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FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2024

date:2024-11-05..2024-11-08
location:Hobart, Australia
series:FOSS4G SotM Oceania · 4 editions
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Machine learning applications for rock art researchAndrea Jalandoni30m
Claims that open‑source CNNs (VGG, ResNet, Inception) can reliably flag images with painted rock art and that digital enhancements find far more features than…
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Competition to Connection Geospatial Technologies and the Path to Climate JusticeBrianna Pagan35m
Argues that Earth observation must be treated as a public common good and shows concrete failures and fixes: NASA runs one of 12 data centers distributing…
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Inspiring the Next Generation My Journey in Open Source and Community BuildLanieta Rokotuiwakaya28m
Built a volunteer mapping group called OSM Fiji mapped ~69,000 features through HOT-hosted mapathons and field validation, aiming to fill disaster-response…
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Where Are My Keys? Unlocking Together What We Can't AloneKate Fickas27m
Argument that data volume is not the problem but accessibility and people is backed with specifics: Landsat free open data kickstarts analysis, there are now…
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Coastal Waters Utilizing GIS & RS techniquesRusiate Turuva05m
Delineates High‑Water Mark coastlines and baselines anchored to exposed reefs at Lowest Astronomical Tide, then generates a 3 nautical mile coastal zone under…
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Towards Open Data Cube 2 0Paul Haesler22m
Project moves from a brittle legacy Postgres index to a new post_gist index driver that enables fast CRS-native and arbitrary-polygon search and fixes…
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Aquawatch Data Systems a cloud solution for water quality monitoring and forecastingTishampati Dhar21m
A cloud platform built on AquaWatch Data Systems and CSIRO’s EASI ingests Sentinel, Landsat and hyperspectral scenes, runs acolyte atmospheric correction (a…
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QGIS Feature FrenzyJohn Bryant, Nyall Dawson22m
QGIS releases land every four months and recent 3.38–3.40 work adds concrete tools: debug models by viewing output layers and run partial model steps for…
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AI and Geospatial Analysis. What has changed?Daniel Paez27m
Argues that the real break is generative AI producing text, images and audio and reducing the need for explicit code, with tools like ChatGPT and Google's…
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Innovative Approaches to Anticipatory Mapping in Bobonaro, Timor LestePonciano da Costa de Jesus06m
Community teams map Bobonaro using OpenStreetMap and analyze hazards in QGIS, producing three activity areas: education, community-based mapping, and data…
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Macro invertebrate Enumeration with Shiny, RJessie Lindsay05m
Automates freshwater and marine macro‑invertebrate enumeration that used to be done by hand in Excel, replacing cut‑and‑paste and fiddly formulas with a Shiny…
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Using Prefect to Build Geospatial Data PipelinesMarty Hidas05m
Australian Ocean Data Network describes replacing an ageing pipeline with Prefect to orchestrate geospatial ETL of NetCDF files, claiming easier maintenance…
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Digital Earth Pacific Cloud Native Geospatial Infrastructure for Earth ObservationSachindra Singh24m
Cloud-native geospatial infrastructure ingests Landsat, Sentinel and climate models, runs on Pangeo containers and a hybrid mix of open data cube and xarray…
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eComply Framework an open framework for assessing building designsLuke Bassett27m
eComply is an open Creative Commons framework of three specs — eComply framework, BIM drafting guidelines, DTV eComply site context guidelines — that…
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Digitising Rivers the AI Way in Western Province Papua New GuineaDorothy Pion05m
Using the QGIS AI vectorizer from Banting Labs to extract rivers and contours, raster map scans turn into clean line and polygon vectors with a single hover…
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State of TerriaJSNanda Sankaran, Nick Forbes-Smith, Lawrence Owen22m
TerriaJS is a browser‑only TypeScript React app layered on Cesium and Leaflet that supports over 50 Web APIs and file formats, runs as a static-site deployable…
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Pacific Geospatial Women NetworkSalote Covilati04m
PGWN runs a year-one pilot that trains early-career Pacific women with two goals: practical geospatial skills and hands-on community leadership. Field teams…
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Tonga Capacity Building in the application of Open Source ToolsSailasa Bonaseva Draunibaka20m
One-year FIT pilot delivers hands‑on training in KoBo Toolbox, QGIS, drones, and Excel dashboards to four Ministry divisions, moving data collection from paper…
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Assets Exposure Modelling Replacement cost using open source toolsThompson Auri19m
Pacific Catastrophic Risk Assessment & Financing Initiative Phase II collects asset footprints and attributes across five Pacific countries in a 10-month…
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Regional Geological Mapping and data collection with the use of Remote Sensing andShekinah Pilamp05m
Remote sensing alone produces a usable pre-field 1:250,000 geological map of the south‑west Fly Platform (first sheet mapped since 1975) by combining QGIS +…
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Advancing Flood Resilience: A Responsive Digital Twin Framework for Real Time FloodQian (Chayn) Sun21m
Claims a working responsive digital twin for near‑real‑time flood modeling that links IoT feeds to a 3D cloud platform; implemented a PostGIS spatial DB…
