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To celebrate Earth day, I want to provide a simple explanation to our business community here in Western Australia about the power of Earth Observation. There is enormous focus on developing a space industry in Australia and the capabilities that go with it, and the benefits from Earth Observation are part of this. The question…
It is common within mining, transport and logistics, government, utilities and emergency services organisations to see extensive investments made into the use of enterprise GIS technologies. What businesses like about technology like Esri’s ArcGIS, QGIS or Skyline is their ability to scale and perform highly complex GIS tasks for major projects. What many people don’t…
Excellent design is a key measure of success for the public sector, especially when it comes to planning within environments that are already fully or partially developed. Examples of this might be a new shopping mall on a main street, installing traffic lights or roundabouts on a busy thoroughfare, or running a tramway down a…
During the lifecycle of a mine, there are large amounts of data being captured across disparate systems. Often, the data that is used to help decision makers operate sites efficiently and sustainably are inherently spatial. Connecting the different geospatial data sources across the mining life cycle enables business units to have valuable situational awareness across…
Machine learning (ML) helps us find patterns in data through the use of algorithms. By using algorithms to build models that uncover connections, organisations can make better decisions faster and without human intervention. From a geospatial perspective, an example of using ML is via image analysis in remote sensing work. But how do you choose…
People love to say things like “let’s move to the cloud”, “get started in minutes” or “just put it into BigQuery”, but developers understand that there is much more to it than that. The journey to move completely to the cloud is one that takes a lot of care and consideration. However, in many cases…
Some time ago, I was working on a project that required a map to get some geospatial information on the Lithology (the study of rocks) of the Island of San Miguel in Azores, Portugal. When I asked for the data, to my surprise, I was sent a photocopy of the original geological map in a JPG format. …
The spatial industry is relying on, investing in and processing more data than ever before. Businesses are finding new ways to realise the potential of spatial data they’ve collected for years and how they can process this information in new ways to drive their decisions. Last year, we saw organisations adapt to remote working, invest…
Have you ever been navigating somewhere with Google or Apple Maps when all of a sudden your base map stops updating? Then you look at your phone and realise you are out of mobile reception range? Living in the big state of Western Australia, I’ve had this issue many times. This is where offline capable…
In one of our most recent Location Matters podcast episodes, BigQuery Product Manager at Google, Chad Jennings and Director of Spatial Data Science, Matt Forrest, both acknowledged that for the up and coming GIS experts, it was a must to learn Spatial Structured Query Language (SQL). But why? As a society, we are ingesting more…
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