2022 Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March 2022 Showcasing the use of Spatial Data to enhance the operation and delivery of Government Services - REROC

2022

Showcasing the use of Spatial Data to enhance the
operation and delivery of Government Services

Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March 2022
Rules Club, Cnr Fernleigh and Glenfield Rds
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650

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DAY ONE
WEDNESDAY 2 March 2022
Rules Club, Wagga Wagga

                                                             12.30 – 12.50 Joel Haasdyk, NSW Spatial Services
                Stands and Networking                                       GDA2020 - Where are we now?

9.30 – 9.35     Welcome to Country                           12.50 – 1.05   Trade Stand Panel
                Aunty Kath Withers
                                                             1.05 – 2.05    Lunch, Visit Trade Stands and
9.35 – 9.45     Welcome - Cr Rick Firman   OAM                              Networking
                REROC Chairman
                                                             2.05 – 2.35    Melissa Daly and Craig Ronan
9.45 – 10.15    Wendy Menz and Leisl Grant,                                 SES Mapping Team
                NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service                       NSW Flood Data Portal - how it helps
                Accelerating Hawkweed Eradication -                         prepare your communities
                Shrinking the Haystack
                                                             2.35 – 2.55    Jules Cromarty, NSW Spatial Services
10.15 – 10.35   Erin Telford, NSW Spatial Services                          Emergency Information Coordination
                Cadastral Spatial Programs                                  Unit update
                                                             2.55 – 3.15    Charles Fransen, Albury City Council
10.35 – 10.55   Lilian Parker, Department of Primary                        Commonwealth Native Title & NSW
                Industries
                                                                            Aboriginal Land Claims
                Valuing important agricultural land
                                                             3.15 – 3.35    Lisa Powel, NSW Spatial Services
10.55 – 11.10   Trade Stand Panel                                           Place Naming in NSW

11.10 – 11.40   Morning Tea, Visit Trade Stands              3.35 – 3.55    Josh Bruni, Albury City Council
                and Networking                                              Canopy Cover Using Lidar

11.40 – 11.50   Paul Worsfold, Riverina Joint Organisation   3.55 – 4.15    Shalin Limbachia, NSW Spatial Services
                Where on Earth? Program                                     Service Delivery

11.50 – 12.10   Jeff Hosken, NSW Spatial Services            4.15– 4.45     Dr Mike Roberts , SunSPoT -
                Imagery and Elevation Update                                Understanding the benefits and costs
                                                                            of installing solar
12.10 – 12.30   Lyn Terrett and Ankit Khanna, RapidMap
                Emergency Markers                            4.45           Wrap and Close
                                                             5.00 – 7.00    Cocktail Reception

DAY TWO
Thursday 3 March 2022
Rules Club, Wagga Wagga

                                                     11.25 – 11.45   Thomas Grinter, NSW Spatial Services
                 Stands and Networking                               Update on DCS - Spatial Services
                                                                     Survey Operations
9.30 – 9.35      Welcome
                                                     11.45 - 12.05   Jon Medway, Charles Sturt University
9.35 – 10.05    Andrew Higgins, CSIRO                                Digital Twin Farm
                RivJO Freight Transport Project
                                                     12.05 – 12.25   Phil Woodbury, NSW Spatial Services
10.05 – 10.25   Simone Reedy, NSW Spatial Services
                Administrative Spatial Programs                      Spatial Digital Twin

                                                     12.25 – 12.45   Lachlan Feeney, Wagga Wagga City
10.25 – 10.55    Peter Terrett, 4D Global                            Council
                Update to the GNSS system and                        Drones for Survey
                infrastructure
                                                     12.45           Wrap and Close
10.55 – 11.25 Morning Tea, Visit Trade Stands
                and Networking                       12.50 - 1.50    Light Lunch

Charles Fransen, Albury City Council
Charles Fransen obtained his registration as a Land Surveyor in 1991 and worked in private practice
until 2016, when he accepted employment at Albury City Council. Apart from his work as a registered
Land Survey, his work now also includes the management of Crown and Council land, assisting in GIS
maintenance, Aboriginal Land Claim assessments, and historic land status investigations. Charles also
has experience in defining the NSW/Victoria state border. Charles has been a Director of the
Institution of Surveyors NSW since 2014, and a board member of the Board of Surveying & Spatial
Information (BOSSI) since 2020. Charles is also a Native Title Manager, under the Crown Land
Management Act 2016.

