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23 NOV , 2009
Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard will be giving his presentation in Spatial Summit ’09 ,Sydney, NWS

Dec , 2009
New book on Land administration for Sustainable Development by Ian Williamson, Stig Enemark, Jude Wallace and Abbas Rajabifard is being published in collaboration with ESRI.More information available on ESRI website, Blog for Land Book


Recent News
16-17 NOV, 2009
Dr Rohan Bennett has been offered an 'Early Career Symposium Fellowship' to attend the 32nd ATSE National Symposium, 'Future-Proofing Australia - Rising to the Challenge of Climate Change'. The Symposium will be held at the Sofitel Brisbane Grand Central, 249 Turbot Street, Brisbane on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 November, 2009.
26 OCT, 2009
Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard was invited to attend UN-preparatory meeting of proposed UN committee on Global information management, and JBGIS meeting Bangkok, Thailand.
26-30 OCT, 2009
18th UNRCC-AP meeting, United Nations Headquarters, Bangkok, Thailand Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard, Professor Ian Williamson and Mr.Peter Holland presented their keynote presentations.Click here to view photos
19 OCT, 2009
Dean, Staff of Melbourne School of Engineering, Managers, Academic staff and students joined for morning tea to celebrate the opening of new area for centre.Click here to view photos
4-17 OCT , 2009
Associate Prof Joep Crompvoets from the Public Management Institute of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and lecturer at the Centre for Geo-Information of Wageningen University (The Netherlands) visited the Centre regarding research collaboration.
23 Sep ,09

Welcome to Ali Ayen (new Phd student).
22 Sep, 2009
Mr.Brian Marwick wins Victorian Spatial Scientist of the Year.
Mr.Marwick will soon join CSDILA to work on an ARC Project relating to Australia's national Land Administration infrastructure. He has over 35 years experience in Australia's land and spatial information industries and is widely respected across the sector. Congratulations to Mr.Brian on being awarded Victoria's Spatial Scientist of the Year.
27 Aug, 2009
Mr.Mark Reichardt (President and CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.,USA) visited the Centre.
8 Aug, 2009
Congratulations to Dr Hossein Mohammadi who received his PhD degree at University of Melbourne graduation ceremony. Click here to view photos
8 Aug, 2009
The spatial metadata research team had a one day visit from the Future Farming Systems Research team (Dr. Chris Pettit, Mr. Steve Williams, Mr. Don Cherry and Mr. David Hunter) at the Department of Primary Industries in Bending. During the visit, both research teams discussed and shared their current activities, technical development, metadata tools and projects. Opportunities for further collaboration were also explored. The research team also visited Mr. Ron Prestidge Executive Director of Future Farming Systems.
13-17 July, 2009
Centre Conducted Intensive course on "Modern Cadastre and Land Administration " in melbourne.
The Centre for SDIs and Land Administration,Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne has designed and conducted an intensive course on land administration- Modern Cadastre and Land Administration, from 13-17 July 2009 in Melbourne for participants from Indonesian government agencies and leading universities. The course discussed the development of modern land administration systems and the need for an effective and efficient cadastre. This included a review of a variety of concepts, theories and technologies for developing and maintaining these systems, and analysis of a range of approaches to land administration in developed and developing countries. The concept of land administration and people to land relationship, the land management paradigm, cadastral concept and principles and cadastre as a key layer of a spatially enabled society and e-government strategy, land and legal policy principles, the land administration toolbox, the development of land markets, the e-land administration, marine cadastre and marine SDI, and rights, restrictions and responsibilities related to land were studied. The course focused on solving problems and case studies to increase land management capacity of the Gadjah Mada University, Bandung Institute of Technology, and the National Land Agency of The Republic of Indonesia.

30 June, 2009
Mr. Masanori Muto (Mitstibushi Research Institute inc, Space and intelligence Gro) had meeting with Associate Prof. Abbas Rajabifard for the discussion about Marine SDI and Marine Cadastre regarding integrating Marine information system.
19 June, 2009

Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard started his presidency of GSDI Association.Read more
15-19 June, 2009
GSDI 11 World Conference
"Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence – Building SDI Bridges to address Global Challenges"
Team members form centre had presented papers at GSDI 11 World Conference 15-19 June, 2009 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
23 May 2009
Land Market Management Seminar-Tehran,Iran (Pre-Seminar)
24-26 May 2009
3rd PCGIAP UN sponsored Land Administration Forum (Re-Engineering the Cadastre To Support E-Government),Tehran,Iran
30th April, 2009
Centre had a Seminar on Lower Hume PCPs Spatial Data Initiative: a Regional GIS/SDI Project and a Global Perspective on Health and GIS at The Department of Human Services (DHS), 50 Lonsdale Street-Melbourne at 10:00 am, 30th of April, 2009

26-28 April, 2009

Professor Ian P. Williamson gave a keynote presentation on "Spatially enabling society - the role of land administration" at Map Middle East 26-28 April, 2009 in Abu Dhabi.

