Getting Hands-On: From Drone Capture to Insights

Supporting resources for the National Indigenous Workshop, Meanjin (Brisbane), 2025. For the best experience please use a laptop / desktop to access.

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Great to see you at the IMW this year! I’m pleased to share with you some of the Earth observation and geoAI work that we’ve been working on with my colleagues at GeoNadir, She Maps, James Cook University, and our partners. Special shout outs to our GeoNadir family: Dr Karen Joyce, Paul Mead, Susmina Manandhar, Roshan Kafle, Prajwal Khadgi and the extended team at Naxa in Kathmandu.  Also to Dr Stephanie Duce, Dr Vincent Raoult, and Professor Jane Williamson as our research partners and partners for sea cucumber fisheries / habitat assessments. 

Explore dataset on GeoNadir

Click on the image and zoom into a location that you are interested in.

Fast digitizing with our “Magic wand” and “Feature finder” tool

Let’s do some digitizing. 

Click on the image to open the mapping project and zoom into Raine island. How many more sea turtles can you find?
Click on the image to open the mapping project and zoom into Tucson Arizona. How quickly can you label the trees in the suburb?
Click on the image to open the mapping project and zoom into some corals, can you use polygon tool to trace some corals?
Click on the image to open the mapping project and zoom into Raine island. Try to label the "Palm tree" with our feature finder.

Extract statistics of polygons

What is the average size of turtles?
What is the total area of corals each person labeled?

Extract height information from orthomosaics (terrain profile)

Compare the terrain profile between cars and shrubs
Compare the terrain profile on beach and across the trees

Useful links and videos

👩‍💻Webinar: GeoAI and the latest tools on GeoNadir

🌏Blog: Mapping country with drones

🌎Blog: How to map with a drone?

🔗 Other resources