Australia

In an exciting step forward in how we access and use location data, the Digital Atlas of Australia beta was released to the public on 30 June 2023. The interactive, secure, and easy-to-use platform brings together, curates and connects trusted data from across government. Anyone, anywhere can explore, analyse and visualise data on Australia’s geography, ...

Griffith Agribusiness’ most recent recruit, Dr Zannie Langford, is set to take the lead on a new project, exploring climate change resilience strategies for seaweed farmers in Indonesia. Seaweed farming is Indonesia’s largest marine aquacultural industry, but the variability of ocean conditions and the impact of rainfall on seaweed production mean that it is already ...

“We need to use an external frame of reference when making measurements of the Earth’s position, tilt and speed of rotation, and that these supermassive black holes are our best indicator as they don’t really move.” These measurements, called Earth Orientation Parameters, are used by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellites to help geodesists understand ...

New South Wales’ digital twin will undergo extensive work over the next 12 months to bring to life its next set of features, with the state government to enlist the help of a third-party delivery partner to build out the platform. But with funding provided by the former Coalition government to deliver a 4D model ...

Ecopia AI and Woolpert have expanded their partnership to map Australia’s top metropolitan areas in 3D. The resulting vector maps will provide Woolpert’s Asia-Pacific clients with a detailed, accurate and up-to-date foundational layer of geospatial data that represents the dimensional world as we know it. This expanded partnership builds upon Ecopia and Woolpert’s previous collaborations. ...

SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat CRC) has launched a $7 million project to develop new autonomous spacecraft using artificial intelligence (AI). The three-year project, Spacecraft Autonomy and Onboard AI for Next Generation Space Systems, SCARLET-α, will bring together eight SmartSat partners. These partners include Airbus, Asension, Deakin University, Defence Science and Technology Group, Leonardo Australia, ...

Mainstream media outlets are reporting this morning that the federal government has cancelled the $1.2 billion National Space Mission for Earth Observation (NSMEO), for “budget repair” purposes. Reportedly, Australia will now have to continue to rely upon overseas partners for access to Earth observation data. The whole idea of the NSMEO was to reduce sovereign ...

The free Walks Near Me interactive digital map has thousands of opportunities to discover great public spaces across the state and create bespoke walking itineraries to visit them. The tool brings together spatial data from across the state into a single digital tool which can be found on the nsw.gov.au website and is optimised for ...

Dr Timothy Cadman has successfully secured the protection of local hardwood areas once primed for logging, including native forest belonging to the proposed Great Koala National Park along the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Dr Cadman has employed geographical information systems (GIS) for data mapping and analysis of the local environment, providing evidence ...

SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), an Australian space research centre, announced on the 23rd of May that they have launched a new research program: Maya Nula. This program intends to develop Australian satellite Earth Observation (EO) capability with space sensor technology to advance Australia’s agriculture industry. The SmartSat-led initiative will facilitate innovative research projects to ...

Vexcel has announced that, through its Vexcel Data Program, it will now provide free access to aerial imagery for government and commercial users in Australia and New Zealand through its web-based platform, Viewer. Announcing the initiative at the Locate23 conference in Adelaide, Ryan Bank, Managing Director of the Geospatial Insurance Consortium (an insurance industry partnership ...

To increase the confidence in, and usefulness of spatial cadastre data, the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) has produced a Standard for the Accuracy of Spatial Cadastres in Australia and New Zealand, along with a Supporting Document. The Standard establishes targets and a reporting framework for acceptable Positional Uncertainty (PU) for the horizontal ...

The Australian geospatial industry’s most important annual event, Locate, is on once again, this time in Adelaide from 10-12 May 2023 and with a distinctly spacey feel. With the city now recognised as the nation’s ‘space capital’ — home of the Australian Space Agency, the SmartSat CRC and numerous space-related companies — and with the ...

AirWorks and Nearmap have announced that Nearmap will join AirWorks’ newly launched data marketplace, AirWorks Automate. The marketplace is intended to be an ecosystem of geospatial data providers that aims to bridge the gap between data access, processing, and analytics, uniting it in a single platform. Through the agreement, AirWorks and joint Nearmap-AirWorks customers will ...

به گزارش روابط عمومی دانشگاه تهران، گروهی از محققان دانشگاه تهران در پژوهشی به سرپرستی دکتر سید کاظم علوی‌پناه نشان دادند که سایه اثرات منفی قابل ملاحظه‌ای بر اطلاعات خصوصیات سطح زمین استخراج شده از تصاویر ماهواره‌ای می‌گذارد. وی با بیان اینکه بررسی اثرات پدیده سایه بر روی داده‌های دریافتی از تصاویر ماهواره‌ها حاصل یک ...

