Australian tree crop severe weather app successfully tracks its first tropical cyclone in North Queensland
A new Australian tree crop weather monitoring app has been able to track its first major weather event since launching.
The Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre (AARSC) at the University of New England launched its Australian Tree Crop Map: Severe Weather App last year, which covers the growing region of many horticulture crops. Last week it was used successfully after North Queensland was hit by Tropical Cyclone Imogen. There was much excitement in the office as our app tracked its first tropical cyclone event, since launching in November 2020, Co-developer of the app, Craig Shephard said. TC Imogen crossed the Queensland coastline just north of Karumba at 9pm Sunday 3rd January. It was downgraded to a tropical low on Monday 4th. The now ex-TC Imogen tracked east toward the major horticulture growing regions of North Queensland. Given the intense rainfall associat