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Chief Executive's Foreword |
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Achievements 2002-2003 |
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Outlook 2003-2004 |
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Crown Land Practice Manual | LandOnline | LandLinks WA | Computer to Plate Technology | City and Town Series Maps | Travellers Atlas of WA | Revised Streetsmart Touring Maps | Firefax | Pastures From Space
Fifteen Local Government Authorities tested the first edition of the Crown land Administration and Registration Practice Manual.
The Manual defines Crown land operational process, registration practice and procedure. It also provides a point of reference for the processing of Crown land transactions under the Land Administration Act and Transfer of Land Act.
Additional products were available from LandOnline since February 2003, including the StreetSmart Street Directory, Street Express, and City and Town series maps.
LandLinks WA allows registered subscribers to access Western Australia’s spatial cadastral information through the Internet. The latest upgrade is due in July 2003 and will provide additional functionality. LandLinks WA will also form the basis of the Land and Property Portal, DOLA’s one-stop-shop for property related information. The system is proving popular with an addition of approximately 10 new subscribers per week.
DOLA is using contractors adopting new Computer to Plate (CtP) technology (making printing plates without using photographic films) in production of its offset printed map products. CtP has delivered immediate improvements in map quality. Other benefits of CtP include improved workflow and reduced production lapse times.
DOLA has expanded its coverage of regional centres within WA. The maps are available as offset printed products for larger centres or as 'just-in-time' products for other centres.
The seventh edition of the Travellers Atlas of Western Australia was produced by DOLA in August 2002. The printing and distribution of the Atlas was carried out under license by HEMA Maps.
DOLA revised and modernised the look of its StreetSmart Touring Maps series. New editions of the South West Corner and Batavia Coast Touring Maps were produced.
In 2002 DOLA began the automatic Firefax system as a result of requests for fire information, particularly from the Kimberley Regional Fire Management Program. Firefax provides fire location information taken from fire hot spot data produced from the NOAA satellite sensor. The data is received at the Perth satellite receiving station, and the system imbeds the fire position as symbols on a digital topographic map. The maps are then faxed every morning, via DOLA's fax gateway, to each pastoral property experiencing a fire. The service was expanded in early 2003 to include an email option. Pastoral land managers now have daily access to simple fire maps delivered to their property.
Designed to provide satellite derived greenness/biomass measurements for estimates of pasture production and pasture quality to rural farm producers, the program started in Western Australia and has expanded to trials in eastern Australia. DOLA’s Satellite Remote Sensing Services is contracted to provide full data acquisition processing and delivery services to a collaborative project with CSIRO and Agriculture WA, with supporting funding from Australian Wool Innovations. The pasture information can assist farmers with management decisions such as grazing rotations, feed budgeting, fertiliser application and other ‘precision agriculture’ techniques for the grazing industry with commercial sale potential.
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