Tree Mapping Student Project
We have a guest blog post this week from Linda Nguyen, Linda is the 2012 recipient of our Curtin University... Continue reading →
WASSIC and GEMG Conferences
Last week, Tom headed up to Kalgoorlie for the Goldfields Environmental Management Group (GEMG, http://www.gemg.org.au/) conference, and Andrew and I... Continue reading →
Students – Our Future
Foremost on my mind over the last week have been the ways in which we support students here at Gaia... Continue reading →
Going Batty in Melbourne
I can trace my enthusiasm for bats back to this picture: This was taken in 2001, at a... Continue reading →
Spatially Enabled Food
Some people might have seen the flurry of tweets last week about food and food miles from Joe, David, Tom,... Continue reading →
Cycle count survey – Super Tuesday
Gaia Resources has been involved in several surveys (Bush Blitz, Tiwest Night Stalk and ALA), either by supplying the software... Continue reading →
Pair Programming with the Customer for Fun and Profit
The act of writing computer code is usually a solitary endeavour. You know what feature the customer desires via a... Continue reading →
Sprinting to a Low Cost Sensing Platform
Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a technology sprint and demonstration day over at the Rowes Bay Sustainability... Continue reading →
Importing species profiles into the BDRS with the help of Google Refine
For a number of our projects we have to either do data cleaning or transform data from a number of... Continue reading →
What I did on my holidays…
I’m just back from a trip to Japan, where I tested out a new gadget on the slopes of Niseko... Continue reading →
Experiments with Long Range Wireless Networking
February 10th, 2012 As this is a fairly long article, i’ll summarise by stating that for about 100 bucks, you... Continue reading →
2011 wrapped up…
2011 has been another rollercoaster of a ride for us all here at Gaia Resources. If I had to pick... Continue reading →
Behind the scenes: Testing the BDRS
Over the last week or so, a team of us in the office have been testing and bug fixing the... Continue reading →
Bushblitz in Ned’s Corner (VIC) with TRIN
The dev team goes bush Bushblitz is a biodiversity discovery partnership between the Australian Government (ABRS), BHP Billiton and Earthwatch... Continue reading →
Spatial Reports with Java and Python
A week ago, AJ tasked me with running a code sprint. Working as a team, Akeal, Aaron and I had... Continue reading →
You CAN Get Accurate GPS from your Tablet
A month or so ago, Piers, Aaron and myself attended the launch of the South Coast NRM Dieback Information and... Continue reading →
SSSC 2011 Wrap up – and a call for action
Tom and I are just back from the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference (SSSC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The 2011... Continue reading →
Visualising Public Transport
I have a habit of afterhours tinkering with spatial things that interest me. I have yet to decide whether this... Continue reading →
OZRI Wrap Up
Last week, Andrew and I went to the OZRI Conference in Melbourne to catch up on the latest in the... Continue reading →
What does gaming have to do with Environmental technology?
Some people already know that I happily call myself a gamer. A few people think that’s weird, but after my... Continue reading →