MIKE SWAINE

Managing Director · Survey lead · Camera-systems engineer

Mike Swaine with an AeroGlobe camera system.

AERIAL SURVEY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Mike Swaine is the founder and Managing Director of Aeroglobe, as well as its lead photogrammetrist and camera-systems engineer. With more than 10,000 flight hours and 26 years in aerial survey, Mike has led marine, coastal, terrestrial infrastructure and disaster-response survey programs across Australia.

Mike’s project experience spans wildlife and habitat surveys, photogrammetry, airborne imaging-system development and disaster response.

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MARINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEYS

2026 — Nyamba Buru Yawuru / ISWAG: Kimberley dugong aerial survey.
2026 — Parks Australia: Coral Sea bird and turtle surveys and HPAI surveillance.
2026 — Parks Australia: Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island bird, turtle and dugong surveys.
2026 — WWF France: New Caledonia dugong and marine-turtle aerial imaging.
2026 — Edith Cowan University: Geraldton and Houtman Abrolhos humpback whale aerial imaging.
2025: Charles Darwin University, Gulf of Carpentaria marine-megafauna imaging.
2025: DCCEEW, Coral Sea seabird and HPAI surveillance.
2025: DCCEEW, Coral Sea bird and turtle surveys.
2025: DCCEEW, Northern Territory nesting-beach surveys.
2024: DCCEEW, West Cape North Queensland nesting-beach surveys.
2024: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, northern Great Barrier Reef nesting-beach surveys.
2023–2024: Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation, Kimberley nesting-beach surveys.
2023: James Cook University and GBRMPA, northern Great Barrier Reef marine-megafauna imaging.
2023: Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, marine-megafauna imaging.
2023: Parks Australia, Coral Sea turtle mapping.
2022: James Cook University and GBRMPA, southern Great Barrier Reef marine-megafauna imaging.
2022: Parks Australia, Coral Sea turtle mapping.
2020–2021: GBRMPA, northern Great Barrier Reef nesting-beach surveys.
2019–2020: DBCA, photogrammetric surveys of turtle nesting beaches in the Dampier Archipelago.
2018: flatback turtle spotting surveys in the Pilbara.
2017–2018: Ningaloo turtle tracking and spotting surveys.
2017: humpback dolphin transects in Pilbara waters.
2016: Pilbara turtle-track surveys.

MAPPING AND DISASTER RESPONSE

Brisbane Airport runway-construction photogrammetry, including volumetric measurement, height measurement and asset capture.
Sunshine Coast Airport runway-construction photogrammetry, including volumetric measurement, height measurement and asset capture.
Sunshine Coast Council thermal survey for urban-heat assessment.
Self-funded coastal and erosion archive survey using an eight-camera aerial-photogrammetry system.
Christchurch earthquake response mapping in 2011.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi response mapping in 2011.
Brisbane, Bundaberg and Rockhampton flood-response mapping.
Sydney and Hawkesbury flood-response mapping in 2021.

OUR PLATFORMS & PARTNERS

iTide

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Liddle’s Air Service

Aviation support for our marine survey and remote field operations.

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