Spatial Source

If we are ever to colonise Mars and grow food, we will need to know where the best locations are.

Last year alone, the sector produced an output of around $193 billion and employed 4 million people.

This PGRSC webinar will canvass ways to boost disaster preparedness and climate resilience across the Pacific.

GIS in Local Government Day is coming up in early November, as part of the LGITSA Annual Conference.

Used by more than 74,000 people each month, SEED has become an essential environmental data platform.

The program will lead to a Cert IV in Surveying and Spatial Information Services and possible employment.

VisLab is testing how robotic and spatial capture tech could support accessibility at UQ’s St Lucia campus.

It’s happy birthday to the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the Uni of Melbourne.

The unit combines next-gen LiDAR, dual 20 MP cameras, an expanded field of view and a choice of nav system.

Brady, the former Location Information Director with the ABS, has been awarded the Lars H.

The program for the YEP sessions for November’s Locate26 conference in Melbourne, has been released.

The Global Mapper subscription offering is available in three tiers that bring separate products and services together.

It’s all geospatial job vacancies this week, from spatial analysts to surveyors, town planners to scientists.

The seabed mapping initiative will be strengthened through integration into Australia’s national geo agency.

The sole Suncatcher, single Tanager-2 and 18 SuperDove EO satellites take Planet’s tally to 718.

The US General Services Administration is having ongoing problems complying with its data obligations.

The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has threatened gaol and fines for unauthorised downloads of shapefiles.

Renamed from The Survey Association to the Geospatial Survey Association, the body has released a new ‘accord’.

Eight in 10 cities in Great Britain are already highly vulnerable to urban heat islands, and it’s only getting worse.

TAFE NSW is helping build a pipeline of surveyors needed to deliver the nation’s new homes and infrastructure.

Drones are being used in New Zealand to track down individual introduced ‘wilding pine’ pest trees.

NAVAID in Western Australia and Laser & Survey Supplies in Queensland will distribute Feima’s SLAM200 Series.

The Australian firm is establishing a new positioning, navigation and timing Centre of Excellence in Alabama.

There is usually one recommendation from an audit that keeps reappearing.

The study suggests the Earth’s shape is becoming slightly less flattened, a finding important for climate change.

Aussie company Trendspek provides software that brings together data from drones, LiDAR, photogrammetry and BIM.

Covering 450,356 building footprints, the Index aims to help decision-makers assess wildfire exposure risk.

The training enabled staff and students to survey water catchment topography for use in catchment modelling.

The spatial twin combines 3D scanning, point clouds and arrays of environmental and spatial sensors.

VertiGIS’ acquisition of 1Spatial’s worldwide business and operations is now officially complete as of 1 Oct.

A complete rebuild of the app that has served Australian field operations teams for 15 years.

This week: Upcoming events, lots of spatial and surveying jobs, titles and registry updates, and more.

The country’s first operational inundation forecasting system will benefit communities and first responders.