Publications

Barnetson, J., Pandeya, H. R., & Fraser, G. (2026). Hierarchical spectral modelling of pasture nutrition: From laboratory to Sentinel-2 via UAV hyperspectral. AgriEngineering, 8(4), 143. 

Barnetson, J., Pandeya, H., & Fraser, G. (2026). Mapping pasture quality: Using remote sensing to address northern Australia’s fodder gap. In Proceedings of the 8th Northern Beef Research Update Conference NBRUC (p. 29). North Australia Beef Research Council. Conference presentation.

Bruget, D., Carter, J., Zhang, B., Stone, G., & Fraser, G. (2026). Seasonal forecasting: A simple analysis of various statistical and weather model forecasts for Queensland. In Proceedings of the 8th Northern Beef Research Update Conference NBRUC (p. 105). North Australia Beef Research Council.

Irvine, S. A., Carter, J. O., & Stone, G. S. (2026). Mapping Livestock Distribution in Australia: An Estimate to Annual Domestic Livestock Densities from 1788 to 1980. Australian Geographer, 1–25. 

Lin, Y. (2026). The Journey of Long Paddock: A Teaching Case of Digital Platform Innovation for Climate Adaptation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 58(1), 85.

McCartney, F., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Stone, G., & Jones, C. (2026). Understanding FORAGE report user experience to improve its use for grazing land management decision-making. In Proceedings of the 8th Northern Beef Research Update Conference NBRUC (p. 107). North Australia Beef Research Council.

Stone, G., Barnetson, J., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Irvine, S., Zhang, B., Zhang, X., & Yuan, S. (2026). The FORAGE system: The “track record.” In Proceedings of the 8th Northern Beef Research Update Conference NBRUC (p. 79). North Australia Beef Research Council.

Woodrow, L., Denham, R., Watson, F., Zhang, B., & Carter, J. (2026). Adjusting the seasonal persistent green product for green grass signal. In Proceedings of the 8th Northern Beef Research Update Conference NBRUC (p. 30). North Australia Beef Research Council.

Zhang, B., Barnetson, J., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Stone, G., & Woodrow, L. (2026). Seasonal pasture budgeting at property scale: A FORAGE online tool (prototype) for assessing stocking rates for Queensland grazing lands. In Proceedings of the 8th Northern Beef Research Update Conference NBRUC (p. 28). North Australia Beef Research Council.

Carter, J. O., Bruget, D., & Stone, G. (2025). Continental-scale modelling of pasture growth with the AussieGRASS model: Learnings from 30 years of operation. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 560-565).

Cowley, R. A., Whish, G., Hearnden, M., Mateme, C., Pettit, C., McCosker, K. D., Carter, J., Wirl, B., Holloway, C. H., Pahl, L. I., & Mayer, D. G. (2025). Factors influencing pasture utilisation in northern Australian rangelands. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 1704-1708).

Henry, B., Allen, D., Badgery, W., Bray, S. G., Carter, J., Dalal, R., Hall, W. B., Harrison, M. T., McDonald, S. E., & McMillan, H. (2025). A review of the evidence linking management and soil carbon sequestration in rangelands. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 1551-1555).

Hughes, N., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Schepen, A., Tan, P., Brent, G., Turner, A., Bellew, S., Soh, W. Y., Sharman, C., Taylor, P., Carter, J., Bruget, D., Hochman, Z., Searle, R., Song, Y., Mitchell, P., Beletse, Y., Holzworth, D., Guillory, L., Brodie, C., McComb, J., & Singh, R. (2025). Monitoring agricultural and economic drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators (AADI). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 3461-3482.

Irvine, S. A., Carter, J. O., & Stone, G. S. (2025). Construction of a 200-year annual domestic livestock distribution geographical dataset for Australia for the pre-digital era 1788 to 1980. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 398-403).

Schepen, A., Bolt, A., Bruget, D., Carter, J., Gaydon, D., Gupta, M., Hochman, Z., Hughes, N., Sharman, C., Tan, P., & Taylor, P. (2025). Forecasting agricultural drought: the Australian Agricultural Drought Indicators. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(10), 4053-4070.

