
Spatial Digital Twin Explorer to replace SIX Maps
Dec 18, 2024 · NSW’s DCS Spatial Services is inviting users to try out the beta version of its new Spatial Digital Twin Explorer prior to the retirement of the SIX Maps service next year.
Interview: Allison Patrick, Foundation Geospatial Branch, AGO
In our annual Leaders Forum, we ask the experts to look ahead into 2025. Today we talk geospatial data intelligence with Allison Patrick. Allison Patrick is the acting Assistant Secretary, Foundation Geospatial Branch, in the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation and has over 20 years’ experience working in Defence, with the last three years leading AGO-Bendigo’s specialist teams ...
Mapping to predict lightning strikes and fires - Spatial Source
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 its first round of aerial data collection. The effort has …
Position Partners is rebranding as Aptella - Spatial Source
Dec 5, 2023 · Intelligent positioning and automation solutions provider, Position Partners, has announced that it will be known by a new name and brand, Aptella, commencing early 2024. The firm says it is making the move in response to employee and customer input, and to better reflect the entirety of its intelligent positioning and automation offerings.
AI, LiDAR for remote forestry management - Spatial Source
The spatially explicit forest description provides wall-to-wall information on forest extent, age and volume for all sizes of forest, facilitating stratification by key variables for wood supply forecasting, harvest planning and infrastructure investment decisions — applications equally valuable for other forestry industries.
AI used to produce 30m-resolution global DEM - Spatial Source
Fathom says the novel use of AI results in the most accurate publicly available digital elevation model of the Earth’s surface.
Global geodetic centre funding extended to 2030 - Spatial Source
Germany has agreed to extend its funding of the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE) until 2030. The UN-GGCE, which is headed up by Nick Brown from Australia, was established with the aim of assisting “Member States and geodetic organisations to coordinate and collaborate to sustain, enhance, access and utilise an accurate, accessible and sustainable GGRF to support ...
Jamming-proof celestial navigation for drones - Spatial Source
Australian researchers have responded to a surge in jamming attacks to develop a navigation system that uses visual data from stars rather than relying on the GNSS.
GIS, AI to the rescue for the Great Barrier Reef - Spatial Source
Australian researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system using GIS and AI technologies to help save the world’s coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming. Coral reefs worldwide are …
Veris announces acquisition of Spatial Vision - Spatial Source
Jan 31, 2025 · Veris has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Spatial Vision, in a cash and scrip deal valued at up to $3 million.