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5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
This work is being conducted as part of my PhD. I would like 
to thank my supervisors Andy Haywood (DSE), Simon Jones 
(RMIT) and Joe Leach (Melbourne Uni) for their guidance and 
assistance with this research to date; Prof. Mark Shortis 
(RMIT) and Dr. Christos Stamatopoulos (Melbourne Uni) for 
their assistance with camera calibration; the Vegetation 
Sensing and Information team from CSIRO Land and Water, 
specifically Darius Culvenor, Kimberley Opie, and Glenn 
Newnham; other team members and in-kind supporters of 
CRCSI Project 2.07, Chris Axelsson (RMIT), Mariela Soto- 
Berelov (RMIT), Phil Wilkes (RMIT), Andrew Mellor (DSE) 
and Andrew Clarke (DSE); Melbourne University and CRC-SI 
for their funding.