Overview
Background
Dr Jim Watson is Principal Scientist (Remote Sensing) at the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment, and a member of the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (https://www.jrsrp.org.au/).
He designs and leads research projects for monitoring native vegetation, with a focus on algorithms for extracting information from satellite datasets and aerial photography.
Jim received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland. He has previously worked on the statistical inference of network interactions at the School of Computing (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), crop-climate modelling at the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (University of Leeds), and agricultural proximal sensing at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (University of Queensland).
He is a contributing author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR5), has developed a number of novel feature detection algorithms, and is experienced in high performance computing.
Availability
- Dr Jim Watson is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Remote Sensing
I am currently investigating methods for analysing land use history from Landsat and Sentinel satellite data.
Works
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2014
Conference Publication
Exploring synergies in field, regional and global yield impact studies
Koehler, Ann-Kristin, Challinor, Andrew and Watson, James (2014). Exploring synergies in field, regional and global yield impact studies. CropM International Symposium and Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 10-12 February 2014. Oslo, Norway: FACCE MACSUR.
2014
Conference Publication
Measuring the impact of climate and yield data errors on regional scale crop models
Watson, James and Challinor, Andrew (2014). Measuring the impact of climate and yield data errors on regional scale crop models. CropM International Symposium and Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 10-12 February 2014. Oslo, Norway: FACCE MACSUR.
2013
Conference Publication
Towards metrics for using process-based and statistical models to project regional-scale crop responses to climate
Watson, James and Challinor, Andrew (2013). Towards metrics for using process-based and statistical models to project regional-scale crop responses to climate. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2013.
2011
Conference Publication
Quantifying the impact of input data uncertainties in regional scale crop-climate modeling
Watson, James and Challinor, Andrew (2011). Quantifying the impact of input data uncertainties in regional scale crop-climate modeling. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, 5-9 December, 2011.
2011
Conference Publication
Towards improved crop-climate projections: the role of calibration and weather data
Challinor, Andrew, Hawkins, Ed and Watson, James (2011). Towards improved crop-climate projections: the role of calibration and weather data. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, San Francicso, CA, United States, 5-9 December 2011.
2008
Journal Article
Software engineering for artificial life, complex systems, and agent-based distillation
Watson, James, Abbass, Hussein A., Lokan, Chris and Lindsay, Peter (2008). Software engineering for artificial life, complex systems, and agent-based distillation. Complexity International, 12, 1-13.
2008
Journal Article
Modeling the fitness of plant morphologies across three levels of complexity
Watson, James, Hanan, Jim and Wiles, Janet (2008). Modeling the fitness of plant morphologies across three levels of complexity. Biosystems, 94 (1-2), 182-190. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.05.023
2007
Conference Publication
Computational techniques for modeling complex biological systems
Watson, James, Wakabayashi, Mark, Moore, Jared, Sanin Montoya, Andres, Willadsen, Kai, Geard, Nic, Bradley, Daniel and Wiles, Janet (2007). Computational techniques for modeling complex biological systems. Complex 07: 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-5 July, 2007. Canberra, ACT, Australia: COSNet.
2007
Conference Publication
Interactively exploring distributed computational models of biology
Watson, James and Wiles, Janet (2007). Interactively exploring distributed computational models of biology. Complex 07: 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-5 July, 2007. Canberra, ACT, Australia: COSNet.
2007
Conference Publication
Dsweep: A lightweight tool for distributed parameter sweeps
Watson, J., Maetschke, S. and Wiles, J. (2007). Dsweep: A lightweight tool for distributed parameter sweeps. Seventh International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 2007), Oxford, United Kingdom, 29-31 August 2007. Brno, Czech Republic: Tribun EU.
2006
Other Outputs
From genotypes to phenotypes and back again : modeling the interaction between individual behaviour and evolution
Watson, James Robert (2006). From genotypes to phenotypes and back again : modeling the interaction between individual behaviour and evolution. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/158254
2005
Book Chapter
Towards a network pattern language for complex systems
Watson, J., Hawkins, J., Bradley, D., Dassanayake, D., Wiles, J. and Hanan, J. (2005). Towards a network pattern language for complex systems. Recent Advances In Artificial Life. (pp. 309-317) Shatin, Hong Kong: World Scientific Publishing. doi: 10.1142/9789812701497_0023
2005
Conference Publication
There's more to a model than code: understanding and formalizing in silico modeling experience
Wiles, Janet, Geard, Nicholas L., Watson, James, Willadsen, Kai, Mattick, John, Bradley, Daniel and Hallinan, Jennifer (2005). There's more to a model than code: understanding and formalizing in silico modeling experience. GECCO'05: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2005, Washington, DC, USA, 25-29 June, 2005. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/1102256.1102318
2005
Conference Publication
Towards a network pattern language for complex systems
Watson, J. R., Hawkins, J. C., Bradley, D. R., Dassanayake, D., Wiles, J. H. and Hanan, J. S. (2005). Towards a network pattern language for complex systems. Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL'05), Sydney, Australia, 5-9 December 2005. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
2005
Journal Article
Transient phenomena in learning and evolution: genetic assimilation and genetic redistribution
Wiles, Janet, Watson, James, Tonkes, Bradley and Deacon, Terrence (2005). Transient phenomena in learning and evolution: genetic assimilation and genetic redistribution. Artificial Life, 11 (1-2), 177-188. doi: 10.1162/1064546053279026
2004
Journal Article
Towards More Biological Mutation Operators in Gene Regulation Studies
Watson, James, Geard, Nicholas and Wiles, Janet (2004). Towards More Biological Mutation Operators in Gene Regulation Studies. BioSystems, 76 (1-3), 239-248. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.05.016
2004
Conference Publication
Software engineering for artificial life, complex systems, and agent-based distillation
Watson, J. R., Abbass, H., Lokan, C. and Lindsay, P. A. (2004). Software engineering for artificial life, complex systems, and agent-based distillation. The Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Complex Systems, Cairns, 6-10 December, 2004. Rockhampton: Central Queensland University.
2003
Conference Publication
Towards More Relevant Evolutionary Models: Integrating an Artificial Genome With a Developmental Phenotype
Watson, James, Wiles, Janet and Hanan, Jim (2003). Towards More Relevant Evolutionary Models: Integrating an Artificial Genome With a Developmental Phenotype. The 1st Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL 2003), Canberra, Australia, 6-7 December, 2003. Canberra, Australia: The University of New South Wales.
2002
Conference Publication
Stability and Task Complexity: A Neural Network Model of Evolution and Learning
Watson, James, Geard, Nicholas and Wiles, Janet H. (2002). Stability and Task Complexity: A Neural Network Model of Evolution and Learning. The 8th International Conference on Artificial Life (Artificial Life VIII), Sydney, Australia, 9-13 December, 2002. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
2002
Conference Publication
The rise and fall of learning: A neural network model of the genetic assimilation of aquired traits
Watson, J. R. and Wiles, J. H. (2002). The rise and fall of learning: A neural network model of the genetic assimilation of aquired traits. 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Hawaii, 12-17 May, 2002. Piscataway, NJ: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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