Essential Service Volunteers App
In late 2019, Gaia Resources answered a call from the Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades WA, who were seeking a partner... Continue reading →
Testing GRID in the field
Tracey spent two days in Albany recently, undertaking Geographic and Reporting Information Database (GRID) Administrator training for the South Coast... Continue reading →
NT QGIS training: the pursuit of effective teaching methods
Gaia’s Environmental QGIS Course for Beginners has been met with great enthusiasm by the many attendees in WA over the... 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 →
Land for Wildlife gets a boost with GRID
We’ve recently had the pleasure of building a new on-line spatial system for the Land for Wildlife program. Land for... Continue reading →
Summer QGIS Training Courses
Summer is often a time for environmental practitioners and land managers to stay in the office, process the previous year’s... 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 →
Why do we Rabble?
Having been a spectator, then speaker, and now organiser of this networking event, Georabble is a phenomenon I have really... Continue reading →
Dynamic Field Guides for Insects and Flora too
You perhaps read January’s blog post on developing a simple dynamic Fungi field guide from available resources. Our GIS tiger... 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 →
Phenological analysis of Eucalyptus wandoo for honey bee foraging
As part of the project I’m involved with in the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) I recently delivered a... Continue reading →
Reflections of a Hobbyist Beekeeper, Part Two
When Barbara and I previously talked about the research I’ve been working on with the Honey Bee Products Cooperative Research... Continue reading →
Automating Disturbance
No, we’re not talking about people losing their jobs here. We’re talking about automation being able to assist people to... Continue reading →
Observing the Earth
On the last day of February, I was pleased to host the first Whole of Community webinar for 2019 on... 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 →
Topology in GIS
What is topology in a geographic information system? In spatial technology, the word “topology” is all about the building blocks... Continue reading →