Department of Infrastructure Engineering The Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures & Land Administration

Welcome

The Centre provides a focus for research in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) and Land Administration by building on research relationships and creating new links through national and international collaboration. The Centre was established in 2001 within the Department of Geomatics (Infrastucture Engineering) at the University of Melbourne( Read news article..). Full-time researchers focus on problems at local, state, national and multinational levels.

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Recently Published Books


FIG report 58 Spatially Enabled Society
FIG PUBLICATION NO 58
Edited by: Daniel Steudler and Abbas Rajabifard		  
Spatially Enabling Society

Spatially Enabling Society- Research, Emerging Trends and Critical Assessment
Edited by: Abbas Rajabifard, Joep Crompvoets, Mohsen Kalantari, Bas Kok
Land Administration for Sustainable Development
by Ian Williamson, Stig Enemark, Jude Wallace and Abbas Rajabifard
Blog for Land Book , Land Administration podcast
A Multi-View Framework to Assess Spatial Data Infrastructures
Edited by: Joep Crompvoets, Abbas Rajabifard, Bastiaan van Loenen, Tatiana Delgado Fernández

Towards a Spatially Enabled Society
Edited by Abbas Rajabifard

Recent Events

UN sponsored 4th Land Administration Forum for the Asia and Pacific Region "Beyond Spatial Enablement" along with the 10 years celebration of CSDILA

Spatialist

 UN sponsored 4th Land Administration Forum for the Asia and Pacific Region "Beyond Spatial Enablement" along with the 10 years celebration of CSDILA, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5-7 October 2011.
For more information, please click here.
The 11th South East Asian Survey Congress and the 13th International Surveyors’ Congress 2011
FIG 2010

Director, Center for SDIs and Land Administration, Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard and Professor Ian Williamson have been attended the 11th South East Asian Survey Congress (11th SEASC 2011) and the 13th International Surveyors’ Congress (13th ISC 2011), which was held from 22 to 24 June 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the theme “INNOVATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY”. , 22-24 June 2011, KL, Malaysia.
This combined event was organised in conjunction with and as part of the Institution of Surveyors Malaysia’s (ISM) 50th year celebrations. Ian and Abbas have been invited as two keynote speakers to attend and deliver two talks each during this congress. 
The Congress highlighted initiatives aimed at encouraging the convergence, sharing and use of innovative technologies and knowledge as well as other initiatives to forge new collaborations and identify potential avenues for research, development and innovation across all related disciplines for the benefit of the profession and the community towards sustainable development. The congress was attended by over 800 participants. For more information, please click here.
GSDI 11 World Conference
Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence – Building SDI Bridges to address Global Challenges ,June 15-19, 2009 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard, Director of Centre for SDIs and Land Administration, Department of Geomatics, the University of Melbourne and member of Victorian Spatial Council has assumed his role as President of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI), a leading international association in the development of spatial information and management, at the recent GSDI 11 World Conference in Rotterdam in June this year. The Association plays a critical role in helping to address societal problems through the use of spatial capacity. Abbas commit to provide the leadership the Association requires in order to achieve its objectives and implement its strategies. (Read more...) ( Refereed conference book)