CeCC joins Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA)
1 July 2010
CeCC was recently welcomed as SIBA’s first Academic Associate Member.
The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) was established in Australia in July 2001 and has been instrumental in gaining recognition within government of the importance of spatial information and technologies to water resource management, national security and climate change. SIBA contributes to many inquiries at all levels of government in Australia and has led the way in delivering the first national economic study of the value of the spatial industry to GDP.
The spatial information industry produces and uses location based data and services. The industry is typically made up of companies engaged in mapping, surveying, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning (GPS and GNSS), location based services, photogrammetry, land administration, on-line services, social networking and much more.
CeCCs activities in interoperative web-based GIS services expanded recently via a partnership with the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority on the Salinity and Soils Program. CeCC has been exploring, through applied research and development activities, new opportunities for organisations such as the Corangamite CMA to collate, store, disseminate and maintain spatial information. A recent project has focused on delivery of four key datasets from the Corangamite region through the UB Interoperable Web-Based GIS Service.
CeCC was announced as a finalist in the 4th Annual Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards in 2008, and is again being nominated for the 2010 Victorian Spatial Excellent Awards, which will be announced in September 2010.