Thursday, July 31st, 2014
The Fishermans Bend urban renewal project in Melbourne is a 250 hectare development that recently won planning approval. The scale and scope of this urban renewal is said to support 40,000 new jobs, provide homes for 80,000...
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
Exelis (NYSE: XLS) announced plans to establish its Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. Working closely with the Victorian Coalition Government, Exelis will be building out a state-of-the-art research and development (R&D), testing and systems...
Sunday, January 19th, 2014
Recently, CLIMsystems Ltd. analyzed future climate impacts on the Hazelwood brown-coal fired power station located 150 km east of Melbourne in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia. These impacts included changes in ambient temperatures. The power station produces...
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
The University of Melbourne will be home to Australia’s first Open Source Geospatial Laboratory. The laboratory will support urban research and educational excellence through the use of location based (geospatial) data and tools.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
A clever new mapping tool is set to revive and reshape personalised banking by giving financial institutions the foresight to accurately anticipate their customers’ needs. The new innovation, launched by leading digital mapping specialist MapData Services (MDS),...
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
In an isolated pocket of the Wombat State Forest, Anne Griebel is using laser sensors to uncover environmental secrets concealed in the trees. The sensors detect minute changes in the canopy of the forest, which is west...
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Over a four-week period earlier this year, we invited about 30 cyclists, researchers, cartographers and geospatial specialists to come into our offices at Media House in Melbourne for a very special experiment: a hackathon that lasted four...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
With the 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium less than two months away (July 21-26), now is the time to register. This year’s global summit will showcase world leading research with over 1,800 papers and...
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Remote sensing is an ever growing area of research and with sustainability a key issue in our society, this year’s IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium will look at “Building a Sustainable Earth through Remote Sensing”....
