Internal Newsletter
December 05
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Contents
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Board meeting [GB12]
Research Report
Project Progress
Market Research Workshop
Research, demonstrator and education activities
report through their respective internal and public
pages within the CRCSI web site.
Mike Ridout :: [email protected]
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6 Grants & Opportunities
7 Calendar
refer to website for other news & info …
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Dear CRC participant colleague,
Thank You
2005 has been a great year for the CRC for Spatial Information. And I would like to thank
you for the part you have played in our achievements.
With your support we have, for instance
 put in place a CRC wide governance structure acknowledged as ‘best practice’ amongst
CRCs
 bedded down a suite of research projects with appropriate systems to manage the 30
million dollar commitments
 marked our ‘coming of age’ at a second successful annual conference, celebrated by
over 140 internal attendees in September, and 6 international speakers
 seen several commercialisation prospects emerge for consolidation next year
 built on the unprecedented SME consortium “43pl” to bring industry relevance to
decision-making across the CRC
But the coming year will not be without challenge. We must continue to show commercial
relevance and demonstrate successes from our research and development portfolio; build upon
our education platform; and grow the wealth and effectiveness of our participants and the
wider Spatial Industry. In short we must continue to add value to our partners through the
synergies the CRC can offer.
All of these aspects will be externally examined in our Third Year Review in late 2006, a
process to which I and the Board look forward to with confidence and high expectation.
I wish you the best of returns for the festive season and look forward to working with you in
2006.
Kind regards
Peter Woodgate
Chef Executive Officer
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Governing Board meeting 12
The Board met in Melbourne for its eleventh meeting. The Board thanked Grahame Searle [DLI]
for his key contributions during his term as Deputy Chair: the government college rotation policy
sees Steve Jacoby [QNRM] on the board. Warwick Watkins [DoL] was elected Deputy Chair.
Strategic Plan & Virtual Australia
The Strategic plan developed in Wollongong and discussed at workshops in each jurisdiction was
endorsed. The seminal paper “Virtual Australia” will be maintained as a live document with key
input from a task force including Bruce Thompson and TO Chan, lead authors of the paper, and
the Science Program Managers. Peter Woodgate will chair the task force.
Commercialisation
The commercialisation of Hazwatch out of the 6.1 Project continues, with negotiations
underway with the proposed commercialisers.
The Board agreed to permit SISL to undertake Project 1.1 commercialisation following
the agreed Centre Agreement procedure.
43pl Report
The 43pl Board endorsed the CRCSI’s KPI to grow 43pl by 20% over the next two
years.
An application to 43pl by iintegrate Systems Pty Ltd for new membership was
endorsed for consideration by current 43pl members.
Education Program
The Board endorsed the further development of the CRCSI website as a central portal
to progress the education activities.
WA Professorial position
A proposal to establish a senior research position at Curtin University was approved.
This will see substantial new funding brought into the CRC to support activities in the
GIS and IT area. A candidate is now being sought for the 5 year position.
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Research Report
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The Board noted that each project is required to prepare a
commercialisation plan. A draft will be sent to each Project Leader by
Graeme Kernich over the coming quarter.
Project 6.2 has secured $53,000 in funding from Ausindustry to develop a
roadmap plan for the LPOD project
Two new project agreements have been signed (1) Project 2.3 with Webmap
- Orthophoto Resolution and Quality Standards - Project Leader - Clive
Fraser/Lee Smith) and -2) Project 4.5 with Department of Lands - Airborne
Laser Scanner And Radar Interferometry For Digital Topographic Modelling In
Coastal Environments Of NSW: Wollongong LGA (Project Leader - Anthea
Mitchell)
Four project variations have been funded during the quarter
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Project 5.2 - $12,935 additional funding to Project 5.2 to evaluate
current Earth viewing technologies for their application in CRCSI projects
5.2 and 3.3. This short-term project extension aims at exploring the
potential of most recent Earth viewing technologies and infrastructuresuch as Google Earth, Microsoft VirtualEarth, or NASA World Wind - as
support technologies for local, environmental and route visualizations in
the framework of a Virtual Australia: providing citizens with Australian
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spatial information. Earth viewing technologies were not available at the
time current CRCSI projects were designed.
