Member Profile: FrontierSI
FrontierSI is a company unlike many others. This innovative not-for-profit was established in 2018 following 16 years of operations as the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI).
With 35 space and spatial experts across Australia and New Zealand, FrontierSI exists to deliver major benefits to governments, industry and the community using their deep expertise in spatial mapping, infrastructures, positioning, geodesy, analytics, and standards.
Industry Engagement Manager, Brendon McAtee said, “FrontierSI strongly believes that collaborative research accelerates growth. We aim to deliver economic growth and improved environmental and social well-being, with the objective of leading transformational spatial research and innovation in Australia and New Zealand”.
Through their fundamental approach to collaborative research, FrontierSI provides the connection point, partnerships, trusted collaborative model and expertise to deliver high impact solutions to complex, multi-stakeholder challenges.
“We believe in a future where collaborative research leads to accelerated industry growth, improved social wellbeing and a sustainable environment.”
FrontierSI’s work has helped influence new public data access policies and contributed to major national and international initiatives. From agriculture and defence to health, climate change and the built environment, FrontierSI has realised tangible benefits for their partners.
FrontierSI has a unique approach to research that helps tailor outcomes for their Partners. Drawing on their broad range of expertise including global and regional navigation systems, fundamental spatial data management and governance, earth observation analytics, terrain modelling and visualisation, rapid analytics and spatial statistics, smart farming and precision agriculture and policy development, FrontierSI is able to deliver
Co-funding, propose, and collaborative research and development projects.
Business planning, strategy development and technology specialists across the full breadth of spatial technologies.
Entry to industry events including regular research seminars, strategic leadership forums and networking functions.
Preferential rights to project IP with flexible utilisation and commercial opportunities.
Growth opportunities for partner businesses through support and mentorship.
“Our mantra is to make our partners better at what they do. ”
Not content with their already successful outcomes, FrontierSI has a goal to be the spatial organisation of choice to lead, formulate, broker and deliver collaborative solutions with government, industry and universities. The team is well on their way to achieving this with some exciting projects underway already.
Know the Market to Grow the Market
This SmartSat CRC project is currently working to articulate end user problems within the Mining sector that Earth Observation can address and which of these problems people will pay to have solved to inform SmartSat’s research prioritisation and spending.
Analysis Centre Software (ACS)
The major challenge in this project is to deliver a data processing engine to manage the acquisition, processing and delivery of multi-GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems, including GPS) data and related products, needed to support positioning accuracy to within three centimetres in areas with mobile phone coverage (internet access) for more consumer-ready applications.
The Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) is an established technology that can augment standalone Global Navigation Satellite Systems such as GPS in a number of areas including accuracy, integrity and availability. Through our SBAS Testbed project we have tested the SBAS technology across 10 industry sectors in Australia and New Zealand including aviation, mining and resources, road, rail, maritime, agriculture, construction, consumer, utilities, and spatial.
Groundwater Dependent Vegetation
Mining companies monitor the potential impact of mine dewatering on groundwater-dependent vegetation (GDV) as a compliance requirement. We are working with Curtin University and a coalition of mining partners to build satellite imagery-based tools that improve workflows for monitoring and managing GDV. The remote sensing science is done and a prototype system is under development.
When it came to choosing CORE, Brendon said FrontierSI sees CORE at the centre of the emerging space industry in WA and with space and spatial being where FrontierSI can have real impact, it made complete sense to be a part of that community.
“There is a sense of vitality, liveliness, and the drive to put new ideas into action at CORE that is second to none”, said Brendon.
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