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Image credit: ©iStock.com/SonjaBK If you have a Spatial Snippet to share with our readers, please send us an email. A few weeks ago, we brought you news of the University of Newcastle’s new hybrid surveying and spatial diploma and degree courses.

Image credit: ©iStock.com/GarryKillian The latest official Lands survey alert from Queensland sets out advice for plan lodgements with Titles Queensland. The alert reminds surveyors that, in order to avoid delays in registration, when an original survey plan in paper form or as an eLodgement compliant image file is submitted it should include instructions that the plan is to be lodged only through the appropriate paper channel or eLodgement channel.

A drone pilot’s view of the Nepal flood zone As Spatial Source reported last week, Australia has deployed a 15-person DART, including a number of specialist RPAS operators and aerial mapping experts, to aid in Nepal flood relief efforts. The team is made up of personnel from Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) and the Queensland Fire Department.

(Click to enlarge) Happy recipients of the 2026 Queensland EISSI awards. Credit: Surveyors Australia The 2026 Queensland EISSI awards were presented at a gala occasion held at the Sofitel Brisbane Central hotel on Saturday, 12 September. The event saw leading lights from the state’s surveying and spatial sciences community gather for a night of celebrations.

Image credit: ©stock.adobe.com/au/inna The move from measured data to AI-generated inference is bringing with it a need to restore transparency, governance and trust in decision-grade geospatial data, says the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC). That’s according to the WGIC’s newly issued report, Data to Decisions – Rebuilding Trust in Decision-Grade Geospatial Data.

(Click to enlarge) Figure 1: (A) A 3D Gaussian splat capture of an industrial facility with automatically fitted orientated bounding boxes. Each asset carries a position, orientation and identity. (B) An asset tag with key information captured. (C) Extracted and structured textual information for AMS integration.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image courtesy NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. The team from Adelaide University’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources have developed a novel navigation system using craters, called STELLA (Spacecraft craTer-basEd Localisation for Lunar mApping), for long-duration lunar mapping missions. The researchers involved are Dr Chee-Kheng Chng and Dr Sofia McLeod.

Image credit: ©stock.adobe.com/au/StudioProX The New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa, NZGB) has reached a major milestone following the incorporation of the 10,000th audio clip of Māori place names into the official New Zealand Gazetteer. The milestone coincides with the annual Te Wiki o te Reo Māori —  ‘Māori Language Week’ — which is sponsored by the New Zealand Government to encourage and promote the understanding and use of the Māori language (te reo Māori).

The change reflects the organisation’s aim to pivot to a more nationwide remit, rather than be solely identified with Queensland, as it has for a long time. To that end, SEFA is looking to partner with industry bodies and organisations to replicate its Queensland efforts in other states and territories. As ISAQ BEF, and now as SEFA, the organisation has long provided tertiary education scholarships and bursaries associated with study at the University of Southern Queensland.

Bruce Gittings, Chair of AGI Scotland, and Alan Corbett, Head of Geospatial at the Scottish Government. Credit: AGI The Scottish Government has signed a collective membership agreement with the UK-based Association for Geographic Information (AGI). The first-of-its-kind agreement, which is centrally funded, will enable Scottish members of the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) to access the member benefits and resources offered by the AGI.