# Presentation: 525698

## Role of State Reference Groups

- Peter Ramm
- Land Victoria

## Role of AGCC

- The role of the AGCC is to;
- Consider and develop mechanisms to coordinate all land, sea and air aspects of GNSS,
- Promote the safe and effective utilisation and development of GNSS in Australia, and,
- Coordinate national security issues, the application of augmentation systems, and the national use of GNSS in other relevant applications.

## Structure

- Chairman  (CRC for sensor, signal, and information processing)
- Department of transport and regional services (DoTaRS)
- Intelligent transport systems Australia (ITSA)
- Aviation
- Defence
- Emergency services

- Land transport
- Higher education communications
- Timing
- Geomatics and geophysics
- Maritime
- Security
- Free to air service providers
- Industry

- A national perspective
- by national representatives of key sectors

## A Graphical View

-  Local Groups see things differently
- More Detail, & perhaps more application focused

## An Example

## Victorian GNSS Reference Group

- Role
- Identify issues about implementation of GNSS within
- A state or industry
- And
- Seek resolution
- Through the AGCC,
- Cooperation within the state,
- Or through any other available avenue

## Victorian GNSS Reference Group (Cont)

- Provide feedback to the AGCC on.
- Policy, priorities, and issues or,
- As requested by the AGCC or,
- As decided by the reference group.
- Support the AGCC or other GNSS organisations through active participation their working groups.
- To provide a forum for two-way communication.

## Victorian GNSS Reference Group (Cont)

- Membership.
- Anyone interested in GNSS in government, industry or academia.
- Meeting frequency.
- Depends on issues requiring consideration.
- The group is currently meeting twice per year
- AGCC.
- The major national group considering GNSS currently is the Australian GNSS coordinating committee.

## Mailing List

## Activities To Date

- 4 meetings to date.
- Frequency twice per year.
- First meeting 12 July  2001 about draft policy & Allison Kealy presentation.
- Feedback was that whilst attendees were happy to participate in policy discussion, but wanted more immediate value such as technical discussions and presentations on what was going on.
- Tried to arrange interesting presentation since.

## Presentations to Date

- GPS Allison Kealy, Melbourne University.
- GPS and mobile computing in local government  Tracey Willmott, city of Whittlesea.
- Wireless Mapping, Resource Industry Associates Geoff Bailey.
- Use of GPS and PDAs (patrol pad), Gregory barras, Victoria police.
- Precision farming and GPS Ben Jones, Walpeup Victorian institute of Dryland.
- Wide area differential GPS services using satellite broadcast techniques for sub-meter positioning, Clive Halvorson Fugro.
- GPS research findings update   Neil brown, Melbourne University.
- Victorian geodetic strategy status  & ION report Peter Ramm, Land Victoria.

## Are They Working?

- A forum of this type is clearly needed (demonstrated by interest)
- Attendees see value in the presentations, and being kept up to date
- Less interested in policies and long term issues
- Nevertheless, gave good feedback to the Draft AGCC policy
- Well supported by AGCC, Chair and Sec

## Questions?