Spatial Vision eNewsletter

September 2002 eNewsletter

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

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

The stories in more detail ...

1. Spatial Vision is now a Supplier of Vicmap Digital Data

Spatial Vision is now able to provide the full range of Vicmap digital products sourced from Land Victoria. Customers are offered Vicmap digital data in formats that best suit their business requirements. Data will be provided clipped to the customer's specific area of interest, so as to avoid data redundancy, and re-supplied at a frequency that suits their requirements, to ensure currency in their decision making.

Further information regarding the data on offer and how to place and order see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news21.htm

To obtain a quotation from Spatial Vision for your data needs please contact Graeme Martin (phone 03 9691 3000 or e-mail graeme.martin@spatialvision.com.au).

2. PEMS goes live

Spatial Vision recently completed the development and deployment of the Protected Environment Management System (PEMS), a new "state of the art" integrated mapping and management system for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA).

Dr Adam Smith, the GBRMPA Project Manager said "This system has delivered significant benefits to the Authority. For the first time, staff are freed from chasing paper, with the result that more effort can now be directed into the management of the reef."

PEMS improves the speed, accuracy and consistency of permit application processing. It utilises a web-based workflow interface, leading the Authority's staff through each referral and authorisation step in the processing of permit applications. Efficiency gains are delivered by PEMS automatically producing customised notification and follow up letters for applicants.

Integral to PEMS is its digital mapping and overlay techniques enabling GBRMPA staff to easily and quickly identify permit impacts, removing the need to manually interpret a range of paper-based maps, plans and other documents to achieve the same result.

For more information about GBRMPA's use of PEMS see . http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/media/2002/2002-06-06.html

For more information about the workflow aspects, see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news21w.htm

For more information about the spatial technologies used, see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news21s.htm

3. Spatial Vision releases results of Water Industry GIS Survey

Spatial Vision has released the results of a state-wide survey of all 23 Victorian water supply authorities. The survey documented the use of GIS within the industry as well as the key trends. The survey provides valuable insight into the take-up of the latest geospatial technologies.

Further details are available from . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news23.htm

4. Marine Map Goes Live

Spatial Vision recently completed development of the "Marine Map Victoria" interactive mapping site based on their new web-mapping framework - NRe-map.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) is a large and diverse organisation that has a long history of GIS use. Over many years it has collected a large volume of spatial data and has many internal businesses making daily use of this information for a variety of decision making processes.

In order to make this spatial information more accessible to both NRE businesses and to the public, NRE tendered for a corporate web mapping solution, to be known as NRe-map. Spatial Vision was awarded this contract and recently completed implementation of NRe-map using ESRI's ArcSDE and ArcIMS. NRe-map provides a framework for deploying business specific web maps. Marine Map is the first publicly available business specific web map.

For further information about NRe-map see . http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/coasts

5. New GIS for Coliban Water Deployed

Coliban Water provides 130,000 retail, urban and rural water customers with water and wastewater services, over an area of 16,500 square kilometres of Central and Northern Victoria. Coliban Water identified that they needed to get more value from their GIS information and provide an easier to use system that could be accessed by all Coliban Water staff.

Spatial Vision was selected to deploy a new GIS and related system integration services to Coliban Water, based on the ESRI range of GIS software. Spatial Vision recently completed implementation of the GIS solution that comprised ArcSDE to enable storage of the spatial information in a Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS, ArcGIS to provide powerful editing and analysis capabilities and Enterprise View (EView) for broad corporate GIS access.

For further information see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news25.htm

6. National Mosaicing Project Completed

The Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO), in response to the Kyoto Protocol, has developed the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS). The NCAS monitors greenhouse gas emissions from vegetation loss and re-growth which is used to establish Australia's annual National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

The AGO project used satellite imagery captured between 1972 and 2000 in ten discrete time steps (years) for the whole continent of Australia.

Spatial Vision, in partnership with the Land Information Group of the Victorian Department of Natural Resources & Environment, and Aerometrix Pty Ltd, a South Australian remote sensing company, prepared over 900 image mosaics from approximately 3,000 individual LANDSAT TM and MSS satellite images covering the vast majority of the Australian continent. These image mosaics will be used to monitor the extent and volume of woody vegetation, soil carbon and land clearing.

For more information see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news26.htm

7. NewTech Forum, Ballarat, Victoria

Spatial Vision will be attending the next, of the very successful NewTech forums, which will be held in Ballarat on 1st November.

For more information see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news27.htm

8. Victoria's Native Vegetation Management Framework

Spatial Vision is assisting the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) with a series of fundamental information products and tools underpinning the implementation of the Native Vegetation Management Framework recently launched by the Victorian State Government. These products and tools include Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC) mapping, an interactive CD for distributing native vegetation information to local government to assist with local planning, tools for monitoring catchment activities and a system for assessing and tracking planning permit applications for native vegetation clearing.

David Parkes, of the Parks, Flora and Fauna Division, NRE, and a key player in the development of the Framework, notes that "Our vegetation mapping datasets provide both the broader context and the local detail for decisions about native vegetation and we see the provision of these datasets to the wide range of stakeholders through a variety of products as a very important part of our business. Spatial Vision has been chosen to work with us on several of these projects: "they have the necessary technical and project management skills, and have strong experience in the building of vegetation mapping datasets. Importantly, Spatial Vision also has a clear understanding of our broader 'knowledge management' agenda, and the ability to assist us in taking practical and timely steps along the right path."

For information about Spatial Vision's role in supporting the framework, see . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news28.htm

9. Creating 3D Scenes

The visualisation application that supports 3D Analyst (ArcScene) is a welcome addition to the ESRI family of geospatial software products. This extension represents far more than a 3D rendering software suite, many of which have been available for decades, but the migration of the richness of a GIS (identification, query, analysis and reporting) into a more 'realistic' medium for visualisation. Asset managers and natural resource managers can take a step into virtual reality with this new tool. Client reaction to 3D visualisations confirms that this technology opens a whole new way to view and interact with spatial data.

This newsletter provides tips on establishing a realistic surface (setting up base heights), and explores some of the limitations of the current release of ArcScene. For more information go to . http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news29.htm

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Regards

Glenn Cockerton
Chief Executive

SPATIAL VISION

Innovative Geospatial Solutions
Level 2, 170 Queen Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Phone: +61 3 9691 3000 Fax: +61 3 9691 3001
E-mail: info@spatialvision.com.au
http://www.spatialvision.com.au