This presentation will summarise Council's responsibility under the Native Title Act 1993 (cth), should
they propose any works within Crown Land. Such works may include construction, leases, licenses or
easements for access or services. Charles will also discuss the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and
the relevance of any unresolved Aboriginal Land Claims that may exist over the land.

Erin Telford, NSW Spatial Services
Erin is the supervisor of the Cadastral Development Team. Her team is part of three within the
Cadastral Spatial Programs Unit. Erin's team focuses on improving the positional accuracy of
cadastral land parcels and related layers in the NSW DCDB. In addition to this she also leads the
Survey Plan Digitisation Project. Erin works closely with councils and stakeholders to provide advice
and assistance on all cadastral spatial positioning and related enquires.
Discover more on the current Cadastral Spatial Programs as well as how Spatial Services are
transforming hard copy Deposited Plans and Strata plans into 3D and utilising this data in their
Upgrade Programs. Also learn more about ePlanning and 3D buildings.

 Jeff Hoskin, NSW Spatial Services
 Jeff Hosken is the GIS Specialist of the Imagery Program within the Environmental Spatial Programs
 team, He is also the Chief Remote Pilot for the Department of Customer Service. Jeff has over 15
 years' experience in the spatial industry with technical expertise focusing on aerial survey, imagery
 production and drones.

 There has been a lot happening in the Imagery and Elevation space within Spatial Services in recent
 time. This presentation will discuss imagery and elevation products available from Spatial Services,
 new product standards and specifications, recent projects that have been undertaken and what is in
 the pipeline for the Environmental Spatial Programs team.

 Joel Hassdyk, NSW Spatial Services
 Joel Haasdyk is the GDA2020 Implementation Program Manager for NSW, overseeing datum
 modernisation across government, industry and education sectors. Joel is a Geodetic Surveyor
 within Spatial Services where his work has included establishing high-precision monitoring of the
 CORSnet-NSW network, and the development of GDA2020 and ATRF.
 GDA2020 has been defined since 2017 and adopted in NSW from January 2020. CORSnet-NSW and
 SCIMS (NSW Survey Control) have supported GDA2020 since mid-2019, and GDA2020 exports
 have been available from the Spatial Collaboration Portal (SCP) since early 2020. Exciting new
 developments include new web services which support both GDA94 and GDA2020, available
 through the SCP since mid-2021. In the pipeline are also a new dual-datum incremental feed, and
 the development of a GDA2020 forum for LGAs. All of these are working to support your transition
 to GDA2020.

Joshua Bruni, Albury City Council
Joshua has been with Albury City for 6 months working as a technical assets officer. He has a
Bachelors in Environmental Science (2020) and will have a Masters in GIS and Spatial Science
completed by the end of 2021.
The Environmental team asked about the possibility of finding the amount of canopy cover over the
whole LGA and then in certain areas. This was not something that Albury City Council had recorded
before, they had recently acquired LIDAR data on the ELVIS website from November 2020. Joshua
was then able to use this data to create an image that showed the percentage of canopy cover
over the LGA. This data allows council to improve cover in the areas that were found to have low
cover. It also identifies where they are now and where they want to be in the future.

Jules Cromarty, NSW Spatial Services
Jules is the Manager of Client Services in the Emergency Information Coordination Unit (EICU),
ensuring Emergency Service Organisations (ESOs) have access to up to date spatial data to
support planning, preparedness, response and recovery efforts across NSW. The EICU team
collects maintains and distributes spatial data to the Emergency Management (EM) sector and
provides mapping support and spatial analysis for planned events, exercises and emergencies.
Spatial Services’ Emergency Information Coordination Unit (EICU) ensures that the emergency
management sector has the best spatial and related data available to deal with multi-agency
emergencies. Learn about EICU, our Emergency Services Spatial Information Library (ESSIL) and
our newly developed online SIMS application. This talk will also highlight the role EICU plays in
Emergency Management and support for major events, exercises and disaster recovery, with a
focus on recent fire and flood events and the ongoing Covid-19 response.

