The ALA and Big Data for Biodiversity
On Wednesday 9 December, Chris Roach and I attended a webinar hosted by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), celebrating... Continue reading →
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Fire mapping QGIS plugin
Within my first two weeks of moving to Darwin, Rohan Fisher from the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research invited me... Continue reading →
The rise of Webinars
We’ve talked in previous blogs about adapting working arrangements in the face of these really challenging times, but I’m not sure... Continue reading →
Marine Parks WA app gets an uplift
With the support and collaboration of Parks Australia‘s Australian Marine Parks team and Rachel Hutton at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation... Continue reading →
Plugging into data and map automation in QGIS 3
The staff at Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) have been using QGIS as an operational tool for mapping and analysis... Continue reading →
Savanna Fire Forum Review
Well, the sun has set on another Savanna Fire Forum, and what a sunset delegates were treated to in Darwin... Continue reading →
Savanna Fire Forum Preview
This week I am attending the North Australia Savanna Fire Forum, a two-day meeting that aims to facilitate discussion and... Continue reading →
Summer of QGIS Training online
We posted late last year on our upcoming “summer of QGIS training”, and thought it might be interesting to review... Continue reading →
It’s the festive season again!
It’s that time of year again – and we’re all just about to go on break for the Christmas period. ... Continue reading →
Technology and Environmental Regulation
I was recently asked the question: what can a technology company do for environmental regulation? It’s a great question and... Continue reading →
Are hardcopy maps a thing of the past?
I recently travelled through the red centre of Australia which was an epic family road trip from Darwin and included... Continue reading →
Settling into Darwin
You’ve seen previous posts from Chris about his initial impressions of the Northern Territory. He’s posted previously about how he... Continue reading →
Notify Now – Victoria launches its Animal Disease Notification App
This week marks the launch by the Minister for Agriculture Jaclyn Symes of a new mobile application called “Notify Now”... Continue reading →
Supporting students around the country
In the last week, two Gaia Resources team members in different parts of Australia have proudly presented their spatial industry... Continue reading →
A greener cloud…
A few* years ago “the cloud” started to become the popular buzzword, and I’ll always remember AJ quipping that “only... Continue reading →
Savanna burning and carbon abatement
A few weeks ago I headed along to the Savanna Fire Forum at Charles Darwin University, and to the subsequent... Continue reading →
Darwin – First impressions
Week 1 in Darwin: boxes, boxes, boxes Week 2: getting stocked up, unpacked and entertain the kids Week 3: start... Continue reading →
Launching Wildlife Drones in WA
Deb from Wildlife Drones was in town in mid-December 2018 presenting their integrated wildlife tracking system to Department of Biodiversity,... Continue reading →
Mosquito ground surveillance – an update
When Jake and I went across to Melbourne for the FOSS4G conference in November, I took the opportunity to catch up... Continue reading →
Welcome to 2019!
The new year has been and gone and here we are back again! The first thing we wanted to was... Continue reading →