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NGIS wins overall APSEA award
NGIS has won the overall Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence (APSEA) Awards award as well as the category award for the Cyclone Pam Crisis Map, which was built with the CRCSI and Digital Globe. The awards ceremony was part of the Locate16 Conference, APSEA Awards recognised spatial work from 2015. The JK Barrie overall excellence award…
Aussie cities, towns at risk from rising sea levels
World-first website empowers coastal communities to take action For the first time Australians can visualise how their homes, neighbourhoods and favourite coastal spots could be vulnerable to rising sea levels driven by climate change. The Coastal Risk Australia website, made available to the public today, charts the majority of Australia’s enormous coastline and is free…
Introducing the GreenPrecision project
GreenPrecision is an innovative website utilising leading edge technology to deliver vegetation analysis across the entire world in an accessible and user friendly tool. By using high performing cloud computing and a massive archive of satellite imagery, users are able to compare vegetation for any location across multiple years to track variability and view changes…
NGIS edge CSBP in cricket friendly
In the Perth Suburbs last Friday afternoon the much anticipated inaugural Foss-McLean Cup was held between NGIS Australia and CSBP. The 20/20 Cricket game was competed in great spirit and entirely underwhelming skills with NGIS managing to chase down the CSBP total of 113 in the 17th over. Great fun and facial hair was enjoyed…
NGIS attends event on attracting women into STEM
On Wednesday March 9, NGIS attended the Attracting Women Into STEM event held by the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) with eight of our team and two clients. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) occupations are of particular relevance to us as a growing company in technology services. We found it particularly surprising to hear of the gap relating…
Paul swims to Rottnest
NGIS Managing Director Paul Farrell and his brother Brynne completed the Rottnest Channel Swim as a duo on February 27. Setting off shortly after sun rise, the swimmers joined thousands of others for the 19.7 kilometre open water challenge. They finished the swim in 6 hours and 45 minutes.
NGIS travelling to USA for Esri and Google conferences
In early March, NGIS Director Richard Bentley and New South Wales Manager Jeeten Chauhan are travelling to Palm Springs and Las Vegas in the United States of America to get the latest updates from Esri and Google via their exclusive Partner events. The two technology giants are hosting conferences for Premium partner organisations within days…
Graham Griffiths new Chairman of NGIS board
The Directors of NGIS Australia are pleased to announce that Graham Griffiths has been appointed as Chairman of the Board. Griffiths was appointed chairman at the beginning of 2016 and brings a wealth of ICT experience to the position. He has multi-faceted (management/tech/sales/marketing/R&D) international experience over 39 years in the IT industry, and geospatial since…
Why GIS training will help your team excel
Decision making is more time sensitive and data driven than ever before. To stay competitive and be leaders in your field, you need to be able to make decisions based on real data in context. Companies like Uber on a global scale and REIWA in Western Australia are using spatial technology to differentiate their brand…
