Geomatics - measuring the heartbeat of our planet:
- environmental monitoring for modelling and visualising climate change
- recording and regulating land tenure to secure or transform economies
- coordinate movements for intelligent and sustainable transport solutions
- and more
News & Events
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For your chance to win an iTunes gift card, spend a few minutes of your time helping us with our research on location descriptions. |
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How do we talk about our town? Melbourne Newsroom, 16 August 2010 Associate Professor Stephan Winter is leading a research team of linguists, computer scientists, and spatial information scientists to try and bridge the gap in the way we explain locations to our friends and how we type descriptions into mapping services such as google maps or in-car navigation services. |
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National Teaching Award for Cliff Ogleby July 2010 Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geomatics, Cliff Ogleby, is the recipient of a National teaching award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. |
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New Master of Engineering Scholarships May 2010 In 2011 we will offer up to 56, $10,000 scholarships to suitably qualified local and international applicants to the Master of Engineering. Scholarships will be awarded in two categories: Merit and Access. See the Master of Engineering scholarships page for details |
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Assoc Professor Stephan Winter joint winner of Best Paper at AGILE 2010 May 2010 Martin Raubal (UCSB) and Stephan Winter won Best Paper Award at the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2010. . The paper is titled "A Spatio-Temporal Model Towards Ad-Hoc Collaborative Decision-Making". |
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FIG Article of the Month – Assoc. Professor Abbas Rajabifard May 2010 Associate Prof Abbas Rajabifard's keynote plenary talk about “Spatially Enabled Society” at the FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) Congress 2010 in Sydney, was selected "Article of the month". The article was one of 800 papers presented at the conference, which had more than 2,000 people attending from 100 countries. |
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University Teaching Award to Cliff Ogleby Senior Lecturer in Geomatics, Cliff Ogleby, is the 2010 recipient of the Edward Brown Teaching Award. The award recognises excellence in teaching for the discplines of Architecture, Engineering, Economics & Commerce and Business. Cliff receives a grant supporting an academic project in teaching or research. |
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Spatial is special Newsletter, March 2010 Senior Lecturer, Matt Duckham has a Guest Column in the March edition of the MUSSE newsletter. Matt says, "I am still often surprised by how special spatial information is, and how many special ways we use spatial information every day." |
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Accreditation for Geomatics Masters courses Associate Professor Stephan Winter is proud to announce that the Master of Engineering (Geomatics) and the Master of Spatial Information Science have recently been accredited by the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS). |
Seminars
- 25 August: Mohammad Awrangjeb - Building Detection from Multispectral Imagery and LIDAR Data Employing A Threshold-Free Evaluation System
- 8 September: Maryam Saydi - An Integrated Spatial Model on a Visual Platform to Assess Urban Sustainability
- 15 September: Alex Tao Chen - An Augmented Reality Interface to Geographic Information Systems for Collaborative Decision Support
- 22 September: Kai-Florian Richter - You, Your TomTom, and Google Maps: Assistance Services and Human Cognition
Watch a Video
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Geomatics Find out about the study and career options available in Geomatics at the University of Melbourne. Features an interview with Andrew Binns |