Lachlan Feeney, Wagga Wagga City Council
Lachlan is Ex-Army Aviation and currently studies Environmental Science at CSU post-military.
Lachlan has previously worked with the Office of Environment & Heritage in the Science Division
working on Remote Sensing with drones. Lachlan has also worked contractually for Australian
UAV and owns his own business, Wagga Drones with Remy Dehaan from CSU while also working
at Wagga Wagga City Council as the Geospatial Technical Officer.
This presentation will focus on how mapping can be taken a step further with
multispectral sensors and how to achieve survey for accurate elevation data, remote sensing for
vegetation or agricultural analyses and incorporation with RTK ground control to gain survey
accurate raster data.

Lilian Parker, Department of Primary Industries
Lilian Parker is currently an Agricultural Land Use Planner with the Department of Primary
Industries (Agriculture). The Agricultural Land Use Planning team work with government agencies
and councils to ensure the value of agriculture and agricultural lands are recognised for their role
in growing our food and fibre and for their contribution to local economies. Lilian has worked
across the natural resource, water and sustainable agriculture sectors in Southern NSW
(Riverina) and Victoria.

Agriculture in Australia is facing many challenges including more variable seasons, rainfall and
water supply deficiencies, disruptions to market access and labour shortages. The sector also
faces pressures from growing urban populations and expanding urban footprints into rural
residential development and lifestyles, and expansion of non agricultural land uses such as solar
facilities and carbon sequestration. These all result in land use change pressures and land use
conflicts. Governments need to plan more assertively and explicitly for agriculture to maximise
growth and minimise land use conflict. Mechanisms are required to ensure the planning system
recognises the importance of agriculture, to improve consistency of decisions made about
agricultural land and to increase the confidence of producers in business planning.

Lisa Powell, NSW Spatial Services
Lisa Powell is the Place Names Manager and Secretary for the Geographical Names Board (GNB).
Prior to this role Lisa worked in the survey profession for over a decade. She holds a Bachelor of
Spatial Science Technology degree majoring in GIS and a Diploma of Spatial Information Services
(Surveying). As Place Names Manager, Lisa manages the GNB Secretariat team to support its
customers and enable the Board to effectively undertake its powers and functions. Lisa is passionate
about educating and enabling the community to engage in the place naming process so that place
naming in NSW is reflective of the rich and diverse culture of our nation.

This presentation will explore a range of place names recently proposed to the Geographical
Names Board including geographical features, suburbs and dual names. Through each example the
audience will learn about the place naming process, success stories and lessons learnt.

Lyn Terrett, RapidMap
Lyn Terrett is dedicated to the digital transformation of distributed workforces by mobilising maps,
data and spatial (positioning) technologies to massively increase productivity and profitability.
Combining over 30 years business experience in applied science, electronics and computer systems
with geospatial, her teams have won several industry awards for technical excellence, spatial
enablement and commercialisation and innovation in USA and Australia. Of note, Lyn was the
Director of Spatial Technologies at National Geographic Society post 9/11 for Homeland Security,
Critical Infrastructure and Counter Terrorism initiatives. Lyn has worked in a large range of sectors
including telecommunications, emergency services, health, biosecurity, cultural heritage, utilities, and
environment.

Ankit Khanna, RapidMap
Ankit Khanna is a senior technical project manager with RapidMap and leads a team of highly
dedicated specialists that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the ESTA Emergency Marker
Program in Victoria. He is a spatial data capture project implementation specialist who has built
strong relationships and foundations for high performing Database, GIS, and SAAS Systems
deployments for RapidMap customers across local government, NBN, emergency services,
Biosecurity, environmental managers, and cultural heritage projects.

