Twenty Years
This year marks the 20th year of Gaia Resources. This year, you’re going to see a fair bit from us... Continue reading →
Wildlife corridors: a spatial analysis approach to restore and protect habitats
One of the side effects of urban and agricultural development is vegetation fragmentation, which affects biodiversity conservation and environmental quality.... Continue reading →
Biodiversity spatial data challenges and solutions
In this blog, we’ll explore some of the challenges and solutions around managing the spatial aspects of biodiversity data. Claire... Continue reading →
GIS in your organisation: can you identify any pain points?
I was recently involved in a GIS Health Check for one of our clients, Carbon Neutral, who wanted to get... Continue reading →
Archiving Spatial Data
Last week, late local time on a Wednesday night, I was excitedly listening and watching presentations, writing notes and tweeting... Continue reading →
Satellite platforms: free and open data for environmental monitoring
My colleague Rocio recently wrote about her team winning a NASA global hackathon, with their prototype solution to monitor movement... Continue reading →
The annual FOSS4G Conference: Celebrating Open Source Software in the Spatial Community
You may have heard about free and open source software – we’ve talked about it a lot at Gaia, and... Continue reading →
Open source software and open data
Perth is about to host the FOSS4G Oceania Conference (Perth Hub) on 12-13 November 2021, and up here in Darwin I’m... Continue reading →
Two day QGIS training course
Wanting to make sure you know your vectors from your rasters? Need to make professional quality maps of your spatial... Continue reading →
Upcoming Events for Gaia Resources
We are all well aware of the impacts that COVID-19 has had on how we work and the types of... Continue reading →
A platform for monitoring forest canopy cover
We recently completed a technical investigation into leveraging Sentinel satellite imagery for monitoring forest canopy cover in forested areas in... Continue reading →
EOFY – QGIS Training Course
With the end of the financial year fast approaching, Gaia Resources has decided to hold our highly regarded 2-day QGIS... Continue reading →
Checking in with our (spatial) Data Scientists
Our Data Science team meet regularly to talk about our workloads, upcoming projects and emerging technologies. With software engineers, business... Continue reading →
The NAFI app is changing the way work is planned in the field
Controlled burning is underway across the western and central parts of tropical north Australia. As we move into the dry... Continue reading →
Fire information app launch
Today marks the launch of the NAFI Fire Information app by the team at Charles Darwin University (CDU) responsible for maintaining Northern... Continue reading →
Recap on the Territory NRM conference
This is a recap of the Territory NRM conference I went along to on the 17-19 November – but I... Continue reading →
A day with the open source spatial community
Gaia Resources was proud to be involved last week with the Perth Hub of the virtual FOSS4G SoTM Oceania 2020... Continue reading →
Fire mapping QGIS plugin
Within my first two weeks of moving to Darwin, Rohan Fisher from the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research invited me... Continue reading →
Archives and RetroMaps
I attended a recent presentation organised by the National Archives of Australia (NAA) at their Perth offices in Northbridge, entitled... Continue reading →
Latest on the Essential Service Volunteers App
You may have read about Gaia Resources involvement in the development of the Essential Services Volunteers app previously this year.... Continue reading →