Peter Leihn
Director, Environment Business
National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Australia

Biography
Peter has over 25 years experience in the science and technology sectors within industry and Government in Australia and Asia. He has held key roles with global ICT companies Hewlett-Packard and Autodesk in Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney developing markets for new technologies across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining NICTA Peter held several senior leadership positions in the NSW State Government in Australia including Director of the Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer and Director of the Office for Science and Research where he drove policy development and program delivery in environmental management and research commercialisation. Peter holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Resource Management (Coastal), a Graduate Diploma in Marketing, and a Masters of Environmental Science and Law. His interest is the deployment of leading edge technologies to achieve improved social, economic and environmental management outcome.

Abstract
Analytics over Open Spatial Data for Policy Development

NICTA start-up company TERRIA created the Australian Government’s open spatial data visualisation platform NationalMap.gov.au. Building on this platform TERRIA has developed several analytics tools to extract immediate value from the Government published data. Under development is the Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure (AREMI) project which is bringing together Government, industry and research data services to provide a one-stop search visualise and download capability for renewable energy investors and developers. Data services being developed for the industry include 5 minute solar radiation estimations at a continental scale, wave and wind resource assessments, electricity grid constraints and opportunities, and real-time renewable generation data and predictions in a spatial context. Another project provides a service for groundwater impact assessments for the mining and coal seam gas industries. Based on NationalMap.gov.au, the TERRIA Groundwater visualisation service allows drag and drop capability for large hydrogeological models and bore hole data from industry. This data can be interrogated by Government assessors inside the web browser by creating sub-surface profiles and cross referencing predictive models with observations and other government data sources available in NationalMap.