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A/PROF JEFFREY PHILLIP WALKER



Contact Details

Organization: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND READER
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Homepage: http://www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/autohome/webpage.php3?login=jwalker
Work: 83445590
Mobile: 0413 023 915
Fax: 83446215
Room: 409
Level: 04
Building: Engineering Block D
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering University of Newcastle 31-Dec-1996
Bachelor of Surveying University of Newcastle 31-Dec-1996
Doctor of Philosophy University of Newcastle 31-Dec-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Scaling & Assimilation of soil moisture and stream flow Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 09/10/2002
Gravity changes, soil moisture and data assimilation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
A new airborne facility for environmental, hydrological, atmospheric & oceanic research: high resolution measurement for soil moisture, temperature... Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2004
HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF SURFACE AND ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURE Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING FOR ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING Chief Investigator FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
Quantifying near-surface diffuse discharge from the southwest Great Artesian Basin Chief Investigator SANTOS LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007
MoistureMap: A soil moisture monitoring, prediction and reporting system for sustainable land and water management Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
HIGH RESOLUTION AIRBORNE RADAR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH: SOIL MOISTURE, VEGETATION, SALINITY AND TERRAIN MAPPING Chief Investigator CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY,
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE,
UNIVERSITY OF NSW,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Simple Method to Disaggregate Passive-Microwave-Based Soil Moisture
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 786-796
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  • Assimilation of remotely sensed data for improved latent and sensible heat flux prediction: A comparative synthetic study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment
    Volume: 112
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: ): 1295-1305
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  • The NAFE’05/CoSMOS Data Set: Toward SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval,
    Downscaling, and Assimilation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 736-745
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  • The NAFE'05/CoSMOS Data Set : Toward SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval, Downscaling, and Assimilation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 736-745
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Quantifying near-surface, diffuse groundwater discharge along the south-west margin of the Great Artesian Basin
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Water Down Under 2008 incorporating 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium & 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 incorporating 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium & 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research
    Page numbers: 831-840
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Dry-end surface soil moisture variability during NAFE’06
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 1-5
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  • Goulburn River experimental catchment data set
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Water Resources Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Scanning multichannel microwave radiometer snow water equivalent assimilation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
    Volume: 112
    Page numbers: 1-16
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Over Australia From AMSR-E


    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • Effect of One-Dimensional Field Data Assimilation on Land Surface Model Flux Estimates with Implications for Improved Numerical Weather Prediction
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 1736-1942
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • Effect of Spatial Scale on Soil Moisture Retrieval From Passive Microwave Sensors
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 2576-2582
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • Soil Moisture Measurement in Heterogeneous Terrain
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 2604-2610
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • The CoSMOS L-band experiment in Southeast Australia
    Year: 2007
    Event name: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: IGARSS
    Conference Publication: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: IGARSS Sensing and Understanding our Planet
    Page numbers: 3948-3951
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • The National Airborne Field Experiment Data Sets
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 2625-2631
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Forecast and Real-Time Observational Hydrometeorological Data for Hydrologic Forecasting
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: eWater Ltd(Canberra)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Controls on Patterns of soil moisture in Arid and Semi-Arid Systems
    Year: 2006
    Book: Dryland Ecohydrology
    Publisher: Springer(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • A comparative study of Australian Cartometric and photogrammetric digital elevation model Accuracy
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1-9
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  • A framework for assessing the potential of remote-sensed gravity to provide new insight on the hydrology of the Murray-Darling Basin
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 125-138
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  • A method for retrieving high-resolution surface soil moisture from Hydros L-Band
    Year: 2006
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1534-1544
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  • Soil moisture initalisation for climate prediction: Assimilation of scanning multi-frequency microwave radiometer soil moisture data into a land surface model
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
    Volume: 111
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 1-15
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A method to identify likely sites for denitrification in semi-arid floodplain rivers
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International River Symposium
    Conference Publication: 9th International River Symposium
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: Printpoint Australia(Stafford)
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  • A multi-senor approach for high resolution airborne soil moisture mapping
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Conference Design(Sandy Bay)
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  • Detection of a Soil Moisture and Groundwater Signal in Ground-Based Gravity Observations
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 30th Hydrology and water Resoources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 30th Hydrology and water Resoources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Conference Design(Sandy Bay)
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  • National Airbourne Field Experiments for Soil Moisture Remote Sensing
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 30th Hydrology and water resources symposium
    Conference Publication: 30th Hydrology and water resources symposium
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: Conference Design(Sandy Bay)
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  • Scaling Properties of L-Band Passive Microwave Siol Moisture: From SMOS to Paddock Scale
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 30th Hydrology and water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 30th Hydrology and water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Conference Design(Sandy Bay)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Hydrologic data assimilation
    Year: 2005
    Book: Advances in Water Science Methodologies
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Factors affecting remotely sensed snow water equivalent uncertainty
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment
    Volume: 97
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68-82
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Quantifying the uncertainty in passive microwave snow water equivalent observations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment
    Volume: 94
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 187-203
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Quantitative comparison of spatial fields for hydrological model assessment - some promising approaches
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Advances in Water Resources
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 15-32
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Soil moisture initialization for climate prediction: characterization of model and observation errors
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres
    Volume: 110
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union(Philadelphia)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Thermal data assimilation into coastal hydrodynamic models