A strategy for the development of the Australian spatial information industry called‘Spatially Enabling Australia’has recently been developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.It comprises t...A strategy for the development of the Australian spatial information industry called‘Spatially Enabling Australia’has recently been developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.It comprises three fundamental research programs and an integrated applications program.Research Program 1,‘Positioning,’underpins a full framework of continuous operating reference stations to ultimately enable all of continental Australia to be capable of realtime precise positioning services based on global navigation satellite systems.Research Program 2,‘Automated Spatial Information Generation,’addresses complex processing of multiple remote sensing sources.Research Program 3,‘Spatial Infrastructures,’helps form the foundation for development of an Australian Spatial Marketplace that will make accessible vast amounts of government held data under a new licensing and access regime which supports combination with user-generated content from the mass market.The three core programs are integrated with Program 4,‘Applications,’to support users from the Health,Defense and Security,Energy and Utilities,Urban Development,and Agriculture-Natural Resources-Climate Change sectors.Program 4 drives outputs from the three core research programs in sector-specific deployments for high impact.This will see a rapid acceleration of the use and value adding of information products and services that utilize spatial information.There are considerable research and development challenges that must be met in order to achieve the strategic outcomes.展开更多
Virtual Australia is not a well-defined or agreed concept.This discussion paper conceptualises Virtual Australia as a‘virtual[digital]model containing and representing all non-trivial objects and their contextual env...Virtual Australia is not a well-defined or agreed concept.This discussion paper conceptualises Virtual Australia as a‘virtual[digital]model containing and representing all non-trivial objects and their contextual environmentfrom blue sky to bedrockin real world Australia’.It describes a scenario for Virtual Australia,one or two decades from now,in which the locations and conditions of non-trivial objects and their environment are updated automatically through a combination of remote sensing and wireless communication technologies in support of a‘Supranet’.It then examines the concept of the‘Supranet’a pervasive information network based largely on wireless technology linking the physical world to a virtual model in real timeand develops and discusses three principal characteristics of the Supranet:the ability to have or collect specific information(know);the ability to process information(think);and the ability to communicate that information.If,in the near future,any or all non-trivial devices are to some extent able to know,think and communicate,the potential for object autonomy will be realised.展开更多
文摘A strategy for the development of the Australian spatial information industry called‘Spatially Enabling Australia’has recently been developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information.It comprises three fundamental research programs and an integrated applications program.Research Program 1,‘Positioning,’underpins a full framework of continuous operating reference stations to ultimately enable all of continental Australia to be capable of realtime precise positioning services based on global navigation satellite systems.Research Program 2,‘Automated Spatial Information Generation,’addresses complex processing of multiple remote sensing sources.Research Program 3,‘Spatial Infrastructures,’helps form the foundation for development of an Australian Spatial Marketplace that will make accessible vast amounts of government held data under a new licensing and access regime which supports combination with user-generated content from the mass market.The three core programs are integrated with Program 4,‘Applications,’to support users from the Health,Defense and Security,Energy and Utilities,Urban Development,and Agriculture-Natural Resources-Climate Change sectors.Program 4 drives outputs from the three core research programs in sector-specific deployments for high impact.This will see a rapid acceleration of the use and value adding of information products and services that utilize spatial information.There are considerable research and development challenges that must be met in order to achieve the strategic outcomes.
文摘Virtual Australia is not a well-defined or agreed concept.This discussion paper conceptualises Virtual Australia as a‘virtual[digital]model containing and representing all non-trivial objects and their contextual environmentfrom blue sky to bedrockin real world Australia’.It describes a scenario for Virtual Australia,one or two decades from now,in which the locations and conditions of non-trivial objects and their environment are updated automatically through a combination of remote sensing and wireless communication technologies in support of a‘Supranet’.It then examines the concept of the‘Supranet’a pervasive information network based largely on wireless technology linking the physical world to a virtual model in real timeand develops and discusses three principal characteristics of the Supranet:the ability to have or collect specific information(know);the ability to process information(think);and the ability to communicate that information.If,in the near future,any or all non-trivial devices are to some extent able to know,think and communicate,the potential for object autonomy will be realised.
