Winners at the Western Australia APSEA awards.
The West Australian Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards took place in Perth last week, honouring three collaborations and six individals.
SIBA|GITA CEO Deanna Hutchison commended the collaborative projects awarded at the gala.
“West Australian collaborative projects took home three of the six gongs for 2017 at the top-level Oceania event in April,” she said.
“The calibre of these winning projects indicates we might see a repeat performance!”
The People and Community category was dominated by Community Insight Australia with their web platform that converts complex spreadsheets into easily interpretable maps. The tool allows those with quantitative backgrounds to design new services for social purpose organisations.
Decipher, a collaboration between Wesfarmers and NGIS Australia won the Award for Innovation and Commercialisation. Their entry aims to address the issue of limited expansion of agricultural land in Australia for broad acre farming, aiming to assist industry with data and advanced techniques to extract greater productivity from existing land assets, having mapped 8 million acres of farmland in the process.
The Award for Spatial Enablement was also one by NGIS Australia, in collaboration with Fortescue Metals Group for their work on the Fortescue Sky project. The project is a self-service visualisation and intelligence platform that provides a common operating picture of Fortescue’s operations and activities in near real time, utilised by 18 separate businesses within the group.
Individual category winners are listed below.
Professional of the Year Award: Mr. Paul Farrell
Young Professional of the Year Award: Mr. Aaron Gibson
Women in Leadership Award: Dr Grace Yun
Educational Development Award: Associate Professor Ahmed El-Mowafy
Postgraduate Student Award: Dr. Safoora Zaminpardaz
Undergraduate Student Award: Mr. Jeffrey Ball
Congratulations to all from Spatial Source.
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