Dr Kevin Davies
Kevin’s research focuses on the use of satellite remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and GIS to improve our understanding of geographical issues. Kevin’s current research includes satellite-based land use mapping and geospatial data collection for improving livelihoods and natural resource management in the Pacific Islands. Kevin also investigates the use of CubeSats for landscape monitoring as part of the University’s Centre for CubeSats, UAV's and their Applications (CUAVA) .
See Kevin's Google Scholar profile for a complete, up-to-date list of publications.
Current Units:
- GEOG5001 Geographic Information Systems (2015 -)
- GEOG5004 Environmental Monitoring and Mapping (2016 - )
- OLET1610 GIS: Geographic Information Systems (2022 -)
Past Units:
- GEOS1001 Earth, Environment and Society (2022)
- ENVI5809 Environmental Simulation Modelling (2015 - 2020)
- OLET2612 GIS: Thinking Spatially (2022)
Founding Member, Pacific Geospatial and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC)
Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Project title | Research student |
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Optimising remote sensing methodologies for measurement and monitoring of seagrass species composition, extent and biomass in Australia | James SIMPSON |
Publications
Book Chapters
- Restrepo-Coupe, N., Huete, A., Davies, K. (2015). Satellite Phenology Validation. In A. Held, S. Phinn, M. Soto-Berelov, S. Jones (Eds.), AusCover Good Practice Guidelines: A technical handbook supporting calibration and validation activities of remotely sensed data products, (pp. 155-177). St Lucia, QLD: TERN AusCover.
Journals
- van der Plank, S., Fidai, Y., Fletcher, D., Hickey, S., Jayson-Quashigah, P., Maxam, A., Pauli, N., Schlenker, M., Sowah, W., Dash, J., Bruce, E., Davies, K., et al (2024). The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation. Area, 56(2). [More Information]
- Jones, A., Bruce, E., Davies, K., Cato, D. (2023). Enhancing UAV images to improve the observation of submerged whales using a water column correction method. Marine Mammal Science, 39(2), 696-702. [More Information]
- Simpson, J., Davies, K., Bruce, E., Barber, P. (2022). A Blueprint for the Estimation of Seagrass Carbon Stock Using Remote Sensing-Enabled Proxies. Remote Sensing, 14(5), 3572-1-3572-18.
Conferences
- Davies, K., Duncan, J., Wales, N., Varea, R., Shojaei, H., Bruce, E., Boruff, B., Biggs, E. (2019). An Open-Source Mobile Geospatial Platform For Promoting Climate-Smart Livelihood-Landscape Systems In Fiji And Tonga. FOSS4G 2019, Bucharest: ISPRS. [More Information]
- Bruce, E., Davies, K., Duncan, J., Wales, N., Varea, R., Boruff, B., Biggs, E. (2018). Earth observation for assessing environmental livelihood security in coastal mangrove ecosystems. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, US: AGU.
- Xie, Z., Huete, A., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Devadas, R., Davies, K., Waston, C. (2016). Terrestrial total water storage dynamics of Australia's recent dry and wet events. 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, +: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
2024
- van der Plank, S., Fidai, Y., Fletcher, D., Hickey, S., Jayson-Quashigah, P., Maxam, A., Pauli, N., Schlenker, M., Sowah, W., Dash, J., Bruce, E., Davies, K., et al (2024). The ‘More Than Maps’ framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation. Area, 56(2). [More Information]
2023
- Jones, A., Bruce, E., Davies, K., Cato, D. (2023). Enhancing UAV images to improve the observation of submerged whales using a water column correction method. Marine Mammal Science, 39(2), 696-702. [More Information]
2022
- Simpson, J., Davies, K., Bruce, E., Barber, P. (2022). A Blueprint for the Estimation of Seagrass Carbon Stock Using Remote Sensing-Enabled Proxies. Remote Sensing, 14(5), 3572-1-3572-18.
- Duncan, J., Davies, K., Saipai, A., Vainikolo, L., Wales, N., Varea, R., Bruce, E., Boruff, B. (2022). An Open-Source Mobile Geospatial Platform For Agricultural Landscape Mapping: A Case Study Of Wall-To-Wall Farm Systems Mapping In Tonga. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/(W1-2022), 119-126.
