2019: 76 engagements.
In 2019 Epcotec delivered 76 engagements across Queensland, the reef and the lab. Every engagement is recorded below - sector, work delivered and how it was achieved. No client names, by policy; references are available on request. The full 734-engagement register lives on one page here.
Seventy-six deliveries, the busiest year to that point. A discharge-guidance principle is published in the Nature portfolio in 2020 (work linked to ANU: electrical discharges guided by optically trapped graphene microparticles, cutting the discharge threshold by about 30%). Within the studio it is treated not as a personal achievement but as part of the workflow: science engagement feeding directly into the linear optics R&D practice. The business expands to Queensland, from Gold Coast roads and highways to remote councils, Cairns and the far north: detailed plant and animal population surveys, and iconic Great Barrier Reef scanning through airborne equipment.
2019 · 76 of 734 engagements recordedSurveyed the coastal esplanade corridor, capturing seawalls, dune profiles and access ramps for renewal design.
Mobile laser scanning from an electric vehicle replaced lane closures and pole-by-pole reflector setups.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Assessed arterial pavement condition across the southern network, rating rutting, cracking and roughness for resurfacing programs.
Inertial profiler van logged condition at traffic speed, retiring walking-chain inspections on live carriageways.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped landslide-prone slopes after summer storms, recommending drainage and retaining works on the hillside streets.
Drone photogrammetry with change detection flagged movement between flights, data annual peg surveys never showed.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Detail-surveyed the beachfront parkland upgrade, tying levels, services and trees into a coordinated 3D model.
Terrestrial scanning fused with UAV imagery delivered one surface, replacing stitched plan sets from past eras.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Re-established survey control across the range escarpment, densifying marks for design and construction on the freight route.
Network RTK GNSS ties replaced static baseline campaigns and monument-to-monument manual reductions.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Resurveyed the riverfront levee corridor, capturing crest levels and encroachments ahead of resilience strengthening.
Mobile lidar mapped the full corridor in one pass, replacing sectional level runs by hand.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Quantified flood-deposited silt across the riverfront streets, pricing removal volumes for the recovery program.
UAV photogrammetry differenced against 2018 surfaces isolated volumes, replacing loader-cycle counting estimates.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Captured the cane rail crossings for a level-crossing safety program, documenting sight lines and geometry.
Laser scan clouds produced certified sight-line checks, replacing tape-and-clinometer assessments at each crossing.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Assessed post-flood pavement damage across the northern suburbs, prioritising emergency patching and permanent reconstruction.
Vehicle laser profiling triaged damage citywide in days, replacing street-by-street visual audits after closures.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped coastal road exposure along the northern beaches, rating overtopping and scour risk for adaptation planning.
Drone lidar plus tide-linked wave modelling replaced time-lapse camera watching and anecdotal flood notes.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Detail-surveyed the marina approach road, resolving levels, drainage falls and services for the foreshore upgrade.
Registered scan-to-BIM geometry replaced conflicting as-builts and repeated return visits for missed data.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Certified pavement and approach geometry along the industrial highway, supporting heavy-vehicle permit route assessments.
Profiler and lidar captures fed an automated defect classifier, replacing hours of manual video review.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Renewed the regional road survey control after flood damage, resetting benchmarks for design and maintenance works.
GNSS control densification from network RTK replaced weeks of static satellite observation sessions.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped warping, cracking and edge loss on the outback highway, programming reseal and shoulder reinstatement works.
Automated crack detection from high-resolution imagery replaced manual windshield ratings on remote sections.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Certified the aerodrome strip and apron geometry, checking grades, slopes and line-of-sight for heavier aircraft.
UAV photogrammetry with cloud surfaces replaced closure-day string-line profiles on the runway.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Surveyed the tourist drive through the headlands, capturing cutting geometry and retaining wall movements.
Mobile scanning acquired the whole route without closures, replacing night-shift pole-and-target fieldwork.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Reconciled as-built geometry on a new canal estate road, certifying grades and crossfalls before handover.
Scan-to-design deviation maps replaced chainage-by-chainage spot level checks on paper long-sections.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped school-zone footpaths and pram ramps, grading compliance across dozens of crossings for accessibility funding.
Mobile laser capture graded every ramp in one sweep, replacing single-site total-station visits.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Traced subsidence over old mine workings beneath the road reserve, recommending monitoring and gas management checks.
Repeat drone lidar with automated change alarms replaced visual crack-watching on a monthly cycle.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Captured the canal-front seawall condition, classifying defect types and assigning repair priorities along the waterline.
Boat-mounted laser scanning avoided tide-critical closures, replacing low-tide wading surveys with tape measures.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Resurveyed the range descent safety barriers, checking containment offsets and end terminals against current standards.
Vehicle laser capture verified offsets continuously, replacing stop-start tape checks on a live highway.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Captured the industrial estate access roads, marking pavement failures and drainage blockages for a rectification program.
Drone orthomosaics with GIS defect tagging replaced clipboard precinct walks and hand-plotted sketches.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Established level and setout control for the riverbank stabilisation works, monitoring movement through construction.
