{"id":6207,"date":"2023-10-17T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccma.vic.gov.au\/?page_id=6207"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:28:39","slug":"mapping-vegetation-changes-on-reedy-lake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccma.vic.gov.au\/waterways\/waterway-management\/water-for-the-environment\/lower-barwon-wetlands\/mapping-vegetation-changes-on-reedy-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Vegetation Changes on Reedy Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n
Reedy Lake is listed as part of the Port Phillip Bay and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site, providing valuable habitat to birds and threatened species like the Australasian Bittern.<\/p>\n
Changes to the amount of water entering Reedy Lake<\/strong> from 1970 until 2016 altered the natural cycle<\/strong> of the wetland. Since then, a change in the management of water inflows has allowed Reedy Lake to begin a rebalancing process that will help the diversity of habitats thrive.<\/p>\n Water Technology, Lloyd Environmental and Care Environmental worked with the Corangamite CMA to answer this question of how do changing water levels impact the types of vegetation in wetlands.<\/p>\n Furthermore, this project set out to understand whether the Ramsar Limits of Acceptable Change<\/a><\/strong> (LAC) and the environmental watering objective<\/strong> are being met using Water Technology\u2019s innovative satellite imagery and machine learning resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This was analyzed by determining if the ecological characteristics of the wetland and the range in vegetation types have been maintained through water regime management.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n