Environment

Following on from previous work on the Public Open Space (POS) Tool, Gaia Resources implemented a project using our SurveyEngine toolkit.  This project delivers a specialised web-based survey that allows for respondents to indicate their home address, and then to document their use of various parks.  The survey is customised to also enable some A/B Testing of the use of maps in these sorts of surveys; along with a custom back end that delivers a data download.

Gaia Resources delivered a custom web-based survey to Birdlife Australia for the Black-Cockatoo Community Wisdom Survey, which is an online survey built using our SurveyEngine toolkit.  This toolkit (which uses serverless technologies) enables us to create a survey that allows respondents to document their knowledge of three iconic species of Black-Cockatoo – Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo, Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo, and the Forest Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo – all three of which are currently listed as threatened under both state and federal legislation.

In early 2017, we worked with the State NRM Program to implement GRID within their organisation.  This setup was undertaken as part of the recent Capacity Building Grants and aims to not only assist groups in being able to more easily submit their grant applications, but also to provide a means for groups to gain access to this easy to use,online GIS for the NRM community.

Our team have worked on a range of different projects with the Department of Parks and Wildlife over time, and in early 2017 we saw the launch of our work on the new Wildlife Licensing System.

This project included considerable analysis of the existing Wildlife Licensing System, which was nearing its end of life, and looked at how to replicate the required outcomes, but also to deliver on more efficient licencing for both the Department and the many clients that acquire licences from the Department.

The Organic Farm Gate are the largest growers, packers and marketers of Australian grown certified organic produce, and Gaia Resources has worked with them to develop a new online based quotation system to help them manage the wide range of fruits and vegetables that they deal with over the course of the year.

In late 2016, the Night Parrot Recovery Team approached Gaia Resources to create a web site to provide the public with information on the Night Parrot, one of Australia’s Endangered species.

In 2017, Gaia Resources undertook a significant enhancements project resulting from the StateNRM Capability Grant won by the South West Catchment Council. The GRID web mapping product is built primarily for Natural Resource Management activities and manages spatial data relating to a range of on-ground works like fencing, weed control, community engagement and coastal rehabilitation.

Through funding from the State NRM office’s grant program, Gaia Resources was funded to implement our Geographic Reporting and Information Database (GRID) product into the Northern Agricultural Catchments Council (NACC).  In late 2016 we worked with the team at NACC to rollout GRID with them, which included:

We worked with Katanning Landcare to upgrade their web site, using their existing web hosting infrastructure.

In 2016, our team have developed a mobile app for the Department of Parks and Wildlife to showcase the Marine Parks around Western Australia. An update of the app in 2019 – coming very soon –  will see the inclusion of National Marine Parks around Western Australia.

The Corals of the World project is a project to document the information, identification, distribution and taxonomy of reef building corals – globally.  Gaia Resources has worked with the authors of the Corals of the World books, Charlie Veron and Mary Stafford-Smith (and others) to develop a web based version of these books which can be regularly updated as new information becomes available.

Gaia Resources was contracted to conduct an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) pilot survey for Shark Bay Resources of selected mangrove, seagrass and rehabilitation areas in and around SBR’s salt mining operation. We partnered with Aerial Environment for the delivery of this project.

The Western Australian Atlas of Environmental Health was developed by Gaia Resources for the Department of Health, with support from the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.  The initial launch of the system in April 2016 (read our launch blog here) focused on the Medical Entomology module (which in turn has a focus on mosquito management), but also includes the Aboriginal Environmental Health and Water Quality Testing modules, which are yet to be launched.

In April, 2016 we worked with the Western Australian Forest Products Commission to redevelop their web site.

The role that Gaia Resources played in the project was to review and implement the design for the site, support the team at Forest Products Commission to develop procedures and to migrate content to the new site, develop new functionality and to ensure that the site launched smoothly.

Gaia Resources were contracted in November, 2015 to deliver a “Knowledge Hub” for the Great Victoria Desert Biodiversity Trust (GVDBT).  This project was built on an agreement between GVDBT and Rangelands NRM whereby this project contributes to the broader Knowledge Hub that uses Rangelands NRM’s instance of our GRID product.

The Department of Parks and Wildlife engaged Gaia Resources to build TrailsWA in late 2015.

The TrailsWA app is designed to provide a means to search for a trail by a range of different aspects (such as difficulty) or even by distance from where you currently are.  The app works offline as well, so that you can search for a trail near you even when you are outside of mobile phone range, and then use the app while you are hiking on that trail.  You can read more about the app in our blog.

In November, 2015, Gaia Resources was called on to backfill spatial staff that were on leave from Citic Pacific Mining.

Our team worked with Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) staff and other marine community colleagues to develop a marine metadata portal. The primary goal of the project is to enable the sharing of marine-based studies between government, industry and other stakeholders in a metadatabase format.

The Department of Parks and Wildlife engaged Gaia Resources to build CampingMate in early 2015.

The purpose of this project was to evaluate if remote sensing techniques could be used to determine the different crops in a region of intense agricultural production in the Carnarvon region of Western Australia.

We have implemented GRID within South Coast NRM Inc and coupled it with additional training in the QGIS desktop package, to roll out a complete enterprise solution for the organisation.  Our staff were involved in the definition of the activities and base layers in GRID before we delivered on-site training in Albany in both GRID and QGIS, and provide ongoing support for the team from our office in Leederville.  You can read more about this project via the blog at the following arti

As part of this project, Gaia Resources was engaged by BMT Oceanica to georectify a number of aerial photographs for a section of the Western Australian coastline.

Gaia Resources has been supporting the Pilbara Corridors project in delivering a range of spatial services.  With the Rangelands NRM GRID instance as a core part of this project, we have captured a wide range of data on projects happening in the Pilbara, and made it publicly available through the Pilbara Corridors web site (click here).  In addition, we have provided a range of support for the Conservation Action Planning process, including preparing datasets, map products, and in attending and supporti

Our team worked with Department of Parks and Wildlife staff from Office of Information Management, the Science and Conservation Division and the Kimberley Region to build the first iteration of BioSys. This project developed a pilot system to support the efficient (and centralised) capture, curation and management of biological field observation data within the Department.  There is further planned development for BioSys to expand the role out past the Kimberley region and to become a central part of the data infrastructure within the Department.

Gaia Resources worked with the Department of Mines and Petroleum (Western Australia) on the prototype for the State Environmental Data Library in 2015.  This involved determining the data standard for the Library, based on our knowledge of the subject matter, industry needs and the potential workloads involved.  Once data standards and capture processes were set, a large volume of spatial data was then captured from historical mining reports to populate the Library.  This data was supplied to the Department at regular intervals in order to populate their prototype Library por