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These are four examples of short video clips produced by Multilocus.
Three of the four examples are mini documentaries from the GeoInsight Project and explore examples of GIS best practice within Australian Emergency Management. The fourth example is from What is Disability Sport? and uses actors to illustrate how to manage difficult situations.
GeoInsight - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2002
GeoInsight - Fire Ants
GeoInsight - Landslip
What is Disability Sport? - Training Scenario
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2002
Following the events of September 11, 2001, security arrangements for the 2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, at Coolum in Queensland, were among the tightest ever seen in Australia. The Queensland Police Service was tasked with providing security, assisted by other agencies. The Australian Defence Force's 1st Topographical survey Squadron (1 TOPO) played a supporting role by managing and providing the spatial data for security effort during CHOGM 2002.
Download CHOGM 2002 case study (8.4MB 4 minute 51 second QuickTime)
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Fire Ants
Australia is no stranger to the consequences of imported pests wreaking havoc on its primary and secondary industries and the environment. As a result, Australia has some of the strictest quarantine controls in the world.
Even so, over the last few years Australia has seen the appearance of a pest that could pose one of the greatest threats ever - the South American Fire Ant. First noticed in the outer Brisbane area in 2001, the Fire Ant has already spread over 400 square kilometres. A massive effort based on best practice use of digital spatial information is now underway to eradicate the Fire Ant.
Download Fire Ants case study (8.5MB 5 minute 4 second QuickTime)
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Landslip
Australia's most notorious landslip at Thredbo village in 1997 claimed 18 lives. The year before, nine people died at Gracetown WA when a cliff collapsed. The Shire of Yarra Ranges, east of Melbourne, has an extensive history of landslip. Following significant landslips in 1996, a shire geotechnical survey identified that nearly 6000 properties were in high or medium risk areas. Once the results of this survey were known, an extensive community consultation program was undertaken. But the static risk maps released did not help to raise the community's awareness to its vulnerability to landslips. Using GIS and visualisations, the shire now feels it has made a breakthrough in alerting the public to a proper understanding of the community's vulnerability to landslip emergencies - an essential goal for overall emergency management.
Download Landslip case study (7.2MB 4 minute 13 second QuickTime)
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What is Disability Sport? Training Scenario
Using actors, one of the assessment tasks in What is Disability Sport? asks the student to identify effective communication skills, active listening and conflict resolution strategies in a number of hypothetical scenarios that simulate the sorts of situations they may find themselves in as Disability Sport Contact Officers.
Download example scenario (3.1MB 57 second QuickTime)
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