2nd-20 April, 2009
Mr.Nasrollah Jahangard  (Member of Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) and Especial Advisor in ICT affairs, Iran's Juridical Power and Deeds and Land, Registration Organization, Tehran, Iran )visited the Centre.

18 March, 2009
The meeting of the Advisory Committee was held on 18 March, 2009.

17 March, 2009, 4 pm
Prof. Harlan Onsrud (Executive Director of GSDI) made tewkesberry presentation.Topic” Vision for ubiquitous Spatial Computing: A Privacy Protection perspective" Read more..
Venue:Brown Theatre, Level 1, Bldg 193, Elec Eng.
3rd-23rd March, 2009
Prof. David J. Coleman (Dean of Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada) visited the Centre.
28 Feb -1 March, 2009

Asscoiate Prof. Abbas Rajabifard attend National forum on Cadastre and Land Administration for E-government,Tehran.
1 Feb -21 March, 2009
Prof. Harlan Onsrud (Executive Director of GSDI)is visited the centre under the grand of Fulbright the senior specialist program and tewsboy program to work with Centre joint research interest and also discuss about GIS .He will make public presentation. more information will be available soon.
9 Feb, 2009
ARC-meta data project officially launched on 9 Feb 2009 with all industrial partner and research team. It is close collaboration between goverment sector, private sector and university.
30 Jan-9 Feb,2009
Prof.BAS kok (president of GSDI) visited the centre

to discuss about the GSDI association.
Jan, 2009
A new book on “A Multi view Framework to Assess Spatial Data Infrastructures” edited by Joep Crompvoets, Abbas Rajabifard, Bastiaan van Loene and Tatiana Delgado Fernández is published jointly by Space for Geo-Information (RGI), Wageningen University and Centre for SDIs and Land Administration, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne. Read more
11-16 Dec, 2008
Asscoiate Prof. Abbas Rajabifard visit to washington to participate in GSDI executive board meeting and planning of GSDI-11 conference
Nov, 2008 Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard visit to Tehran:
2 Nov Seminar on Spatialy Enabled Goverment and role of SDI ,
University of Melbourne information session-Shahid Behesti University-Tehran
5 Nov University of Melbourne information session-Harekat Hall, Tehran
6 Nov

Seminar on Importance of information & Spatialy Enabled Society scenario for future,
University of Melbourne information session,Yzad University,Tehran
Professor Ian P. Williamson visit to Canada & Hong Kong, details are as below:
25-27.09.08 Centre for Property Studies, University of New Brunswick, Canada
29-1.10.08

