The recipients of the 2021 APSEA South Australia award were announced at the recent celebratory dinner in Adelaide.
The awards are presented by the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) and the SIBA|GITA- Spatial Industries Business Association.
The SSSI individual award winners are:
- Professional of the year: Mark Deuter (Aerometrex)
- Future leader of the year: Jennifer Brindle (Precision Hydrographic Services (PHS))
- Education development: David Bruce (University of South Australia & Flinders University
- Postgraduate student: Amelie Jeanneau (University of Adelaide)
- Undergraduate student: Gemma Sansom (University of Adelaide)
The SIBA|GITA- Spatial Industries Business Association industry award winners are:
- Technical excellence: Aerometrex (for LIDAR and Deep Learning-derived Permeable and Impermeable Ground Surface Classification, Metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia)
- Environment and sustainability: Aerometrex and City of Unley (Very high-resolution LIDAR-derived tree canopy change detection to explore financial measures to improve tree canopy cover on private land, The City of Unley, Adelaide)
- Community impact: Tonkin and Kangaroo Island Council (Kangaroo Island Fire Damage Assessment 2020)
- Spatial enablement: Tonkin and Port Pirie regional council (Port Pirie Regional Council Patrol Grading Applications)
- Innovation – small business: GP One Consulting (Landscape Online Information System)
You can read the full award citations on the APSEA website.
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