Automated total-station monitoring with alert thresholds replaced weekly manual observation and chart plotting.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Graded the beach access tracks and dune crossovers, ranking renewal priorities ahead of the holiday season.
Drone photogrammetry compared seasonal change, replacing one-off tape profiles that missed erosion between visits.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Updated the CBD kerb and footpath survey, feeding accessibility and drainage upgrades into coordinated design.
Mobile mapping point clouds queried in GIS replaced kerb-by-kerb field booking and re-keying.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Certified sight distance on the tropical highway curves, documenting upgrade options needed for overtaking safety.
Laser scan sight-line analysis replaced time-consuming chase-car and flagman trials on live traffic.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Counted koala presence across the bushland reserves, combining thermal flights, acoustic monitors and scat transects.
Thermal UAV detection with machine-learning classifiers replaced torchlight spotlight walks over hundreds of hectares.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped flying-fox camp occupancy monthly, tracking population swings against heat stress and food availability.
Drone multispectral canopy classification linked roost density to feed trees, replacing subjective visual counts.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Monitored platypus activity along the creek reaches, correlating detections with flow and water quality events.
Passive acoustic loggers with automated call recognition replaced overnight stakeout watches at each site.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Documented turtle nesting through the season, mapping nest density, emergence success and town lighting impacts.
Thermal drone surveys flown at night replaced labour-intensive dawn nest counts across kilometres of sand.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Surveyed macropod populations on the floodplain reserves, estimating density and habitat use before development stages.
Multispectral habitat classification plus thermal counting replaced line-transect walking that sampled a fraction.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped mangrove extent and health along the estuary, classifying species zones and dieback patches.
Hyperspectral imaging separated mangrove species from the air, replacing plot-by-plot boat sampling.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Audited crocodile presence along the urban river, combining thermal flights with ranger sightings and trap data.
Night thermal imagery flagged heat signatures, replacing spotter boats limited to daylight and clarity.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Tracked cassowary movement through the rainforest corridors, mapping crossings and habitat connectivity for planning.
Camera-trap grids with automated image classification replaced opportunistic ranger sightings as the evidence base.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Counted shorebird roosts across the bay's mudflats, logging species, numbers and disturbance events for conservation reporting.
Long-range thermal imaging counted roosts without flushing birds, replacing binocular ground counts at dawn.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped seagrass meadows in the harbour shallows, detecting canopy density change against baseline conditions.
Airborne multispectral bathymetry resolved meadows without dive transects across turbid shallows.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Quantified feral pig damage across the cropping district, mapping wallows and rooting for control programs.
Thermal drone transects located mobs at night, replacing property-by-property spotlight drives on request.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Surveyed waterbird colonies on the inland channels after flows, counting nests and fledging success.
Multispectral drone mosaics resolved nests remotely, replacing nest-by-nest climbing checks that disturbed colonies.
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Monitored bilby burrow activity across the mulga, assessing translocation success and predator pressure.
Burrow thermal checks plus sand-pad motion sensors replaced manual burrow-digging verification visits.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Assessed dugong feeding trails in the seagrass shallows, indexing population use of the coastal meadows.
Aerial multispectral mapping linked trails to meadow health, replacing ad-hoc boat observation logs.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Ran acoustic monitoring across the escarpment parks, profiling bird and frog communities through the season.
Networked acoustic recorders with ML call recognition replaced volunteer dawn chorus point counts.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Monitored beach-nesting bird colonies along the southern sandbanks, mapping nests and closure buffer effectiveness.
Drone thermal counts flown beyond buffer heights replaced on-foot nest searches through dunes.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Airborne-mapped the reef flats through the island group, producing bathymetry and benthic zones for zoning reviews.
Bathymetric lidar captured shallow waters aircraft-safe, replacing dive transects across vast unreachable shallows.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Classified coral cover on the outer reef bommies, tracking bleaching recovery against previous survey epochs.
Machine-learning image classification scored live coral from orthomosaics, replacing manual quadrat photo scoring.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped the central reef shelf topography, supporting navigation safety and research site selection.
Airborne lidar plus satellite-derived bathymetry fused in cloud, replacing sparse soundings from outdated charts.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Charted the fringing reef shallows of the southern islands, updating depths around tourism anchorages.
Bathymetric lidar flights replaced lead-line and echo-sounder spot checks run from small vessels.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Quantified cyclone damage on the inner reef, mapping rubble fields and surviving coral patches for recovery tracking.
Change detection between lidar epochs quantified loss objectively, replacing post-storm visual snorkel assessments.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Scanned the southern reef lagoon channels, delivering depth surfaces for shipping and dredge-plume modelling.
Lidar bathymetry fed hydrodynamic models directly, replacing manual soundings interpolated across gaps.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Surveyed the southern reef cays, measuring sand movement, vegetation change and nesting beach stability.
UAV photogrammetry differenced year-on-year, replacing once-a-decade ground surveys on remote cays.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Detected turbidity plumes from river discharge across the reef lagoon, supporting water quality reporting.
