Excellence award finalists showcase a region of spatial strength

By Anthony Wallace on 3 April, 2017

The APSEA Awards dinner at the Locate Conference in 2016. Photograph by Chris Hopkins

Following months of reviewing, discussing, celebrating and judging, the national finalists in the 2017 Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards have been announced. The finalists include entries from every Australian state and territory as well as New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

The overall national winners will be revealed this week during the Locate17 and Digital Earth Symposium at the Sydney International Convention Centre. The 2016 APSEA Award Dinner will take place on Wednesday 5 April 2017.

The awards seek to recognise excellence by organisations and individuals in the spatial industry across the Asia Pacific region in six industry award categories and five individual award categories. The nominations are made up of the winners from each of the ten Asia-Pacific regions involved, divided into the following industry categories.

AWARD FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Kennedy Surveying Pty Limited, New South Wales – Bowraville Off-River Storage Project
Indicina Pty Ltd & NGIS Australia Pty Ltd, Western Australia – SWAN Systems – Scheduling Water & Nutrients
Aerometrex Pty Ltd, South Australia – Onkaparinga Cliffs 3D Model
Jacobs and Seqwater, Queensland – The Wyaralong Mangrove Habitat Study
Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation & Federation University Australia, Victoria – Corangamite Natural Resource Management Planning Portal

AWARD FOR EXPORT

AAM Pty Ltd,Western Australia – AAM Spatial Solutions assist the Government of Singapore to build the world’s first Smart Nation
ThunderMaps, New Zealand – ThunderMaps Europe
Iconyx Division of RapidMap, Victoria – Preventing Disease in Silicon Valley USA with Iconyx Vector Control Field Applications

AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALISATION

Kennedy Surveying Pty Limited, New South Wales – Cudgen Road Tunnel Deformation Monitoring
NorthGroup Consulting, Queensland – Robotic Terrestrial Scanning for confined spaces
ineni Realtime, Australian Capital Territory – Virtual Barangaroo / 3D Open Building Systems Integration Interface
NGIS Australia and CSBP, Western Australia – GreenPrecision
CRC for Spatial Information, Northern Territory – The NRM Spatial Hub
Ballance Agri-Nutrients, New Zealand – SpreadSmart
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, South Australia – AddInsight – Traffic Intelligence System
Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources and Spatial Vision, Victoria – FarmBuild

AWARD FOR PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY

Cardno and Inner West Council, New South Wales – Leichhardt Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan (FRMS&P) Interactive Web Viewer
Queensland Spatial Information Council, Queensland – Spatial Education
The University of the South Pacific, Pacific Islands – USP Bachelor of Geospatial Science
Wellington City Council, New Zealand – Living Lab
NGIS Australia, CRCSI and Google Outreach, Western Australia – Coastal Risk Australia
GHD/Level Crossing Removal Authority, Victoria – Effective Place Based Community Feedback via Online Mapping
Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, South Australia – BlueBays

AWARD FOR SPATIAL ENABLEMENT

Arup, Queensland – Framework for Prioritising Road Segments Based on Incident Costs to Users
NGIS Australia and CSBP, Western Australia – FERTview
Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation & Federation University Australia, Victoria – Online Farm Trials
NZ Transport Agency, New Zealand – Spatially enabling a thriving NZ
Aerometrex Pty Ltd, South Australia – 3D Modelling for the Papal Visit to Philadelphia
Australian Urban Tree Services & Iconyx – Division of RapidMap, New South Wales – Transforming vegetation management operations to protect Ausgrid powerlines using spatial workflows in the field

AWARD FOR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE

CMS Surveyors, New South Wales – Barangaroo South – Tower 2
Jacobs Group Australia, Australian Capital Territory – Tree Canopy Mapping as a Management Tool for Local Government and Asset Managers
SITECH WA, Western Australia – Collision Detection using Trimble GNSS and the SiTRACK Software
National Geodetic Office, Land Information New Zealand, New Zealand – Improving New Zealand’s vertical datum
Geomatic Technologies, Victoria – Across the Nullarbor – challenges mapping the Trans-Australian railway
BCCVL, Queensland – Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory
Fugro, South Australia – Ridge to Reef’ risk analysis using remote sensing

The winners of each category as well as the individual awards will be announced on Wednesday 5 April at the Locate17 and Digital Earth Symposium, taking place at the Sydney International Convention Centre. During the dinner, additional awards will be announced for SSSI, SIBA, GITA, as well as the International Society for Digital Earth. Best of luck to everyone in the running!