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The Albany Highway is virtually a straight line from Perth to Albany. As a university student in Perth in the 1970s I regularly drove along it to Albany to visit family. Little did I know I was ...
RTK Time series: This test gives an indication of slow, trending changes over time. The students produced many plots and tables of data. Two indicative time series from the most/least expensive ...
The EM 122 uses the lowest frequency of 12 kHz and can map the seafloor from 20 to 11,000 metres using a 1° x 1° beam footprint. Up to 432 beams can be employed to map a swath (ribbon) approximately ...
When it’s not being used to map wombat burrows, Andrew says it’s a great machine for utilities work and other uses. “It’s particularly good for void detection,” he adds, with sinkhole investigation ...
Mapping land use formed the first base layer. Analysts used high-resolution aerial and satellite images to show where ground cover had been cleared for agricultural activities, such as cropping and ...
A new research paper outlines the creation of a 30m-resolution digital elevation model of the Earth’s terrain that is more accurate than any other publicly available. The paper, entitled ‘FathomDEM: ...
For the past several weeks, scientists on board the CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator have been conducting a world-first survey of marine biodiversity in the newly established Cocos (Keeling) ...
NSW’s coastal sea floor has been revealed in extraordinary detail in a new online seabed map viewer. The SeaBed NSW map viewer captures the state’s entire coastline, covering 6,800 square kilometres ...
South Australian AI firm, AICRAFT, has secured $100,000 in funding from the inaugural South Australian Space Collaboration and Innovation Fund to develop what it says will be the smallest ...
Airborne gravity surveys are enhancing the national vertical reference system and support advances in positioning. By Alex Woods and Anna Riddell Gravity is one of the fundamental forces in the ...
This article was first published in Issue 124 (Apr/May 2023) of Position magazine. NSW’s statewide Digital Elevation Model improves approximate AHD heights on public record. By Jonathon Smith and ...