Calendar

Oct
18
Thu
GeoRabble Sydney @ The Occidental Hotel
Oct 18 @ 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm

After too long an absence, we’re delighted to announce that GeoRabble Sydney will be back, on Thursday October 18th, from 6PM at the Occidental Hotel in York Street.

As usual, entry is free, and there will be pizza (courtesy of HERE Technologies)

Theme of this Rabble is “The Unusual Suspects” – celebrating the unusual, unsuspected, and surprising applications of geoinformation and -technology. Think using GPS for herding cattle, new uses of drones, photogrammetry in health, GIS on Mars, mapping in insurance and finance, to name just a few.

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We are looking for speakers who have an ‘unusual suspect’ story to tell, in under 10 minutes. Do you have a story to tell about a left-field application, please let us know via email: sydney@georabble.org.

We’ll be announcing speakers soon. Click here for updates.

Apr
16
Thu
The Outcome: SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon Webinar
Apr 16 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Outcome: SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon Webinar

Held on Sunday, 9th February, 2020, the SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon was a way for the national and international community to work together to map a total of 2,793,879 hectares affected by recent Australian bushfires with the focus being on burnt infrastructure. Join us for this Webinar to hear more about the initiative.

Speakers:

Dr Lesley Arnold (SSSI National Board Director) will give an overview of the Map-a-thon initiative and discuss overall logistics of planning; industry, government and NGO engagement; the challenges and overall execution of the event.

Nathan Eaton, Executive Director, NGIS Australia will give an overview of the technical set-up of this mammoth Map-a-thon and highlight some of the challenges and triumphs experienced.

This is a free event open to those who participated in the Map-a-thon or are involved in the surveying and spatial community.

Details about how to join the Webinar will be emailed to you prior to the event.

To read more about the SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon see the news item here

Feb
7
Wed
IGNSS 2024 conference @ UNSW Sydney
Feb 7 – Feb 9 all-day
IGNSS 2024 conference @ UNSW Sydney

The IGNSS Association’s biennial international GNSS conference will return to UNSW Sydney from 7 to 9 February, 2024, where it will celebrate the first half-century of GNSS and look ahead to the next 50 years.

IGNSS 2024 will bring together experts, policy makers and emerging leaders from across the globe to examine the latest advances, present cutting edge research and discuss policy, market development and infrastructure.

The conference will also showcase Australia and New Zealand’s Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN), along with developments by other countries across the Asia-Pacific.

Topics to be covered at the conference will include:

  • Autonomy on land, air, sea and in space
  • Aviation and avionics
  • Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Machine guidance applications in agriculture, construction and mining
  • Maritime applications
  • Uncrewed aerial systems
  • Space applications of PNT in Earth orbit and for lunar and Martian exploration
  • Positioning infrastructure
  • GNSS vulnerability, resilience and risk
  • Interference detection and mitigation
  • Policies and standards
  • SBAS and other augmentations
  • Datums and geodesy
  • National and international GNSS developments
  • Emerging application areas for GNSS
  • Key industries and their reliance on GNSS
  • The multi-GNSS era
  • Cyber security in PNT applications and infrastructure
  • Alternative PNT
  • State of the art in PNT algorithms and software development
  • GNSS aiding and sensor fusion
  • Positioning in GNSS denied environments
  • Development of GNSS receiver hardware and firmware
  • Precise position using smartphones

The organisers are encouraging early career researchers and industry representatives to present their work. The abstract submission process will open soon — keep an eye on the IGNSS website for announcements.

Image courtesy Lockheed-Martin

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