As we know from the Bells Line of Road case study and, I suspect, the Numeralla example above, ancient Aboriginal pathways and tracks, particularly those crossing mountain ranges along the east coast, ...

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 ...

CSIRO’s research vessel RV Investigator is delivering a keystone capability for mapping Australia’s vast marine estate.. By Amy Nau and Phil Vandenbossche, CSIRO. Australia’s scientific infrastructure ...

Information and warnings are decisive elements in the field of integrated risk management. Warnings increase preparedness and are one of the organisational measures (along with forecasts and emergency ...

The European Copernicus Earth observation office has announced an “exceptional and temporary” extension of the availability of the data from the Sentinel-2A satellite mission for one year. In ...

Hyperspectral imaging is on the cusp of a revolution, as CubeSat missions aim to add to the orbital fleet. By Jon Fairall. H yperspectral imaging is an interesting topic. The ability to discriminate ...

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 ...

Mapping land use formed the first base layer. Analysts used high-resolution aerial and satellite images to show where ground cover had been cleared for agricultural activities, such as cropping and ...

Before AUSPOS datasets are individually processed by DCS Spatial Services, they are subject to a quality assurance process, which ensures a minimum observation session length of 2 hours, certainty ...

Not to be outdone by the Russians and Americans, Europe’s Galileo system had a CrowdStrike moment in July 2019 when, “during a system upgrade, a service incident occurred in the Galileo ground ...

Almost two centuries of surveying history are maintained and displayed at the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying. By Kaye Nardella. Queensland’s earliest surveyors faced many challenges — extreme ...

The threshold for a successful comparison was set at ±0.9 m, which is the quoted vertical uncertainty of the DEM (95% CL). We found that the calculated height differences between the DEM and SCIMS ...