Appointment of General Manager for The Office of Spatial Policy

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

Ms Helen Owens has been appointed to the position of General Manager, Office of Spatial Policy. Helen is joining OSP from the Department of Defence and will commence in mid January. Helen Owens is graduate of Monash University with a Bachelor of Business. Helen joined the Department of Defence in 2004 as the […]

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Murray Darling proposed Basin Plan released

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

The Murray Darling Basin Authority has released its proposed Basin Plan, which outlines the future for water and environmental assets in the area. The release of the draft begins a 20-week consultation process allowing communities provide feedback. The Basin Plan states how much water is needed to ensure healthy rivers within the […]

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LiDAR helps study NZ Alpine Fault

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

An aerial survey of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault, which runs almost the entire length of the South Island, using LiDAR revealed subtle features in the landscape formed by fault movement over hundreds and thousands of years. It provided scientists a better understanding of the nature of the Alpine Fault, one of New Zealand's biggest […]

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Draft NSW ICT Strategy released

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

NSW Finance and Services Minister Greg Pearce has unveiled the draft ICT Strategic Framework – which includes the geospatial industry – and is looking for comments and submissions from the public. The 20-page consultation document outlines objectives and priority areas intended to ensure NSW's $2 billion per annum ICT budget is well spent. […]

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High-resolution aerial imagery for rural towns

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

Aerometrex has announced the official launch of its AMX Countrywide aerial imagery initiative, offering dozens of rural towns and communities the benefit of its high-resolution Ultracam orthophoto aerial imagery. The program commenced in rural Queensland, but has now been extended to South Australian and Western Australian towns, with an on-going capture program also […]

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eSpatial seeks strategic partners for GIS market

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

eSpatial, provider of GIS delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), is seeking strategic partnerships in the UK, North American and Australasian markets. With growing demand for its flagship SaaS product – eSpatial OnDemand GIS – the company is seeking partnerships with GIS consultancies. “In order to make our software more available to the GIS […]

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Esri Australia and SSSI form alliance

By Spatial Source on 29 November, 2011

Two heavyweights of Australia’s $2.1 billion geospatial industry have joined forces in an industry-first partnership designed to expand spatial technology into new, ‘untapped’ markets. GIS specialists, Esri Australia, and the nation’s peak spatial professionals body, the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI), announced the alliance at the International Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference […]

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Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards – Industry 2011

By Spatial Source on 25 November, 2011

The annual Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence awards are the only Awards in the Asia-Pacific region that recognise the excellent achievements of both individuals and organisations engaged in the spatial information industry across the region. In 2011 the format differed from previous years, with the project awards being presented at the APSEA Gala Dinner held in […]

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spatial@gov 2011 overview

By Spatial Source on 24 November, 2011

The annual spatial@gov conference, the only geospatial event organised in conjunction with the peak organisations in Australia and New Zealand representing the public, private, research and professional sectors of the spatial community, has now finished for another year. Themes for this year included: water security; spatial@defence; government spatial activities in other countries; access […]

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Spatial Marketplace demonstrator project

By Spatial Source on 24 November, 2011

Cathy Crooks, project manager of the Australia and New Zealand Spatial Marketplace Demonstrator Project at the Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) showed the crowd spatial@gov the first look at the marketplace that is set to change the way that Australia and New Zealand find, attain, and even create, spatial data. The Spatial […]

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