In the Maranoa and Warrego districts of central Qld, there is abundant evidence in the landscape – if you know what to look for – of pre-20^th century cultivation of kangaroo grass as a staple food crop by Gunggari and other Aboriginal peoples. In this project you will use Matlab to transform selected geospatial data to the wavenumber domain to identify and classify the characteristic signal patterns of former Indigenous strip agriculture, and compare the results with patterns obtained from comparable wildlands and non-Indigenous land uses. Your work on this project will help inform Indigenous scientists in conserving and documenting this important cultural heritage, and will complement historical and archival investigations.    

Collaborator: Warren Saunders, Gunggari landscape engineer, Bandalang Fellow, ANU CECC.