1. WELCOME TO
Eurobodalla OIESS
2020
Dr R.J. (Bob) Williams [Retired]
Cartographer
Topographic Surveyor,
Geographer & Geospatial Scientist
QUALIFICATIONS – Professional
BA Computing Studies (Canberra CAE)
MSc (Cartography) (U Wisconsin)
PhD (UNSW)
QUALIFICATIONS – Trade
Topographic Surveyor
Photogrammetrist
Cartographic Technician
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[OCEANIA INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT SYSTEM]
SURVEYING
&
MAPPING
SCIENCES
A VISION FOR THE FUTURE

2. WELCOME TO Eurobodalla OIESS 2020
Ø EEPCOTAT & Eurobodalla OIESS
EEPCOTAT
Eurobodalla OIESS
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Eurobodalla Experimental Prototype Community of Today and Tomorrow
Oceania Infrastructure and Environmental Support System

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The beginning of this decade witnessed an array of natural and man-made events that
seriously challenged many nations’abilities to predict, respond, recover and progress from
the effects of tragic events.
Ø Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption
Ø Haiti’s and Christchurch’s earthquakes
Ø Queensland’s, New South Wale’s and Victoria’s floods
Ø Western Australia’s fires
Ø Japan’s earthquakes and tsunami
Ø Poland’s Tu-154 air crash
Ø Shen Neng 1 grounding on Great Barrier Reef & Rena grounding on Astrolabe Reef, NZ
Ø LOST – MH370 and SHOT DOWN – MH17
The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull
volcano on 14 April 2010 affected the
economic, political and cultural activities
in Europe and across the world. There
was extensive air travel disruption
caused by the closure of airspace over
many countries
On 3 April 2010, Shen Neng 1 was
transiting from Gladstone,
Queensland to China carrying a cargo
of 65,000 tonnes of coal. She ran
aground around 70 kilometres off
Great Keppel Island in a restricted
area which forms part of the Great
Barrier Reef Marine Park
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Ø Some serious events 2010-14

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Ø It is now 2020 & a complex environment
By 2020 the Oceania has become a truly complex environment:
Ø International trade and associated infrastructure costs have become
contemporary challenges driven by very competitive markets in the region. The
efficient management of the infrastructure and the protection of the infrastructure
are vitally important.
Ø Terrorism remains a serious concern in the South-East Asia – Oceania region;
concerns that include the safety of transportation. National security is a high
priority for the nation’s government.
Ø Environmental incidents seem to have become far more extreme and more
common. The past decade has witnessed devastating events that have contributed to
loss of life and high financial costs.

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WELCOME TO Eurobodalla OIESS 2020
Ø Eurobodalla OIESS
2020
OIESS facilitates natural disaster information integration; commands and controls incident response to national
security tasks; interacts with future navigation systems; and achieves outcomes via an advanced Geospatial
Information Infrastructure
EVENT RECORD AND REPLAY CAPABILITY
GREEN-FLIGHT – HIGHJACK – INTELLIGENT RESPONSE
The future will require new concepts and
models for ‘deep structure’ representing
complex relationships
The future will require
visualization for ‘situation
awareness’ in time and space
The concept of an “Intelligent Airport” is an emerging concept that supports innovative
approaches to airport management. In addition to traditional operational needs the
approach offers functionality to aircraft surveillance (security), control, guidance and
routing capabilities.
The illustrations show sensor (millimetre wave, optical identification) concepts and asset
management concepts.

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WELCOME TO Eurobodalla OIESS 2020
Ø Eurobodalla OIESS
2020
OIESS facilitates natural disaster information integration; commands and controls incident response to national
security tasks; interacts with future navigation systems; and achieves outcomes via an advanced Geospatial
Information Infrastructure
EVENT RECORD AND REPLAY CAPABILITY
VOLCANO – FIRES– INTELLIGENT RESPONSE
Images of Black Saturday
STANLEY is an autonomous vehicle created by Stanford University’s Stanford
Racing Team in cooperation with Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory. It
competed in, and won, the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, earning the team the two
million dollar prize, the largest prize money in robotic history. Stanley covered the
212 km (132 mi) off-road course in 6 hours 54 minutes.
What Robots See
Robots don't see the world like humans do. They don't recognize discrete objects
and have little common sense. Instead of seeing, today's robots measure.
The Stanford team invented a technique called ”ADAPTIVE VISION," which allows
its robot, STANLEY, to see farther and drive faster, even as the road changes over
different types of terrain.

