Spatial Vision has launched both the latest Central Vicmap book, the first of the edition 4 series, and the second release of the new Mapscape product, in readiness for the 2012/2013 fire season. This joint event sees a single map base released in hardcopy and digital formats simultaneously for the first time. Spatial Vision, in […]
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International spatial experts at spatial@gov
This year’s conference program boasts the largest number of international spatial experts ever. Joining us from the United States is US Air Force GPS specialist Chris Morin, from the 746 Test Squadron at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, who will address denial of service vulnerabilities in a presentation titled ‘Delivering the Truth […]
spatial@gov coming up this month
The annual spatial@gov conference is nearly here for 2012, and there will be a host of exciting and relevant industry speakers, including Nunzio Gambale, CEO of an Australian-created ‘local positioning system’ that offers an alternative to relying on the US’ GPS satellites. “The dependency that we are building on this technology is […]
GMES Masters competition winners announced
An international panel of experts selected this year's overall winner – the GMES Master – from among all the winners of the competition's various challenges. Prof Dr Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at the European Space Agency (ESA), announced the Dutch company BlackShore-creative and its project Cerberus as the 2012 GMES Master […]
PSMA Australia chairman steps down after eleven years
PSMA Australia’s Board of Directors paid tribute to Mr Olaf (Ollie) Hedberg AM, who is retiring from his position as Chairman after serving with distinction since 2001. Mr Hedberg was an inaugural member of the Public Sector Mapping Agencies, which, in 1992, won the contract issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to […]
Sydney Opera House is to be laser scanned for posterity
The building will become the fourth international site to be tackled as part of the Scottish Ten project, which will eventually cover five Scottish world heritage sites and five in other parts of the world. Sites recorded thus far have included the presidential heads at Mount Rushmore, and Rani Ki Vav, the Queen's Stepwell […]
DMS announces training and commercial support for Quantum GIS
Digital Mapping Solutions (DMS) recently announced the introduction of commercial training and support packages for the free Quantum GIS (QGIS) package, throughout Australia and New Zealand. DMS joins a range of international companies offering commercial services for the open source desktop GIS application, to support organisations wishing to incorporate this technology into their […]
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle creates Antarctic sea ice map
For the first time in East Antarctica, climate scientists have produced a 3D map of the surface beneath a sea ice floe, revealing an inverted complex topography evocative of lakes and mountain ranges. Researchers, on a two-month voyage to the region on the Australian Antarctic Division’s icebreaker Aurora Australis, are using an Autonomous […]
Best of the Blogs 16 October 2012
Engadget has a post talking of a “space harpoon” created by Astrium that will be used to spear space junk and drag it into the atmosphere, causing it to burn up. With more and more space junk orbiting the planet, the risk of it damaging space infrastructure is only increasing. The BBC have a […]
Joint ISNSW & SSSI Twilight Seminar
The Digital Spatial Future for Society and the Challenge for Cadastral Surveyors WHEN: 2012-10-24 to 1970-01-01 10:00:00WHERE: ISNSW Head Office, level 4, 162 Goulburn Street, Surry HillsSTATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS WEDNESDAY 24th OCTOBER 2012 “The Digital Spatial Future for Society and the Challenge for Cadastral Surveyors” Presenters: Maurits van der Vlugt and Ian Harper This Seminar […]
