first published week of: 07/01/2013
Landgate (Western Australia’s Land Information Authority) has contracted through Geospatial Intelligence Pty Ltd, an Astrium Services’ reseller, the SPOTMaps coverage of Western Australia (2.6 million km²) with multi-year hosting and streaming.
Landgate’s role is to coordinate the supply of data across government and to minimize the duplication of resources by collecting location data once, then sharing that data across all Western Australian state government entities. For this reason, Landgate intends to use SPOTMaps imagery as the base level dataset for SLICP, a platform that allows multiple government agencies to share spatial information for environmental mapping, cadastre, infrastructure, engineering, agricultural and emergency services.
Astrium Services’ hosting service will help reduce infrastructure costs and maintenance for location information, resulting in a more efficient utilization of funding across Western Australian government entities and easier access to spatial information.
This streaming service is provided with a 99.5% online service guarantee, which is crucial when supporting emergency and rescue operations.