ESTA (Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority) Emergency Markers are important
infrastructure and data sets that function as directional instructions to areas with no exact
address. The marker is a physical sign with a unique alpha numeric code that is provided to the
emergency responders in Victoria when people call triple 000 to report an incident in remote
locations eg. Rail Trails, beaches, national parks, bush walking tracks, shopping centres, and large
industrial facilities. They are installed in the places with no address and are usually in the open
spaces. With the use of the Emergency Markers, the responders can quickly attend the location and
and be prepared for the requirements of the event. RapidMap will provide an overview of
their approach to combining geospatial objects with turn by turn descriptors that concatenate to
form directional instructions.

Melissa Daly, NSW State Emergency Service
Melissa specialised in local government for over 20 years, mostly at Sutherland Shire Council,
spatially enabling council information and business processes including award-winning Shire Maps,
LEP mapping tool and map series development. A recent move to the NSW State Emergency Service
as Manager Geospatial Intelligence Systems has enabled expansion of her leadership to maximise the
geospatial capabilities in emergency management at NSW SES. Her team administer the NSW Flood
Data Portal with DPIE on behalf of government, forming strategic flood management layers for
community preparedness. The NSW Floods in March 2021, showcased this geospatial data and
capabilities for real time situational awareness.

Craig Ronan, NSW State Emergency Service
Craig has been a member of the NSW State Emergency Service (NSW SES) as both a volunteer and
paid staff member for over 33 years. Craig currently holds the role of the Coordinator of Hazard
Planning for both Western Zone and Southern Zone. Craig has an extensive background and experience
in collecting and analysing flood intelligence and writing flood response plans. Craig also has extensive
experience with running flood and storm related incidents and emergencies as an Incident Controller.
Craig was awarded the Emergency Services Medal (ESM) in the 2007 Australia Day Honours List for
distinguished service.

The NSW Flood Data Portal has been available to the Floodplain management industry to store and
share flood studies, flood management plans, and dam evacuation plans. Since 2017 the portal has
informed NSW Government of the flood risk in your community. An overview of the NSW Flood Data
Portal will be provided and how Council GIS teams can support their infrastructure teams in managing
their flood risk information. A demonstration on how portal data is created to inform the Strategic
Flood Layers across NSW, and its importance for NSW SES to prepare and respond to your
communities in times of flood.

Peter Terrett,4DGlobal Pty Ltd
Before going into business in December 1991, Peter Terrett worked for the state government as a
Geodetic and Topographic surveyor. He became very interested in what was then (1986) a new
technology being GPS. When the state government was downsizing about 35 years ago, Peter left to
start a business focusing on providing hardware, software, consultancy and training in GPS for land
base professionals. Since then, his business has grown to encompass hardware, software, services and
data analytics. Peter still concentrates most of his time in support of GNSS for field users and has
gained a reputation for knowledge, skill and service. He remains passionate about the evolution of
space based postioning.

GNSS continues to evolve. Often giant leaps happen in a very short amount of time. So what is the
latest that can support users in the field. Australia and New Zealand had an SBAS (Satellite Based
Augmentation System) running for a couple of years. This delivered sub metre accuracy across the
region for free for those with a compatible GNSS receiver. SBAS is currently in suspension. It may be
back on by the time of the conference. What have users been doing to get high accuracy during the
suspension?

Phil Woodbury, NSW Spatial Services
Phil Woodbury is a Supervisor for Spatial Operations, specialising in the transformation and
innovation across the spatial sector, including the transformation of 2D foundation Spatial Data to
4D Foundation Spatial Data. Phil has over ten years’ experience in the spatial industry and brings
this to his role as the Technical Lead for NSW Spatial Digital Twin.

The NSW Spatial Digital Twin is an ecosystem of platforms, infrastructure, data, and information
management governance arrangements consisting of the 4D Foundation Spatial Data, the Spatial
Collaboration Portal and Digital Twin Visualisation Service (DTVS). This presentation will provide an
update on the program including its expansion to support some regional areas and precincts, and
will also provide an opportunity for discussion on how you can leverage and participate in the
program.

