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An example of the 20cm high-resolution West Coast imagery dataset available on the LINZ Data Service website. Credit: LINZ This is Toitu Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand’s (LINZ) first new release of imagery covering this part of the country since 2017. The 20cm-pixel-resolution dataset has been provided in collaboration with the West Coast Regional Council.

Contains map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (CC-BY-SA-2.0) Just 457 lines of code written by Andrii Rohovyi, a PhD candidate from UNSW Computer Science and Engineering, is all it has taken to boost the capabilities of OpenTripPlanner, a leading open-source public transport routing platform. Journey planning software packages typically evaluate up to thousands of possible routes, transfers and connections before recommending the fastest trip.

(Click to enlarge) A screenshot from the Reef Life Explorer platform’s graphical representation of data. The graphical representation of the health of reefs within marine protected areas (MPAs) enables users to explore decades of ecological change across protected reefs in Australia and worldwide. The interactive tool was developed by researchers from the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), working with Parks Australia and Reef Life Survey.

Image credit: ©iStock.com/Mandy McKeesick The addition of the new Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) means that 196 million hectares — an area larger than Queensland — of Australia’s landmass is now protected. The federal government has a target to ensure that 30% of Australia’s land is protected by 2030, under the so-called 30 by 30 plan.

A screenshot of the draft Native Vegetation Regulatory map online viewer. © State of New South Wales (DCCEEW) According to NSW Environment and Heritage, the Native Vegetation Regulatory (NVR) map will give landholders greater certainty about how native vegetation rules apply to their properties.

An artist’s impression of a Galileo satellite in orbit 23,222 kilometres above the Earth. Credit: ESA/P. Carril Satellites 33 and 34 were launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket on 16 December from the European spaceport in French Guiana. According to the European Space Agency, the launch achieved the most precise orbital injection yet for the Galileo program.

Port of Auckland pilots conduct around 2,500 pilotage acts each year. Credit: Port of Auckland. Positioning information accuracy matters a great deal in busy ports, where maritime pilots and port operators make decisions every day that can have immediate safety, environmental and infrastructure consequences. At Port of Auckland, pilots conduct around 2,500 pilotage acts each year, guiding vessels that range in size from 40-metre-long superyachts to 300-metre-long container ships and cruise liners.

If you have a Spatial Snippet to share with our readers, please send us an email. We’ll start off this week with news that Dr Rolando Chacón, Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, has been welcomed to the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA) at the University of Melbourne.

Winning bid team members including Sisi Zlatanova (far right) and Petra Helmholz (right) celebrate Sydney’s win at the ceremony in Toronto. The decision to hold ISPRS 2029 in Sydney — the first time the city will have hosted the event — was announced at the recent ISPRS General Assembly in Toronto.

Image credit: ©iStock.com/Totajla The two major airborne magnetic and radiometric (AMR) geophysics surveys are funded through the Northern Territory Government’s Resourcing the Territory program and are being delivered by the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS) in partnership with Geoscience Australia.