RPAS in Australia Skies is back for 2023. The conference is the Australian Association for Uncrewed Systems’ (AAUS) main event for the year and has established itself as a landmark event for the Australian drone industry, drawing interest from key government personnel, representatives from the regulatory and safety bodies, defence force, RPAS and UTM representatives, end users and academia.

The hybrid event will take place over two days and will include a combination of presentations and interactive panel discussions.

The conference will cover:

• RPAS related policy and regulatory updates from Australian and international government agencies.
• UAS Traffic Management, low-level airspace and integrated airspace systems
• Industry challenges and perspectives
• Continuing development of a professional and safe industry.
• Emerging technologies and innovative solutions enabling RPAS integration in Australian airspace.
• Emerging applications — benefits, viability and social acceptance
• Case studies of drone use and challenges in emergency services, infrastructure inspection, delivery, mining, and agriculture.

GeoSmart India returns in 2023 for its 23rd iteration, with a theme of ‘Geospatial Infrastructure and Digital Twins: Powering National Economy’.

This year, the focus will be on strengthening India’s ambition of becoming a trillion-dollar economy. Geospatial infrastructure and digital twins will play a pivotal role in empowering the nation’s economy, enabling measurement of what can be seen in order to make better decisions across all major sectors.

Featuring a spotlight on crowd-sourced bathymetry, the Map the Gaps Symposium 2023 will bring people together to learn, share and contribute to ocean discovery.

Held on behalf of GEBCO, this event draws global experts in ocean technology, science and policy to discuss deep and coastal ocean exploration, offshore surveying technology, policy, diversity, equity and inclusion, the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project and GEBCO alumni activities.

Participation is open to all, including industry professionals, explorers, authors, students, researchers, government representatives and emerging technologists. Participants can attend in person or online.

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.

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The annual Geo Connect Asia Show & Conferences offers a two day, in-person meeting place for ASEAN’s vibrant geospatial community. Bringing geospatial solutions to the heart of decision-making the event combines with technologies from the digital construction, drone and remote sensing markets.

Geo Connect Asia looks to host its ASEAN neighbours and build on a vibrant community as new technologies add new application tools to enable the Industry 4.0 Revolution. The emergence of AI, blockchain, IoT, robotics and UAVs create a new dynamic and platforms for a region well equipped to take on the challenges ahead.

The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Pacific PNT Conference is a global event dedicated to the cooperative development of positioning, navigation and timing technology and applications.

The conference attracts policy and technical leaders from Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, Australia, the United States and many other countries, who meet to discuss policy updates, receive program status updates and exchange technical information.

The conference will cover a wide range of topics:

• GNSS policy/status
• Polynesian navigation
• Aircraft navigation and surveillance
• Algorithms and methods
• Alternative navigation and signals of opportunity
• Aviation applications of GNSS
• Challenging navigation problems
• Emerging PNT consumer applications
• GNSS-R and GNSS-RO for environmental monitoring
• High-precision GNSS correction and monitoring networks
• Inertial navigation technology and applications
• Interference and spectrum
• Ionosphere monitoring with GNSS
• Natural hazards detection and other remote sensing applications
• Time and frequency distribution
• Space navigation technologies

Substantial discounts are available for early registrations.

The ROTORTECH Helicopter and Uncrewed Flight Exposition is the premier industry event for the Helicopter/Rotary Wing and RPAS/UAV/eVTOL community in Australia, New Zealand and the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

Held by AMDA Foundation with input from major industry supporter the Australian Helicopter Industry Association, ROTORTECH 2024 will provide a vital interface between industry, regulators and government, including:

• Operations and safety presentations
• Industry conferences
• Manufacturers technical workshops
• Industry exposition showcasing the products and services of helicopter and uncrewed flight related companies

ROTORTECH 2024 will host conferences by the AHIA and Australian Association for Uncrewed Systems (AAUS) and feature presentations by key rotary and uncrewed flight industry experts from Australia and the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

In 2024, the International GNSS Service (IGS) will celebrate 30 years of operational service, having commenced on 1 January 1994.

The University of Bern together with the partners from the CODE consortium — AIUB: Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern; swisstopo: Swiss Federal Office of Topography; BKG: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany; IAPG/TUM: Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University of Munich — invites the GNSS community to celebrate the IGS’ third decade with a symposium and workshop in Bern, Switzerland.

The in-person event is planned for the week from 1 to 5 July in 2024 and will take place in two parts: symposium (1-4 July) and workshop (4-5 July).

The IGS is a service of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), its Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), and a network member of the International Science Council (ISC) World Data System (WDS).