Suitability modelling, corridor analysis, habitat assessment and decision-support platforms, delivered by Dr Andrew Mackey, a geospatial scientist with 15 years of experience across Queensland and Australia.
Profit for purpose: $5 from every billable hour goes to wildlife conservation, as a donation or as our own work on conservation projects.
Lamington to the Gold Coast · BioGeo Editions
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Queensland Government· Federal Government· Infrastructure Developers· Water Utilities· Energy & Resources· Environmental Consultancies· Universities
Spatial modelling, constraint mapping, corridor analysis and decision-support platforms, for clients who need defensible, evidence-based spatial science.
Bespoke web maps, dashboards and data portals that put modelling outputs in front of decision-makers, with no GIS needed on their end.
Least-cost path, Circuitscape and Linkage Mapper analyses for wildlife corridors, infrastructure routes and operational networks.
Transparent weighted models that make the trade-offs explicit, for site selection, land assessment and infrastructure planning.
Satellite imagery, LiDAR and elevation models that measure vegetation condition, landscape structure and change.
Where a project can go, where it cannot, and where the risk is uncertain, mapped before detailed design.
MaxEnt species distribution and habitat suitability models that are quantitative, repeatable and hold up to technical review.
Working tools on the same data and models as the consulting work. Most run in the browser, and some will also come as applications to download. No GIS needed.
Draw a site, run the screen, download the written constraint assessment. Queensland and New South Wales.
Drop one map layer on another and see how they relate, as a table, a map and a chart. Here, Noosa's wildlife records by vegetation.
Australia's public environmental data, from councils to the Commonwealth: more than 1,600 layers to find, filter and map. Free.
Choose any map layer and read it: how many, where and when, in plain words, with the odd ones out flagged. Here, Wildnet records of the spotted-tailed quoll.
A selection of recent projects across government, infrastructure, and conservation sectors.
Principal consultant and lead geospatial and report author. Designed and implemented a four sub-model MCDA framework to identify developable land opportunities consistent across 93 model variants, demonstrating that priority locations reflect genuine spatial patterns rather than modelling artefacts.
Indicative least-cost route between a major gas pipeline offtake and an industrial development area to support early-stage cost estimation. Built a multi-criteria cost surface from five weighted themes, trialling two weighting scenarios — ecology-led and directness-led — presented side by side for comparison.
Three engagements over six years to optimise field deployment logistics, with dual objectives of cost reduction and mitigating driving-related safety risk for field staff. Applied advanced network analysis solving the travelling salesman problem across evolving operational configurations.
per billable hour, per app subscription
BioGeo operates as a profit-for-purpose business. $5 from every billable hour goes to wildlife conservation, as a donation or as our own work on conservation projects. Every app subscription gives $5 a month, and every print 5% of its sale, in money. We will publish what we gave each year.
Recent conservation work
Our conservation workMost projects start with a short call or email to set scope, timing and fit. There's no minimum project size, from a focused model over a few weeks to multi-year platform builds.