Neara, a leading climate tech software platform and provider of 3D interactive simulation models of critical infrastructure, today announced its revolutionary automated LiDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) classification solution will be available through a new self-service offering. Utility companies, and geospatial teams that capture and classify LiDAR for utilities, will now have easy access to ...

AMSA informed that vessels navigating in Australian and New Zealand waters can now access a Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) called SouthPAN. SouthPAN provides accurate, reliable and instant augmentation of PNT information across all of Australia and New Zealand. For example, the horizontal accuracy provided is several times better than the current unaugmented GNSS accuracy of ...

NOAA and two of Australia’s leading science agencies announced a formal agreement Tuesday to work together to advance Pacific Ocean exploration and mapping, a major priority for NOAA and of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., Geoscience Australia ...

Australijska firma Position Partners zaprezentowała odbiornik satelitarny SmartSurveyor, który służy nie tylko do zwykłych pomiarów satelitarnych, ale także w pracach fotogrametrycznych. Producent promuje to rozwiązanie hasłem „3 w 1”. Jego pierwszym zastosowaniem jest możliwość integracji z popularnymi dronami DJI Mavic serii 2 i 3 oraz Phantom 4. W tym przypadku ciekawą cechą urządzenia jest brak ...

NGIS has collaborated with a range of organisations on the Australian Environmental Health (AusEnHealth) Strategic Planning Digital Twin project. The project aims to understand the landscape of environmental health data collection around the country. By 2030, the direct damage of costs to health is expected to be between $3 billion and $6 billion per year, ...

For decades, satellites have been keeping a watchful eye on Earth, relaying increasingly precise, detailed and timelier information than ever before. Armed with the right mathematical tools, we can use this information to anticipate and mitigate climate extremes and associated hazards—from floods to landslides. So why isn’t this happening now? To harness its full potential, ...

Researchers at The University of Queensland have used satellites with radar imaging sensors to see through clouds and map flooding and say the technique could provide faster, more detailed information to keep communities safe. Professor Noam Levin from UQ’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences said the project combined images from optical satellites with information ...

Transgrid has undertaken extensive 3D laser scanning, aerial imagery and helicopter inspections of 13,000km of transmission lines to support bushfire safety in the lead-up to Australia’s summer. The inspections were undertaken as part of the transmission network provider’s annual safety programme to reduce the risk of bushfires and their effects on the transmission network.

The Composite Gazetteer of Australia is a cloud-based system allowing users to easily discover, interrogate and download place names information from Australia and its external territories. It is developed as a partnership between contributing agencies of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and is built on modern infrastructure providing automated ingestion and validation, ...

Images taken from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission have resulted in an Australian local government organization being fined for illegal clearing and breaching environmental protection laws. The Shire of Lake Grace council in Western Australia was fined AUD75,000 after being found guilty of unauthorized clearing of native vegetation and was also ordered to ...

Land Tasmania has released a new version of its Aerial Photo Viewer (APV), which enables people to search, view and download free of charge, images from the extensive aerial record of Tasmania managed by the agency. The images span the period from 1945 to the present, and both historic and newly captured imagery is continually ...

The prospect of Australian farms, mines and essential services using autonomous and remotely operated equipment ranging from combine harvesters to rescue and retrieval drones has inched closer to reality after a deal for a 50-fold increase in satellite positioning accuracy was inked. Known as the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN), the $1.18 billion deal between ...

NSW’s DCS Spatial Services latest planning system update has seen the enabling of 3D digital mapping for subdivision and strata plans through the NSW Planning Portal. The digitisation of subdivision and strata-related land developments is intended to transform how applicants and assessing authorities visualise applications via the Portal. “Thanks to the work in connecting subdivision ...

Central Coast residents can now stay up to date on more than 350 key infrastructure projects thanks to a new interactive map. Central Coast Council Administrator, Rik Hart, said Council is investing $176M in the community, roads and other urban infrastructure, water and sewer, waste, environmental and sport and recreation projects. “This map includes the ...

The eagerly anticipated Digital Twin Victoria (DTV) platform is now live, following completion of its first development phase. The digital replica of the state is being built in partnership with Australia’s National Science Agency CSIRO. The platform is just one piece of the DTV program, a $37.4 million investment by the Victorian Government in digital ...