Adam Steer
Freelance Researcher, Cartographer, Consultant at Spatialised
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAdam Steer is a freelance researcher, cartographer and consultant with a decade of international experience applying open geospatial tools to cryosphere, snow and climate problems. He combines hands-on field science—helicopter and shipborne LiDAR, terrestrial surveys and under-ice observations—with engineering of data services and open-source geospatial workflows to turn massive point clouds into usable products. Founder of Spatialised and former researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute and NCI, he bridges academic rigour (PhD in surveying) with practical delivery for governments, universities and industry. An active OSGeo volunteer and community builder, he focuses on ethical data, reproducible services and capacity building in open geospatial ecosystems. Colleagues know him for building novel floe-centric coordinate systems and embedding shot-level uncertainty into LiDAR points—small technical choices that materially improve observational confidence.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Surveying, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Surveying at University of TasmaniaAustralian National UniversityBachelor of Antarctic Studies (honours) Digital aerial photo analysis sea ice remote sensing, Bachelor of Antarctic Studies (honours) Digital aerial photo analysis sea ice remote sensing at Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies
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Github Skills (111)
pdal10
gdal10
abstraction10
balloon10
3d-models10
data-abstraction10
photogrammetry10
kite10
point-cloud10
viewer10
structure-from-motion10
datasets9
pcl9
potree9
stable9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adamsteer/pointWPS
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
WPS services on point clouds
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pointcloudswpspoint-clouds
adamsteer/miscellaneous-debris
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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