Spatial Transformations
I was back to Sydney again last week for the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) conference, with the... Continue reading →
Geo-referencing Archives with QGIS
A while back we posted about how we’d taken some town planning maps from the State Records Office of WA... Continue reading →
QGIS leaping ahead
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is really taking off as a free, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) package across the environmental (and... Continue reading →
Marine Parks of WA in your pocket…
Earlier this year, we started working on the Marine Parks iOS app for the Department of Parks and Wildlife. This... Continue reading →
Using Virtual Reality to assist decision making
We’ve been working and partnering with some Queensland based Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups to expand the services we offer... Continue reading →
QGIS version 2.16 released (and training!)
QGIS is the world’s best open source (and free) desktop GIS software and it just keeps getting better. Want to... Continue reading →
Phytophthora Dieback – Visualising Sampling Effort
While at the recent Dieback Information Group conference I had a few discussions with the Project Dieback team, driven by... Continue reading →
Cumulative Impacts
While James and I were at the recent Fauna Survey Workshop, there was a comment about groups doing environmental surveys... Continue reading →
The State of Dieback
Last week’s theme for James and I was Dieback. During the week, I have been wondering how many people we know,... Continue reading →
Fauna Surveys and Technology
Last week, James and I attended an Environmental Consultants Association (ECA), Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) and... Continue reading →
Dolphins or Sharks?
A while ago, Piers set another of his “challenges” about looking at sharks and dolphin sightings in the Swan River... Continue reading →
Helping protect the Goldfields Nullarbor region
We have been working with Ross Wood from the Goldfields Nullarbor Rangelands Biosecurity Association (GNRBA) to help target the work... Continue reading →
Corals of the World – Beta launched
For the last couple of years, we’ve been working with Charlie Veron, Mary Stafford-Smith, Emre Turak and Lyndon DeVantier on... Continue reading →
Shark Bay Drone Survey
As per our initial ‘dry run’ to test the equipment we finally received a favourable weather window to carry out... Continue reading →
Web Mapping Testing – CartoDB and Job Locations
With our strong background and interest in all things spatial here at Gaia Resources, we’ve just begun a round of... Continue reading →
The Atlas of Environmental Health
Two weeks ago, the Western Australian Department of Health launched the Western Australian Atlas of Environmental Health covering Medical Entomology, Aboriginal... Continue reading →
Remote Sensing with Drones
The future is very bright for remote sensing using drones. Actually the future is here! Just look at the Phantom... Continue reading →
More QGIS Custom Training!
April seems to be the busiest month for QGIS training we’ve ever had! QGIS training has been a very successful... Continue reading →
New QGIS version 2.14
QGIS 2.14 (Essen) was released yesterday, with a stack of new features in this release (see the full changelog here), but... Continue reading →
Making historical ant data available
In 2010, as a third year environmental science student, I undertook a study project that would give me nightmares about... Continue reading →