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 →
Open source software and open data
Perth is about to host the FOSS4G Oceania Conference (Perth Hub) on 12-13 November 2021, and up here in Darwin I’m... 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 →
Spicing up work life with a bit of field work
Sometimes shaking things up a bit in your job is exactly the ticket you need. I had that opportunity recently... Continue reading →
A day with the open source spatial community
Gaia Resources was proud to be involved last week with the Perth Hub of the virtual FOSS4G SoTM Oceania 2020... Continue reading →
Preview of the Territory NRM Conference 2020
The Territory NRM 2020 conference will be kicking off in Darwin on 17 November, and Chris will be teaming up with Rohan... Continue reading →
Transforming Queensland State Archives
For the last two years, we have been quietly working (along with our consortium partners from Hudson Molonglo and Recordkeeping... Continue reading →
Managing Tasmania
We have been working with the collections community in Tasmania for quite some time around some other projects (as Morgan... 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 →
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 →
DrupalCamp Byron Bay 2019
Over 28-29 April 2019, Gaia Resources proudly sponsored Drupal Camp 2019, and I was very happy to attend and represent... Continue reading →
CHIN Collection Management System review: our summary
Back in 2017 the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) embarked on a vendor survey of Collection Management System software capabilities... 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 →
Environmental Health, Data Standards and Open Source Software
Recently, I was asked to give a couple of talks to the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security (IPCHS) around the... 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 →
Drones for birds
A few years back Gaia Resources looked at the rise of drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles if you prefer) and... Continue reading →
Threatened species – mapping stories
I attended the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub Roadshow recently, hosted by WA’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions Science Division. The... Continue reading →
BioSys and National Collaboration
In August 2015 I published a blog about a pilot for the BioSys software that we had developed with the... Continue reading →
Mapping All Over the World
♫ And I like it, I like it… It’s been nearly four months since we released our free Environmental Quantum... Continue reading →