Visiting Fellow
Native forest management, remote sensing
Phone: +61 2 6125 3548
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: brian.turner@anu.edu.au

Brian's career in forestry started with the NSW Forestry Commission on the North Coast and in Sydney. During that period, he went to Yale University in the USA to gain Master and Doctor of Forestry degrees. In 1969, he started teaching and research at the Pennsylvania State University, and returned to Australia in 1984 to take up the position of Reader in Forest Management at ANU. He retired at the end of 2002 but continues to supervise research students, and conduct research and consultancies.

Professional Activities

My interests range over the broad field of forest management planning, including models for prediction of future production of goods and services from managed native forests to techniques for collecting and analysing GIS and remotely sensed data.

I am currently concluding a RIRDC-funded project to determine the extent and condition of privately-owned dry sclerophyll forests on the tablelands of eastern Australia and develop a decision support system to help owners enhance their value. This year I have helped conduct two workshops on aspects of carbon accounting in forests, one in Canberra for Indonesian foresters and one in Hanoi for foresters from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Selected Publications

Turner, B. and Matthias, A. 2007. A training manual in forestry planning for Pacific Island foresters. In: [ANZIF]. 2007. The 2007 Institute of Foresters of Australia and New Zealand Institute of Forestry Conference, Programme, Abstracts & Papers, Coffs Harbour, Australia. Pp 387-394.

Turner, B., Huang, Z., Simpson, C. and Hunn, A. 2007. Remotely sensing the dry sclerophyll forests of the Southeastern Highlands. In: [ANZIF]. 2007. The 2007 Institute of Foresters of Australia and New Zealand Institute of Forestry Conference, Programme, Abstracts & Papers, Coffs Harbour, Australia. Pp 395-403.

Mahiny, A.S. and Turner, B.J. 2007. Atmospheric correction for change detection: a comparison of common methods. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 73(4): 361-368.

Huang, Z., Jia, X., Turner, B.J. and Wallis, I,R. 2007. Estimating the nitrogen concentration of eucalypt foliage by automatically extracting tree spectra from HYMAP data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 73(4): 397-401.