NESP TWQ Project 4.8 - ‘Project 25’ – farmers, water quality and on-farm decision-making,

Project 25 focuses on a key cane growing region within the Great Barrier Reef catchment area from 2018 to 2020. It uses a bottom-up approach with small, sub-catchment scale water quality monitoring to identify 'hot spot' sub-catchments. The project emphasizes industry ownership of monitoring design to deliver locally targeted data for on-farm decision-making.

Use Cases

• Identify water quality 'hot spots' based on localised sub-catchment monitoring described in the project.
• Analyze the relationship between farmer decision-making and locally targeted water quality data as emphasized by the project.
• Study the effectiveness of industry-owned monitoring design for promoting farming practice change as a core project goal.

Strengths

• Project focuses on a specific time range from 2018 to 2020.
• Employs a defined 'bottom-up' approach to integrated sub-catchment monitoring and intervention.
• Targets a specific geographic area: a key cane growing region in the Great Barrier Reef catchment.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data files are listed as PNG and HTML, suggesting the primary data may be reports or images rather than structured data tables.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Utilizes a bottom-up approach to integrated sub-catchment monitoring and intervention.

Time Range

2018-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 19:37:47.054752; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A key cane growing region within the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchment area.