Bruce Thompson talks about land capability mapping in the Victorian context at IPAA Public Sector Week session on digital disruption and the environment, sponsored by the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability and Nous Group.

1. Environment, data, engagement:
digital disruption driving action
spatial information and positioning
services
Bruce Thompson
General Manager Land Services

2. 2
The broader disruption context
Sense – think – act
@ The Internet of Things – sensor devices (including people!)
@ The internet itself – pervasive connectivity and communications
@ Cloud computing – processing and thinking grunt
@ Back to the Internet of Things – actuator devices (including people!)
Focus of this presentation is spatial and positioning:
@ Changing model for information services – get it out there
@ Step-change in positioning – precise, real-time positioning completely ubiquitous
@ Land Capability Modelling – looking and thinking holistically about land

3. 3
‘make them do what we want’ channel
Information services – now
@ System of Record designed for a specific purpose
@ Provider application designed for a specific purpose
@ To get what they want, the client group does what the provider wants
Provider application
Key customer group
System of
Record
(data)

4. 4
Information services – future
@ System of Record decoupled, made publicly available
@ Provider application designed for a specific purpose, key customer group
@ Customers build their own applications, pointed at System of Record
‘make them do what we want’ channel
Provider application
Key customer group
System of
Record
(data)
‘do what you want’ channelSystem of
Record
(data)
Key customer group

5. Other
Land Services
value-add increments
SPEAR
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Value level 1: All transactions optimised
Value level 2: Maximise
Information Services delivered
from all transaction processes
Value level 3: Land Information
services integrated with other
services for modelling and
analytics, available to public,
private and academic sectors,
community

6. Benefits:
• Cost reductions
• Efficiencies for industry
• Secure land titling as fundamental component of
financial system
Benefit:
• additional services drive
productivity, improve
planning
Benefit:
• Better planning and
investment decisions
Land Services
value-add increments
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Value level 1: All transactions optimised
Value level 2: Maximise
Information Services delivered
from all transaction processes
Value level 3: Land Information
services integrated with other
services for modelling and
analytics, available to public,
private and academic sectors,
community

7. 7
Information services
Build the ‘do what you want’ channel
@ Out in the cloud to be fully accessible, strong Access Control
@ Service levels
@ Metadata
@ Potential cost recovery component
Expect and use the ‘do what you want’ channel
@ Draw on multiple channels
@ Create new Systems of Record
@ Create new ‘do what you want’ channels

8. 8
Positioning Services
The demand for precise positioning and location
services is increasing…
@ A fundamental requirement for our future economy
@ Tracking, auditability and traceability as important as accuracy
Source: GNSS Market Report, Issue 4
© European GNSS Agency, 2015
Half the market can get by with 5-10 metres
accuracy, but many will want auditability
Half the market needs
2cm accuracy

9. 9
Positioning Services
Transport the lion’s share (of users), but agriculture,
surveying, asset management critically important

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11. 11
Autonomous vehicles
What positional accuracy?
@ 300mm on the open road, 75mm in parking areas
Combination of sensors
@ LiDAR (light detection and ranging)
@ Radar
@ Cameras
@ Ultrasonic
@ Infrared
Positioning
@ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
@ inertial navigation systems (INS)
Not just ‘cars’ – drones, vacuum cleaners,
gardeners, …

12. 12
Positioning Services – but
Precise positioning is hard! Continental drift (among a
host of confounding factors)
@ Victoria is charging off north-east at ~6cm a year (.00068 km/h)
@ Hold onto your real estate – in 327,400,000 years Melbourne will be in Byron Bay
Positioning must
be authoritative
and universal
@ as fundamental as
the standards for
weights, measures,
time, …
@ Core role for
government

13. 13
GPSnet
The ‘wine cork’ vision
@ GPSnet is world class positioning infrastructure
@ GPSNet embodies the economic, strategic and policy imperatives
driving the National Positioning Infrastructure (NPI) initiative at
national level
@ When implemented, GPSnet will be Victoria’s contribution to NPI
Completion in 2010 has brought forward
$80million in productivity gains
@ The early, shallow end of the take-up rate
@ We’re five years ahead of other States in realising the full benefits

14. 14
Positioning services
Build a positioning and location service to support
Victoria’s future economy
@ Fundamental geodetic framework and policy, and
@ Broad-based positioning services infrastructure – GPSnet
@ Private sector deliver services from the core framework, policy and
infrastructure
Be ready to leverage positioning
@ all/any applications and services, all levels of government and in private sector
@ Service delivery, field operations, scheduling
@ Transport and logistics
@ Asset management
@ Autonomous vehicle/device control and direction
@ Auditability and traceability

15. 15
Land Capability Modelling (LCM)
Maximise productivity from Victoria’s land and land
information resources
@ All relevant inputs – not just ‘land’ attributes - transportation, infrastructure,
workforce availability, planning conditions, natural resources, climate and
weather, …
@ Develop scenarios, identify trade-offs, balance competing interests – not a
‘black box’ picking a winner
@ Authoritative, open information resource available to all – public, private,
academic and community sectors – to drive co-production

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LCM spans multiple domains
Insight and decisions based on all the necessary data
Land Services platform: productivity improvement through integrated modelling and
analysis, land capability and land suitability
Land
Services
Bureau of
Meteorology
Australian
Bureau of
Statistics
Victorian Spatial
Data Library
Victorian
government
service delivery
(future)

17. 17
Demonstration: http://lcm.vpac-innovations.com.au/#/

18. 18
LCM: policy context
Land Capability Modelling platform – time series
Q1/16
Environmental KPI identified – Leadbeater’s Possum habitat
Expert group establishes how KPI described
Technical group establishes what data sets, attributes, define KPI
LCM query specified to meet KPI definition, retained
Q2/16 Q3/16 Q4/16 Q1/17 Q2/17
CES report, Q1 2016
Ad hoc CES report
CES report, Q1 2017
Q4/15
Consistent, repeatable, automated
time series reporting

19. 19
LCM Pilot vs future implementation
Pilot
@ ~80 data sets
@ 2 reporting units (LGAs, ASGC)
@ One grid size (100m x 100m, ~23
million grid cells for each
Victoria-wide data set)
@ Single epoch
@ Minimal infrastructure (< 20
second response time) at 100m
grid resolution
@ Limited access
Future Implementation
@ 600 data sets
@ 60 reporting units
@ Nested grids (10, 25, 50, 100, 250
and 500 metres, 1, 5, 10
kilometres)
@ Full time series (quarterly or six
monthly, plus as required)
@ Solid, scalable cloud infrastructure
(< 5 second response time) all
grids
@ Multi-sector access

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LCM: benefits
Simple, rapid scenario insight
@ Simple quick sensitivity analysis
@ Simple quick meaningful insight to competing demands and trade-offs
Data provisioning service
@ Deliver to public, private, academic and community sectors
@ Reduce data management duplication, which can be up to 75%+
Single authoritative source
@ Data available to public, private, academic and community sectors
@ Universal acceptance of data inputs, focus on analysis and outcomes
Maximise benefits of information holdings
@ Support DataVic Open Access Policy, evidence-based policy development
@ Support a wide range of policy/service development processes

21. 21
close
Sense – think – act
@ The Internet of Things – sensor devices (including people!)
@ The internet itself – pervasive connectivity and communications
@ Cloud computing – processing and thinking grunt
@ Back to the Internet of Things – actuator devices (including people!)
spatial and positioning:
@ Changing model for information services – get it out there
@ Step-change in positioning – precise, real-time positioning completely
ubiquitous
@ Land Capability Modelling – looking at, and thinking holistically about, land