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Climate Change

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How will you be affected?

Climate change comes at a cost. Australia’s 2019-2021 bushfires prompted over $4.4 billion* in insurance claims alone.

That is to say, not understanding the specific impacts of climate change on your area, your assets may be at risk and entire communities affected as a result.

So how can you reduce your risk?

Councils and governments such as the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) have strategies in place to mitigate and prepare for future climate change impacts using the knowledge and insights we’ve provided them.

Learn more below.

A resilient, prosperous farming future

Working with agricultural domain experts and climate consultants, we have developed a deep understanding of how climate change is impacting agricultural production. We help authorities in the sector understand key climate thresholds and production metrics with custom-built visualisation tools. Our team have delivered a range of insights that have facilitated discussion, and have helped frame decisions on agricultural management practices in the face of a uncertain climate future.

View our award-winning work

“More than 2,000 Land managers have subsequently been engaged to examine how they can adapt their business to counter the impacts of climate change, with [Spatial Vision’s] work providing the foundation. Without it, the conversation would have sunk and as a result, some farmers will not only avoid bankruptcy, but will survive for generations to come.”

Lachlan CampbellCatchment Coordinator, North East Catchment Management Authority (NECMA)

Helping councils make sense of the data

Climate data on its own can be complicated, or confusing to understand or use.

Spatial Vision mentors councils in the application of geospatial data and climate change analysis to build internal capacity for climate change readiness and preparedness. We run interactive workshops and mentoring sessions, working through real-world examples so your staff have a strong understanding of the data and its application to council-held asset and community data. This specialised training ensures councils can readily implement and utilise climate data in future projects, for improved planning and decision making.

Learn more about our mentoring approach

CLIMATE SERVICES

Consultation and Scoping Data Collation Climate Model Evaluation Data Visualisation Vulnerability Assessment Reporting Mentoring and Support

Consultation and Scoping

Climate change impacts us all differently. A meaningful, collaborative, co-design process with industry, government and community stakeholders is essential. Face-to-face consultations to review requirements, presenting and reviewing designs with frequent demonstrations allow for any developed resources to be benchmarked and rigorously tested against local or domain knowledge in line with best principles.

To understand how your organisation, your assets, infrastructure and key stakeholders could be affected now and into the future, we’ll begin with an open, collaborative robust consultation to define the scope, assess available data, and map out desired outcomes. Our multi-disciplinary and diverse consulting team offers:

Significant experience in delivering best-practice business requirements, strategies and roadmaps, solution architecture, data quality and data management frameworks
Substantial knowledge of authoritative data principles
Proven expertise in delivering clear, concise and informative strategic advice with implementation of climate-driven spatial information capabilities and spatial data infrastructure (SDI)

Data Collation

Collation and standardisation of information is essential for establishing a baseline to support your current and future decisions. This data informs a number of subsequent steps in assessing your risk. Our climate modelling, strategy development and vulnerability assessments encompass variables such as sea-level rise, storm surges, coastal erosion, and extreme weather days analysed.

We work with education, private and government sector organisations, peak industry bodies original custodians and specialist consultants to ensure the foundation information data sources and resulting framework is comprehensive. This includes sourcing climate and climate projection data, thematic natural and man-made spatial data layers, and relevant climate event or event modelling information, to ensure it is suitable in terms of scale, completeness, accuracy and maintenance; and it is fit-for-purpose, supporting the intended application.

Climate Model Evaluation

Identifying the likely impact or vulnerability of a particular environment or asset type requires an acute understanding as to how sensitive that asset or environment is to different levels of change, and whether there are factors such as condition or content that reduce or mitigate the impact of the anticipated change.

For each project, Spatial Vision carefully assesses a variety of climate and meteorological models, including those developed by Commonwealth Scientific Institute Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). We determine which may be most appropriate for and apply one or more with consideration to region, analysis and application, as well as ensuring it is in line with international best practice standards, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

While we apply a local-centric assessment, our approach has been developed in a way that can be replicated and adapted to suit any environment or industry sector. Use of CSIRO climate change projections to assess climate change impacts helps provide an authoritative, reliable and scientific foundation that isn’t location or sector constrained.

Data Visualisation

We understand the importance of effectively communicating analysis of modelled climate scenarios, predicted modelled impacts to assets or the environment, and overall, to translate the effects and impacts of climate change in a manner that anyone can interpret and understand.

