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Company & Industry

Mappers wanted: Oceania Map Challenge

HERE Technologies seeks entrants to their Oceania Map Challenge competition.

GIS & Data

Best of the blogs

Spatial Source’s fortnightly round-up of the best in cartography, spatial analysis and creative applications of GIS.

3D & BIM

Sydney startup launches new LiDAR scanner design

New scanner design uses tunable-wavelength laser and prism-like optics to eliminate moving parts.

GIS & Data

UNSW harnesses Google and NASA data for ecosystem mapping app

REMAP enables simple and swift analysis of Landsat data for ecosystem monitoring.

Company & Industry

Airbus Zephyr: Drone or satellite?

West Australian airfield chosen as first launch and recovery site for production stratospheric UAV.

GIS & Data

Breathe easy: processing of Sentinel-5P atmospheric data begins

The highest-resolution atmospheric data collected from space is now being incorporated into forecast modelling.

GIS & Data

NASA's push to drive commercial data use

Release of remote sensing toolkit aimed at driving commercial uptake of NASA-produced Earth Observation data.

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How do AEC Firms in Australia easily access engineering workforce at a lower cost?

Aidedo was founded based on the practical experience of CEO Aiden Tong while studying and working with many Civil Engineering and Land Surveying firms in developed countries.

GIS & Data

Australia's new space race

Following the formation of the Australian Space Agency this month, a #longread on the burgeoning potential of Australia's space-reliant industries.

New Zealand geospatial awards recipients announced

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Women Surveyors Summit

Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS

IPWEA International Asset Management Summit

2026 Advancing Earth Observation Forum

Locate26 Conference / 10th Digital Earth Summit

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