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 →
Data Standards in Environmental Health
Back in December I wrote about some presentations that I did for the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, and mentioned... 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 →
Challenge: Dynamic Fungi Field Guide
You hopefully read last October’s blog post on visualising available data on the collecting history of Leadbeater’s Possum in the... 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 →
Delivering on collaboration
Since our last blog back in September about the BioSys work we had been finalising with the NSW Office of... Continue reading →
FOSS4G open source conference recap
Jake and I are back from Melbourne where we were one of hundreds of open-source spatial software enthusiasts attending last... Continue reading →
What’s new in QGIS 3.4
As most regular readers would be aware by now, we’re supporters of QGIS, and have made our commercial training course... Continue reading →