Australian Surveying and Land Information Group

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG)

Agency overview
Formed	1987
Preceding agencies	Australian Surveying Office Division of National Mapping
Dissolved	2001
Superseding agency	Geoscience Australia
Jurisdiction	Australia

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) was an Australian organization that merged in 2001 with the Australian Geological Survey Organization to become Geoscience Australia.

Its headquarters building was located in Canberra, Fernhill Technology Park ^[1]

AUSLIG’s main function was to provide national geographic information.^[2]

It produced maps and audovisual products relative to many aspects of Australian geography from the technology available during its time of operation.^[3][4]

It was formed in 1987, when the Australian Survey Office,^[5] joined with the Division of National Mapping which had been in operation since the 1940s,^[6] and had been publisher of the Atlas of Australian resources which had incorporated over 20 componenent booklets of standard information about Australian natural resources at the time of publication ^{[7][8][9][10]}

AUSLIG provised of satellite imagery to industry and government, starting with the Australian Landsat Station in 1979,^[11] which was renamed the Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES) in 1986.^{[12][13][14][15]}

The Australian Survey Office, under its own name, was working with remote sensing data in 1988 ^[16]

References

1. "$ 15.8m for building.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) (ACT: National Library of Australia). 4 July 1991. p. 2. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
2. Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (1991), AUSLIG : Australian Surveying & Land Information Group, Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, retrieved 20 December 2015
3. Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (1997), Australia's maritime zones (Ed. 1 ed.), AUSLIG, retrieved 20 December 2015
4. Australian Surveying and Land Information Group; Space-Time Research (Firm) (1996), Australia unfolded interactive atlas of Australia, AUSLIG, retrieved 20 December 2015
5. Australian Survey Office (1984), The Australian Survey Office, Commonwealth Department of Administrative Services, The Office, retrieved 20 December 2015
6. "Mapping chief retires.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) (ACT: National Library of Australia). 3 July 1965. p. 10. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
7. Australia. Division of National Mapping; Plumb, T. W. (Trevor W.) (1962), Atlas of Australian resources (2nd series ed.), Division of National Mapping, retrieved 20 December 2015
8. Australia. Division of National Mapping (1987), Australia fuels, The Division, retrieved 20 December 2015
9. Australia. Division of National Mapping (1986), Climate, The Division, ISBN 978-0-642-51506-3
10. Australia. Division of National Mapping (1982), Atlas of Australian resources third series. Volume 3, Agriculture (Third series ed.), Division of National Mapping, ISBN 978-0-642-51482-0
11. Australian Landsat Station; Australia. Dept. of Science and Technology (1982), Australian Landsat Station, Australian Government Publishing Service, retrieved 20 December 2015
12. Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (1990), ACRES, Australian Centre for Remote Sensing, retrieved 21 December 2015
13. Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (1991), ACRES user manual (2nd ed.), Australian Centre for Remote Sensing, ISBN 978-0-642-15505-4
14. Australian Surveying and Land Information Group; Australian Geological Survey Organisation (1999), Discovering remote sensing, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, ISBN 978-0-642-39790-4
15. Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (1991), ACRES update, Australian Centre for Remote Sensing, retrieved 21 December 2015
16. Golding, Peter; Holland, Peter (1988-03), "Remote sensing in the Australian Survey Office", Surveying Australia 10 (1): 15+, retrieved 21 December 2015 Check date values in: |date= (help)