Spatial risk analysis is an exciting new field concerned with mapping and evaluating the spatial predictors of risk.  These may be related to topography or climate, or to manmade structures or communities.  They can also describe aspects of human behaviour and they often have important temporal components.

Spatial risk analysis has been applied extensively to evaluate the spread of emerging pests and diseases and other ecological risks.  It has also been used to evaluate the impacts associated with climate change, and to optimise market research and other spatially dependent business applications.

Spatial Simulation Modelling

Spatial simulation modelling is an important extension of spatial analysis, used to study systems or problems that are difficult to replicate using experiments.

Broadleaf Spatial Risk Analysis and Modelling Services

We can help you to:

• Incorporate spatial elements into existing risk management plans;
• Use spatial risk analysis or modelling to better understand the threats and opportunities your organisation faces; and
• Develop in-house skills in spatial analysis or modelling, so your organisation can stay on top of these exciting fields.

We also offer dynamic facilitation and powerful technical report writing capabilities.

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Broadleaf has specific expertise in spatial simulation modelling, including a lead role in an ambitious collaborative project that will see the development of a spatial simulation model for urban pandemic influenza, and to test the effectiveness of Australia's response strategies.

Please visit the AUSFLU web page for more information.

Our partners in this work, which is funded by the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, are

• the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry,
• the University of Melbourne
• and Curtin University of Technology.

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Click on this link for a recent newspaper article about the project which will use Tamworth as a test site.

TRAINING

Click on the image below to download a PDF containing details of a recent course led by Broadleaf Associate Director Sam Beckett: Spatial Simulation Modelling for Animal and Publich Health. 

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