AURIN is set to lead major new national research initiatives on urban climate risk and coastal monitoring, boosting Australia’s capacity for climate resilience, evidence-based planning and long-term decision-making.
Category Archives: Data
Building-scale photovoltaic data | AURIN
Explore building-scale photovoltaic potential data for Kalgoorlie-Boulder, available through the AURIN Data Provider for renewable energy research and planning.
The new AURIN and Nearmap Data partnership is giving researchers access to high-resolution aerial imagery and 3D data, helping them better understand Australia’s cities, infrastructure and climate risks.
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AURIN and Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC) partner to strengthen sustainable infrastructure research impact
AURIN now offers Healthdirect Australia’s 2025 NHSD through the ADP, giving researchers geocoded health service data to map access, equity, and resilience across Australia.
AURIN now offers Healthdirect Australia’s 2025 NHSD through the ADP, giving researchers geocoded health service data to map access, equity, and resilience across Australia.
Read Spatial Source’s two-part interview series with AURIN Director Professor Pascal Perez exploring the future of urban digital research infrastructure, AI, hard-to-access datasets, digital twins, and the national challenges shaping Australia’s cities, housing, climate, and energy transition.
Us versus Them is an interactive AURIN Data Tale exploring how anonymised human mobility data can be used to map the geographic distribution of supporters of Melbourne based AFL teams. Drawing on privacy protected, aggregated mobility data from DSpark and accessed through AURIN’s national digital research infrastructure, this Data Tale analyses location and loyalty of AFL supporters
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) is a national digital research infrastructure, funded by the Australian Government and hosted by the University of Melbourne. We connect researchers, government, and industry with hard-to-access data and advanced analytical tools to support evidence-based decisions for Australia’s cities and regions. We help researchers and decision-makers tackle major national challenges […]
If a picture tells a thousand words, a map can tell a million. AURIN is developing a series of interactive story telling maps – AURIN Data Tales – to highlight the data access and analytics capability we offer and provide real-world examples of urban challenges, presented in an engaging way to inspire further research and […]
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Research Impact: Improving spatial analysis for disease risk detection: A COVID-19 case study
During COVID-19, public health agencies relied heavily on data to understand where the virus was spreading and who was most at risk. While robust data have long underpinned decision-making, the pandemic reinforced that statistical factors – such as how data are grouped, how geographical boundaries are defined, and how granular the data are – can […]









