Program Chairs StefanPeters ProgramCommittee AmyGriffin JonKirby ShawnLaffan CraigRoberts JiangaShang StephanWinter Lining ZhuWeiSun ZhiyuanHong YongYin WeiWu ChengmingLi EhsanHamzei HaoChen HuaHua MariaVasardani MartinTomko DebadityaAcharya WeilinYan KouroshKhoshelham DavidAmores Kourosh Khoshelham University of South Australia The University of Melbourne Ioannis Delikostidis University of Canterbury
New Zealand
Linfang Ding Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Italy
Matt Duckham RMIT University
Australia
The University of New South Wales
Australia
Allison Kealy RMIT University
Australia
Curtin University
Australia
The University of New South Wales
Australia
Roderik Lindenbergh Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
The University of New South Wales
Australia
China University of Geosciences
P. R. China
The University of Melbourne
Australia
Program Chairs 9A6BEE014921ABEFFEE772B1717F4F87 submitted papers were accepted and presented in four different streams: The Right Location, The Science of Geospatial, Science of Smart Cites, and Location Intelligence II. GROBID - A machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents
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. Locate18 was held jointly with GeoSmart Asia, during 9-11 April 2018 at Adelaide Convention Centre.
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 reviewers who provided important comments on the papers published in the proceedings.

Stefan Peters, Chair Kourosh Khoshelham, Chair April 2018

Research@Locate, the academic research stream at Locate, aims to be the premier academic meeting event in the Australasian region. Research@Locate18 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. Research@Locate 2018 was endorsed by the International Cartographic Association (ICA).