CDU Researcher Profile

School of Science and Primary Industries
Faculty of Education, Health and Science
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia

• Research interests
• Publications
• Current projects
• Recent completions supervised

Research Interests

Diane's research interests include:

• Environmental Information Systems and spatial analysis
• Landscape ecology - studying habitat loss due to human activity
• Measuring and quantifying landscape structure and heterogeneity
• Monitoring land use/ land cover change using GIS and Remote Sensing
• Habitat modelling and biodiversity assessment
• Uncertainty issues in GIS databases
• Effect of scale on landscape analysis
• Integrating socio-economic data with environmental data for resource management
  

Recent Publications

Books and book-chapters

1. Aspinall, R. J. and Pearson, D. M. (submitted). Opportunities and Applications of Geographic Information Science in Integrated Watershed Management: A comparative study and analysis of the Yellowstone River (USA) and Mary River (Australia). In: Bissonette, J and Storch, I. (eds). Landscape Ecology and Resource Management. Springer- Verlag.

Journal papers

1. Pearson, D., Bellairs, S. (2003). Report on International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress 2003. Crossing Frontiers: Lanscape Ecology Down Under. Ecological Management and Restoration, 4(3), 17.
2. Pearson, D. M. (2002). The application of local measures of spatial autocorrelation for describing pattern in north Australian landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management, 64, pp 85-95.
3. Aspinall R. J. and Pearson, D. M. (2000). Integrated Geographical Assessment of Environmental Condition in Water Catchments: linking Landscape Ecology, Environmental Modeling and GIS. Journal of Environmental Management, 59 (4), pp 299-319.

Conference papers

1. Pearson, D. (2003, 13/07/2003 - 17/07/2003). Quantifying spatial structure in the 'Top End'- how can we deal with issues of scale and variation?. 6th World Congress of the International Association of Lanscape Ecology, Darwin.
2. Zhang, Y., Pearson, D., Bowman, D., Whitehead, P. (2003, 13/07/2003 - 17/07/2003). Spatial analysis of the fire induced landscapes in the tropical savannas using remotely sensed data.. 6th world congress of the international Association for Landscape Ecology, Darwin.
3. Bartolo, R., Pearson, D., Hill, G. (2003, 13/07/2003 - 17/07/2003). Landscape change on the tropical floodplains of the Trans-fly Bioregion, Southern New Guinea. 6th world congress of the international Association for Landscape Ecology, Darwin.
4. Aspinall, R., Pearson, D. (2003, 1/11/2003). Modeling land cover change from multiple drivers using remotely sensed data and multi-model inference and selection. 30th International Symposium on remote Sensing of Enviroment, Hawii.
5. Pearson, D., Tremblay, P., Zhang, Y., Gorman, J. (2003, 1/12/2003 - 5/12/2003). Using GIS and remote sensing to assist in the sustainable management of the Top End of Australia's Wildlife tourism icons. 3rd International Wildlife Management Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand.
6. Pearson, D. M. and Riley, J. (2001). Spatial analysis of grassland patterning in the Yinberrie hills region of the Northern Territory using field data and IKONOS imagery. Proceedings of the North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS conference CD ROM, July 2001, Darwin, Australia.
7. Pearson, D. M. (2000). Investigating the impacts of human activity on northern Australian landscapes by analysis of spatial structure. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Modeling, Sept 2-8th 2000, Banff Canada.
8. Pearson, D. M. (1999). Understanding spatial structure in northern Australian landscapes: an aid to wildlife management. Symposium on landscape scale analysis. Proceedings of the Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference, Dec 1999, Darwin, Australia.
9. Pearson, D. M. (1999). Measurement and analysis of changes in structural diversity in Australian landscapes. Proceedings of the North Australian Remote Sensing and GIS conference - CD-ROM, June 1999, Darwin Australia.
10. Pearson, D. M. and Aspinall, R. J. (1996). Spatial Landscape Ecology: Describing environmental variability using GIS and spatial analysis. 28th International Geographical Congress, The Hague. August 1996.
11. Aspinall, R. J., Pearson, D. M. and Miller, J. A. (1996). Measuring and modelling (bio)diversity: an approach based on geographic, taxonomic and environmental relations. 3rd International Conference/Workshop on Integrating GIS and Environmental modelling, NCGIA, Santa Fe. January 1996.

PhD thesis

1. Pearson, D.M. (1998). The impact of human activity on landscape diversity in space and time: measurement and analysis of spatial structure and change in the Milton-Ulladulla area of New South Wales. Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Geography, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Current Projects

Recent Completions Supervised