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The geospatial industry has quickly adapted to the Covid-19 crisis with a pivot to webinars to keep the wheels turning.
The dramatic spread of Covid-19 and attendant changes to human activity have stunned the world, with emergency social distancing and lockdown measures transforming business almost overnight. Ever-agile, thought leaders of the geospatial industry have rapidly adapted to online delivery to replace in-person training, conferences and lectures.
According to Emma Yates, marketing manager at 1Spatial, it’s incumbent upon organisations to adjust to these unprecedented circumstances as quickly as possible.
“What this challenging period has posed to us all is the question: Do we really need to be working from 9am until 5pm from the same office? It’s widely accepted that one of the major outcomes of Covid-19 for all major organisations is that overheads will be reduced by allowing employees the flexibility to work from their home environment,” she said.
Ms. Yates said that one of the positives of this period is the opportunity for people to upskill from home at an affordable price point through online content delivery mechanisms.
“Additionally, key events that we would typically need to travel to can now be accessed with far greater ease, and in fact — now hold potential for increased attendance by delivering these conferences and seminars online.”
So, let’s take a look at what’s out there.
Locate Connect
The Australasian geospatial industry’s premier annual event has launched Locate Connect, a digital program of speakers hand-picked from Locate20’s line up. Get involved — and find out what’s coming up in our events section.
YellowScan’s ‘From the air to the ground’ webinar
UAV scanning specialists YellowScan have just launched a webinar series, with the first episode running a live information session and demonstration session of their Fly&Drive product on June 18. Learn more and register here.
Blue Marble’s Global Mapper and LiDAR module training sessions
Blue Marble Geographics has been running two comprehensive online training courses in July and Augus, with the last module for its LiDAR module on August 12 (register here).
SSSI online event series
The Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute has been running a weekly webinar series on diverse topics — covering everything from the latest industry developments, coastal policy and how cadastral surveying can support Native Title.
Details of this series can be found on the SSSI Events page.
Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future webinar
Geoscience Australia will run a webinar discussing the recent expansion of the Exploring for the Future program. Learn more here.
UniSA and Oxford University Society SA Present: Machine-Made Histories
On September 3, Oxford University and the University of South Australia present a webinar on how we may approach a world in which algorithms determine our future prospects based on our digital histories. Learn more and register here.
TERN‘s Ecosytem Explorations seminar series
Autralia’s data-savvy land ecosystem observatory is running an online seminar series on their data products and how to get the most out of them. The next is titled ‘Introducing TERN Qld SuperSites and using TERN flux tower and satellite-derived data to improve evapotranspiration and groundcover modelling’. Phew! Register here.
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