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21/11/2024

Five private operators and service providers of land registries across Australia — SERV in Victoria, NSW Land Registry Services, Titles Queensland, Land Services SA and Land Services WA — have formed a new collective called the ALRO - Australian Land Registry Operators Operators. Click the link below find out what this means for the sector.

The newly formed Australian Land Registry Operators collective represents five major private operators and service providers.

20/11/2024

Happy International GIS Day! Held every year on the third Wednesday in November, this year’s event marks its 25th anniversary. Around 30 events are planned across Australasia and the South Pacific. What are you doing to celebrate?

About 30 International GIS Day events will be held across Australasia and the South Pacific, with hundreds more to be held around the world.

24/04/2023

Have you checked out the latest issue of Position, Australia's industry journal for the geospatial sector? You can read it here: https://issuu.com/theintermediagroup/docs/position_124_april-may_2023
Here's what you'll find inside:
• New tech promises advanced space navigation — Super-thin chips made from lithium niobate are set to overtake silicon chips for light-based technologies, with potential applications including navigation on the Moon.
• GNSS for subsurface asset mapping — Recent innovations in GNSS technology unlocks improvements in accuracy for subsurface utilities.
• Air traffic that’s helping the planet — From calculating carbon credits to LiDAR mapping, the versatility of aerial mapping applications is expanding at pace.
• Q&A with Craig Sandy — It’s going to be a busy year for the Surveyor-General of Victoria and his expert team.
• Woolpert’s global geospatial evolution — Backed by more than 100 years of geospatial innovation, the time has come for Australian company AAM to evolve to a new level.
• Locate23: From lands to seas to stars — Industry delegates will gather in Adelaide in May for Australia’s leading geospatial event.
• Taking it to the streets — The Leica Geosystem’s Pegasus TRK vehicle-mounted scanner is making surveying safer and far more cost effective.
• Women in geospatial — We profile four professionals who have made their mark in the spatial and space fields.
• Satellites reveal climate-affected coastlines — New mapping tech shows that sandy beaches across the Pacific widen or narrow according to phases in the El-Niño-Southern Oscillation cycle.
• Satellite data for designing safer roads — Sentinel-1 data is helping Italian authorities monitor ground movement, essential for a country with a very active geology.
• A growth path for space and spatial — The Space+Spatial Industry Growth Roadmap sets out a vision for a vibrant and robust future for the sectors.
• Australian technology into orbit — AICRAFT and ACSER have each developed electronics for Earth and space applications.
• UK subsurface mapping system rolling out — MUDDI aims to straighten out the mass of data on underground infrastructure.
• Scaling the heights with DEM — NSW’s statewide Digital Elevation Model improves approximate AHD heights on public record.
Plus we have all the latest updates from our partner, the Geospatial Council of Australia (GCA):
• CEO’s Column — Tony Wheeler outlines why a thriving geospatial sector means a better future for Australia.
• Meet the Board — Get to know the senior leaders and directors of the GCA.
• GCA’s background — Find out how and why the GCA has been formed, and what it means for you.

11/04/2022

In the lead up to the Locate Conference in May, we’re highlighting some of the vendors you’ll be able to meet. Today's vendor is Anditi Pty Ltd.

In the lead up to Locate22 in May, we’re highlighting some of the vendors you’ll be able to meet.

11/04/2022

Here’s a preview of what you’ll see, learn and experience at the Locate Conference in Canberra in May. Don't miss it!

Here’s a preview of what you’ll see, learn and experience at the Locate22 conference in Canberra in May.

14/02/2022

Road infrastructure projects will be just some of the beneficiaries of an extra 57 GPS reference stations. Position Partners

Road infrastructure projects will be just some of the beneficiaries of an extra 57 GPS reference stations.

14/02/2022

Ten companies will join the Innovation & Collaboration Centre 6-month program this year, including ones specialising in Earth observation.

Ten companies will join the 6-month program this year, including ones specialising in Earth observation.

14/02/2022

The funding will enable the climate technology company FloodMapp to scale up and expand into new markets.

The funding will enable the climate technology company to scale up and expand into new markets.

12/01/2022

Responses to a Curtin Earth and Planetary Sciences survey indicate a vital need to tackle career accreditation and legitimacy issues in the GIS and spatial sectors in Australia. What do you think? Leave a comment below.

Responses to a Curtin University survey indicate a vital need to tackle GIS accreditation and legitimacy issues.

12/01/2022

Gilmour Space Technologies has conducted a successful 75-second test firing of the engine that will power its Eris rocket. They say it's the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia.

Gilmour Space Tech has conducted a successful 75-second test firing of the engine that will power its Eris rocket.

12/01/2022

The Dec/Jan issue of Position magazine is out now, containing our inaugural Leaders Forum, where we ask the experts what we can expect in the surveying and spatial world in 2022. Here's our interview with Nearmap's Tom Celinski.

In our Leaders Forum, we asked the experts to look ahead into 2022. Today we talk imaging with Tom Celinski.

21/12/2021

It’s goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022, and what will hopefully be a better, brighter year.

It’s goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022, and what will hopefully be a better, brighter year.