Specht, A., Bastin, G., Carter, J., Cowley, R., Diete, R., Facelli, J., Maurer, G., O'Reagain, P. J., & Thornton, C.(2025). The value proposition for systematic long-term vegetation studies. In Proceedings of the 12th International Rangeland Congress IRC 2025 (pp. 378-382)

Irvine, S., Carter, J., & Stone, G. (2024). Estimating Historical Domestic Grazing Density for Australia 1788-1980. Grazing Land Systems, Earth Observations and Social Sciences, Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Brisbane.

Henry B., Allen D., Badgery W., Bray S., Carter J., Dalal R. C., Hall W., Harrison M. T., McDonald S. E., & McMillan H. (2024). Soil carbon sequestration in rangelands: A critical review of the impacts of major management strategies. The Rangeland Journal 46, RJ24005.

Fordyce G., Shephard R., Moravek T., & McGowan M. R. (2023). Australian cattle herd: A new perspective on structure, performance and production. Animal Production Science 63, 410-421.

Woodrow, L., Carter, J., Fraser, G., & Barnetson, J. (2023). Using continuous output neural nets to estimate pasture biomass from digital photographs in grazing lands. AgriEngineering, 5, 1051-1067.

Zhang, H., Jeffrey, S., & Carter, J. (2022). Improved quality gridded surface wind speed datasets for Australia. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 134, Article 85.

Zund, P., Walton, J., Antoni, M. D., Harms, B., & Thomas, E. (2022). Soil bicarbonate-extractable P (Colwell-P) map of Queensland main grazing lands (GBP.0043). Queensland Department of Environment and Science; Meat and Livestock Australia Limited, North Sydney NSW.

Barnetson, J., Phinn, S., & Scarth, P. (2021). Climate-resilient grazing in the pastures of Queensland: An integrated remotely piloted aircraft system and satellite-based deep-learning method for estimating pasture yield. AgriEngineering. 3(3):681-702.

Irvine, S. (2021). Mapping drought declaration areas from 1936 to 1964 for Queensland, Australia. The Rangeland Journal 43(3) 109-119.

McKeon, G., Stone, G., Ahrens, D., Carter, J., Cobon, D., Irvine, S., & Syktus, J. (2021). Queensland’s multi-year Wet and Dry periods: implications for grazing enterprises and pasture resources. The Rangeland Journal 43(3) 121-142

Owens, J., McKeon, G., O’Reagain, P., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Nelson, B., & Scanlan, J. (2021). Disentangling the effects of management and climate on perennial grass pastures and the degradation that follows multi-year droughts. In Vervoort, R.W., Voinov, A.A., Evans, J.P., & Marshall, L. (Eds), MODSIM2021, 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 85-91). Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Paxton, G. (2021). Building cultural capital in drought adaptation: lessons from discourse analysis. The Rangeland Journal 43, 101-108.

Pringle, M., Bray, S., & Carter, J. (2021). Modelling the disappearance of coarse woody debris, following a land clearing event. Carbon Balance Manage, 16, Article 36.

Pringle, M., O'Reagain, P., Stone, G., Carter, J., Orton, T., & Bushell, J. (2021). Using remote sensing to forecast forage quality for cattle in the dry savannas of northeast Australia. Ecological Indicators, 133, Article 108426.

Stone G., Zhang B., Carter J., Fraser G., Whish G., Paton C., & McKeon G. (2021) An online system for calculating and delivering long-term carrying capacity information for Queensland grazing properties. Part 1: Background and development. The Rangeland Journal, 43, 143-157.

Zhang B., Fraser G., Carter J., Stone G., Irvine S., Whish G., Willcocks J., & McKeon G. (2021). An online system for calculating and delivering long-term carrying capacity information for Queensland grazing properties. Part 2: Modelling and outputs. The Rangeland Journal, 43, 159-172.

Barnetson, J., Phinn, S., & Scarth P. (2020) Estimating plant pasture biomass and quality from UAV imaging across Queensland’s rangelands. AgriEngineering. 2020; 2(4):523-543.

Bremhorst, M. (2020). Three essays on digital representation and decision making: Theory-driven study, data-driven study, and integration. (Doctoral dissertation, UQ Business School).

