whereNSW Camp

By Spatial Source on 13 April, 2011

The whereNSW camp will be an informal, barcamp-style event to enable more informal and dynamic input into the development of the NSW Location Intelligence Strategy. WHEN: 2011-06-04 to 2011-06-04WHERE: UNSW CBD Campus, O’Connel St, SydneySTATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS The whereNSW camp will be an informal, ‘barcamp’-style event to enable more informal and dynamic input into the […]

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Best of the Blogs 12 April 2011

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

Best of Blogs 12 April 2011 It's not a blog, but the Courier Mail has a piece mentioning the use of GIS in finding ‘junk food’ clusters around schools. Google Maps Mania has a little piece talking about a covert GPS that looks like a tail light, but will alert you if […]

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ISRSE34 is underway

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

The 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment is happening this week in Sydney. The theme of the symposium is The GEOSS era: towards operational environmental monitoring, and contains five parallel streams: Earth observation supporting disaster management and situational awareness; Briefings from space agencies; GEO forest carbon; Space policies; A panel on climate and […]

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GIS helping Victorian farmers

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

GIS software released to farmers through the Victorian Government's Department of Primary Industries is helping farmers manage their land and bolster their operations. The software, part of the FarmPlan 21 pilot program run by the DPI, is based on up-to-date aerial photography and offers precision mapping and paddock recording. It can be modified […]

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Great Western Highway: alliance partners announced

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

Sinclair Knight Merz and Parsons Brinckerhoff have been selected to partner with the RTA to undertake the detailed design work and obtain the necessary environmental approvals for the upgrade of the Great Western Highway between Mount Victoria and Lithgow. Following the selection of a preferred route after two years of intensive planning and […]

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North Korea jamming GPS in South Korea

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

North Korea is allegedly jamming GPS signals in South Korea, according to Army General Walter Sharp, commander of U.S. Forces Korea. Last month, South Korean officials made allegations that the north was using GPS jammers, but Gen. Sharp is the first US official to publicly confirm the allegations, saying to Bloomberg News “There […]

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Land and Property Management Authority abolished

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

Under the recent NSW Government restructure, the Land and Property Management Authority (LPMA) has been abolished as a Division of the Government Service. The previous groups within the LPMA are to be transferred between five new super departments, including: Lake Illawarra Authority staff are transferred to Department of Premier and Cabinet; Office […]

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TerraExplorer v6 released

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

Skyline Software has announced the formal release of version 6.0 of its TerraExplorer 3D visualisation tool for desktop, web-integrated, and custom OEM environments. This release of TerraExplorer v6.0 has brought many of the features that were only available in the TerraExplorer Pro level products to the lower cost TerraExplorer Plus and free TerraExplorer […]

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Trimble releases new rangefinder

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

Trimble has released a new rangefinder, the LaserAce 1000. The handheld measurement tool combines a laser distance meter, a digital inclinometer and a sighting scope, for measuring the range, height and slope of passive targets up to 150 m away. It also includes Bluetooth technology, so it can communicate wirelessly with Trimble’s other […]

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UAVs checking health of Tassie crops

By Spatial Source on 12 April, 2011

The University of Tasmania's Terraluma team is using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to check the health of farmers' crops, in the hope of being able to provide a commercial crop mapping service. Using a UAV known as the ‘oktocopter’, the researchers are hoping to gather useful data on how the crops look at […]

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