CONCURRENT STREAMS

Environment
This stream is directed at policy makers & environmental organisations.
- Integration of ICT Applications in environment management air, land, water including
but not limited to surveying, mapping, geospatial technologies, satellite imagery.
- Intelligent and agile responses and the power of location in modeling environmental
constraints for conservation and impact assessment on infrastructure planning.
- Environmental assessments, species management & site rehabilitation both locally and
within state government.
- Leveraging spatial technologies to better understand the risks and the impact of human
intervention on the environment.
- Using technology to identify opportunities for renewable resources.

Innovation, research and development

- incorporating Research@Locate15
Innovation, research and development drive the future directions, opportunities and
achievements across diverse spatial sciences disciplines and the applications that utilise
them.
These disciplines include, but are not limited to: spatial infrastructure; geospatial web
services; GNSS; geodesy; geographic information science; remote sensing;
photogrammetry; laser scanning; geovisualisation; and surveying.
Such R&D and innovation is initiated, influenced and enhanced by multi-disciplinary
collaboration within and across the three sectors: research (universities, CSIRO and other
public institutions) private industry and government.
- What are the spatial sciences opportunities, challenges and obstacles that need to be
addressed, explored and investigated so that we capture and exploit the potential and
opportunities that the spatial sciences have to contribute?
- Paper submissions are encouraged from researchers, academics, post graduates,
industry, and government and all innovators.

Sustainable management of our natural resources

The profitable and sustainable management of our natural resources is posing increasing
challenges and complexities for our government and business decision makers. Whether it
be mining, oil, gas, agriculture, land resources, or water, there is a recognised need for
critical enablers to guide optimal decision makers now and in the future. Geospatial
information and associated technologies provide the key ways to drive, support, participate,
and innovate.
Globally, we know that our resources are precious and finite. We also know that we are
operating in an era of restrained budget and capability. Our natural resources cross
boundaries, they grow and are depleted. We change them to suit our ends, and yet seek to
protect them. Knowing the value of geospatial information in our decision making, can we
better optimise the management of our natural resources?

Health
Geospatial information has long been used to identify areas of health risk and the spread of
disease and infection, and is often the coagulant that brings together all the information
about health in a meaningful way to make policy decisions. In todays seamless travel
environment, we need to ensure we have timely and accurate geospatial information and
supporting technologies. How can we overcome the challenge of capturing health issues
that cross people, borders, continents, and that travel and morph at great speed? Spatial
information has the potential to enable us to be proactive, rather than reactive, to health
crises. Are we using geospatial information and enabling technologies to their full potential?

Managing our investment in infrastructure and utilities

Geospatial information and associated technologies are key enablers to aid the management
of infrastructure across the full asset lifecycle. Utility and Infrastructure practitioners are
private and public sector organisations who support or participate in planning, designing,
constructing, operating and maintaining infrastructure assets associated with transportation,
supply, transmission and distribution, whether that be water, waste water, power,
telecommunications, roads, rail and transportation.
Can we solve the next generation problems for utility & Infrastructure practitioners through
the power of geospatial technologies and information? Common issues across the industry
include integration with major business systems, increasing productivity of knowledge
workers, real-time data processing for improved risk analysis & situation monitoring, and
meeting required levels of service within constrained budgets.

Security, Defence, Emergency and Disasters

In increasing times of global uncertainty, it has never been more important to increase our
awareness and readiness to respond to risk and significant incidents, whether as a result of
natural disasters, breaches of national security, terrorism, defending our nation, critical
infrastructure protection or responding to everyday events impacting quality of life. GIS is a
valuable tool in identifying patterns in data to gain valuable insights and provide intelligence
support for operational, tactical and strategic decisions.
Through knowledge and the power of location how can we contribute to and build a
sustainable and productive Defence, policing, emergency and disaster management
capability.