Multispectral airborne retrievals mapped plume extent daily, replacing single-point buoy readings and boat sampling.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Commissioned an interferometric test rig for a coastal research laboratory, stabilising optics and automating fringe capture.
Scripted acquisition with live fringe analysis replaced photographed fringes measured off printed films.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Characterised beam quality and collimation for a photonics laboratory, delivering alignment jigs and verification procedures.
CCD beam profiling with automated fitting replaced knife-edge scans recorded by hand on graph paper.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Aligned a free-space optical communication link across the research campus, closing the budget under weather variation.
Automated fine-pointing driven by received-beam feedback replaced manual pole-and-scope alignment sessions.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Built a fibre-coupled laser stability bench, verifying pointing, power and wavelength drift for the research program.
Continuous digital logging of drift replaced handwritten lab-notebook checks taken at irregular hours.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Retrofitted a spectrometer calibration station, certifying wavelength accuracy and delivering an automated calibration sequence.
Scripted reference-lamp routines with drift trending replaced operator-dependent calibrations and paper certificates.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Delivered precision optical alignment for a lidar prototype, tuning receiver optics against the outgoing beam footprint.
Scan-derived overlap optimisation replaced trial-and-error mirror nudges assessed by eye between tests.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Designed a thermo-stable optical breadboard for coastal water-quality instruments, verifying alignment retention across temperature swings.
Environmental chamber testing with automated optical metrology replaced qualitative warm-room observations.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Supported optics integration for a hyperspectral reef-imaging system, radiometrically calibrating sensors before deployment.
Lab calibration with traceable reference targets replaced field-only tuning done after vessels departed.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Rebuilt the urban creek flood models after the record wet season, recalibrating losses and levels for planning.
Cloud two-dimensional modelling against flood marks replaced lumped routing calcs from decades-old studies.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Detailed overland flow paths through the new estate, sizing bioretention and trunk drainage for staged release.
Digital elevation modelling from drone capture replaced contour maps interpolated from coarse flights.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Certified the flood impact assessment for an industrial subdivision, checking storage, levels and evacuation performance.
Cloud ensemble flood runs stress-tested designs, replacing single-scenario checks on hand-digitised terrain.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Reworked industrial estate drainage after repeat ponding, adding swales and upsizing the culvert battery.
Continuous level telemetry validated model behaviour, replacing post-storm eyeball checks of silt lines.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Mapped gully erosion headcuts threatening the riverfront reserve, programming stabilisation works by catchment priority.
Drone photogrammetry tracked headcut retreat between seasons, replacing annual peg-and-tape erosion measurements.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Updated the town levee flood behaviour study, testing closure operations and pump capacity for the design event.
Scenario modelling in the cloud replaced hand-ruled rating extrapolations from historic flood crests.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Assessed drainage failures on the irrigated cropping plain, recommending grade control and relief culverts.
Terrain analytics on lidar data located flow concentration, replacing field-level guessing during rain events.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Modelled the urban creek culvert capacity, testing debris blockage scenarios for the floodplain overlay.
Probabilistic blockage scenarios computed on cloud replaced single conservative assumptions in the code check.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Refreshed the regional depot network, cabling workshops, stores and yard Wi-Fi onto a managed platform.
Cloud-managed switching with zero-touch provisioning replaced unmanaged switches and ad-hoc cabling runs.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Migrated the works depot telephony to hosted VoIP, porting numbers and integrating mobile handsets.
Cloud PBX with softphone failover replaced the copper PABX maintained by scarce fly-in technicians.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Delivered satellite-backed connectivity for the remote depot, blending links and failover for harsh-weather reliability.
Managed SD-WAN with LTE backup replaced single-microwave dependence and recurring weather-driven outages.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Commissioned the depot dispatch radio refresh, linking vehicles, handhelds and consoles on digital channels.
Digital radio with GPS fleet tracking replaced analogue static and paper job run sheets.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Standardised depot IT security, segmenting networks, hardening endpoints and enabling monitored remote access.
Cloud-managed endpoint policy replaced per-machine antivirus updates and unmonitored shared passwords.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Upgraded the tropical depot comms room, adding cooling, redundancy and structured cabling for growth.
Environment-monitored racks with remote alerting replaced after-hours drive-bys when cooling tripped silently.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Registered coastal structures across the tourist strip, scoring seawalls, groynes and stairs for renewal planning.
Drone orthophoto capture linked each asset to GIS, replacing unmarked photo albums in district files.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Consolidated the beach access and dune infrastructure register, attributing condition and renewal costs.
Tablet condition surveys synced live to the registry, replacing paper forms reconciled months later.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Compiled the foreshore asset register, covering shelters, BBQs, lighting and playgrounds for lifecycle budgeting.
Barcode asset tags scanned on site replaced handwritten inventory cards held by individual crews.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra
Rebuilt the drainage asset register across the northern beaches, reconciling pits, pipes and outfalls to survey.
GPS capture with geotagged photo evidence replaced conflicting record plans and unverified hand sketches.
Delivered by Epcotec Pty Ltd, Canberra