Spatially Enabling Australia - the Next Decade

摘要

Australia has recently developed a strategy for the development of the Australian spatial information industry called ‘Spatially Enabling Australia'. It comprises three fundamental research programs and an integrated applications program. Research Program 1, ‘Positioning', underpins a full framework of continuous operating reference stations (CORS)to ultimately enable all of continental Australia to be capable of real-time precise positioning services based on global navigation satellite systems. Research Program 2 ‘Automated Spatial Information Generation' addresses complex processing of multiple remote sensing sources. Research Program 3, ‘Spatial Infrastructures' helps form the foundation of the development of an Australian Spatial Marketplace that will make available vast amounts of government held data under a new licensing and access regime for combination with user-generated content from the mass market. The three core programs are integrated with Program 4, ‘Applications', to support users from the Health, Defence and Security, Energy and Utilities, Urban Development, and Agriculture-Natural Resources-Climate Change sectors. Program 4 drives outputs from the three core research programs in sector specific deployments for high impact. This will see a rapid acceleration of the use and value adding of information products and services that utilise spatial information. There are considerable research and development challenges that must be met in order to achieve the strategic outcomes.