Cobon, D., Stone, G., Carter, J., McKeon, G., Zhang, B., & Heidemann, H. (2020). Native pastures and beef cattle show a spatially variable response to a changing climate in Queensland, Australia, European Journal of Agronomy,  114, Article 126002.

Cobon, D., Kouadio, L., Mushtaq, S., Jarvis, S., Carter, J., Stone, G., & Davis, P. (2019). Evaluating the shifts in rainfall and pasture-growth variabilities across the pastoral zone of Australia during 1910–2010. Crop and Pasture Science, 70(7), 634-647.

Dalal, R. C., & Carter, J. O. (2019). Soil organic matter dynamics and carbon sequestration in Australian tropical soils. In J. M. Kimble & B. A. Stewart (Eds.), Global climate change and tropical ecosystems (pp. 283–314). CRC Press.

Irvine, S., & Holloway, C. (2019). Spatial grazing land management land types of Queensland: Review and amendments (Version 5.4). Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland.

Owens, J., Carter, J., Fraser, G., Cleverly, J., Hutley, L., & Barnetson, J. (2019). Improving evapotranspiration estimation in pasture and native vegetation models using flux tower data, remote sensing and global optimisation. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.

Stone, G., Dalla Pozza, R., Carter J., & McKeon, G. (2019). Long Paddock: Climate risk and grazing information for Australian rangelands and grazing communities. The Rangeland Journal, 41, 225–232

Zhang B., & Carter J. (2018)  FORAGE – An online system for generating and delivering property-scale decision support information for grazing land and environmental management. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 150, 302-311

Fraser, G., Rohde, K., & Silburn, M. (2017). Fertiliser management effects on dissolved inorganic nitrogen in runoff from Australian sugarcane farms. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189(8), Article 409.

Fraser G. W., & Stone G. S. (2016) The effect of soil and pasture attributes on rangeland infiltration rates in northern Australia. The Rangeland Journal 38, 245-259.

Schmidt, M., Carter, J., Stone, G., & O’Reagain, P. (2016). Integration of Optical and X-Band Radar Data for Pasture Biomass Estimation in an Open Savannah Woodland, Remote Sensing. 2016; 8(12):989.

Day, K.A., Ahrens, D.G. and Peacock A. (Issued monthly 2001–2015). Queensland summer rainfall (November to March) in relation to sea-surface temperature in the previous autumn and winter. Seasonal Pacific Ocean Temperature Analysis – 1 (SPOTA–1), www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au. To obtain the password and gain access to the SPOTA-1 reports, visit the SPOTA-1 web site for more information.

Bastin, G., Carter, J., Tickle, P., Stone, G., Trevithick, R., O’Reagain, P. J., Phelps, D. G., Cowley, R. A., Pringle, M., Scanlan, J. C., & Hoffmann, M. B. (2015). Remotely sensed and modelled pasture biomass, land condition and the potential to improve grazing-management decision tools across the Australian rangelands. Meat and Livestock Australia Limited. [Executive summary] / [Final report — Volume 1]

Carter, J., Stone, G., Trevithick, R., O’Reagain, P., Phelps, D., Cowley, R., Pringle, M., Scanlan, J., & Hoffman, M. (2015). Estimating pasture total standing biomass (TSDM) from Landsat fractional cover (Final report—Volume 2, Project ERM.0098). Meat and Livestock Australia Limited.

Henley, B.J., Gergis, J., Karoly, D.J., Power, S.B., Kennedy, J., & Folland, C. K. (2015). A tripole index for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. Climate Dynamics, 45(11-12), 3077–3090.

Star, M., Rolfe, J., Long, P., Whish, G., & Donaghy, P. (2015). Improved grazing management practices in the catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: does climate variability influence their adoption by landholders? The Rangeland Journal, 37(5), 507-515.

Bastin, G., Denham, R., Scarth, P., Sparrow, A., & Chewings, V. (2014). Remotely-sensed analysis of ground-cover change in Queensland’s rangelands, 1988–2005. The Rangeland Journal, 36(2), 191–204.

Henry, B., Conant, R., Carter, J., Droulez, V., & Grace, P. (2013). Increasing food production sustainably in a changing climate: Understanding the pressures and potential. In Q. Farmar-Bowers, V. Higgins, & J. Millar (Eds.), Food security in Australia (pp. 227–248). Springer.