1993, A Variational Approach to Histogram Modification. 29th Australian Applied Mathematics Conference, Adelaide, 7-11 February 1993. |
[78] |
Van Der Rijt, V., Louis, J., Cregan, P., Dare-Edwards, A., Pratley, J., and McKenzie, G., 1993, Plant Canopy Spectral Responses from Field Trials; A Component of the Airborne Video Imaging Project. CCF/CIA Data Report. |
[79] |
Altas, I., Belward, J. and Louis, J., 1992, A Variational Approach for the Histogram Modification of an Image. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Transputer and Occam User Group Conference, 4-5 November 1992, Melbourne, Australia, IOS Press, 1993, pp. 1-6. |
[80] |
Louis, J.P ., 1992, Applications of Low Cost Airborne Video to Australian Agriculture. From Satellite to you Seminar, NSW Agriculture, Orange, 27 October 1992. |
[81] |
Louis, J.P. and Dare-Edwards, A.J., 1992, Integrated Airborne Video and GIS Farm Management Systems. Conference on Decision Support Systems for Farming, NSW Agricultural Research Institute, Wagga, 20-22 July 1992. |
[82] |
McKenzie, G. L., and Louis, J.P., 1992, Low Cost Airborne Video Systems, Conference on Decision Support Systems for Farming. NSW Agricultural Research Institute, Wagga, 20-22 July 1992. |
[83] |
McKenzie, G., Dare-Edwards, A., Louis, J., Van Der Rijt, V., and Pratley, J., 1992, Applications of Low-Cost Airborne Video Technology to Australian Agriculture. Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Remote Sensing Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 2-6 November 1992. |
[84] |
Ryall, G. J., and Louis, J.P., 1992, Development of GIS Technology for Farm Management. Conference on Decision Support Systems for Farming, NSW Agricultural Research Institute, Wagga, 20-22 July 1992. |
[85] |
Van Der Rijt, V., Pratley, J., Louis, J.P., and Cregan, P., 1991, Remote sensing for farm management. Centre for Conservation Farming Workshop, CSU-Riverina, August 1991. |
[86] |
Louis, J.P ., 1990, Computer Maps for Farmers. Daily Advertiser, 14 April 1990. |
[87] |
Louis, J.P ., 1988, Current-Shelf interactions during the Australian Coastal Experiment. Aus. J. Mar. Freshwater Res.,40, 571-585. |
[88] |
Louis, J.P. , and Clarke, D.J., 1986, Exact edge wave solutions for some generalised exponential shelf topographies. J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. B 27, 316-326. |
[89] |
Louis, J.P ., 1985, Generation of Topographic waves by direct ocean forcing. Australian Applied Mathematics Conference, Launceston, Tasmania, 3-7 February 1985. |
[90] |
Louis, J.P. , and Smith, P.C., 1982, The Development of the Barotrophic Radiation Field of an Eddy over a Slope. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 56-73. |
[91] |
Louis, J.P. , Petrie, B.D., and Smith. P.C., 1982, Observations of topographic Rossby Waves on the Continental Margin off Nova Scotia. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 47-55. |
[92] |
Louis, J.P. , and Smith, P.C., 1981, Eddy Radiation Fields. Meeting of Australian Physical Oceanographers, CSIRO. Cronulla, 2-5 March 1981. |
[93] |
Louis, J.P ., 1979, Observational evidence for low frequency topographic motions over the Scotian slope and rise. 2nd informal workshop on the oceanography of the Gulf of Maine and adjacent seas, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 14-17 May 1979. |
[94] |
Smith, P.C. , and Louis, J.P., 1979, Low frequency currents and Gulf Stream interactions at the shelf break. General Assembly, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Canberra, Australia, 2-15 December 1979. |
[95] |
Louis, J.P ., 1978, Low frequency edge waves over a trench-ridge topography adjoining a semi-infinite coastline. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 9, 229-239. |
[96] |
Clarke, D.J. and Louis, J.P., 1976, Edge waves over an exponential continental shelf in a uniformly rotating ocean. Dt. Hydrogr. Z., 18 (4), 168-179. |
[97] |
Louis, J.P. , and Radok, J.R.M., 1975, Propagation of Tidal Waves in the Joseph Bonapart Gulf. J. Geophys. Res., 80 (12), 1689-1690. |
Research Project Supervision
Remote Sensing, Image Processing, applied mathematical & statistical modelling applications.
Current Research Students
Mark Weedon |
PhD |
Optimisation of Winery Refrigeration Systems |
Jacqui Watt |
PhD |
Seasonality of Flows |
Ingrid Wooten |
PhD |
Remote Sensing of Olives |
Chris O’neill |
PhD |
Irrigation Scheduling |
Adrian O’Connor |
Masters |
Non Linear Regression & Evolutionary Computing |
Rod Rumbachs |
Masters |
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of N in Rice Crops |
Grants
- National Priority (Reserve) Fund, 1990-1991, $168,500
Curriculum Developments in Agricultural Production / Environmental Management - National Priority (Reserve) Fund, 1991-1992, $267,500
Development of Novel Techniques for Low-Level Land Imagery as a Management Tool for Sustainable Agriculture - ARC Infrastructure C, 1992, $100,000
Regional Geographic Information System (REGIS) - ARC Infrastructure C, 1993, $100,000
Regional Geographic Information System (REGIS) - Stage 2 - ARC Infrastructure C, 1994, $600,000
Collaborative grant with UNSW and others - CRC Rice, 1999 - 2001, $90,000
Using Airborne Multispectral imagery in rice production. - CRC Viticulture, 2000 – 2002, $90,000
Remote Sensing applications in Viticulture - SPIRT Grant, 2001-2003, $95,619
The Development of a Procedure to Optimise the Parameters of a Winery Refrigeration System - CRC Viticulture, 2003 – 2006, $840,442
Precision Viticulture – Making sense of vineyard variability - RIRDC, 2003 – 2006, $228,263
NIR to enhance precision crop management - GRDC, 2003 – 2008, $402,213
SIP09 Precision Agriculture Initiative - RIBG, 2006, . $80,000
A sensor to extend CSU’s precision agriculture and other field research capabilities into the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. A.Prof John Louis, Prof Graeme Batten, Prof Geoff Scollary & Dr Remy Dehaan - Improved Seasonality of Flows through Irrigation Demand Management and System Harmonisation CRC for Irrigation Futures – Total Budget $730,392 Cash Component $210,000 over two years Key Players: S Khan, A. Katupitya ,C. Allan, A. Curtis, J. Louis, F. Viera CSU Hydrologist (to recruit).
