SID2017 Archives | Spatial Information Day

2017 Summary

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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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