2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (884+ words) If you have a Spatial Snippet to share with our readers, please send us an email. We’ll start off this week with news that Dr Rolando Chacón, Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, has been welcomed…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (513+ words) Positioning information accuracy matters a great deal in busy ports, where maritime pilots and port operators make decisions every day that can have immediate safety, environmental and infrastructure consequences. At Port of Auckland, pilots conduct around 2,500 pilotage acts each year,…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (176+ words) The contract is for LiDAR Acquisition – North Coast Native Forest, Plantation and Habitat Monitoring Areas, and will see nxzen deliver high-resolution airborne LiDAR and four-band aerial imagery across significant areas of forestry plantation estate throughout northern New South Wales. The…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (628+ words) For anyone who has been observing the Australian space sector for a while, it seems to me that it’s a little hard to avoid becoming a bit of a cynic… at least, when it comes to government sincerity about supporting…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (313+ words) The two major airborne magnetic and radiometric (AMR) geophysics surveys are funded through the Northern Territory Government’s Resourcing the Territory program and are being delivered by the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS) in partnership with Geoscience Australia. Together, the Pine…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (631+ words) In the aftermath of a disaster, one of the first questions communities ask is not “Where did the hazard occur?” but “How do we recover?”. The answer often depends on something far less visible than damaged buildings or flooded roads....

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (162+ words) According to Environment and Heritage — part of the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water — Bionet Atlas is “the NSW repository for species names, species sightings, systematic survey and threatened biodiversity data”. The new map viewer enables…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (406+ words) Last year, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) achieved a huge milestone by moving all external customers to the new version of Landonline and switching off legacy access. Landonline is LINZ’s platform that supports New Zealand’s entire land…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (322+ words) Both the legacy Baseline and newer Medjil are software platforms used in the calibration of surveying devices using electronic distance measuring equipment (EDME). After many years of use, and after 12 months of dual access, Baseline is now making way for…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (443+ words) HMAS Leeuwin will conduct seabed survey operations in partnership with the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) with the aim of assisting the PNG Government to improve the safety of maritime navigation. “Australia and PNG have worked side-by-side in hydrographic…...