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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 ...
When it’s not being used to map wombat burrows, Andrew says it’s a great machine for utilities work and other uses. “It’s particularly good for void detection,” he adds, with sinkhole investigation ...
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 ...
This CDE has been used to build an interactive, virtual version of Cross River Rail using Unreal Engine, one of the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tools, used for development of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
AUSPOS first detects which rover observed the longest, and this becomes the hub for the user data (regardless of the relative geometry of all user stations and CORS). In the ideal scenario, baselines ...