Preface Locate is the annual conference for the spatial information and surveying industries in Australia and New Zealand. It is the meeting point of industry, government and academia. Locate17 is an initiative of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI), Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) and Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA). Locate17 was held jointly with the International Symposium on Digital Earth, a flagship event of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), during 3-6 April 2017 at the new International Conference Centre, Sydney.
Research@Locate, the academic research stream at Locate, aims to be the premier academic meeting event in the Australasian region. Research@Locate17 was organised by the Australasian Spatial Information Education and Research Association (ASIERA). Research@Locate provides a transparent full-paper peer review process, with carefully selected presentations and papers, and with its own annual, open-access proceedings The presentations this year were held across two days, and organised around 20 streams. Papers published here were presented in six streams: Land Surveying & Administration, Big Data, Disaster & Emergency Management, Smart Sensors for Natural Resource management, Spatial Infrastructure, and Geospatial and Economy.
Acknowledgements Research@Locate would not have happened without the support of the institutions behind Locate; SIBA and SSSI. We wish to thank our colleagues who served on the ASIERA. We also wish to thank all anonymous reviewers who provided important comments on the papers published in the proceedings.
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Chris Pettit, University of NSW Xiaoli Deng, The University of Newcastle Simone Zarpelon Leao, University of NSW Jonathan Doig, University of NSW Copyright O 2017 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
The Current Status and Ongoing Investigations of 2D and 3D Digital Cadastre (ePlan) in Victoria, Australia Hamed Olfat, Davood Shojaei, Mark Briffa and Abbas Rajabifard 1-6
GSKY: A scalable, distributed geospatial data-server
Pablo Rozas Larraondo, Sean Pringle, Joseph Antony and Ben Evans
Convenience Rating of Post-disaster Recovery Housing Complexes Constructed in Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Noriaki Endo 13-18
Disaggregation of SMAP radiometric soil moisture measurements at catchment scale using MODIS land surface temperature data I.P. Senanayake, I.Y. Yeo, N. Tangdamrongsub, G.R. Willgoose, G.R. Hancock and T. Wells 19-24
Identifying optimal sites for static speed cameras in New Zealand
Natalie Scott and Dale Harris
Real-time detection and tracking of pedestrians in CCTV images using a deep convolutional neural network
Debaditya Acharya, Kourosh Khoshelham and Stephan Winter
Detecting trends in cereal crop sowing dates using Landsat
David Gobbett and James Hunt 7-12 25-30 31-36 37-42