- Warwick-Champion, E., Davies, K., Barber, P., Naviin, H., Bruce, E. (2022). Characterising the Aboveground Carbon Content of Saltmarsh in Jervis Bay, NSW, Using ArborCam and PlanetScope. Remote Sensing, 14(8). [More Information]
2021
- Pauli, N., Williams, M., Henningsen, S., Davies, K., Chhom, C., Van Ogtrop, F., Hak, S., Boruff, B., Neef, A. (2021). ‘‘Listening to the Sounds of the Water’’: Bringing Together Local Knowledge and Biophysical Data to Understand Climate-Related Hazard Dynamics. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 12, 326-340. [More Information]
2020
- Neef, A., Boruff, B., Bruce, E., Ngin, C., Pauli, N., Davies, K., Van Ogtrop, F., Varea, R., Weber, E. (2020). Climate change adaptation in disaster-prone communities in Cambodia and Fiji. Science Bulletin, 10(1), 67-75. [More Information]
2019
- Davies, K., Duncan, J., Wales, N., Varea, R., Shojaei, H., Bruce, E., Boruff, B., Biggs, E. (2019). An Open-Source Mobile Geospatial Platform For Promoting Climate-Smart Livelihood-Landscape Systems In Fiji And Tonga. FOSS4G 2019, Bucharest: ISPRS. [More Information]
- Jones, A., Bruce, E., Davies, K., Blewitt, M., Sheehan, S. (2019). Assessing potential environmental influences on killer whale (Orcinus orca) distribution patterns in the Bremer Canyon, south-west Australia. Australian Geographer, 50(3), 381-405. [More Information]
2018
- Bruce, E., Davies, K., Duncan, J., Wales, N., Varea, R., Boruff, B., Biggs, E. (2018). Earth observation for assessing environmental livelihood security in coastal mangrove ecosystems. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018, US: AGU.
2017
- Larsson, M., Ajani, P., Rubio, A., Guise, K., McPherson, R., Brett, S., Davies, K., Doblin, M. (2017). Long-term perspective on the relationship between phytoplankton and nutrient concentrations in a southeastern Australian estuary. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 114(1), 227-238. [More Information]
- Robinson, C., Cherukuru, N., Hardman-Mountford, N., Everett, J., McLaughlin, M., Davies, K., Van-Dongen-Vogels, V., Ralph, P., Doblin, M. (2017). Phytoplankton absorption predicts patterns in primary productivity in Australian coastal shelf waters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 192, 1-16. [More Information]
2016
- Davies, K., Murphy, R., Bruce, E. (2016). Detecting historical changes to vegetation in a Cambodian protected area using the Landsat TM and ETM+ sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment, 187, 332-344. [More Information]
- Restrepo-Coupe, N., Huete, A., Davies, K., Cleverly, J., Beringer, J., Eamus, D., van Gorsel, E., Hutley, L., Meyer, W. (2016). MODIS vegetation products as proxies of photosynthetic potential: a look across meteorological and biologic driven ecosystem productivity. Biogeosciences, 13(19), 5587-5608. [More Information]
- Xie, Z., Huete, A., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Devadas, R., Davies, K., Waston, C. (2016). Terrestrial total water storage dynamics of Australia's recent dry and wet events. 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, +: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
2015
- Broich, M., Huete, A., Paget, M., Ma, X., Tulbure, M., Coupe, N., Evans, B., Beringer, J., Devadas, R., Davies, K., et al (2015). A spatially explicit land surface phenology data product for science monitoring and natural resources management applications. Environmental Modelling and Software, 64, 191-204. [More Information]
- Restrepo-Coupe, N., Huete, A., Davies, K. (2015). Satellite Phenology Validation. In A. Held, S. Phinn, M. Soto-Berelov, S. Jones (Eds.), AusCover Good Practice Guidelines: A technical handbook supporting calibration and validation activities of remotely sensed data products, (pp. 155-177). St Lucia, QLD: TERN AusCover.
