Spatial Information Day 2015 was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
This category recognises the outstanding achievements of individuals who have excelled professionally and in the service of the industry in South Australia.
| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| Spatial Professional of the Year | Franco Rea |
| Young Professional of the Year | Beau Thorley |
| Educational Development | Bertram Ostendorf |
| Undergraduate/Graduate Student | Brooke Schofield |
| Undergraduate/Graduate Student | David Phillips |
| Outstanding Service to the Spatial Community | Gary Maguire |
The Industry Awards are awarded by the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) with assistance from local South Australian industry professionals, to recognise excellent achievement by organisations within South Australia.
| Award | Winner | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Excellence | Flinders Ports and Esri Australia | Flinders Ports Common Operating Picture (vPort) |
| Environment and Sustainability | University of Adelaide | Remote sensing and spatial analysis enhancing ecological understanding of wetlands in South-Eastern South Australia - A Goyder Institute Project |
| Spatial Enablement | City of Port Adelaide Enfield | The Graffiti Cleaning Project |
| People and Community | DigitalGlobe & the South Australian Government Department of Community and Social Inclusion (DCSI) | Sampson Flat Fires Critical Information |
Photos by Iain Bond © 2015
| Session Name | Presenter | Company |
|---|---|---|
| [Keynote] The Importance of Location SA for the SA Spatial Industry | Michael Burdett (Surveyor General) | |
| A Call to Arms: Capitalising on the Knowledge and Expertise Found in the Spatial Sciences in South Australia | Mark Lethbridge | Flinders University |
| International Food and Water Economics | Sarah Wheeler | University of Adelaide |
| UAV/Remote Sensing to Monitor Mining in Kakadu National Park | Renee Bartollo | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) |
| Surveying Skyscraper's in Hong Kong to the Gateway Bridge in Australia: Large Infrastructure Surveying in Asia | Paul Banks | AUSPAT |
| In Recognition of Her Century Year: Boundary Surveying in Coober Pedy | Richard Abbott | Richard Abbott Surveyors |
| New Positioning Technologies | Lucia Gerrie | UPG |
| 3D Scanning and Reality Capture to BIM | Redstack & Maptek | Redstack & Maptek |
| The NRM Spatial Hub - Providing Rangeland Managers with Quality Information to Make Better Decisions | Phil Delaney | Spatial Information CRC |
| Smart Coastal Mapping | David Byrne | Aerometrex |
| Spatial Access to South Australian Biodiversity Data | Matt Miles | Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) |
| Application Bootcamp | Greg van Gaans | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) |
| Pop Up GIS | Haydn Dyer | Esri Australia |
| Adelaide Apocalypse: Bringing Public Spaces to Life | Ryan Hubbard | Grant Mills Consulting |
| A Python Approach to Weighted Multicriteria Analysis for Land Use Options | Travis Moon | Tonkin Consulting |
| Valview | Bert Bruijn and Marc Burdon | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) |
| Enterprise Location Services for Government: a Framework and Case Studies from around Australia | David McDonald | Pitney Bowes |
| Latest Trends in Positioning & Their Impact on Surveying and Spatial Professionals | Matt Higgins | Queensland's Department of Natural Resources and Mines (DNRM) |
| Adelaide Oval Redevelopment Global Best Practice in Information Management | John Dyson | Mott MacDonald |
| Data Cube and Water Observations from Space (WOfS) | Alexis McIntyre | Geoscience Australia |
| WOfS Applications | Ramesh Raja Segaran | University of Adelaide |
| Mapping Areas of Diffuse Discharge in the GAB | Dorothy Turner | University of Adelaide |
| Taking GIS into the 3D Space | Gordon Sumerling | Esri Australia |
| Virtual and Augmented Reality: the Geospatial Tools of the Future | Fabrice Marre | Aerometrex |
| Hot Deserts to Tropical Islands - Using LiDAR Systems to their Maximum Potential | Alex Cowdery | Fugro |
| Cadastre 2034 | Mike Burdett | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) |
| Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiencies in Asset Management Using Geospatial Technologies | Bhavin Shah | Landgate |
| AgInsight South Australia - An Innovative New Portal for Primary Industries Information | Russell Bird | Department of Primary Industries and Regions, South Australia (PIRSA) |
| Practical Applications of Open Source GIS in a Competitive Software Market | James Paull | Tonkin Consulting |
| [Keynote] Social Apps with Location Technology – the Future of Marketing, Consumer Interaction and Data Collection | Jack Haines | Rocketry Pty Ltd, Little Birdy Network |
| [Keynote] Emergency Response Imagery, Crowd Sourcing and Analytics | Peter Kinne and Gary Maguire | Digital Globe and Department of Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) |
| Company | Sponsorship Type |
|---|---|
| C.R.Kennedy Survey Division | Platinum |
| Position Partners | Gold |
| Esri Australia | Gold |
| AEROmetrex | Gold |
| UPG | Gold |
| Redstack and Maptek | Gold |
| Tonkin Consulting | Bronze |
| Flinders University | Bronze |
| Fugro | Bronze |
| Digital Globe | Happy Hour |
| Alexander Symonds | Dinner |
| Esri Australia | Dinner |
| Fyfe | Dinner |
| C.R.Kennedy Survey Division | Dinner |