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Figure 3. Australian Plague locust habitat (shown as shaded areas) map (Courtesy: Dr.
Hunter and Mr. Deveson, Australian Plague Locust Commission, Canberra, Australia).
In Australia, locust monitoring and control are executed by a federal agency, the
Australian Plague Locust Commission (APLC), specifically created for these
purposes. This facilitated the introduction of the meteorological remotely sensed
data into the practice of locust forecasting (Bryceson & Cannon, 1990; Bryceson,
1993; Bryceson, Hunter, & Hamilton, 1993; Hamilton & Bryceson, 1993). Multiple
information sources, including remotely sensed vegetation and weather data as well
as locust infestation data, were integrated into a decision support system developed
at APLC (McCulloch, Bie, & Spurgin, 1994; Deveson & Hunter, 2000, 2002;
Deveson, 2001).
Locust swarm migrations were tracked in Australia by active remote sensing in
the form of vertically-looking RADAR (Drake, Harman, & Hunter, 1998; Drake
et al., 2001; Deveson, Drake, Hunter, Walker, & Wang, 2005). The methodology