The use of advanced data visualisation tools that embed foundation data, analytics and reporting functionality provide immeasurable advantages. To achieve common understanding and acceptance of our industry, technology and science driven methodology, design of an intuitive and user-friendly data visualisation tool, is critical to avoiding any up-front barriers to use and adoption.

We specialise in dynamic, adaptable, interactive mapping and web-based visualisation solutions which are integral for stakeholder engagement, communications, interpretation, and reporting on the overall impacts of climate change and extreme events.

Vulnerability Assessment

By having a greater understanding of asset vulnerability and potential financial impacts of climate change, our clients will improve their understanding of how climate change is likely to impact and sustainability of key services. With this understanding, stakeholders are better able to quantify and mitigate these risks to the community of anticipated climate change and associated extreme weather events.

Vulnerability assessments incorporate the modelled impacts of extreme events and climate change into a decision-making framework that helps measure and quantify the loss and cost implications associated with key assets and infrastructure.

Our team utilise a variety of analytical tools to assign agreed vulnerability assessment ratings to assets for climate variables such sea level rise or inundation categories. This process generates a standardised report or profile for each asset that provides both absolute asset quantity values and percentage breakdowns for each attribute category.

Reporting

We work with you to develop a suitable reporting and communications strategy to ensure key concepts, issues, and outputs are presented and reported in a manner that is open, transparent and effective.

In addition, we deliver staged mapping outputs at all phases of a project as a reporting mechanism, and to illustrate scenarios that help stakeholders to understand predicted future states. Our approach to reporting and engagement aims to achieve the following:

Increased capacity for key project stakeholders including Government, communities and councils to adapt to significant changes in regional climatic conditions.
Improved knowledge, skills and awareness of activities to assist stakeholders to adapt to changing climates.
Increased knowledge and awareness of climate change scenarios and effects on communities and enterprises in the region.
The ability of land managers and councils to have regional specific climatic data available to support strategic planning.

Mentoring and Support

Our solutions not only raise awareness of local climate change impacts, how to monitor and evaluate the impacts over the long term but also to support understanding how their strategy and investment are aiding adaptation to climate change over time.

It is therefore important to us that your organisation are confident and comfortable in utilising the climate modelling information, tools and processes we develop. Our tailored mentoring and support services are a key part of achieving this and may include:

Live, on-site training and support for operating teams
Workshops and presentations for key stakeholders and users
Resources and guiding documentation

This component of our service is essential for guiding understanding, ownership and adoption of spatially-driven climate modelling solutions to ensure key insights into likely impacts, vulnerability, social, environmental and financial risk implications can be derived.

OUR CLIMATE WORK

March 12, 2024

Spatial Vision's interactive Climate Heat Map of Australia developed for the Climate Council projects the likelihood of extreme heat days under various emission scenarios across the entire country.

February 28, 2024

With the help of Spatial Vision, the Climate Council have release the Climate Heat Map of Australia - an interactive tool that shows how cutting climate pollution will limit extreme heat in our neighbourhoods.

February 12, 2024

Through Spatial Vision’s 2023 Pacific Geospatial Skills Development Program, evidence was sought to support Fiji's need to enhance their overall geospatial capability to guide development of critical spatial infrastructure, upskill resources, shape policy and provide detailed investment roadmaps.

January 19, 2024

The South East Councils Climate Change Alliance (SECCCA) engaged Spatial Vision to undertake an asset vulnerability assessment on selected assets and a financial review to assist member councils in better understanding and planning for the likely impacts of anticipated climate change.

January 15, 2024

Climate data informed geospatial strategies are essential for developing multi-hazard early warning systems to safeguard lives and livelihoods.

March 3, 2023

Climate change threatens the economic, social and environmental stability of Pacific Islands. Spatial Vision can help create geospatial frameworks, develop critical skills, improve understanding and implement evidence-based policies, strategies and roadmaps to support sustainable development across the Pacific.

November 15, 2022

Be it the effects of climate change or La Niña, Australia has been inundated with extreme flooding events in 2022. Spatial Vision’s award winning mapping and analysis work for E2DesignLab, Melbourne Water and affected councils in the flood prone Elster Creek catchment zone charts a course for vulnerable urban areas.

August 2, 2022

Spatial Vision developed an interactive map of Australia for the Climate Council that represents the vulnerability of any address to the effects extreme weather over different timeframes and emission scenarios. The underlying data was supplied by Climate Valuation.

