Proceedings Chris Rizos School of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia c.rizos@unsw.edu.au
ii Locate is the new annual conference on spatial information in Australia and New Zealand, bringing together for the first time all joint forces of SSSI, SIBA, ANZLIC, OSP, LINZ, CRCSI, PSMA, ASIERA and others. Locate'14 has been the inaugural event, and from here Locate aims to become the annual meeting point of industry, government and academia in one of the fastest growing areas of IT: spatial information.
Research@Locate is the academic research stream at Locate. It is organized independently by the Australasian Spatial Information Education and Research Association, ASIERA (www.asiera.org.au). Research@Locate has been designed to provide an Australasian research conference with a transparent full-paper peer review process, with carefully selected presentations and papers, and with its own annual, open-access proceedings. It aims to become the premier academic event in the Australasian region.
Already in its first year Research@Locate received 42 submissions. After a thorough peer review process, 16 of these papers were selected for the conference proceedings. This result corresponds to an acceptance rate of 38\%. In addition to the 16 accepted full papers, four papers received sufficient reviewer support to be invited for presentation only, and for three of these presentations you will find short abstracts in the proceedings.
What you will find in these proceedings is a selected sample of research in the field of spatial information. The presentations this year were organized around four themes (sessions): sourcing and access, accuracy, processing and analysis, and algorithms. A few review papers are also included.
Research@Locate is organised by the Australasian Spatial Information Education and Research Association, ASIERA (http://www.asiera.org.au). ASIERA represents a significant part of the academic segment of the spatial information industry in Australia, with a workforce of several hundred people in fundamental and applied research and innovation, with a responsibility for educating and training future generations of spatial professionals.
Research@Locate would not have happened without the support of the institutions behind Locate, SIBA and SSSI. We also wish to thank our colleagues that served on the International Program Committee, and Maria Vasardani for the production of the proceedings.
April 2014
iii Program Committee
Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia (chair) Chris Rizos, The University of New South Wales, Australia (co-chair)
Sharolyn Anderson, University of South Australia, Australia Jagannath Aryal, University of Tasmania, Australia David Bruce, University of South Australia, Australia Nick Chrisman, RMIT University, Australia Paul Corcoran, University of South Australia, Australia Matt Duckham, The University of Melbourne, Australia Ahmed El-Mowafy, Curtin University, Australia Ori Gudes, Curtin University, Australia Eric Guilbert, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong John Hayes, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Petra Helmholz, Curtin University, Australia Mohsen Kalantari, The University of Melbourne, Australia Allison Kealy, The University of Melbourne, Australia Lars Kulik, The University of Melbourne, Australia Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea Samsung Lim, University of New South Wales, Australia Bharat Lohani, IIT Kanpur, India Kim Lowell, Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, Australia Feng Lu, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, China Nandakumaran Nadarajah, Curtin University, Australia Gerhard Navratil, Technical University Vienna, Austria Kevin McDougall, University of South Queensland, Australia Antoni Moore, University of Otago, New Zealand Jon Osborne, University of Tasmania, Australia Abbas Rajabifard, The University of Melbourne, Australia Femke Reitsma, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Chris Rizos, The University of New South Wales, Australia iv Wenzhong Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Pascal Sirguey, University of Otago, New Zealand Egemen Tanin, The University of Melbourne, Australia Martin Tomko, The University of Melbourne, Australia Xiaohua Tong, Tongji University, China Bert Veenendaal, Curtin University, Australia Jinling Wang, The University of New South Wales, Australia Geoff West, Curtin University, Australia Cecilia Xia, Curtin University, Australia Bisheng Yang, Wuhan University, China Zhangcai Yin, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Research@Locate is backed by the current members of ASIERA: David Bruce, University of South Australia, Australia Nick Chrisman, RMIT University, Australia John Hayes, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Kevin McDougall, University of South Queensland, Australia Xiaoli Deng, University of Newcastle, Australia Jon Osborne, University of Tasmania, Australia Femke Reitsma, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Chris Rizos, The University of New South Wales, Australia Pascal Sirguey, University of Otago, New Zealand Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bert Veenendaal, Curtin University, Australia
The University of New South Wales RMIT University Curtin University of Technology The University of Newcastle University of Tasmania University of Southern Queensland University of South Australia Queensland University of Technology University of Canterbury University of Otago
vi Developing a Usability Framework to Support Online Rapid Urban Information Discovery and Interrogation................................................................................26-34
Jack Barton, Chris Pettit Ontology driven VGI Filtering to Empower Next Generation SDIs for Disaster Management (abstract).............................................................................................35
Saman Koswatte, Kevin McDougall Bridging the Gap between the United Nations World Food Programme Crisis Mapping Operations and Crowdsourcing Technology .......................................36-47
Sophie Richards, Bert Veenendaal
Dynamic Datum Transformations in Australia and New Zealand......................48-59 Nic Donnelly, Chris Crook, Joel Haasdyk, Craig Harrison, Chris Rizos, Craig Roberts, Richard Stanaway Accuracy of the Canterbury Earthquake Deformation Models (text not included)
Nic Donnelly, Chris Crook, Matt Amos, Don Grant, John Ritchie, Craig Roberts Managing the Dynamics of the New Zealand Spatial Cadastre..........................60-71
Don Grant, Chris Crook, Nic Donnelly Options for Modernising the Geocentric Datum of Australia.............................72-85 Joel Haasdyk, Nic Donnelly, Richard Stanaway, Craig Harrison, Craig Roberts, Chris Rizos Vertical Accuracy Assessment of LiDAR Ground Points using Minimum Distance Approach .............................................................................................................86-96
Seyedhossein Pourali, Colin Arrowsmith, Nicholas Chrisman, Aliakbar Matkan
EDMCAL: Processing EDM Calibrations in NSW ..........................................97-107
Volker Janssen, Tony Watson The new Digital Orthometric Elevation Model of Kilimanjaro......................108-117
Pascal Sirguey, Nicolas J. Cullen, Jorge Filipe Dos Santos Emerging Data Challenges for Next-Generation Spatial Data Infrastructure.118-129
Benjamin Adams, Mark Gahegan An Image Engineering Approach to Analysing Mobile Mapping Data .........130-141
Michael Borck, Geoff West, Tele Tan A Vector Agent Approach to Extract the Boundaries of Real-World Phenomena from Satellite Images (abstract).............................................................142-144 Kambiz Borna, Antoni Moore, Pascal Sirguey vii Estimating Urban Ultrafine Particle Distributions with Gaussian Process A Novel Algorithm for Road Extraction from Airborne Lidar Data ............154 - 163
Li Liu, Samsung Lim