11-06, 13:40– (Australia/Hobart), Anglesea Room
When you have a team of Geologists defining processes you end up with a mash up of Word, Excel, Mapinfo (!), ArcGIS and QGIS. With help from North Road and the Geological Survey of Finland I am redefining these processes to work with FOSS4G!
Kenex is a company of Geologists come GIS Analysts. One of our core services is predictive modelling in the mineral exploration industry. When you have a team of geologists developing processes and defining workflows you end up with a combination of excel sheets, word documents, GIS tools in MapInfo (!) ArcGIS, QGIS. I was lucky enough to be given the task of redefining this process to work within open-source software with the aim of streamlining, automating, and centralising our workflows to improve overall efficiency. We are working with North Road to help us develop some of the more complex Spatial Analysis tools and working alongside the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) to develop and test these tools for the predictive modelling workflow.
Phil has worked as a Geologist in Western Australia for 7 years before returning to NZ and retraining as a GIS professional. Phil completed an internship at Eagle Technology and worked with the Utility Network in ArcGIS. He then moved to Kenex where he was able to apply both geological and geospatial experience. He was tasked with continual improvement to the company's processes and procedures, involving automating tasks and finding new innovative ways to analyse and visualise Kenex's data.