Two women took the top awards at last month’s Spatial Information Day, with Adelaide University’s Alice Baker winning the SASEA Undergraduate/Graduate Project Award for her honours thesis "Spectral Sensing of Soils Using the HyLogger Core Scanner."
Meanwhile Dr Dorothy Turner, also of Adelaide University, won the SASEA Postgraduate Research Award for her thesis, entitled : "Fire regimes in arid and semi-arid Australia 1998 – 2004".
Jason Dreimanis from Esri Australia won Young Spatial Professional of the Year. Jason is involved at the state level with the SSSI Young Professionals in South Australia.
Jim Curnow from Alexander Symonds won Spatial Professional of the Year. Jim is the Company's managing director and has held that position since 1989. He has been actively involved with many of South Australia’s large land development projects and has pioneered the use of spatial technologies in his business.
Parsons Brinckerhoff and ElectraNet won the Infrastructure and Construction Award for their Adelaide central reinforcement project, while Tonkin Consulting’s fire prevention mapping program won the small project award.
Adelaide City Council won the Spatially Enabled Government Award for its 3D City Model.
Spatial Information Day was presented by the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA), the Spatial Information Committee (SICOM), and the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI).
