The Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) 132nd Member Meeting will be held from June 9 to 12, 2025, at the Holiday Inn Mérida in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. The event will feature several tracks on a ...

My family has land at Numeralla on the Great Dividing Range about 30 kilometres northeast of Cooma in southeastern New South Wales. Some years ago, I casually mentioned this to a university academic ...

Information and warnings are decisive elements in the field of integrated risk management. Warnings increase preparedness and are one of the organisational measures (along with forecasts and emergency ...

Australia’s scientific infrastructure received a significant boost in 2014 with the arrival and commissioning of the advanced ocean-class research vessel, RV Investigator. The 94-metre vessel, which ...

An infrared image captured during the IGNIS data-collection flights. Credit: ECU. Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) collaborative lightning strike study with NASA, the IGNIS Project, has just completed ...

Last week’s global IT outage caused by a routine but errant software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has had people questioning the vulnerablility of ICT systems. One specific ...

AUSPOS is Geoscience Australia’s free, cloud-based, online GPS processing service. Its uptake and use worldwide, by new users and dedicated fans, continues to accelerate. AUSPOS has repeatedly proven ...

A statewide view of NSW’s Native Vegetation Regulatory (NVR) Map. See the legend for categories. NSW’s Native Vegetation Regulatory Map has proven pivotal for mapping vegetation and identifying land ...

Leafing through the pages of any issue of Position magazine will illustrate how fundamental maps and geospatial visualisations are to the practice of surveying and geospatial science. Whether they are ...

You can check out the recipients of the recent Victorian, South Australian, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmanian and Western Australian awards, too. This brings to a close the Australian regional ...

Shoaib Iqbal, CEO of Esper Satellites. Image courtesy Darwin Innovation Hub. Victorian Earth observation satellite start-up firm, Esper Satellites, has been awarded $1 million in venture capital ...

Queensland’s earliest surveyors faced many challenges — extreme weather conditions, harsh terrains, long distances travelled, wildlife and fauna which included crocodiles, insect infestations, and so ...