Using satellite imagery to evaluate precontact Aboriginal foraging habitats in the Australian Western Desert

Abstract Modern satellite imaging offers radical new insights of the challenges and opportunities confronting traditional Aboriginal ecology and land use in Australia’s Western Desert. We model the likely dynamics of historic and precontact desert land use using Earth observation data to identify th...

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Main Authors: W. Boone Law, Peter Hiscock, Bertram Ostendorf, Megan Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89642-1