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Spatial Information Day 2017 was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Friday, 11 August 2017.
Award Winners
Individual Awards
This category recognises the outstanding achievements of individuals who have excelled professionally and in the service of the industry in South Australia.
| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate/Graduate Student Award | Tasya Sarira |
| Postgraduate Research Award | Iffat Ara |
| Young Spatial Professional of the Year Award | Tom Jeffrey |
| Educational Development Award | Stephen Fildes |
| Presentation of Surveying Licenses | Damian Holland and John Baker |
| JB & JW Calder Award | Michael Pohl |
| Women in Spatial Award | Georgie Cassar |
| Spatial Professional of the Year | Greg van Gaans |
Industry Awards
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 | Michael Grear Surveys | North Terrace Adelaide Tram Extension Survey |
| Environment and Sustainability | Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia | The 2016 Adelaide Hills and Northern Adelaide Plains Land Use Mapping |
| Spatial Enablement Award | Friends of Sturt Gorge | Friends of Sturt Gorge Web Map |
| Innovation and Commercialisation | Aerometrex and Jacobs | MetroMap |
| Small Project Award | Vinehealth Australia | Project Boundary Rider |
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Photos by David M Tran © 2017
Program
List of Presentations
| Session Name | Presenter | Company |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote Q and A Discussion Panel | David Floreani | Spatial Information Day |
| [Keynote] Industry Change and how Prefab is an influencer | Damien Crough | Advanced Offsite Group |
| [Keynote] Connecting Perceptions with Reality in the world of BIM, GIS and Survey | Faheem Khan | Leica Geosystems |
| [Keynote] The data they are a-changin’ | Sebastiaan Helsen | Luciad |
| [Keynote] Geo-innovation: How thinking spatially is disrupting outmoded workflows | Gary Johnson | Esri Australia |
| Professional Development in a Disrupted World | Nick Hassam | Risk Spatial |
| GDA2020 - Know your data, know your datum | Bradley Slape | GDA Modernisation Implementation Working Group (GMIWG) |
| Next Generation Geological Mapping | Jonathan Irvine | Geological Survey of South Australia |
| "Mapping the Whole Picture". Applying co-design approaches to geospatial solutions | Maurits van der Vlugt | Mercury Project Solutions |
| A new spatial analytics engine: Insights for ArcGIS | Gordon Sumerling | Esri Australia |
| SmarterWX - Cloud based scheduling for capital works | David Trengove | Esri Australia |
| SA Land Cover Layers 1987-2015: a new data resource | Matt Miles | Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources |
| Changing Landscapes – Construction of an expressway through a coastal landscape journaled by monthly airborne Lidar and imagery | Jorg Hacker | ARA - Airborne Research Australia and Flinders University |
| Multispectral remote sensing of mosquito breeding habitats using unmanned aerial vehicles | Tasya Sarira | The University of Adelaide |
| Information Management and GIS helping with the provision of public health in Myanmar’s emergencies | Ben Plush | RedR Australia / Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources |
| Mapping Adelaide’s Urban Heat Island – airborne instrumentation and techniques | Andrew McGrath | Airborne Research Australia |
| Estimating temporary populations – the power of aggregated mobile device data | Andrew Howe | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Using 3D reality meshes to derive standard engineering survey data | David Byrne | Aerometrex |
| GeoVision – the future of data | David McDonald | Pitney Bowes |
| Uses and Applications of Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry for Coastal Zone Management | Darren Stephenson | Fugro |
| Unlocking Ancient Myth and Mysteries. | Thomas Searles | AAM Group |
| Springwood - the start of South East Queensland’s next CBD | Julia Spark | Aerometrex Pty Ltd |
| Geospatial and the 2016 Census of Population and Housing data | Rob Walter | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Spatial improvement of the State Cadastre - methods used with Land Boundaries DPTI | Maurizio (Mauri) Trinca | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure |
| 3D Laser Scanning Technologies for Archival Recording, Design and Engineering | David Malins | Jacobs |
| Mapping Biomass for Bioenergy - Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure | Mary Lewitzka | Department of the Premier and Cabinet |
| Surveyors Unite - The Pinery Bushfire Recovery Project | Beau Thorley | Surveying and Mapping SA |
| National ePlan Working Group Update | Craig Sandy | Department of Environment Land Water and Planning |
| Drones in conservation and beyond | Adam Kilpatrick | The University of Adelaide |
| Location, Location, Location: the spatial influences on irrigators’ water entitlement selling in the southern Murray-Darling Basin | Juliane Haensch | University of Adelaide |
| The Elusive Open Geospatial Business | Cameron Shorter | Jirotech |
| Bridging the discipline gap: Translating spatial technologies for better environmental decision-making | Megan Lewis | University of Adelaide |
| How in-field scan registration can improve your workflow! | Paul Malatzky | Position Partners |
| Join the transformation: Australia’s Spatial Capabilities in 2026 | Phil Delaney | CRC for Spatial Information |
| Do you really need a map? | Gary Maguire | Department of the Premier and Cabinet |
| Wombats from space: A multi-method multi-scale approach to assessing Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat population and abundances | Michael Swinbourne | University of Adelaide |
| The I in BIM: Managing BIG data | Luke Johnson | Virtual Built |
| Automate As-Built Processing | Scott Ferguson | A2K |
| BIM from all sides: clients, contractors, consultants. | Michael Clothier | Virtual Built |
| BIM and Skills Development | Rebecca Decicco | Digital Node |
| Collaborative best practice and BIM | Stewart Caldwell | Russell and Yelland |
| Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) - Role and current priorities | Michael Burdett | Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure |
| Subterranean Laser Scanning | Graham Walker | Earth Radar |
| Point Clouds, Coordination and Coordinates | Tomislav Golubovic | AutoDesk |