Canadian Council of Land Titles Officials, Quebec - Canada
2-3.10.08

Centre for Geomatics Research,University of Laval, Quebec - Canada
7-8.10.08

Cadastral Seminar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Hong Kong
19-20.08.08 International Seminar on Land Administration Trends and Issues in the Asia and Pacific Region (19-20 August 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
1.08.08 SDI Goveranance workshop.
As part of a research project being conducted by the Centre, aimed at developing a model of SDI governance, a workshop is being organized to explore the governance of the Victorian Spatial Information Strategy (VSIS). The aim of the workshop is explore from the perspectives of the VSIS stakeholders, the scope, activities, mechanisms, and current and future challenges of VSIS governance. The VSIS is one of a number of Australian SDI initiatives that have been selected as case studies for analysis as part of the research. In addition to the research-oriented outcomes of the workshop, participants will benefit from a clearer understanding of the perceptions and realities of SDI governance, together with key issues and gaps for further consideration. To explore the SDI goveranance as a part of current research activity.For more information contact Mr.Paul box Email:p.box@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Past News
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19.11.07 19.11.07 Melbourne Uni Indonesian SDI Training Course
25.10.07 25.10.07 Ian Williamson's farewell seminar
25.10.07   IanWilliamson.net launched
25.10.07 07.11.07 New Book Launched - Towards a Spatially Enabled Society
17.07.07   Proceedings: Good land administration and its role in economic development (Mongolia)Ian Williamson attended
17.07.07   Proceedings: Land Administration for poverty reduction and economic groth (Namibia)
22.02.07   Ass. Prof. Abbas Rajabifard appointed Director of Centre
13.12.06   Centre's 2002-2006 research report released
13.12.06   UNRCC-AP and PCGIAP workshop results
28.07.06   Lisa Strain's Masters Thesis - Success!
03.06.06 03.06.06 Danial Paez Submits PhD Thesis for Review .
03.06.06 03.06.06 Lillian Chueng retires from the Department of Geomatics. Colleen Bermingham begins.
13.06.06   Integrating built and natural enviroment data
13.06.06   Western Australia's Landgate Launch Movie
10.01.06   Kate Dalrymple PhD Thesis Success!
14.12.05   BAKOSURTANAL delegates visit- presentation
21.11.05   Professor Gerrit Plenaar visits the Centre
21.11.05   Daniel Paez PhD Thesis - Success!
03.11.05   Prof. Bas Kok visits and gives lecture
10.10.05   Mathew Warnest's PhD Thesis - Success!
19.09.05   Next Generation LAS Nov Workshop
17.08.05   "Torrens 21" website launched
21.07.05   Christine Najar Presentation
06.06.05 17.06.05 Prof. Harlan Onsrud visits Centre
08.06.05 08.06.05 Prof. Harlan Onsrud's Lecture
16.06.05   Rohan Bennett PhD Confirmation
17.05.05 21.05.05 Abbas Rajabifard attending the 11th Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific (PCGIAP) meeting, 17-21 May 2005, Bali, Indonesia
16.04.05 21.04.05 Ian Williamson, Abbas Rajabifard, Kevin McDougall, Floris De Bree and Mathew Warnest will attend FIG Working Week and GSDI 8 in Cairo, Egypt, 2005
29.04.05   Michael Elfick's Seminar
24.03.05   Prof. Ian Masser's Tewksbury Public Lecture
14.02.05   New Site - www.marineadministration.org
03.02.05   ARC Grant Success!
15.03.05 16.03.05 Mohsen Kalantari attended SEEGRID II Conference in Canberra  
01.03.05 01.03.05 Land Administration 2005 Subject Website
18.02.05 25.03.05 Prof. Ian Masser is currently visiting the Department and Centre. Lecture
04.02.05 04.02.05 Mathew Warnest - submitted Phd Thesis for inital marking
10.01.05 10.01.05 Lillian Cheung returned from leave  
20.12.04 20.01.05 Abbas Rajabifard was on annual leave - Tehran, Iran (now returned)
13.12.04 14.12.04 Rohan Bennett attended Inaugural ARCRNSISS (Spatially Integrated Social Science) Conference in Brisbane  
06.12..04 09.12.04 Andrew Binns and Abbas Rajabifard attended Queensland Spatial Information Infrastructure Strategy (QSIIS) and presented their work on CRC Project 3.1  

16.11.04

 03.12.04

Kate Dalyrmple visited the Land Tenure Institution (UNFAO), the International Land Coalition (IFAD), in Rome, and then had a week at the World Bank, Land Policy Group, Washington DC.

  
 

10.11.04

 12.11.04

Kate Dalyrmple and Jude Wallace will attend the FIG / UN Habitat Expert Group Meeting on secure land tenure: 'new legal frameworks and tools', at UN Gigiri in Nairobi, Kenya.

  

10.11.04

 16.12.04

Jude Wallace conducted research in Europe. Presented at a conference in Bamburg Germany, 9th December
16.11.04 16.11.04 Rohan Bennett and Kevin McDougall attended the National Summit on Land & Property Rights and Restrictions in Brisbane.  
 

05.11.04

 05.11.04

The SDI/LAS Centre's end of year seminars will take place mid/late October @ DSE (570 Bourke Street, Marland House). More information here

13.10.04

 13.10.04

Kate Dalrymple presented at the 4th Trans Tasman Surveyors Conference, Skycity Convention Centre, Auckland. "Land Policy and Tenure in Southeast Asia, 1995-2005" by Kate Dalrymple, Jude Wallace and Ian Williamson (paper available soon).

 

12.10.04

 23.10.04

Jude Wallace, Andrew Binns and Abbas Rajabifard made field trips to Western Australia and New South Wales for the CRC and IAP projects

  
04.10.04 07.10.04

Kate Dalrymple will had her paper presented at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific - Surveying the Future - Contributions to Economic, Environmental and Social Development, Jakarta, Indonesia. "Innovations in Rural Land Policy and Tenure in Southeast Asia" by Kate Dalrymple, Jude Wallace and Ian Williamson (paper available soon).

Ian Williamson also be gave a keynote address at the 4th Trans Tasman Surveyors Conference, Skycity Convention Centre, Auckland, NZ, "Thinking outside the triangle - taking advantage of modern land markets"

  
15.09.04 15.09.04 FIG Scholarship awared to Daniel Paez  

06.09.04

 07.09.04 Ian Williamson attended PCGIAP, Executive Board Meeting in China

05.09.04

09.09.04

Abbas Rajabifard and Lisa Strain participated and presented at the Coastal Zone Asia Pacific Conference (CZAP 2004) in Brisbane

  

01.09.04

01.02.05

Ian Williamson on Special Studies Program

  

01.08.04

 01.09.04

Daniel Paez was on Field trip to the USA and Colombia

 
02.03.04
02.03.04

 

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