The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) has secured access to international water research organisation DHI’s state-of-the-art modelling and research tools for groundwater and integrated catchment hydrology. Modelling the complex interaction between groundwater and surface water requires advanced technology and is vital to projects such as the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. In Australia […]
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‘Gliders’ to probe ocean depths
Australian scientists are preparing to use data from a $22m array of high-tech equipment to help them probe deeper into the nation’s coastal oceans. The technology is part of a vastly improved set of tools provided by the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) to study the open ocean. Floats that ‘sense’ breaks in […]
Spatial data informs Murray-Darling basin plan
Spatial information was a key part in the development of the Murray-Darling Basin plan, the first stage of which was released late llast week. The plan aims to restore flows to rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin by setting limits on water use across the basin. The Murray-Darling Basin covers more than 1 million square kilometres, […]
Spatial@gov highlights industry’s value
The spatial@gov 2010 conference, which concluded on Thursday, served to highlight the importance of the spatial industry to Australia’s economic and social well-being and progress. The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, Minister for Resources and Energy gave the opening speech in which he recognised the outstanding degree of collaboration that is a feature […]
Online Atlas Unlocks Biodiversity Data
An online portal bringing together all existing data on Australia’s living species – including images, maps, literature, research, records and taxonomic information – is being launched in September. Atlas of Living Australia will provide free access to an estimated $1 billion worth of biodiversity resources, which are held in museum, research, university and government […]
Victoria to Open Visualisation Centre
An Australian team is working to establish an advanced image processing facility that will allow scientists to work with high-resolution images and 3D models previously too large to visualise. Monash University is partnering with technology providers and other research institutions on the project. The Multi-modal Australian Sciences Imaging and Visualisation Environment will be known […]
Mapping the Ocean Floor
JON FAIRALL It’s a truism that the surfaces of Mars and the Moon are better mapped that the surface of the Earth. Three-quarters of our globe is covered by a layer of water several kilometres thick. Mapping through the murk is difficult and expensive. However, the news is not all bad. New technologies are making […]
Precision Agriculture: A Success Story
DEREK TICKNER Last year, the Grains Research and Development Corporation and CSIRO released the results of a study of six farms that use information technology. The report was entitled, The Economic Benefits of Precision Agriculture: Case Studies From Australian Grain Farms. The project was led by Michael Robertson from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Western Australia. […]
NCRIS partners work together to build Soils-to-Satellites tool
One of the great challenges to increasing the sustainability of land management is the need to integrate many different kinds of data at many different scales. In a step towards addressing this problem, cyber-infrastructure professionals from a number of the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program capabilities, including TERN, have joined forces […]