Spatial Vision eNewsletter

October 2003 eNewsletter

Welcome to SV News, Spatial Vision's E-Newsletter

SV News is your guide to what's new at Spatial Vision, our services and solutions.

What's New from Spatial Vision:

1. Fire Protection Maps

The Minister for Primary Industry, Bob Cameron has opened the new Bendigo Fire Incident Control Centre. The control centre includes a 2.7m by 2.6m large format wall map prepared by Spatial Vision. The wall map includes a Landsat imagery backdrop and the latest road and public land information including recently declared Box Iron Bark National Parks. Spatial Vision also prepared weather sealed and UV resistant table maps for use in fire towers.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news61.htm

2. ESRI Australia appoints Spatial Vision as an "Agent" under NSW Department of Commerce's GIS Services Panel

Spatial Vision is pleased to announce that ESRI Australia has appointed the company as an "Agent" under its contract to the NSW Department of Commerce's (DoC) GIS Services Panel. The "Geographical Information Systems and Related Services Panel" (No. 864) is provided as a whole of government period contract for the purchase of services by New South Wales government agencies.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news62.htm

3. Melbourne City Council EView

The City of Melbourne (CoM) has selected Spatial Vision to deploy Enterprise View (EView), an Enterprise Information Portal that allows the integration of disparate corporate datasets in a web environment using spatial data as its unifier.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news63.htm

4. GBRMPA wins award for technology and productivity

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority received a SILVER award from the Australian Technology in Government Committee and National Knowledge Network for its "Protected Environment Management System (PEMS)".

PEMS is a state of the art "spatial database application" that was designed and implemented by Spatial Vision. PEMS provides GBRMPA staff with an important management tool and the public with information regarding the management of tourism, development, scientific research and other activities requiring a permit in the Marine Park.

For further details about PEMS, http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news64a.htm

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news64.htm

5. IT Strategy for Fisheries

Fisheries Victoria recognises that effective Information Management is critical to successful resource management and monitoring. Fisheries Victoria has contracted Spatial Vision to undertake a review of their key information and to recommend a strategy to improve their compatibility, their compliance with current standards and to identify opportunities to improve reporting capabilities.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news65.htm

6. GIS Water User Group (GWUG)

Spatial Vision has facilitated the establishment of the GIS Water User Group to provide a forum for Water Authorities to share their experiences in implementing and managing GIS. The forum enables GIS users to consider common issues faced in the industry, learn about trends in spatial information technology and data, and discuss industry standards.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news66.htm

New Projects:

7. LIS Architecture Options

Spatial Vision was contracted by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to assist in the selection of a suitable architecture to create a new Land Information System (LIS). The aim was to integrate all of the software and data requirements, support a variety of user interface applications and work effectively in the NPWS IT environment, especially in terms of network impact and security. The architecture would also be required to support future NPWS applications.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news67.htm

8. ABS Statistics Online - ASO

Spatial Vision was just completed development of the ABS Statistics Online (ASO) application for the Victorian departments of Sustainability and Environment, and Primary Industries to make ABS statistics available to departmental and Catchment Management Authority (CMA) staff. ASO is a web-delivered application with an integrated mapping capability which enables users to easily query the broad range of available data and to view the results in table or map form. Results can also be downloaded for further desktop analysis.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news68.htm

9. Digital Air Photo Applications

Digital aerial photography is key base data for many operational Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. The spatial resolution of aerial photography is typically flown at less than 1 metre and provides an extremely useful tool for land use planning/inventory. In order for the digital photographs to be of value, they must first be registered to a map base and then joined together to form a single continuous image of a given area of interest.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news69.htm

10. Grampians Water

Grampians Water has spent considerable time and money collating information on assets across their region. Spatial Vision has assisted Grampians Water to establish their new GIS with data linking their Asset Management System details to the asset location data. The information architecture implemented by Spatial Vision will underpin future deployment of the Grampians Water GIS.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news610.htm

Conferences:

11. Australian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage

The Australian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (ANCID) 2003 National Conference will be held on 19 - 21 October in Shepparton, Victoria.

The conference theme is "Catchment Companions growing together" Paul Byrnes, Manager of Distribution Assets, Southern Rural Water and Stephen Farrell, Senior Project Leader, Spatial Vision will co-present a poster on "Estimating Farm Dam Volumes Using GIS".

Spatial Vision will have a trade stand at this conference.

12. Australian Water Association (AWA) NSW Conference

The Australian Water Association (AWA) 2003 NSW Regional Conference will be held on October 30 - 31 in Newcastle, NSW.

The conference theme is "Sustainability - doing more with less" Peter McRae, Asset Manager for South Gippsland Water and Ishara Kotiah, GIS Consultant for Spatial Vision, will co-present a paper "Introducing systematic asset management to improve financial and operational performance"

Spatial Vision will also have a trade stand at this conference.

Project Outcomes:

13. Southern Rural Water (SRW)

The SRW corporate Geographic Information System (GIS) plays a vital role in supporting a wide range of business activities. Paul Byrnes, led the development of the GIS over the last two years and has ensured that development and deployment has focused on meeting the specific needs of SRW's business units and that users are comfortable using the technology.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news613.htm

--Technical Tips:

14. Metadata for Medium Sized Projects

This month's technical tips looks at approaches taken to gathering metadata, particularly in relation to ESRI technology, and how these can be harnessed in small to medium sized projects.

http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news614.htm

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Regards

Glenn Cockerton
Chief Executive

SPATIAL VISION

Innovative Geospatial Solutions
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