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 […]
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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 […]
