Graeme Hooper

Managing Director, GPSat Systems Australia

With the dual announcements in late 2021 by arguably the technology world’s two biggest heavyweights, both declaring big future investments in 3D Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR), confirms we live in interesting times. Initially, Facebook announces the company name change to META, with the promise of employing many …

This paper highlights humorous research employing physics and mathematics to analyse and explain intriguing problems encountered in our professional or everyday lives, including examples related to gravity, astronomy and sports.

Volker Janssen

Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia

This is the fifth in a series of papers celebrating some of the weird …

As the world continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper highlights humorous research showcasing the considerable contribution of vampires and zombies to science

Volker Janssen

Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia

This is the third in a series of papers celebrating some of the weird and wonderful research findings hidden …

This paper highlights humorous research related to typical problems encountered in the workplace office environment, which are investigated using spatial tools, physics and artificial intelligence

Volker Janssen

Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia

This is the second in a series of papers celebrating some of the weird and wonderful research findings hidden …

As the world continuous to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper provides an introduction to the use of humour in the scientific literature and highlights several examples

Volker Janssen

Publications Officer, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (APAS), New South Wales, Australia

This is the first in a series of papers celebrating some of the weird and wonderful …

Low-hanging fruit refers to the obvious and easy things you do to achieve success or make progress toward a goal. It’s the easy stuff. It’s the things that always work

Brent Jones, PE, PLS

Esri, USA

Why is this a problem?
We all want the easy way to get the job done, but it’s a problem because disruption sniffs …

In the Virtual/ Augmented Reality computing world, a “Digital Twin” (DT)/ “Avatar” is used as a 3D graphical representation of either the user’s character/ persona, and movable machines or objects for very visually accurate representation for games and/ or virtual worlds.

The polar regions aside, access to highly accurate positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) data opens up enormous potential for economic growth, reduced inequality, and international co-operation. Access to Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has become a fundamental expectation and mainstay of the modern world.

If we have learned anything from the pandemic of 2020, it is that we can take nothing for granted. Global commerce, social interactions, events both public and private, and our collective health all came into question and were disrupted. Few had mitigation plans for this rare but inevitable event, and even those who did endured hardships in some ways.

As the world’s economy shifts towards
a new model of growth in line
with the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
sustainable development