June 21, 2022

A Spatial Vision collaboration with E2Designlab and Hansen Partnership to complete a permeability research project for City of Port Phillip has been ‘Highly Commended’ at Stormwater Victoria‘s Awards for Excellence.

December 13, 2021

The South East Councils Climate Change Alliance (SECCCA) engaged Spatial Vision with the support of Marsden Jacob Associates (MJA) to undertake an asset vulnerability assessment on selected assets and a financial review to assist member councils in better understanding and planning for the likely impacts of anticipated climate change.

November 19, 2020

The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and the Barwon Regional Partnership Councils engaged Spatial Vision to help build their capacity in the application of spatial technologies to better plan for and understand the consequences of anticipated climate change and associated extreme weather events for their communities.

August 2, 2019

The North East Catchment Management Authority engaged Spatial Vision to model and spatially represent changes in key climatic factors, agricultural productivity and water balance.

July 19, 2019

The Urban Sustainability brand within the City of Melbourne required a pilot project to analyse and map the thermal comfort for pedestrian routes.

February 16, 2018

In partnership with DELWP, we undertook an assessment of the likely impacts of anticipated climate change on the Victorian coastline to inform the prioritisation of the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program.

December 20, 2017

Integrating and analysing geographic and environmental data for the entire Victorian coastline to address some of Victoria’s most pressing environmental, economic and resource issues.

July 12, 2017

Spatial Vision and Natural Decisions were engaged by 7 of Victoria’s 10 CMAs to support NRM planning efforts in view of the likely impacts of climate change.

January 20, 2016

The Australian Government is committed to reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions to meet international emission reduction targets; developing a plan for a cleaner environment; and adapting to the impacts of climate change

“Spatial Vision exceeded our expectations in providing Councils with very tangible and well developed case studies demonstrating the value in using spatial data and technologies to better understand, plan for and mitigate the likely effects of climate change and extreme weather events…assists in communicating about such events with other stakeholders and the broader community.”

Bryan RobertsProject Manager, Barwon South West Region, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)

PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS

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TRUSTED ADVISORS FOR 20+ YEARS

1999

✓ Remote Sensing Services for Australian Greenhouse Office
2011
✓ Spatially Enabling Coastal Asset Information for Local Government

2011
2012

✓ Climate Adaptation Planning for Hunter Region NSW (Partnering with Marsden Jacobs)
✓ Scenario Planning for Melbourne’s Peri-Urban and Green Wedge (Partnering with RMIT University)
2014
✓ Statewide NRM Planning for Climate Change for Catchment Management Authorities (Partnering with Natural Decisions and Victoria University)
✓ EG NRM Climate Change Adaptation Plan (Partnering with Natural Decisions)

2014
2017

✓ Victorian Coast Climate Change Impact Assessment
✓ Coastal Climate Change Impacts Data and Review
✓ Shadeways for RMIT University
2018
✓ Cool Routes Pilot Project for City of Melbourne

2018
2019

✓ Local Coastal Hazard Assessment Inventory Support
✓ Coastal First Pass Assessment for City of Port Phillip (Partnering with Victoria University)
✓ Climate Impact First Pass Assessment for City of Melbourne
✓ Blue Green Opportunities Map for City of Melbourne (Partnering with E2DesignLab)
✓ Catchment Scale IWM Plans for Greater Metropolitan Melbourne (Partnering with E2DesignLab)
✓ Embedding Climate Adaptation in Agiculture for the North East Catchment Management Authority
2020
✓ Extreme Weather Planning Support for Barwon Councils (Partnering with Tony Miner)
✓ Victorian Native Vegetation Climate Impacts Project
✓ South East Councils Climate Change Alliance (SECCCA) – Asset Vulnerability Assessment Project (Partnering with Marsden Jacobs)

2020
2021

✓ South East Councils Climate Change Alliance (SECCCA) – Heatwave and Residential Case Studies
✓ South West Slopes Forest Hub Climate Risk Project (Partnering with PF Olsen)

LATEST NEWS

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Our 2024 Pacific Islands Geospatial Skills Program CandidateAugust 26, 2024 - 11:22 am

Climate Change

How will you be affected?

A resilient, prosperous farming future

Helping councils make sense of the data

CLIMATE SERVICES

Consultation and Scoping

Data Collation

Climate Model Evaluation

Data Visualisation

Vulnerability Assessment

Reporting

Mentoring and Support

OUR CLIMATE WORK

PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS

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