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The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference (IAG2017) is the annual meeting of the Institute of Australian Geographers, a non-profit organisation representing geographers and aiming to promote and advance the discipline of geography. Participants from academic, non-profit, government, business, research, and other institutional backgrounds are encouraged to attend.

This year’s conference is being hosted by The University of Queensland on the St Lucia campus. This year’s conference theme is ‘Geography Counts’, stressing the role of geography in informing policy from a holistic, global perspective. The organisers have stressed the breadth of the discipline, and welcome participation across all sub-disciplines, and from those using a diversity of methodologies. They hope that both geographers and non-geographers from Australasia and beyond attend and contribute.

How do cities become resilient, and how do you measure it? What are the hidden costs of cheap buildings? Can we increase density without losing green space? Can we grow food on rooftops? And what can cities and sub-national governments do when national governments don’t want a piece of the climate action? All this and more are on the agenda of the Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne this July.

“In Australia, we’ve just come through Cyclone Debbie, and seen severe storms and flooding across the Eastern states,” says Brendan Gleeson, Director of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and Summit co-convenor.

“We urgently need to safeguard our cities, towns and their people, in Australia and across the planet. The Ecocity World Summit program is designed to bring leading thinkers, researchers and practitioners together to share the evidence, strategies and tools we need to keep our cities liveable and sustainable in the face of global challenges.”

The Ecocity World Summit brings leading international thinkers to Australia to share their expertise, including:

• Mr Mark Twidell, Managing Director, Tesla (Asia-Pacific)
• Dr Debra Roberts: Climate Change Adviser to ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability (South Africa)
• Mr Aromar Revi: Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
• Mr Rachmat Whitoelar: Indonesian President’s Special Envoy for Climate Change
• Prof Harriet Bulkeley: Professor of Geography, Durham University (UK)
• The Hon Al Gore: Former US Vice President and Chair of The Climate Reality Project

The program includes three streams—Urban Leadership, Academic, and City Practices—tailoring sessions and workshops to the interests of people from government, university, business and community sectors.

Join fellow infrastructure professionals and Bentley technical experts at an upcoming seminar near you. Project leads, managers, engineers, and designers eager to stay ahead of the curve will learn about the practical applications of reality modeling and workflows from conception through construction.

You won’t want to miss these one-day seminars. Subject-matter experts will showcase how Bentley applications enable you to create a comprehensive modeling environment, leverage reality-capture technologies, and automate workflows across disciplines. Discover how the connected data environment ensures the integrity of information throughout the lifecycle of your project and across an accumulating portfolio of projects.

Hosted by ISV, 2017 Surveying Expo is the annual Victorian surveyors event and includes the Young Surveyors Breakfast and Awards Gala Dinner.

The Institution of Surveyors Victoria (ISV) is the peak professional association for land surveyors in Victoria. The ISV has existed since 1874.

The Institution of Surveyors Victoria services the professional needs of surveyors by conducting seminars and workshops, and circulating technical and other information through its various publications and journals. ISV provides input into the educational standards for surveyors, and into the legislation affecting the activities of surveyors. It also provides government and the community with the collective professional opinion of the surveying profession.

FOSS4G is the acronym for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. FOSS4G Europe 2017 is the premier Open Source Geospatial regional event in Europe.

The third edition of the FOSS4G Europe conference will be held at the National School of Geographic Sciences (ENSG) in Marne La Vallé, France, from July 18th to 22nd, 2017. The conference aims to bring FOSS4G users and developers together and to foster interactions within the European geospatial communities.

Earth Observation (EO)/Remote Sensing (RS) is an ever-growing field of investigation where computer vision, machine learning, and signal/image processing meet. The general objective is to provide large-scale, homogeneous information about processes occurring at the surface of the Earth exploiting data collected by airborne and spaceborne sensors. Earth Observation implies the need for multiple inference tasks, ranging from detection to registration, data mining, multi-sensor, multi-resolution, multi-temporal, and multi-modality fusion, to name just a few. It comprises ample applications like location-based services, online mapping services, large-scale surveillance, 3D urban modelling, navigation systems, natural hazard forecast and response, climate change monitoring, virtual habitat modelling, etc. The shear amount of data needs highly automated workflows.

This workshop, held at the CVPR 2017 conference, aims at fostering collaboration between the computer vision and Earth Observation communities to boost automated interpretation of EO data and to raise awareness inside the vision community for this highly challenging and quickly evolving field of research with a big impact on human society, economy, industry, and the planet.

The event is jointly organised by the Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee  of the IEEE-GRSS  and by the ISPRS Commission II “Photogrammetry”  and is sponsored by IEEE-GRSS.

Submissions are invited from all areas of computer vision and image analysis relevant for, or applied to, environmental remote sensing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Super-resolution in the spectral and spatial domain
• Hyperspectral and ultra-spectral image processing
• 3D reconstruction from aerial and satellite images
• Feature extraction and learning
• Semantic classification of UAV / aerial and satellite images and videos
• Deep learning tailored for Earth observation
• Domain adaptation and concept drift
• Human-in-the-loop
• Multi-resolution, multi-temporal, multi-sensor, multi-modal processing
• Public benchmark data sets: training data standards, testing & evaluation metrics, and open source research and development.

All manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind review process. Accepted EARTHVISION papers will be included in the USB proceedings of CVPR and submitted to IEEE for possible publication in IEEE Xplore. Publication in IEEE Xplore will be granted only if the paper meets IEEE publicaiton policies and procedures.

After a successful event at the Sunshine Coast Brewery the QSSA will be running a free seminar for QSSA members at the craft beer specialist venue ‘The Bench’ in Cleveland.

There will be four speakers presenting between 3pm and 5pm and you can have a ‘crafty one’ while you are educated on the surveying and spatial industry as well as the craft brewing industry!

The 2017 World Congress on Unmanned Systems Engineering offers a chance to network with Unmanned Systems researchers, scientists, business professionals and end-users in a relaxing atmosphere. The Congress will attract visitors from all around the world representing excellent opportunities to showcase innovations in drone technology.

The 2017 WUEng promotes the advancement of the applied science, technology and operation of unmanned systems through the dissemination of cutting-edge research. The Congress provides a forum for researchers, scientists, business professionals and industry representatives World-wide to present the latest innovations and future research directions in Unmanned Systems Engineering.

The Congress aims to encapsulate a distinctive international flavour. Participants representing 30 to 40 different countries are expected in attendance.

This year’s ACS NSW Annual State Conference will be held at NSW Parliament House on Wednesday 2 August. The line-up of high-profile speakers will cover important business topics and plans for NSW.
The speaker line-up for this event just gets better and better each year.  Martin Lakos, Division Director for Macquarie Wealth Management will provide an overview of the economic outlook for the surveying profession, while Mark McCrindle from McCrindle will be presenting on the very relevant topic – recruiting, retaining and motivating diverse generations.

Join us as Mark Coure MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure, updates delegates on infrastructure plans for NSW and The Hon, Gregory Pearce provides an overview of the Aboriginal cultural sites Titles Project.

This conference will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday August 2 at NSW Parliament House.  It will be followed by dinner, with the Hon. Victor Dominello MP as the dinner speaker.  Partners are welcome to attend the dinner.