Mapping technology that plots socio-cultural information is equipping Australia’s military force to make better informed decisions while deployed on operations overseas. Underpinned by technology from Esri Australia, ‘human terrain' maps display the human geography of an area using dozens of different categories, including ethnicity, religion and language. The technology supports key military […]
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Less than two weeks until ISDE7
With less than two weeks until the conference, over 700 delegates from across Australia and around the world have already registered. Some late changes to the Program will see an expanded array of impressive, internationally renowned speakers, including: Professor Hiromichi Fukui from Chubu University in Japan speaking on the role of spatial […]
Geospatial tech recognised at iAwards
Geospatial technologies have won big at this year’s iAwards, which recognise companies and individuals who have excelled in their field of ICT and are deserving of recognition at a national level. Both the creators of Google Maps and Esri Australia received recognition at this year’s ceremony, for their respective contribution to Australian ICT […]
ISDE7 two weeks away
The 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7) is being held in Perth, Western Australia, in two weeks time. Running from 23 – 25 August 2011, ISDE7 will provide an exciting insight into the use of digital technologies in today’s and tomorrow’s world. It will explore the role Digital Earth technology plays in […]
GIS Professionals Told to Find Their Place
Australia’s largest provider of GIS technology and location intelligence solutions is set to showcase how their world-leading software is changing the business of organisations across the nation. Esri Australia’s Ozri conference, running from the12 – 14 October, will feature presentations from Australia’s leading geo-enabled businesses, councils and government agencies, and will examine some of the most […]
Astrium GEO-Information Services increases investment in i-cubed
The GEO-Information division of Astrium Services (formerly Spot Image and Infoterra) recently announced that it has expanded its investment in i-cubed LLC, a worldwide provider of value-added imagery and geospatial data management technologies based in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. i-cubed provides imagery, geospatial content and distributed asset management hosted in the cloud or […]
Utilities must act now to retain knowledge
Utilities will need GIS technology to ‘institutionalise’ the knowledge of their aging workforce and avoid an information vacuum. The Australian utilities sector faces an information black hole within a decade unless it works to retain the knowledge of its ageing workforce, GIS specialist Bill Meehan told the Smart Electricity World conference in Melbourne […]
Expanded WASSIC brings in the crowds
The Western Australian Surveying and Spatial Information Conference, which has just concluded in Perth, has seen the biggest ever attendance in its 14-year history and, for the first time ever, featured two streams. Organised by SSSIWA, the conference featured a much wider range of topics and networking opportunities than in previous years, and […]
GeoCommons makes cloud-based GIS analysis free for everyone
While there are many web-based mapping tools available for free, there are precious few that allow you to also run analytics – the heart and soul of a GISystem – without charging fees. The reason is simple; analytics cost serious CPU time. However, GeoIQ has recently integrated its once enterprise-only web-based GIS analysis […]
Best of the Blogs 21/6/11
The latest effort in the ongoing saga of humanity handing over the control of their brains to the machines comes from Bellevue, Washington, where three young women had to clamber from their vehicle after the driver followed their SatNav unit’s instructions so precisely that she ended up driving into a lake. Considering there was […]
