Senior Lecturer
"BSurv(Hons) PhD FISAust. FSSIAust."
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Spatial Information Science Building |
| Room Reference | 157 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2435 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7628 |
| Jon.Osborn@utas.edu.au |
Undergraduate units
I teach photogrammetry (KGG330) to students in the Bachelor of Surveying and Spatial Science and to students enrolled in graduate surveying and spatial science courses. I contribute to teaching in several undergraduate surveying and remote sensing units and I teach surveying to students enrolled in engineering and science (KGG315, KGG325). I coordinate the Graduate Diploma in Land Surveying, and teach graduate units in Land Surveying (KGG508) and Land Law and Cadastral Studies (KGG506). I coordinate the Professional Experience unit within the Graduate Diploma in Land Surveying (KGG509).
I am involved with several teaching and learning initiatives within the School and Faculty, mostly concerned with teaching and learning development in areas such as academic literacy skills, the inclusion of generic attributes into curriculum, and the development and mapping of threshold learning outcomes in Science disciplines.
I coordinate and teach or contribute to, the following units:
KGG103 Remote Sensing: Introduction
KGG315 Surveying for Engineers
KGG325 Field Mapping and Measurement
KGG320 Surveying 3 (from 2013)
KGG330 Remote Sensing: Photogrammetry
KGG355 Spatial Research Project
KGG506 Land Law and Cadastral Studies
KGG508 Land Surveying Studio
1981 Bachelor of Surveying (UTAS)
1986 Bachelor of Surveying (Honours, First Class) (UTAS)
1995 PhD (UTAS) Design and Calibration of Close-Range Stereophotogrammetric Systems in Biology and Biomedicine
My overarching research relates to understanding complex forms using remotely sensed spatial measurement, particularly photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques. I am particularly interested in the way information that underpins decision making can be derived from remotely sensed data. My work involves investigating the application of these methods to measurement problems at a variety of scales, including:
a. Landscape scale mapping
b. Close-range mapping of biological form
c. Multimedia photogrammetry (in-water and through-water applications)
These research interests have created opportunities to work across a very wide variety of disciplines, applying surveying, remote sensing and photogrammetric science to a diversity of important applications, from human health to marine resource assessment to forest productivity.
During the last 10 years, in collaborative research across a variety of disciplines, I have secured research funding of approximately $1.5 million with significant additional in-kind support. The majority of this funding has been through national competitive research and Commonwealth CRC grant programs.
• Improved Decision Making through Distributed Sensor Networks (the SenseT Initiative) and particularly the integration of community and citizen science into sensor networks.
• Understanding Freshwater Biofouling of Hydraulic Conduits in a Changing Climate: Impact, Mitigation, and Control
• Improved Forest Inventory and Management with Airborne Remote Sensing
• Decision Support in Rural Landscapes – Geospatial Integration and Modelling of Environmental Data
• Decision Support in Urban Environments – Mobile Augmented Reality Visualisation Tools
I currently supervise or co-supervise six PhD candidates, undertaking the following research projects:
• Creating a geography of sustainability with community based state of the environment reporting
• Developing Methods and Producing Estimates for the Tree Resource outside Forests - As a Contribution to Natural Resources Policy Formulation
• Carbon Dynamics of Anthropogenic Forest Use with Resource Extraction and Recovery, in Relation to Climate Change Science and Biodiversity
• Optimising airborne LiDAR positioning for remote area geophysical surveys
• The Application of Airborne Remote Sensing to Forest Inventory and Management
• Remote Sensing for Land Cover Classification and Change Detection
Barton, AF and Sargison, JE and Osborn, JE and Perkins, KJ and Hallegraeff, GM, ‘Characterizing the roughness of freshwater biofilms using a photogrammetric methodology’, Biofouling, 26 (4) pp. 439-448. (2010)
Andrewartha, JM and Perkins, KJ and Sargison, JE and Osborn, JE and Walker, GJ and Henderson, AD and Hallegraeff, GM, ‘Drag force and surface roughness measurements on freshwater biofouled surfaces’, Biofouling: The Journal of Bioadhesion and Biofilm Research, 26 (4) pp. 487-496 (2010)
Kawaguchi, S* and King, R* and Meijers, R and Osborn, JE and Swadling, KM and Ritz, DA and Nicol, S*, ‘An experimental aquarium for observing the schooling behaviour of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)’, Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 57 (7-8) pp. 683-692. (2010)
Veal, J* and Holmes, G* and Nunez, M and Hoegh-Guldberg, O* and Osborn, JE, ‘A comparative study of methods for surface area and three-dimensional shape measurement of coral skeletons’, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 8 (May) pp. 241-253. (2010)
Grenness, MJ and Tyas, MJ* and Osborn, JE, ‘Mapping a non-carious cervical lesion using stereo-imagery and dental casts incorporating optical texture’, The Journal of Dentistry, 37 (3) pp. 191-197. (2009)
Wijanarto, AB and Osborn, JE, ‘Mapping Canopy Height of Radiata Pine Plantation in Tasmania, Australia, using Softcopy Photogrammetry’, International Journal of Geoinformatics, 3 (2) pp. 61-71. (2007)