The two primary technologies for mapping are photogrammetry and lidar. While lidar mapping is the newer of the two, does it ...

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) 132nd Member Meeting will be held from June 9 to 12, 2025, at the Holiday Inn Mérida in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. The event will feature several tracks on a ...

Australia’s scientific infrastructure received a significant boost in 2014 with the arrival and commissioning of the advanced ocean-class research vessel, RV Investigator. The 94-metre vessel, which ...

Queensland’s earliest surveyors faced many challenges — extreme weather conditions, harsh terrains, long distances travelled, wildlife and fauna which included crocodiles, insect infestations, and so ...

My family has land at Numeralla on the Great Dividing Range about 30 kilometres northeast of Cooma in southeastern New South Wales. Some years ago, I casually mentioned this to a university academic ...

Information and warnings are decisive elements in the field of integrated risk management. Warnings increase preparedness and are one of the organisational measures (along with forecasts and emergency ...

An infrared image captured during the IGNIS data-collection flights. Credit: ECU. Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) collaborative lightning strike study with NASA, the IGNIS Project, has just completed ...

Last week’s global IT outage caused by a routine but errant software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has had people questioning the vulnerablility of ICT systems. One specific ...

The Survey Control Information Management System (SCIMS) is NSW’s database containing more than 250,000 survey marks on public record across the state. It was recently updated with Australian Height ...

SPC’s Earth and Ocean Observation Technical Officer, Elenoa Biukoto. A week-long training on using open-source GIS tools and remote sensing satellite data from the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Digital ...

AICRAFT specialises in edge computing modules, such as this Pulsar unit launched into orbit in 2023. South Australian AI firm, AICRAFT, has secured $100,000 in funding from the inaugural South ...

A statewide view of NSW’s Native Vegetation Regulatory (NVR) Map. See the legend for categories. NSW’s Native Vegetation Regulatory Map has proven pivotal for mapping vegetation and identifying land ...