2014
- Restrepo-Coupe, N., Huete, A., Davies, K., Macfarlane, C., Beringer, J., van Gorsel, E., Maier, C., Resco de Dios, V. (2014). Do Australian sclerophyll forests exhibit seasonality? an analysis with phenocam, eddy covariance fluxes, and satellite derived phenology. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014, a: American Geophysical Union.
- Broich, M., Huete, A., Tulbure, M., Ma, X., Xin, Q., Paget, M., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Davies, K., Devadas, R., Held, A. (2014). Land surface phenological response to decadal climate variability across Australia using satellite remote sensing. Biogeosciences, 11(18), 5181-5198. [More Information]
- Huete, A., Davies, K., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Ratana, P., Sun, Q., Saleska, S., Schaff, C. (2014). Seasonal and Diurnal Tropical Forest Greenness Observed and Modeled Using MODIS Terra and Aqua Sensors. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014, a: American Geophysical Union.
2013
- Broich, M., Huete, A., Held, A., Ma, X., Davies, K., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Devadas, R. (2013). Highly variable phenology across the driest inhabited continent characterized by the Australian Phenology Product. American Geophysical Union, America: American Geophysical Union.
- Broich, M., Huete, A., Yu, Q., Davies, K., Restrepo-Coupe, N. (2013). Identifying and understanding vegetation productivity swings in response to ENSO dynamics to improve land surface modeling capability in quantifying extreme events across Australia and East Asia. EGU General Assembly 2013, Austria: Copernicus Publications.
- Ma, X., Huete, A., Yu, Q., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Davies, K., Broich, M., Ratana, P., Beringer, J., Hutley, L., Cleverly, J., et al (2013). Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics in savanna vegetation phenology across the North Australian Tropical Transect. Remote Sensing of Environment, 139, 97-115. [More Information]
2012
- Broich, M., Huete, A., Ma, X., Davies, K., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Ratana, P. (2012). Characterizing phenological vegetation dynamics amidst extreme climate variability in Australia with MODIS VI data. American Geophysical Union, America: American Geophysical Union.
- Ma, X., Huete, A., Yu, Q., Davies, K., Restrepo-Coupe, N. (2012). Monitoring Spatial Patterns of Vegetation Phenology in an Australian Tropical Transect Using MODIS EVI. 2012 XXII ISPRS Congress, Australia: ISPRS.
- Huete, A., Ma, X., Ponce-Campos, G., Moran, S., Davies, K., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Broich, M., Eamus, D. (2012). Satellite-based Biome Productivity Responses to Large Scale Drought and Wet Cycles in Australia. American Geophysical Union, America: American Geophysical Union.
2005
- Dong, A., Davies, K., McInnes, D. (2005). Exploring the Relationship Between Lexical Behaviour and Concept Formation in Design Conversations. ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information In Engineering Conference : 17th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology - DTM 2005, USA: ASME Digital Library.
2003
- Birch, G., Davies, K. (2003). A scheme for assessing human impact and sediment quality in coastal waterways. Coastal GIS 2003: an integreated approach to Australian coastal issues, Wollongong: University of Wollongong.
- Davies, K., Birch, G. (2003). GIS-based evaluation of the condition of some New SOuth Wales estuaries. Coastal GIS 2003: an integreated approach to Australian coastal issues, Wollongong: University of Wollongong.
Selected Grants
2024
- Identifying High-Risk Communities for Climate-Sensitive Child Undernutrition in Maluku Province, Indonesia: a proof-of-concept study, Dibley M, Bruce E, Huda T, Davies K, Van Ogtrop F, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/SSEAC Ignition Grant
2022
- Detecting Flooding in Fijis Croplands, Davies K, Bruce E, Climate Change AI (CCAI)/Climate Change AI Innovation Grants
- Modelling the Community-Scale Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Productivity Across Different Agro-Ecological Zones in India, Davies K, Murari K, Patnaik U, Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards
- Opportunities for inclusion of ridge to reef approaches for NDCs in the Blue Pacific, Bruce E, Davies K, Baker E, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Federal)/International Climate Change Environment Program