Spatial Information Day 2012 was held on Friday 3 August 2012 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
The Individual Awards are presented by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute, SA Region. Individual Awards are conferred on individuals who demonstrate outstanding commitment and leadership in the spatial industry, or who exhibit high levels of professional expertise.
| Award | Winner(s) | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Young Professional of the Year | Andrew Leane; Joel Dillon; George Sioutis | |
| Undergraduate/Graduate Project Award | Hayley Achurch (Adelaide University) | Mapping of Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Burrows |
| Postgraduate Research Award | Dr Beng Umali (Adelaide University) | Spatial variability of parameters that influence pesticide movement |
The Industry Awards are presented by the Spatial Industries Business Association, SA. Industry Awards are open to any organization, private, public, academic or not for profit, provided evidence submitted relates to the two years immediately prior to the making of the application and relates to spatial activities
| Award | Winner | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Award for Innovation | Adelaide University and South Australian Arid Lands Natural Management Board (SAALNRM) | Spatial Survey and Remote Sensing of Artesian Springs of the Western Great Artesian Basin |
| Community Contribution | Cardiac Aria Team | |
| Spatial Enablement | Tonkin Consulting | Roxby Downs Municipal Council GIS Provision using SQL Server |
| Emerging Spatial Entity | South Australian Government | Spatial Data Sharing Initiative Resource & Infrastructure Cluster |
| Session name | Presenter | Company |
|---|---|---|
| [Keynote] | Craig Rispin | |
| Adopt, Adapt, Invent. The Power of Location in a Networked Nation | Helen Owens | Office of Spatial Data Policy |
| Sharing Spatial Data across SA Government | David Harvey | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) |
| Spatial tools for living landscapes | Prof. Andrew Millington | Flinders University |
| Whether it's Weather or Climate: Data Explained | Leonie Lannigan | Adelaide University |
| Discovering ABS data for small areas | Andrew Stidson and Arnold Strals | Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) |
| Maps for everyone, everywhere, anytime - ArcGIS Online | Mark Smith | esri Australia |
| Cosmo-SkyMed: Radar satellite imagery applications | Mark Deuter | Aerometrex |
| Satellite Sentinel Project - Peace Keeping from Space | Peter Kinne | Digital Globe |
| A new remote sensing approach to monitoring changing flows from the Great Artesian Basin springs | Dr. Davina White | Adelaide University |
| Lake Hawdon inundation regime characterised by remote sensing | Ken Clarke | Adelaide University |
| Paediatric ear, nose and throat surgery: who, where and when? | Jacqueline Stephens | Adelaide University |
| Looking for a Shadow: predictive habitat modelling of historical brush-tailed rock-wallaby distribution to guide reintroduction | Christopher Malam | Adelaide University |
| In search of the Holy Grail: The journey toward a spatially accurate cadastral fabric for South Australia | Peter Kentish | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) |
| Beyond Points and Strings - The Challenges of Laser Scanning | Martin Ankor | Custom Spatial Solutions |
| Combining Data from Plane and Geodetic Worlds | Andrej Mocicka | Listech |
| Satellite monitoring, crowd-sourcing and social-media: A new approach to rainforest conservation in Borneo | Fabrice Marre | |
| Seeking Employment in the Spatial Industry | Dean Howell | Spatial Jobs |
| Wearable Computers for Outdoor Augmented Reality Applications | Thuong Hoang | UniSA |
| A UAV for Aerial Mapping - AeroHawk | Will James-Martin | Aerometrex |
| GIS on the Move - Getting Mobile | David Trengove | esri Australia |
| Crowdsourcing and community engagement: utlising the power of location | Rhys Bittner | MDS |
| Enterprise GIS to non-GIS users | Anton van Wyk | Intergraph |
| SQL Server and Spatial | Morgan Ellingham | Tonkin Consulting |
| The Great GIS Migration | Stephen Retallack and Simo Xu | Department for Communities and Social Inclusion |
| Positioning in Australia: Current Trends and Enhancement of the National Geospatial Reference System | Gary Johnston | Geoscience Australia |
| Language, Logic and Land: A Different Perspective on 3D Land and Property Information | Serene Ho | University of Melbourne |
| Big Data - LiDAR | Gordon Sumerling | esri Australia |
| Closing the Gap. New Technologies and Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry survey Techniques in European Environments | Nigel Townsend | Fugro LADS |
| Science Support of Water Allocation Planning on Eyre Peninsula | Ben Plush | Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) |
| Floodplain Mapping and Climate Change Modelling for the Silver Sands and Washpool Catchment | James Paull | KBR |
| The Evolution of Hydrography | Daniel Kruimel | Caris |
| Incorporating Spatial Thinking into Urban Renewal Development | Dandong Zheng | URA |