Ms Catherine Ticehurst

Dr Catherine Ticehurst received her PhD in Geomatic Engineering (modelling SAR polarimetry in urban environments) at the University of NSW. She started working at the CSIRO in 1998 where she has been working in what is now the Landscape Observation group at CSIRO Environment, mapping and monitoring a variety of vegetation and wetland environments using a range of current and emerging airborne and satellite earth observation technologies. Research areas include: Mapping surface water dynamics at regional scales; Developing relationships between biophysical parameters of vegetation and remote sensing data (airborne and spaceborne SAR, hyperspectral and multi-spectral airborne and spaceborne optical data); NDVI time-series analysis for monitoring crops; Radar polarimetry, including polarisation signature decomposition, and its relationship with mangrove and rainforest environments; High-resolution crown delineation and classification in high-biodiversity vegetation environments; Data integration and image processing methods, including programming in python; Application of LiDAR altimetry for mapping vegetation height and surface water height; Extracting and using Analysis Ready Data within an Open Data Cube using Jupyter Notebooks.