Welcome to the latest instalment of Spatial Snippets, in which we bring you a round-up of all the bits and pieces of geospatial news that didn’t make it into our normal daily and weekly coverage.
Here are our snippets for this week:
South Australia has a new Registrar General, Gemma Wallace, who replaces the outgoing Jenny Cottnam. Wallace, formerly Executive Director of Policy, Coordination and Land Titles, holds qualifications in law, legal practice and financial services.
Registrations for the 2024 ACT Geospatial Conference close this Friday, 15 November. The program is available online, and you register via this link.
The NSW Geographical Names Board has a refreshed website, with simplified access and improved accessibility. Make sure to update your bookmark.
The federal government’s Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre has published a factsheet that outlines concerns regarding the security of positioning, navigation and timing systems, and gives recommendations for hardening and securing such systems.
Adelaide-based QuantX Labs has been awarded the title of South Australian Business of the Year at the 2024 South Australian Premier’s Business and Export Awards. QuantX has been going from strength to strength in the precision timing field.
Still in Adelaide, and Inovor Technologies, a space and defence technology company, has graduated from the Lockheed Martin Mentor Protégé Program, becoming only the third Australian company (after Clearbox Systems and Silentium Defence) to achieve this milestone.
Applications are now open for the Geospatial Council of Australia’s Hydrographic Area of Practice Coaching Program 2024–25 for both trainees and coaches. The program aims to encourage the professional development of emerging professional hydrographic surveyors to Level 1 and Level 2 in Hydrographic Surveying certification. It offers participants connection with industry professionals, and guidance towards attainment of Hydrographic Surveying certification.
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced a new partnership with Hexagon, with the company aiming to support Seabed 2030’s ambitious goal of compiling a map of the global seafloor by the end of the decade.
ESCAP, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, has released a new report on Geospatial Practices for Sustainable Development in East and North-East Asia 2024. The compendium outlines efforts to employ geospatial technologies and data for the benefit of countries in the regions covered, and includes many case studies.
Finally, here are some recent Spatial Source news items you might have missed:
- NZ project leads to rapid predictive flood mapping
- Geospatial to boost economy by $689 billion by 2034
- Mapping vegetation for managing the land
- Plastic rubbish on beaches spotted from space
- Gilmour given official go-ahead for first launch
- Geoscience Australia joins forces with Seabed 2030
- Fundraiser launched for surveying scholarships
- Call for papers: Locate25, Brisbane April 2025
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