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Protecting the world’s oceans using free and open source geospatial data and toolsJason Flower24m
Only 8% of the ocean is protected and the goal is 30% by 2030 so geospatial prioritization identifies where to expand protection using species and habitat…
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Time and tide. Mapping the changing 3D shape of Australia’s coastline using pRobbi Bishop-Taylor19m
Digital Earth Australia Intertidal generates yearly coastal elevation models from Landsat and Sentinel-2 stacks using Open Data Cube and DEA Tools, plus a new…
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Enhancing Long Term Preparedness for Forest Fires in Bhutan with Open SourceRoxane Bandini Maeder20m
Country‑scale open source geospatial tool maps where fires will be most severe and which buildings face exposure by combining a Forest Fire Severity Index and…
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Call of the Wild I Mapping good dogs in the YukonCholena Smart05m
Volunteers build live tracking for the 320 km Percy DeWolfe Mail Race using Spot GPS units and open source web mapping, starting with manual overnight position…
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Call of the Wild II Open source tech for a dog sled race in the YukonJohn Bryant05m
Over 15 years the project evolves from manual copy paste of SPOT lat/longs every 10 minutes for 30 hours to a fully automated tracker that pushes automated…
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How do you harness crowd sourcing for a community that also delivers for business?Ewen Hill, Kate Fickas, Graeme Fitzpatrick, Natasha Klinghardt, Lani Roko40m
Crowd-sourced mapping feeds commercial products: OpenStreetMap layers power base maps, Esri adds 3D buildings and trees and a living atlas, and TomTom ingests…
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All The Buildings In New YorkStephen Lead04m
Artist's JPEG filenames contain addresses so a Python script reformats names (removing underscores, appending "New York") and sends Ajax geocode requests…
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State of OSGeo OceaniaElisa Puccioni23m
OSGeo Oceania claims a sustainable, member-run chapter since 2019 that funds and runs conferences, grants and regional outreach; it lists dozens of supported…
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Don't give me the DATA!Nyall Dawson25m
Argues that raw spatial data is only the start and that analysts must deliver actionable intelligence, not just spreadsheets. Uses Victoria Police State…
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Creating a geological database using historic and contemporary informationColin Mazengarb21m
Hobby project compiles historic maps, WebODM orthophotos and modern LiDAR into a geoscience database served as QGIS vector layers and interpolated drillhole…
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Can Metadata Standards play nicely?Byron Cochrane23m
Argues that metadata is infrastructure and shows a concrete stack: ISO19115 for project-level context, GeoDCAT to OGC API Records to export Dublin Core into…
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Developing QGIS Plugins for 3D Geological ModellingMichel Nzikou Mamboukou18m
A QGIS plugin that integrates map2loop and the loopstructural engine to automate map augmentation and 3D structural modelling is available on GitHub and…
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Identifying Potential Historic Sheep Dip Locations in Southland usiAdam R Lyness, Jessie Lindsay22m
Project uses 32 labeled sites to calibrate a two-stage pipeline that first tiles historic aerial imagery and runs DINOv2 prefilter similarity matching, then…
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Discover UMap – A free QGIS Plugin for effortless Visualisation of bathymetric dataDavid Crossman28m
UMap is a free QGIS plugin that converts five inputs (shoreline, chart limits, optional topo, satellite-derived DTM, and bathymetric soundings) into a…
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Recoding our workflows to FOSS4GPhil Greville20m
Kenex moves a fragmented geology workflow off Excel/Word/MapInfo/ArcGIS into an open-source stack, claiming a centralized Mineral Potential Mapping pipeline…
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Digital Earth Pacific DEP cloud native approaches to detect mineral extractionNicholas Metherall19m
Cloud-native pipelines on Digital Earth Pacific run logistic regression and multiclass random forest with change detection over Sentinel-1/2 (10 m) to flag…
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Geoscience Documentation Made Easy – The Open Source Knowledge HubBenjamin Glitsos18m
Digital Earth Australia consolidates multiple documentation sites into a single static site that serves product pages, user guides and rendered Jupyter…
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Lessons learned building a cloud native geospatial data management systemLeo Ghignone23m
Builds a cloud‑native geospatial data management system for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority using Zarr, GeoParquet and Argo Workflows to ingest…
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From Code to Collaboration Making Geospatial Open Source Software a Viable Option forAna Belgun33m
Ten years of work on TerriaJS starts from a 2014 National Map prototype and evolves into 2018 experiments with digital twins and an early‑adopter program now…
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Reflections of a Dreamer. Spatial Enterprise Architecture Templates SEATSimon Greener25m
Argues for a practical set of Spatial Enterprise Architecture Template recipes that specify exact versions, integration steps and test cases to assemble an…
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AGM27m
Five board members step down and nominations open now with voting starts 30 November; one vacancy is a one‑year term. Shared OG calendar accepts events via a…
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Closing CeremonyAlex Leith10m
Conference wraps with concrete outcomes: 155 attendees, 140 workshop registrations, 52 speakers and nine travel grant recipients, plus a reported $50,000 AUD…
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