WALIS International Forum 2008 - Proceedings

THURSDAY

Official Opening
The Hon Michelle Roberts MLA - Minister for Land Information   

INSPIRE, WRON, UNSDI and other animals: emerging SDI trends
Rob Atkinson, CSIRO Land and Water

Partnering to Address the Skills Shortage
Professor Lyn Beazley, Chief Scientist of Western Australia

Public Private Participation…the future...
Craig Rispin

Use of GPS in AFL
Glenn Stewart, West Coast Eagles

Spatial Information and the Australian Economy: how valuable are we?
Paul Farrell, ASIBA

SLIP Enabler: through the looking glass
Kylie Armstrong, Landgate

Profile of a Successful Public Private Partnership: production of topographic mapping in Victoria
Glenn Cockerton, Spatial Vision

Partnering with BHP for IO Maps
Chris Gentle, NGIS

BioSIRT: a new bio-security incident management system
Debra Riddell, Dept Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Ian Miller, Spatial Vision

Spatial Information Services for the WA EM Community
Mark Taylor, FESA

Issues and Constraints in Utilising Spatial Data Across Northern Australia for Tropical Rivers Data Inventory and Risk Assessment
Renee Bartolo, Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

SLIP NRM: a toolbox for easier access to NRM information
Damian Shepherd, Dept Agriculture & Food WA

Putting GIS in the Front Line for the Australian Defence Force
Brad Christiansen, Thales Australia

Balancing Public Amenity and Water Savings through Data Integration
David Deeley, Acacia Springs Environmental

Metadata Search and Entry Tool
Simon Pigot, BlueNET

Building a Better Time Machine
Steven James, National Native Title Tribunal

SLIP Enabler
Chris Tweedie, Landgate

Revolutionising Topographic Mapping in Australia: the implementation of the National Topographic Information Coordination initiative in WA
Ryan Mathews, Geoscience Australia

Climate Change
Ray Wills, Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association

Information Queensland: sharing information to benefit all Queenslanders
Steve Jacoby, Information Queensland

Dept of Sport & Rec: Facilities Information System
Rob Didcoe, Dept of Sport & Recreation

Maintenance and Job Tracking in Landgate's New GIS Database
Marty Stamatis, Landgate

Spatial Web Architecture for a National Emissions Trading Scheme
Patrick Fitzgerald, Curtin University of Technology

Empowering the Organisation: a GIS portal to help better serve the community
Gary Maguire, SA Dept for Families & Communities

Interest Enquiry: delivering government information on rights, restrictions and obligations (.pptx)
Pim Vester and Natasha Bowler, Landgate

Customising Maps for Emergency Coordination in a Remote Area
Geoffrey Higham, Geoproject Solutions Pty Ltd

Deriving an Australian Marine Ontology from Existing Models
Kim Finney, Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Mapping Deterioration on Historic Shipwreck
Ian McLeod (Dinner Speaker)

FRIDAY

Partnerships with fire monitoring agencies in Indonesia
Ken Dawbin, Landgate; Ir. Sonny Partono, MM and Johnnie Prakoso, Ministry of Forestry, Jakarta

Google Earth and Google Maps
Ed Parsons, Google

Virtual Earth
Harvey Sanchez, Microsoft Australia

Getting Down to Business
Derek Milton, ESRI Australia

NSIMS: an example of spatially enabling existing business applications
Richard Crawford, TENIX Defence Pty Ltd

Future Directions for ACRES & 'Public Good' Remote Sensing in Australia
Adam Lewis, Geoscience Australia

Seamless Platform to Facilitate Administration Across Land-Sea Interface
Sheelan Vaez, University of Melbourne

Open Source, Open Data & Open Standards: what are they and what do they mean for the geospatial community?
Tim Bowden, Mapforge Geospatial

What Makes a Successful Map Application for Business?
Daniel Harvey, iDelve Pty Ltd

Integration of GIS Workflows into the Broader IT Landscape
Ben Somerville, ESRI Australia

A High Quality CORS Network for WA
Linda Morgan, Landgate

Development of Spatial Enabled Products at the Bureau of Meteorology
Kathleen Hirst, Bureau of Meteorology

Geospatial Open Source Software Overview
Mark Leslie, LISAsoft and Tim Bowden, Mapforge Geospatial

Implementing the Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework
Peter Gersekowski, Queensland Spatial Information Office

Addressing: issues of data custodianship
Brian Goodchild, Landgate

The Use of Directional Filters in Determining Fault Systems in Cambodia via Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR)
Amir Farhand, NGIS Australia

GIS Innovations in the Dissemination of Census Data
Alister Nairn, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Engaging the OGC in your Research and Development
Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft and Simon Cox, CSIRO

Community Access to Land Information
Robin Piesse, Landgate

Metadata Entry Tool
Allan Dobra, SKM

3D Analysis & Visualisation of Groundwater Management Units
Milos Pelika, Spatial Vision

GIS in Health
Grace Yun, Department of Health

Tips for Technical Frameworks for Multi-Organisation, Distributed, Geospatial Business Applications on the Web
Sonny Tham, Amristar Solutions Pty Ltd

Shhh…don't mention the S word
Paul Hill, IBM Australia

Platform for Environmental Modelling Support: design and values of a demonstrator of grid cell data infrastructure
Tai Chan, Dept of Sustainability & Environment

Visualisation & Integration of Data Helping to Understand Groundwater Resources
Michael Canci, Water Corporation

GIS & Computerised Health Records: an ethical dilemma
Nicola Shaw, ICARE: University of Alberta & Capital Health (Canada)

Open Architecture Capability Technology Demonstrator
Tim Crago, Thales Australia

Building our Future: spatial education challenges
Bert Veenendaal, Curtin University of Technology

Data Mining of Market Segments Based on Significant Movement Patterns of Tourists
Cecilia Xia, Curtin University of Technology

Spatial Analysis in the Esperance Lead Investigation
Jim Dodds, Dept of Health

Open Source Map Viewer Assessment Project
James Wright & Alistair Fox, SKM