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MNG LandPartners has a job opportunity open for a GIS Analyst to support its engineering and infrastructure operations, with part-time and full-time options available. The company is heavily involved in surveying and titling, mapping and GIS, reality capture and 3D modelling.
The Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development has a job opening for a Principle Surveyor. The role would suit a cadastral surveyor who is comfortable leading and managing multidisciplinary project teams and implementing changing technologies.
Hanlons Consulting in NSW is on the hunt for trainees, engineering surveyors and graduates to assist on rail projects. The work is based in Tamworth, but applicants would need to be ready to travel, and also be good communicators and problem solvers. If this sounds like you, get in touch via Hanlons’ website.
The team behind the effort to launch a Secure, Hardened, Integrity-Enhanced, Location and Timing Defence (SHIELD) CRC will hold a briefing webinar on 9 December. This will be the final industry engagement workshop before the close of partner commitments. The webinar will be of interest to those who work in the fields of critical infrastructure (energy, transport, telecoms, finance), sensors, timing systems, advanced navigation technology, AI, cyber security, defence, autonomous systems, space systems, LEO PNT, GNSS resilience and more.
Women & Leadership Australia is offering scholarships to support women to access world-class leadership and workplace skill development programs. Partial scholarships ranging from $700 to $3,000 are available to support women at all levels, from entry-level to senior executives. Applications close 12 December 2025, unless allocated earlier.
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is offering a limited number of travel grants for those hoping to attend the next ISPRS Congress, which will be held in Toronto from 4 to 11 July 2026. The grants will be offered to deserving young paper authors and other officially designated delegates, especially from developing countries. Applications close on 12 January.
Registration is open for the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) XXVII Congress, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 24 to 29 May 2026. Australian geospatial professionals who attended the FIG Working Week held in conjunction with Australia’s LOCATE conference in Brisbane earlier this year, will testify that major FIG events are fantastic opportunities to meet likeminded colleagues from around the world and cross-pollinate ideas.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced that the next Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-27) and World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-27) will take place in Shanghai, China, from 11 to 15 October and 18 October to 12 November 2027, respectively. “World Radiocommunication Conferences are essential to shaping the future of global communications,” according to Mario Maniewicz, Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau. “WRC-27 in Shanghai will guide the evolution of radiocommunication services on Earth and in space — for broadband connectivity, safety of life, and space and Earth observation.”
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced a new partnership with the General Oceans Foundation to hasten progress on completing the mapping of the world’s ocean floor. The Foundation is the philanthropic arm of General Oceans, a collection of marine technology companies that offer solutions in imaging, robotics and data collection.
Finally, and still with Seabed 2030, check out this comparison. On the left is a bathymetric map (courtesy of NOAA) of Hawaiʻi made in 1885 using soundings, while on the right is the same location mapped using modern techniques encompassing thousands of data points per second (GEBCO grid).
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