The annual FOSS4G Conference: Celebrating Open Source Software in the Spatial Community
You may have heard about free and open source software – we’ve talked about it a lot at Gaia, and... Continue reading →
Straight to the pool room
We’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of award winning projects over the years, and there has been... Continue reading →
Continuing the Climate Change Conversations
While I have been to each of the Future Led event series being run by our partners Liquid Interactive, the... Continue reading →
Upcoming Events for Gaia Resources
We are all well aware of the impacts that COVID-19 has had on how we work and the types of... Continue reading →
Greener business: Cumulative positive impacts for the environment
Any business can make a significant and meaningful contribution to minimising our collective environmental footprint. We’ve been looking cumulatively at... Continue reading →
A platform for monitoring forest canopy cover
We recently completed a technical investigation into leveraging Sentinel satellite imagery for monitoring forest canopy cover in forested areas in... Continue reading →
Innovations in Biodiversity Data Management
As part of a webinar series hosted by the CSIRO, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) recently held a webinar... Continue reading →
Artificial Intelligence for fish species identification
As we wrote in our previous blog, the “Counting Fish” challenge was put forward by the Australian Institute of Marine... Continue reading →
Biodiversity and high-performance computing
On Friday, 14th, May, I went to an event at the University of Western Australia, titled “Global biodiversity hotspot with... Continue reading →
Checking in with our (spatial) Data Scientists
Our Data Science team meet regularly to talk about our workloads, upcoming projects and emerging technologies. With software engineers, business... Continue reading →
Our mobile apps – a recap
Following on from our recent posts on the NAFI Fire Information and Slug Sleuth apps, we thought it would be... Continue reading →
The data science of plant trait data
Data Science is a large and growing multidisciplinary field that employs scientific method, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge... Continue reading →
Counting fish – supporting research at the Australian Institute of Marine Science
You may have heard the news on Tuesday from the Commonwealth government media release where the Minister for Industry, Science and... Continue reading →
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 →
Recap on the Territory NRM conference
This is a recap of the Territory NRM conference I went along to on the 17-19 November – but I... 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 →
Twenty years of WA floristic data
I’ve been with Gaia Resources for six years now (!), and grateful to have found a home where my specialist... Continue reading →
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 →
IBSA Submissions Portal launch
Gaia Resources has recently been working with the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation to develop a submissions portal for... 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 →