Mr David Bruce |
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| Position: | Associate Head: Academic Programs |
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| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment | |
| School/Unit: | School of Natural and Built Environments | |
| Campus: | City East Campus | |
| Office: | BJ3-22 | |
| Telephone: | +61 8 830 21856 | |
| Fax: | +61 8 830 22252 | |
| Email: | David_dot_Bruce_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/David.Bruce | |
Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments
Teaching interests
- Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Science
- Geographical Information Systems
- Map Projections and Datums
- Mapping Sciences
- 3D Visualization
- Environmental Informatics
I teach the following courses
| GEOE 2022 | Environmental Remote Sensing |
| GEOE 2024 | Maps and Coordinate Systems |
| GEOE 3024 | ? |
| GEOE 3014 | Remote Sensing Applications |
| GEOE 3016 | Advanced Geographical Information Systems |
| ENVT 5024 | Environmental Informatics |
Professional associations
Regional Committee member, Spatial Sciences Institure, SA
Memeber of the national certification committee, Spatial Sciences Institute (Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry)
Member, Spatial Education Australia
Member of the South Australian Spatial Information Committee
Convenor, Spatial Sciences National Conference, Adelaide, Sept, 2009
Qualifications
Bachelor of Technology (Surveying) - Adelaide - 1970
Graduate Diploma of Education - Adelaide - 1970
Masters of Arts (Qualifying) - Queensland - 1976
Research interests
- Satellite and airborne Synthetic Aperature radar (SAR): interferometric and polarimetric SAR
- Digital classification of remotely sensed images
- GIS surface interpolation
- 3D visualization of urban environments
- Remote sensing and GIS applications in precision agriculture
Research publications
Bruce, D. A., (2000) "Vegetation Discrimination Using L Band Radar and Visible Infra-red Imagery" paper presented at the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, August, 2000.
Bruce, D. A., Rob Fitzpatrick, Phil Davies, Richard Merry, Leonie Spouncer and Jonathan Phillips (2000) "Catchment Indicators: the Use of Remote Sensing, Vector and Raster GIS in Sub-catchment Assessment", paper presented at the 10th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Adelaide, August, 2000.
Bruce, D.A., P. Davies and R. Fitzpatrick (1999) "Validating Soil Moisture Estimates from Polarmetric Radar Using GIS Models : further results from the 1993 AIRSAR mission to Australia", paper presented to PACRIM AIRSAR Significant Results Workshop, Maui, Hawaii, 24 –26 August
Bruce, D.A. and S. Brickey (1999) "Modelling Embodied Energies in Urban Water Systems Using GIS", paper presented to 27th Annual Conference of AURISA, Leura, NSW, 22-26 November
Werner, C., Hensley, S., Rodriegez, E. and Bruce, D.A. (1998) "Interferometric Height and Correlation Statistics in Vegetation Canopies at C Band", paper presented at Second International Workshop on Retrieval of Bio- and Geo-physical Parameters from SAR Data for Land Applications, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands., 21 –23 October.
Bruce, D. A., (2004), Errors in Digital Surface Models Derived from Airborne IFSAR, paper presented at the 25th Asian Remote Sensing Conference, Chaing Mai, Thailand, November., 2004.
Bruce, D. A., (2002), Improved Object Classification Through the Combination of VNIR, Multi-Frequency SAR and Mulit-Polarmatric SAR: A case study from South Australia, paper presented at the 23rd Asian Remote Sensing Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, November, 2002.
Expertise for Media Contact
I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:
Discipline: Geoinformatics
- Deforestation
- Earth Observation Science
- Environmental Phenomenon
- Geographic Information Systems
- Remote Sensing
- Geoinformatics
- Soil Moisture
- Water Pollution
- 3D Visualization
Community Service
| Organisation Name: | GIS in Secondary Schools |
| Type of Organisation: | Community organisation |
| Organisation URL: | http://www.tsof.edu.au/curriculum/gis/ |
| Level of involvement: | Member of state Executive Committee |
| Year from: | 1996 |
| Year to: | 2005 |
| Comments: | We provide training and education in GIS to secondary school teachers in South Australia and advice to teachers from other states. |
| Organisation Name: | S A Spatial Information Committee (SICOM) |
| Section: | Board Member |
| Type of Organisation: | Government Board or committee |
| Organisation URL: | http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/mapland/sicom/ |
| Level of involvement: | Board member |
| Year from: | 1997 |
| Year to: | 2009 |
| Organisation Name: | Spatial Scieces Institute |
| Section: | SA Regioanl Committee |
| Type of Organisation: | Professional organisation |
| Organisation URL: | http://www.spatialsciences.org.au/ |
| Level of involvement: | Advisory Board member |
| Year from: | 2004 |
| Year to: | 2008 |
Research Degree Supervisor
I provide supervision of research degree students in the areas of Earth Observation Science (Remote Sensing) and in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). My skills in Remote Sensing are directed at the terrestrial envirnoment, rather than towards the atmosphere and the oceans. I have particular skills in the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Multi Spectral Remote Sensing sensor systems.Change | Staff home page help