Daly River Vegetation mapping project: updated final report

1:100,000 scale map of the native vegetation in the Nothern territory, Project report to NT NRMB, Luke Peel, 2009. Technical Report 08/2009D.

This project was successful in researching and developing a suitable method by which native vegetation can be mapped at a refined scale in a more rapid and cost effective way than previous methods allowed. An intermediate map product of the Daly Catchment was produced at 1:100,000 scale depicting broad structural vegetation community types.

Copy available at NRETAS and DPI Library

Daly Basin Vegetation Mapping trial methodology completed by CDU eCognition group

Charles Darwin University, Tropical Spatial Sciences Group (2007?)
This trial was to ascertain the capabilities of eCognition to classify remotely sensed data and other products to identify land types and classify them into groups based on vegetation, lithology and location in the landscape.
http://ecognitiondalyriver.wikispaces.com/

copy available at NRETAS and DPI library

Daly basin draft vegetation mapping

Report to Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts, Northern Territory and Greening Australia, Northern Territory by Bernard Fitzpatrick, Spatial 31 Pty Ltd, 25 Sept. 2006.

Spatial 3i Pty Ltd was engaged to produce a draft map of the vegetation communities of the Daly Catcahment based on LANDSAT TM imagery provided by the Northern territory Dept. of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts.

Copy available at NRETAS and DPI Library

Linking riparian vegetation spatial structure in Australian tropical savannahs to ecosystem health indicators:

semi-variogram analysis of high spatial resolution satellite imagery
K. Johansen and S. Phinn
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 32, 3, 1-16, 2006
The objective of this work was to determine if the structural attributes of savannah riparian zones in northern Australia can be detected from commercially available remotely sensed image data. Two QuickBird images and coincident field data covering sections of the Daly River and the South Alligator River- Barramundie Creek in the Northern Territory were used.

http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cjrs/m06-020.html

Daly River Catchment, Part 2: Accompany Sub-catchment information

J. J. Faulks
Department of Lands, Planning and Environment

This report contains Daly River sub-catchment information including sub-section maps, river cross-section diagrams and riverine vegetation profiles or lists.

This is the part 2 of the Daly River Catchment report, providing more information on the sub-catchment.

Daly River Catchment, Part 1: An Assessment of the Physical and Ecological Condition of the Daly River and its Major Tributaries

J. J. Faulks
Top End Waterways Project,

The overall aim of the project was to assess, describe and report on the land and water resources of the major waterways in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory and to prepare for publication a comprehensive report on each of those waterways. Throughout 1995 -1997 the major tributaries within the Daly River and Victoria River catchments were assessed. This report provides an assessment of the Daly River catchment and major tributaries, in terms of the physical and environmental condition of these streams at the time of survey. The use and management of the waterways within the Daly River catchment have been identified,
major river management issues have been highlighted and broad river management recommendations have been proposed.

A report that provides overall summaries on the condition of the Daly River, as well as summaries of the condition of the sub-catchments. Also included are broad management issues and recommendations.

No-tillage planters for heavy-textured Alfisols in the semi-arid tropics of Australia

N. S. Gould, D. C. I. Peake and N. P. Dalgliesh
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 36, 8, 957-70,

This paper provides key information on 4 no-tillage planters to facilitate adoption by farmers in northern Australia. Four commercial planters of contrasting design were tested in various configurations under 5 different moisture regimes during drying of a heavy-textured Alfisol at Katherine Research Station at the end of the wet season.

Wildlife of lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) thickets and woodlands in northern Australia, 1: variation in vertebrate species composition across the enviro

J. C. Woinarski and A. Fisher
Wildlife research
22, 3, p379-411, 1995
Vegetation dominated by lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) occurs extensively across the Northern Territory and Queensland. Vertebrate species composition was sampled at 61 patches of lancewood and the distribution of species was related to a wide range of environmental characteristics, spatial variables, disturbance and season. Of 165 species recorded from lancewood patches, eight species were recorded from more than half of the sampled patches. An ordination of all quadrants by their vertebrate species composition suggested a loose patterning associated mainly with latitude and, less strongly, soil texture and co-occurring tree/shrub species. Suggesting a depauperate and poorly defined vertebrate community in lancewood, quadrants in small isolated lancewood patches had more species than those in large patches, and this pattern was shown for many individual species. Lancewood patches showed minor impacts from grazing and logging, but the impacts of fire were generally more severe, and were negatively associated with the abundance of relatively many species. Lancewood vegetation is not represented in any conservation reserve in the Northern Territory.

Natural Resources and Development in the Daly River-Sturt Plateau Region of the Tropical Savannahs of the Northern Territory

V. J. Hristova and S. Murti
Department of Mines and Energy, Office of Resource Development,

The report was prepared as background for a study of conservation values. The study did not go ahead, but the report was still published as useful background information for the region that is again the subject of further development. This background paper sets out the known ecological status of the area. The wider impacts surrounding policy issues are also set up. Information is provided on climate, landforms, soils, vegetation types, impacts of humans, Aboriginal usage, current infrastructure and overviews of the two land uses competing for the area.

This report provides a good history into the settlement and infrastructure. The agricultural productivity is also included with future prospects.

Flora of the Darwin Region

C. R. Dunlop, G. J. Leach and I. D. Cowie
Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

Land capability and topographic data as a surrogate for the mapping and classification of wetlands

A case study from the Daly basin, Northern Territory
G. Begg and J. Lowry
River Symposium, Water Science and Technology, 2002