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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How AUSPOS solutions are being used to help maintain and improve the NSW survey control network. By Volker Janssen and Simon McElroy AUSPOS is Geoscience Australia’s free, cloud-based, online GPS ...
Data visualisation and mapping have a vital role in preparing for and responding to hazards and natural disasters. By Christophe Lienert and Jie Shen Information and warnings are decisive elements in ...
A major GNSS outage “would be a disaster, an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” he says, highlighting the point that the GNSS would be the first targets in any future major military conflict. “One ...
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 ...
RTK Time series: This test gives an indication of slow, trending changes over time. The students produced many plots and tables of data. Two indicative time series from the most/least expensive ...
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 ...
Fire ants nests are difficult to spot, especially when they are in their early stages. But when they become bigger they have a number of distinctive features: a small dome shaped mound (up to 40 cm ...
The federal government has announced more than $9 million dollars in innovation grant funding for 12 Australian space technology initiatives. The grants have been made under the Moon to Mars program ...