Australian Surveying and Land Information Group

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Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG)
Agency overview
Formed1987
Preceding agencies
  • Australian Surveying Office
  • Division of National Mapping
Dissolved2001
Superseding agency
JurisdictionAustralia

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) was an Australian organization that merged in 2001 with the Australian Geological Survey Organization to become Geoscience Australia.

Its headquarters building was located in Canberra, Fernhill Technology Park. [1]

AUSLIG's main function was to provide national geographic information. [2]

It produced maps and audiovisual products relative to many aspects of Australian geography from the technology available during its time of operation. [3] [4]

It was formed in 1987, when the Australian Survey Office [5] joined with the Division of National Mapping. The Australian Survey Office had been established in 1910. [6] The Division of National Mapping had been in operation since 1947, [6] [7] and had been publisher of the Atlas of Australian resources which had incorporated over 20 component booklets of standard information about Australian natural resources at the time of publication. [8] [9] [10] [11]

AUSLIG also provided satellite imagery to industry and government. AUSLIG incorporated the Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES), which had been established in 1979 as the Australian Landsat Station [12] and had been renamed in 1986. [13] [14] [15] [16] The Australian Survey Office, under its own name, was working with remote sensing data in 1988. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "$ 15.8m for building". The Canberra Times . 4 July 1991. p. 2. Retrieved 20 December 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (1991), AUSLIG : Australian Surveying & Land Information Group, Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, retrieved 20 December 2015
  3. ↑ Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (1997), Australia's maritime zones (Ed. 1 ed.), AUSLIG, retrieved 20 December 2015
  4. ↑ Australian Surveying and Land Information Group; Space-Time Research (Firm) (1996), Australia unfolded interactive atlas of Australia, AUSLIG, retrieved 20 December 2015
  5. ↑ Australian Survey Office (1984), The Australian Survey Office, Commonwealth Department of Administrative Services, The Office, retrieved 20 December 2015
  6. 1 2 "Our History". Geoscience Australia. Archived from the original on 27 February 2002. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Mapping chief retires". The Canberra Times . 3 July 1965. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2015– via National Library of Australia.
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  11. ↑ Australia. Division of National Mapping (1982), Atlas of Australian resources third series. Volume 3, Agriculture (Third series ed.), Division of National Mapping, ISBN   978-0-642-51482-0
  12. ↑ Australian Landsat Station; Australia. Dept. of Science and Technology (1982), Australian Landsat Station, Australian Government Publishing Service, retrieved 20 December 2015
  13. ↑ Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (1990), ACRES, Australian Centre for Remote Sensing, retrieved 21 December 2015
  14. ↑ Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (1990), ACRES user manual (2nd ed.), Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (published 1991), ISBN   978-0-642-15505-4
  15. ↑ Australian Surveying and Land Information Group; Australian Geological Survey Organisation (1999), Discovering remote sensing, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, ISBN   978-0-642-39790-4
  16. ↑ Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (1991), ACRES update, Australian Centre for Remote Sensing, retrieved 21 December 2015
  17. ↑ Golding, Peter; Holland, Peter (March 1988), "Remote sensing in the Australian Survey Office", Surveying Australia, 10 (1): 15+, retrieved 21 December 2015
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