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1. The CanberraWorkshop [Yet to occur]
o Theme – Develop a Strategic Plan for the Future Infrastructure and
Environmental Information Infrastructure for Oceania
2. Capability Development Process [To follow sometime in the future]
o Theme – Development as a Major Capability Study
OUTCOMES:
Description of the domain of geographic features
Agreement of a broad scope of incidents and activities
Agreement on concept and definition of an Environmental & Geographic Information Infrastructure
Action Group development of EGII Capability
OUTCOMES:
Detailed design of OIESS
Design of EEPCOTAT
FORMAL POLICY as a National Capability
Virtual advisers – autonomous vehicles – four-dimensional models of the natural world and events
Revolution in education and training programs
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Ø Towards Eurobodalla OIESS

8. OIESS
Support for:
terrorist emergencies
urban and rural search and rescue
multi-agency disaster relief
illegal fishing
illegal immigration
integrated communications
Resources
Coordination of:
agency collaboration
emergency services
integrated communications
asset management
Intelligence
Collaboration with:
national security agencies
maritime agencies
aeronautical agencies
emergency management agencies
Higher
Authority
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WELCOME TO Eurobodalla OIESS 2020
Ø OIESS
– A Command Support Infrastructure
Coordination
Surveillance &
Monitoring
Support for:
natural disasters
incidents and events
terrorist activities
illegal fishing
illegal migration
NOAA photo

9. WELCOME TO Eurobodalla OIESS 2020
Ø Geographic Information Infrastructure
– Application module - OIESS
Photogrammetry
Remote sensing
Cartography
INFORMATION PRODUCTION
OIESS
DATAACQUISITION
Information Management &
Dissemination
Geodetic surveying
Satellite and airborne surveying
Remote sensing
Photogrammetry
Cartography
Readiness assessment
POLICY, DOCTRINE & MANAGEMENT
Needs assessment
“A Geospatial Information Infrastructure
provides information about the world and is vital
is supporting the development of the nation and
the region and the defence of the nation and its
interests.”
Imagery analysts
Geospatial analysts

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WELCOME TO Eurobodalla OIESS 2020
Ø 2030 – Towards a Virtual World
Geo-Strategic
Environment
Demography
Infrastructure
Terrain
Environment

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Ø It really is all about culture:
Ø It’s about having an intelligence view with engineering skills
It’s about CARTOGRAPHY:
It’s about Claudius Ptolemy and Gerardus Mercator
It’s about CARTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE:
It’s about Henry VIII and Nain Singh
It’s about EXPLORATION and DISCOVERY:
It’s about James Cook and Thomas Mitchell
It’s about the SHAPE OF THE EARTH:
It’s about Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Charles-Marie de la Condamine
It’s about INNOVATION and INVENTION:
It’s about Nicholas Chrisman and F Vivian Thompson
It’s about MANAGEMENT and DIRECTION:
It’s about Vanessa Lawrence and Lawrence FitzGerald

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It is time for a new era to begin!
It is time for the Surveying and Mapping discipline to
take a preeminent place in our nation’s management
It is time for Geodesists and Cartographers to take
lead scientific roles in key organisations and agencies
It will be then that the vision of
EEPCOTAT & Eurobodalla OIESS
will be realised!
It is time for IMAGINATION!

13. SSGT Bob Williams
Programming a military symbol overlay
on a Tektronix 4014 in 1978
Dr Bob Williams
Thank You – Videre Parare Est
Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti
The unlearned may here learn, and the learned may reflect on what they knew before
With Vision!
2013 photo