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Project 5.2 -$15,000 to cover the travel costs of DPI staff. DSE/DPI Vic
are new project participants who have contributed substantial in-kind to
the project (0.25 FTE of a Senior Scientist, 0.4 FTE of a Scientist, and
0.5 FTE of a Junior Scientist).
Project 5.3 - Additional funding of $15,000 to Project 5.3 to cover travel
costs for DPI participants. The existing project will be expanded through
the addition of 0.35 FTE of DPI staff(0.15 FTE of a Senior Scientist and
0.20 FTE of a Junior Scientist)
Project 1.1 - An additional task has been funded - $25,000 of CRC
funding has been added to an additional $120,000 provided by DLI, WA.
The task will generate information related to GPS CORS network
development in WA in relation to the basic requirements for supporting
future geodetic infrastructure.
Project Progress
Check out recent progress in projects of interest to you on the web site – each should
have posted latest quarter progress report at the respective web page, and the
presentations & posters from the CRCSI Conference are all available at the internal
CRC Administration folder “Annual Conference 2005”
number leader
title
1.1
Mike Stewart
Enhancing Australia’s Core Geodetic Infrastructure
1.2
Phil Collier
Quality Control Issues for Real-Time Positioning
1.3
Jinling Wang
Integrated Positioning & Geo-referencing Platform
2.1
Jochen Wilneff
2.2
Derek Lichti
3.2
Bert Veenendaal
Automated Mapping & Feature Extraction from Space, Aerial
& Terrestrial Imagery
Modelling, Analysis and Systems Development for Integrated
Imaging and Positioning Sensors
Intelligent Geocoding
3.3
Stephan Winter
Access to Spatial Data
4.1
Craig Smith
5.2
Automatic near real-time thematic mapping based on
MODIS
Linlin Ge
Digital elevation model generation and differential
interferometric synthetic aperture radar
Graciela Metternicht Near real time crop and pasture package: integrated remote
sensing technologies for improved farm management
Geoff Taylor
Development of imaging spectrometry (hyperspectral
imagery) products for characterising, mapping, monitoring
and managing environmental stress
David Tien
Support Tools for Spatial Data Mining and Agent-Based
Modelling
Ian Bishop
Visualisation
5.3
Gary Hunter
4.2
4.3
4.4
5.1
Communicating Spatial Data Quality
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6.1
Mark Carniello
6.2
Mark Judd
Regional
On-line
Management System
LPOD
7.1
Mike Stewart
Higher education
7.2
Mike Ridout
Scholarships and student support
7.3
Geoff Taylor
Short courses
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Spatial
Information
Emergency
Market Research Workshop on new R&D for the CRCSI
Over 30 industry and government users considered new areas of activity and focus for the
CRCSI on the afternoon of December 6 and morning of the 7 December. This built on the
successful 43pl workshop in April.
There were two major outcomes
1) An Inexpensive GIS and Automatic Data Update and Brokering Tool
a concept for a new project proposal, to be worked up by several attendees through the CEO
(Rob Atkinson, Adam Lewis, TO Chan, Lauren Mills, Richelle Pearson, Ranier Melick,
Birgit Kruse, Jessica Davies)
2) a series of focussed workshops on identified market sectors to explore how the CRC can
maximise impact in each area.
A succinct report as circulated – it can be viewed at
http://www.crcsi.com.au/uploads/administration/ADMINISTRATION_287.pdf
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Web Site The website continues to receive high traffic, with a 2005 average of over
6000 visits1 per month. The average monthly hits is now 86,000.
CRCSI uses the “Contacts Database” of the web site as its prime database for
generating email lists and the like. Please ensure that you log on; change your
password from that supplied to you; and update your details in the database. New folk
click on MEMBERS on the home page and follow the prompts.
We will be expanding the education and training component of the web site in
the coming months to better promote offerings and opportunities.
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Grants & Opportunities & Events
New CRCSI R&D and demonstrator projects … are welcome at any time. Discuss
your ideas with any of the executive – Peter, Clive, Graeme or Mike – and the Science
Program Managers. This includes expansion and merging of current projects.
Initiatives that are based on an expressed user need, and that propose strong user
involvement, are particularly sought
Intellectual Property
IP Professor is an online resource developed specifically for the tertiary sector by IP
Australia to increase the level of intellectual property (IP) knowledge and awareness within
the tertiary community….> http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/ipprofessor/index.shtml
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Calendar
23 Feb 06
8 Jun 06
Governing Board meeting 13 Sydney
Governing Board meeting 14 Melbourne
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not exceed 15 minutes, after which a request from the same client counts as the start of a new visit.
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