Shalin Limbachia, NSW Spatial Services
Shalin Limbachia is a Coordinator, overseeing Business Intelligence for Service Delivery. Shalin
manages continuous improvement of the Spatial Services products and services portfolio by
collating information from different sources, analysing and reporting this business intelligence back
to the organisation.

With a focus on making it easier for both the spatial and broader community to engage with Spatial
Services, their business streams concentrate on business intelligence and analytics, customer
engagement, data supply, innovation and evolving products and services.

Simone Reedy, NSW Spatial Services
Simone has worked closely with Councils for the past 11 years, providing advice and assistance on
addressing, road naming and place naming related matters. Simone has spent the past 18 months
working in the Geographical Names Board (GNB), however her regular role is Supervisor of the
Addressing Program. Simone has played a major role in the development of Whole of Government
Addressing, the establishment of LGAWG Online, and has been pivotal for all address governance
changes and reviews.
The Administrative Spatial Program (ASP) maintains Administrative Foundation Spatial Data for
location-based analytics and reporting. This data includes representation and maintenance of real-
world features such as addresses, points of interest and transport including roads, rail and air. This
presentation will showcase some of the work ASP have been doing this year, including the
Electoral Distribution, Dine and Discover and the National Address Strategy.

Thomas Grinter, NSW Spatial Services
Thomas Grinter is the Deputy Surveyor General of NSW. Thomas is responsible for the Survey
Operations team; a team of sixty surveyors across office locations in Sydney, Bathurst,
Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Nowra. Survey Operations manages a diverse range of
activities such as: Geodesy, State Control Survey, Preservation of Survey Infrastructure,
CORSnet-NSW, surveying guidelines and directions, mapping control for Imagery and LiDAR
capture, and Survey Control Information Management System (SCIMS).

Survey Operations manages a diverse range of activities such as: Geodesy, State control survey,
Preservation of Survey InfrastructureI, CORSnet-NSW, surveying guidelines & directions, mapping
control for Imagery and LiDAR capture, and Survey Control Information Management System
(SCIMS). This presentation will touch on some of the work undertaken by Survey Operations, in
particular updates to the new Spatial Services Customer Hub for surveying submissions and
requests, as well as the new Survey Mark App.

Wendy Menz, National Parks and Wildlife Service
Wendy has a background in Land Management, Project Management and GIS. As the Surveillance
Coordinator, Wendy works with the project's research partners, private contractors, councils and
other government departments to ensure the project is achieving its purpose of accelerating
eradication of hawkweed in NSW.

Leisl Grant, National Parks and Wildlife Service
Liesl has a background in spatial data and ecology and combines these skills in the role of Data
Management Officer. Since starting on the project Liesl has implemented new systems for
collecting, processing and delivering the data to track progress in order to meet project outcomes.

Hawkweeds are an invasive weed in Australia that were introduced from Europe. The ability of this
weed to exclude surrounding plants and spread is a massive threat to the biodiversity and ecology
of the Australian landscape both for conservation and primary production. If this weed is not
eradicated, the loss to biodiversity and the economy from no longer viable agricultural land could
be devastating in the long term. Wendy and Leisl will present on the technical aspects to the
project such as innovative remote sensing technologies and utilising GIS and modelling for
surveillance prioritisation as well as how they processed the data from field collection to tracking
progress.

PAYMENT & REGISTRATION
Conference registration bookings are through Sticky Tickets.
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REROC Member Price: $275.00* (incl. GST)
(Only available for the staff and councillors from the following councils; Bland, Coolamon, Cootamundra - Gundagai,
Greater Hume, Junee, Lockhart, Temora and Goldenfields Water)
Includes Conference Registration for Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March and the Cocktail Reception on
Wednesday 2 March 2022
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EarlyBird Registrations: $275.00*(incl. GST) - Closes COB Monday 31 January 2022
Includes Conference Registration for Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March and the Cocktail Reception on Wednesday
2 March 2022
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Delegate Registrations: $330.00*(incl. GST) - Closes COB Friday 25 February 2022
Includes Conference Registration for Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March and the Cocktail Reception on
Wednesday 2 March 2022
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CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT
Conference Rooms, Rules Club, Cnr Fernleigh & Glenfield Rds, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650

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