The Albany Highway is virtually a straight line from Perth to Albany. As a university student in Perth in the 1970s I regularly drove along it to Albany to visit family. Little did I know I was ...

The EM 122 uses the lowest frequency of 12 kHz and can map the seafloor from 20 to 11,000 metres using a 1° x 1° beam footprint. Up to 432 beams can be employed to map a swath (ribbon) approximately ...

South Australian AI firm, AICRAFT, has secured $100,000 in funding from the inaugural South Australian Space Collaboration and Innovation Fund to develop what it says will be the smallest ...

Geospatial resources, space development, data use and skills development are on Australia’s research agenda. By Jonathan Nally In December 2021, the federal Department of Education, Skills and ...

Airborne gravity surveys are enhancing the national vertical reference system and support advances in positioning. By Alex Woods and Anna Riddell Gravity is one of the fundamental forces in the ...

Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) collaborative lightning strike study with NASA, the IGNIS Project, has just completed its first round of aerial data collection. The effort has used infrared cameras to ...

Data visualisation and mapping have a vital role in preparing for and responding to hazards and natural disasters. By Christophe Lienert and Jie Shen Information and warnings are decisive elements in ...

NSW’s coastal sea floor has been revealed in extraordinary detail in a new online seabed map viewer. The SeaBed NSW map viewer captures the state’s entire coastline, covering 6,800 square kilometres ...

Does the data for the ASDT already exist and just it’s a matter of bringing it all together? Much of the data exists across government and the Spatial WA program is replacing two legacy systems. We ...

Victoria’s DELWP has used machine learning techniques to refresh the state’s 20-year-old tree cover dataset. By Cat Gilbert and John White (DELWP) and Caitlin Adams (FrontierSI) Accurate and ...

Technologies able to provide precise time and position without the use of navigation satellites, have been put to the test. By Jon Fairall In March, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European ...

This article was first published in Issue 124 (Apr/May 2023) of Position magazine. NSW’s statewide Digital Elevation Model improves approximate AHD heights on public record. By Jonathon Smith and ...