Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration

We are delighted to announce that Professor Abbas Rajabifard will take on leadership of a new portfolio, Smart and Sustainable Development, for Melbourne School of Engineering. In this role, Abbas will lead research into technological advances to drive economic productivity and enhance a sustainable, secure, and healthy way of life – for our precincts, our state, our country and globally.

CSDILA and the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety conducted an online open seminar to share the latest research on Sustainability and UN-SDGs at the University of Melbourne. Both centres shared their research work on place-making to build healthy and resilient communities.

Dr Gillian Sparkes, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Victoria, delivered a keynote speech and highlighted about the recently released framework for the Victorian State of the Environment (SoE) 2023 report.

Abbas Rajabifard recognised by SSSI during the 2020 Asia-Pacific Spatial Awards.

Members of CSDILA, in collaboration with colleagues at LEISMARS, Wuhan University, and Beihang University, will be acting as Special Issue guest editors in the journal Remote Sensing belonging to the Urban Remote Sensing section. The issue is entitled “Geospatial Understanding of Sustainable Urban Analytics Using Remote Sensing”. The deadline for manuscripts submission is 30 June 2021, and the issue will be released after the deadline. Papers may be submitted until 30 June 2021 and will be published on an ongoing basis. We invite you to submit your paper. We also encourage you to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Special Issue editors in advance.

This book explains the theoretical basis and practicality of connecting urban land administration practices with the 3D digital data environment of Building Information Modelling (BIM).

CSDILA and Land Use Victoria jointly conducted a successful and well-attended open seminar with a series of presentations on the advancements in ePlan services (new ePlan Data Viewer and Visualisation Enhancement Tool), digital representation of abstract of field records, update on CAD Co-Design initiative, a proof of concept (PoC) developed for the CAD to ePlan conversion service, and latest research and development update in 3D digital cadastre, 3D data models and connections with the Digital Twin platform. The seminar attracted over 200 industry participants from a wide range of firms.

Dr Soheil Sabri presented our research and development on Sustainable Development Goals, on the topic Spatial Enablement for City Performance Comparison and Measuring SDGs and New Urban Agenda.

We are delighted to be part of the Fishermans Bend Digital Twin Project, working closely with Victorian Government, to lead the design and development of an advanced geo-analytics and visualisation platform.

View a Channel 7 News clip of the launch of the project