Intermap wins award for Murray-Darling Basin project

By Spatial Source on 1 November, 2011

Intermap, provider of location-based information (LBI) solutions created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models and orthorectified imagery of the earth’s surface, recently announced that its “Mapping the Basin: the Murray-Darling Basin Information Infrastructure Project” has been named winner of the Asian Geospatial Excellence Award – Environment Management. The award was presented during the […]

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Fugro awarded Sunshine Coast LiDAR bathymetry survey

By Spatial Source on 1 November, 2011

Fugro has been awarded the contract to conduct an Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry (ALB) survey of the Queensland Sunshine Coast, to be conducted during October and November 2011. The primary purpose of the survey is to develop a high resolution digital elevation model and other derived products that can be used to help manage this […]

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UKTI launches Go UK business competition

By Spatial Source on 1 November, 2011

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) helped more than 40 Australian companies successfully establish themselves in the UK last year and some 1000 Australian companies are already set up and doing business in the region. To encourage further investment, UKTI has launched Go UK – a business plan competition open to Australian and New […]

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Event: Open government; resilient state: Innovating for gov in NSW

By Spatial Source on 1 November, 2011

GovCampNSW invites you to be part of an emerging conversation that may inspire and shape new opportunities for innovation in government in Sydney, in NSW and beyond. It is an opportunity to talk with a mix of people – from inside and outside government, from the worlds of technology and policy, of community […]

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Best of the Blogs 1/11/11

By Spatial Source on 1 November, 2011

Spatial Sustain inform us of a great project that the BBC has put together that is using web-maps to place world events into a locale, relatable context. For instance, the map shown here allows users to place the extent of the Pakistani floods over your postcode. Well worth a visit. For instance, I didn’t […]

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3D GIS for Infrastructure – Sydney

By Spatial Source on 25 October, 2011

Bentley, creator of MicroStation software, is hosting seminars in Sydney and Perth under the theme of “3D GIS for Infrastructure.” WHEN: 2011-11-03 to 2011-11-03WHERE: Museum of Contemporary Art, SydneySTATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS 3D data will soon be critical, in both CAD and GIS environments, for the design, planning, and management of intelligent cities, campuses, and other […]

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3D GIS for Infrastructure – Perth

By Spatial Source on 25 October, 2011

Bentley, creator of MicroStation software, is hosting seminars in Sydney and Perth under the theme of “3D GIS for Infrastructure.” WHEN: 2011-11-02 to 2011-11-02WHERE: Fraser’s Restaurant, PerthSTATE: WACOUNTRY: AUS 3D data will soon be critical, in both CAD and GIS environments, for the design, planning, and management of intelligent cities, campuses, and other infrastructure. […]

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Garada Synthetic Aperture Radar Workshop

By Spatial Source on 25 October, 2011

The SAR Workshop will provide expert presentations on SAR techniques covering fundamental principles, sensor systems, design considerations, application areas and the benefits of GPS formation-flying. The SAR Workshop will also provide an opportunity for d WHEN: 2011-12-07 to 2011-12-07WHERE: University of NSW, Kensington, SydneySTATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS The Garada Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Workshop will be […]

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NASA improves free worldwide DEM

By Spatial Source on 25 October, 2011

NASA and Japan have released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument […]

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Bushfire Connect fires up for its second year

By Spatial Source on 25 October, 2011

Bushfire Connect activated for its second year of operation on Saturday, the 22nd of October, 2011. Bushfire Connect is a free, community driven service that combines fire information from multiple sources: official and crowdsourced, through multiple media such as the web, mobile devices and SMS. Bushfire Connect allows local communities to complement official […]

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