Geospatial Research Seminar Series (GRISS) – 1 June 2022
The Geospatial Research Institute is pleased to host Dr Barrett Ens.
Dr Barrett Ens is currently a member of the Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics research group at Monash University. He received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Theory from the University of Calgary in 2005, and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Manitoba in 2007. He later joined the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Manitoba for his PhD project on ‘Spatial Analytic Interfaces’.
PhD Student Martin Nguyen Wins 2nd Prize for Best Poster at Waterways Conference
Martin Nguyen presented a poster at the Waterways annual postgraduate conference, titled “Uncertainty in the procedure of developing Digital Elevation Models from LiDAR data for flood modelling”. He won second-place in the competition for the best poster. The print-quality poster can be found here (2Mb)
Geospatial Research Seminar Series (GRISS) – 26 November 2021
Speaker: Dr. Philipp Sueltrop, CTO Kea Aerospace
The Geospatial Research Institute is pleased to host Dr. Philipp Sueltrop.
Philipp is the Chief Technology Officer of the Christchurch-based company Kea Aerospace. Besides leading the technical development team of the unmanned solar-powered aircraft Kea Atmos, he considers himself as a technology explorer combining his passion for aerospace engineering that can provide the means for advantageous scientific, civil and commercial contributions.
New PhD student Andrea Pozo Estívariz joins the GRI
We are pleased to welcome Andrea Pozo Estívariz as a PhD student within the Geospatial Research Institute. Andrea summarises her PhD below: “I am a civil engineer from Spain. Since my Master’s I have been working in the GeoOcean research group (University of Cantabria), having the opportunity to deep into different research topics such […]
Reducing Flood Inundation Hazard and Risk across Aotearoa New Zealand
Flooding is one of New Zealand’s most damaging hazards, which will also change the most rapidly in intensity and nature as a result of climate change. At the same time, urban development is leading to increased flood exposure. These dual challenges make reducing flood risk extremely difficult for our current planning and response systems. There […]
Geospatial Research Seminar Series (GRISS) – 29 October 2021 – Recorded
Since 2004 Professor Richard Green has been lecturing in computer science at the University of Canterbury after running his own successful 50 staff software company in Sydney (sold to a multinational). With over 200 refereed publications, Richard heads the Computer Vision Research Lab with an emphasis on autonomous robot vision/deep learning (robots/drones/underwater robots) and analysing human movement.
Rongowai:
Partnering to fly the Next-generation of Global Navigation Satellite System Receivers for Advancing Earth Observation
[custom_font font_size=”15″ line_height=”26″ font_style=”normal” text_align=”center” font_weight=”300″ text_decoration=”none” padding=”0px” margin=”0px”] Rongowai [/custom_font]In the Rongowai (sensing water) project, a next-generation Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) sensor is being mounted on an Air New Zealand Q300 aircraft, enabling greatly improved observations of soil moisture and inundation dynamics. The observations will provide an unprecedented high spatial and temporal […]
New PhD student Sidney Wong joins the GRI
We are pleased to welcome Sidney Wong as a PhD student within the Geospatial Research Institute. Sidney is excited to be offered the opportunity through the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau PhD Scholarship to model the social and linguistic characteristics of local populations using geo-referenced language data. He was attracted by the transdisciplinary nature of […]
Geospatial Research Seminar Series (GRISS) – 24 September 2021 – Recorded
Keri is a passionate Digital Technologist, with a strong background in Geospatial technologies, and over 20 years of international experience in designing enterprise collaboration platforms. Keri is the New Zealand Digital Practice Leader and is focused on identifying digital possibilities and creating opportunities to embed new technologies into our organisational way of working. Keri represents Aurecon on the ANZ Smart Cities Council and on the ANZ Digital Twin Taskforce.
Geospatial Research Seminar Series (GRISS) – 30 July 2021
In this time of rapid global change, we need new ways to identify, monitor and understand the impact of change on environments and human dynamics such as economy, health and sociopolitical stability. Maxar Earth Intelligence capabilities help customers map, detect, address and predict change at unprecedented speed and scale. Fueled largely by Maxar’s own constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites and combining multi-source data and applied artificial intelligence, machine learning and rich domain knowledge is able to deliver insight as a service.