Scientific topics Positioning Australia
Last updated:26 August 2022
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Our position on the globe is essential to everyday life. Positioning allows us to locate ourselves in the world and get to where we want to go.
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Geoscience Australia offers open-access positioning data and a range of tools and models to help you get the most out of precise positioning.
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Geoscience Australia in collaboration with Land Information New Zealand is working to offer precise positioning through a Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) called the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network, or SouthPAN.
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Learn more about how Geoscience Australia is enabling centimetre accurate positioning across Australia in areas of mobile phone coverage.
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Ginan is a key component to the National Positioning Infrastructure Capability (NPIC) and increases positioning accuracy to 3 to 5 centimetres (from 5 to 10 metres) across Australia.
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Industry, Academia and Government are using accurate positioning technology through the National Positioning Infrastructure to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits.
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Positioning News is Geoscience Australia’s regular newsletter covering the latest news and developments from the Positioning community, including updates from the Positioning Australia program.
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Positioning Australia wants to support the use of accurate and real time data for positioning. We know industry, start-ups, innovators and academia are all vital to enable development and building of new applications for precise positioning.