JON FAIRALL Australians may still be locked into a grand debate between climate change sceptics and Greenies, but the polar bears are in no doubt. Neither are the world's oil companies. As the Arctic ice sheet collapses, the bears are heading south into the steaming heat of the Canadian steppes and the oil prospectors are […]
Precision Agriculture: A Success Story
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010DEREK TICKNER Last year, the Grains Research and Development Corporation and CSIRO released the results of a study of six farms that use information technology. The report was entitled, The Economic Benefits of Precision Agriculture: Case Studies From Australian Grain Farms. The project was led by Michael Robertson from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Western Australia. […]
Earthquake Prediction After Sichuan
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010PAUL GRAD A massive earthquake hit China’s Sichuan Province on 12 May. As aftershocks and landslides threatened further loss of life and property damage, a team from the University of New South Wales joined several other organisations to provide detailed satellite images of the affected area. The earth tremor was of magnitude 8.0 on the […]
Iran’s Space Ambitions
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010PARVIZ TARIKHI On 4 February the Islamic Republic of Iran successfully launched a sub-orbital rocket called Safir ('Envoy' in Farsi) from its newly-opened domestic launch site in the northeast of the country. The rocket is also called Kavoshgar-1 or Explorer-1. On-board instrumentation sent telemetry back to the control centre from an altitude of about 250 […]
Monitoring Landslides in New Zealand
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010PAUL GRAD A landslide monitoring system now under development in New Zealand is probably the most detailed in the world. GNS Science, a New Zealand government owned research organisation, is developing the system in the township of Taihape in central North Island. GNS Science operates a hazard monitoring system network called GeoNet, which is […]
Re-Aligning the Cadastre
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010Bundaberg is located at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef in the heart of a rich sugar and horticultural belt. The name is well known – it is the home of the famous Bundaberg Rum. Just four hours drive north from Brisbane, the city is home to 46,000 people. It services 120,000 […]
Cyclone Sidr Devastates Bangladesh
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010On 15 November 2007, a category 4 cyclone, called Cyclone Sidr, came ashore in Bangladesh. Wind speeds reached 225 km/h; some waves were eight metres high. More than 3200 people died. Bangladesh is a prisoner of its geography. Three rivers, the Brahmaputra, the Ganges and the Meghna, rise in the Himalaya mountains before they converge […]
Integrating CAD and GIS
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010PETER KINNE The concept is familiar: take data from one environment to another without losing integrity, information or intelligence. However, the integration of CAD and GIS environments continues to be an issue, especially for local government and agencies where information from designers needs to be placed in its true geographic context. CAD design […]
Electronic Conveyancing: Victoria Takes the First Step
By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010CHRISTINA UELTZEN Stage two of Victoria’s ambitious e-conveyancing system was launched in Melbourne on 16 November. It allows for electronic transactions for financial property settlement, the lodgement of land transfer and mortgage documents, as well as the discharge of mortgage documents with Land Victoria. Far from basking in public approval, however, Victorian officials are […]
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