Visiting PhD Student, Joe Lillis
GRI has a visiting PhD student from Exeter University in the UK. Joe Lillis has been working on a thesis that aims to map how greenspace, air pollution, and traffic noise impacts mental health in the UK. While at UC, Joe has helped the GeoHealth Lab create a greenspace national composite for New Zealand based […]
MIGARS 2024
The GRI was well represented at the MIGARS conference (International Conference on Machine Intelligence for Geoanalytics and Remote Sensing ) in Wellington this week. Congrats on all the posters and talks.
Six papers on machine learning from GRI to be presented at MIGARS 2024
Thrilling work in machine learning developed in the GRI is going to be presented in the forthcoming 2024 MIGARs International Conference on Machine Intelligence for Geoanalytics and Remote Sensing. The papers are: Detecting Vegetated Wetlands of New Zealand through Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning- Saif Khan Learning with Image Guidance for Digital Elevation Model Super-Resolution […]
Dr Matthew Hobbs is lead author on a new research paper
A recent international study led by Dr Matthew Hobbs, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the GeoHealth Laboratory in the Geospatial Research Institute at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC), sought to throw some light on these underlying factors. Joining him in the endeavour were UK researchers from the University of Essex, […]
How much habitat is enough?
In this seminar, Dr Cristina Banks-Leite will talk about ecological thresholds as a was to estimate the minimum amount of habitat required to preserve biodiversity, and how the position of thresholds changes across biomes world-wide.
Radio localisation: Understanding insect behaviour, busting sport cheats and studying climate change.
In this seminar, Dr Graeme Woodward will be introducing some of the work at UC’s Wireless Research Centre.
Word Cloud of GRI’s Published Journal Articles
Curious what the Geospatial Research Institute is writing about? Here’s a word cloud based on 104 published journal titles.