Issue 10

April-May 2004

Editorial - Jon Fairall

News Features

ENGINEERING

Civil Unrest - William Gibbs

    Civil Surveying: the more it changes, the more it stays the same

Inside Westlink - Jon Fairall

    Surveying Australia's biggest construction site: a new network of roads could soften the nightmare of crossing Sydney's sprawling suburbs.

GPS on Wheels - Philip Collier, Neil Brown and Tom Campion

    The building of bigger and bolder aircraft necessitated a high-accuracy survey of Melbourne airport's main runway.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Fire Risk Assessment - Jonathon Powers

    Integrating all the available data is the key to streamlining the assessment of bushfire risk.

How to Buy Orthophotos - Lee Smith

    Local government has discovered the wondrous world of imagery. Now they need to know how to maximise its benefits

OTHER FEATURES

Fallout from the Fires - Rob Mchenry, Greg Norman And Ben Searle

    The ACT bushfires kickstarted the latest developments in emergency management.

True Believers and Their Sceptical Foes - Allan Barnes

    Enterprise-wide data integration is the holy grail of the spatial information community. Can it be found?

In Search of the ASDI - Brad Spencer

    When is an SDI not an SDI? As more and more human beings crowd the planet, better information will be needed to manage the crush

The Rising Sea -Franck Martin

    Reducing vulnerabilities via a web map server: technology is helping to improve the lives of people in Pacific Island states

Mapping in Paradise - John Douglas

    A new generation of mapping technology has been used t create detailed maps of the Solomons Islands and Vanuatu

Poeppel Monument Dedicated - Alan Middleton

    A tribute to tenacity

Columns

Editorial

News

Products

Companies

Image of the Month

IEMSA

SSI

Calendar

Classifieds

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Emergency and Disaster Management

Mining and Exploration (Gas and Oil)

On the Horizon

Mobile Technologies

Hydrography

Front Cover Credit: Che Douglas

If you would like to contribute to any of these features, email the editor jon@positionmag.com.au

 


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