Entrance deck, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View past kitchen windows and roof overhang to entrance deck to the south-west.

View from Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View of ocean and coastal vegetation

Timber cross-bracing, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

Detail view of timber cross-bracing to dining studio, as seen from upper living area.

Timber cross-bracing, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

Detail view of timber cross-bracing with polycarbonate sheeting behind as seen from upper level dining studio.

Upper circulation deck, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View along circulation deck to belvedere (deck) beyond.

Lower studio dining room, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View through courtyard to lower studio dining room, as seen from upper living area.

Lower studio dining room, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View through courtyard to lower studio dining room, as seen from upper living area.

Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

North elevation, deck below and belvedere above, as seen from path to beach.

Lower studio dining room, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View through courtyard to lower studio dining room, as seen from upper living area.

Internal cladding to north-east facade, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View of internal cladding to north-east facade as seen from dining studio.

Dining studio, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

View through courtyard to dining studio as seen from upper living room.

Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

North elevation, deck below and belvedere above, as seen from path to beach.

Cladding detail, Mooloomba House, Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island

Detail view of cladding to upper level dining studio.

Compiling a GIS database of tree farms on Leyte Island

As part of ACIAR project ASEM/2003/052, Improving Financial Returns to Smallholder Tree Farmers in the Philippines, plantations of timber trees in Leyte Island, the Philippines were located using a systematic survey of the island. The survey was undertaken in order to compile a database of plantations which could be used to guide the planning of project activities. In addition to recording a range of qualitative and quantitative information for each plantation, the survey spatially referenced each site using a Global Positioning System (GPS) to electronic maps of the island which were held in a Geographical Information System (GIS). Microsoft Excel and Mapsource® software were used as the software links between GPS coordinates and the GIS. Mapping of farm positions was complicated by different datums being used for maps of Leyte Island and this caused GPS positions to be displaced from equivalent positions on the map. Photos of the sites were hyperlinked to their map positions in the GIS in order to assist staff to recall site characteristics.