Spatial Information Day - South Australia
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Spatial Information Day - South Australia

Program 2011

8:30 -
9:10am
REGISTRATION
 
Plenary Session - Hall B & C
(Chair: Gary Maguire)
9:15 -
9:45am
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rod Hook
Chief Executive, Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure

9:45 -
10:15am
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Barry Brook
Director of Climate Science, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide

10:15-
10:30am
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Gypsy Bhalla
SSSI President and Platinum Sponsor Address

10:30 -
11:00am
MORNING TEA
  Environmental
Monitoring
(Rooms 10&11)
(Chair: James Cameron)
Geography helping the world
(Hall B&C)
(Chair: Penny Baldock)
Water Resource Management
(Rooms 1&2)
(Chair: Mary Lewitzka)
Geography in the organisation
(Room 3)
(Chair: David Coombe)
11:00 -
11:30am
New understanding of Great Artesian Basin Wetlands through Advanced Remote Sensing
Megan Lewis, University of Adelaide
Chilean Mine Rescue
Steve Sullivan - Maptek
Strategic Geospatial Information Management to Enable Sustainable Water Policy Development and Implementation
Alan Forghani, Murray-Darling Basin Authority
When 3 becomes 1! Enterprise GIS at DTEI: a business case study in ROI
Simon Callaghan, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
11:30 -
12:00pm
Ultra-high resolution ecological habitat assessment of broad regions - fauna surveys in the North Kimberley region
Bertram Ostendorf, University of Adelaide
GIS in Disaster Management
Andrew Langdon, esri Australia
Mapping the Basin: the Murray-Darling Basin Information Infrastructure Project
Andrew Bashfield, Intermap
Should FOSS or FOSS4G be part of your future ICT investment?
Colin East, RTI Consulting
12:00 -
12:30pm
Ground Cover Monitoring for Australia - National Network of Sites (SA): An Update
David Thompson, DENR
Sustainable agriculture and community based GIS in the Philippines
Andrew Leane, DFC
Managing Acidification
Risk using GIS in the Lower Lakes, River Murray

Ann Marie Jolly, DENR
Future Directions of Spatial Technology
Morgan Ellingham, Tonkin Consulting
12:30 -
1:15pm
LUNCH
  Environmental Management
(Rooms 10&11)
Evidence through Geography
(Hall B&C)
Land Surveying
(Rooms 1&2)
All About Land
(Room 3)
1:15 -
1:45pm
Cropping sustainability and erosion risk under climate change
Craig Liddicoat, PIRSA Rural Solutions
New approaches to water business management. A location based operating picture: Adding rigour and analysis to decision making processes
John Bormann, SA Water
Boundary Dispute, Queen Street Norwood
Peter Kentish, Surveyor
General
Dividing Land:
Utilising spatial information to aid planning pressures in Mt Barker

Nathan Sim and Graeme Douglas, DC of Mount Barker
1:45 -
2:15pm
Biodiversity Data Management Project
Jackie Mules, City of Onkaparinga
Street Sweeper Tracking for the City of West Torrens
Steffen Helgerod, City of West Torrens
Cadastral Surveying using GNSS Equipment
Neville Brayley, Earl James & Associates
Locating Land
David McDonald, Tonkin
Consulting
2:15 -
2:45pm
Systematic Conservation Planning for the Coorong Lower Lakes & Murray Mouth Ramsar site Revegetation Project
Jonathan Phillips, DENR
Using GIS to design Adelaide's water security: a cost benefit analysis
Matt Brown, WaterLink

UniSA Student Panel Ben Clark
Rowan Waye
Michelle Brooks - Bluefrog
Marketing

Defining Land
Fyfe Earth Partners
2.45 -
3:15pm
AFTERNOON TEA
  Environmental Management
(Rooms 10&11)
(Chair: Dimity Burgess)
Geography on the move
(Hall B&C)
(Chair: Franco Rea)
Sharing Geography
(Rooms 1&2)

(Chair: Stephen Retallack )
All About Land
(Room 3)
(Chair: David Trengove)
3:15 -
3:45pm
Conservation of the Mallee Emu-wren using high resolution aerial photography
Blair Pellegrino, University of Adelaide
How CORS Based Services Work and How they Benefit You
Aaron Jordan, Leica Geosystems
Wicked Problems – Geospatial Solutions
Peter Kinne, Digital Globe
Buying Land: What the Real Estate agents don’t know! A real life story
Andrew Langdon, esri
Australia
3:45 -
4:15pm
GIS launches assault on locust plague
Mark Hall, PIRSA
GIS on the Move - mobile GIS
Gordon Sumerling, esri Australia
“Python – Making Life
Easy”
Stoyan Shopo, esri
Australia
Digital Land
Mark Deuter, Aerometrex
4.20 -
4:50pm
Plenary Session - Hall B & C
(Chair: John O’Malley)
4.20 -
4:50pm
Keynote Speaker
Katie Sarah
Mountaineer
4.50 -
5:00pm
CLOSING CEREMONY
John O’Malley - Executive Director, Department of Environment & Natural Resources
5.00 -
6:00pm
HAPPY HOUR
7.00-11.30pm
SOUTH AUSTRALIA SPATIAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS DINNER