GRI in the news
On December 4th, 2025 the Star, page 17, put out an extensive article, entitled “AI, open datasets being used to help communities plan.” Here is an excerpt from the article: “Canterbury University researchers are using AI and open datasets to create affordable, accurate elevation maps that will help communities plan and adapt to a changing […]
GRI Holiday BBQ at Spencer Park
We had a great turn out to the annual GRI Holiday Party! Nearly forty GRI staff, students, family, and friends came for an afternoon of sun, lemonade, BBQ, pavlova, and secret Santa.
Nationally Consistent Flood Hazard and Risk Information for Aotearoa
This talk will report on results from a 5-year MBIE-funded Endeavour Programme, Mā te Haumaru o te Wai on the development of a semi-automated workflow to consistently model flood hazard and risk over all of Aotearoa for current and future climates, and show results from this work that are being made available on our flood hazard and risk viewing platform to help ensure there is consistent information available.
Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium
We invite the Geospatial community to attend or present geospatial work at the upcoming Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium. SDSS2025 is a distributed/online symposium. Participants are welcome to join one of the symposium hubs distributed around the world. Groups of participants will meet at these hubs to present and discuss with other participants both in […]
Thanks to everyone who came to chat with the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau team at the University of Canterbury booth at Adaptation Futures 2025!
It was a busy and rewarding three days of demonstrations of our work in the adaptation space, including web apps for assessing how healthy communities are, a transport carbon emissions scenario planner, the Ōtakaro Digital Twin including predicted pollutant runoff from urban surfaces, and the Flood Resilience Digital Twin, enabling automated assessments of flood risk […]
Spatial insights for greener cities
In this seminar, we will explore the differences in health and health behaviours by neighbourhood, uncovering some of the underlying reasons for these variations in health. To better understand the range of ways in which differences in health emerge, Professor Malcolm Campbell will present a series of research projects from Te Taiwhenua o te Hauora | The GeoHealth Laboratory
GRI PhD candidate, David Pedley wins second prize in the Exhibit Your Thesis competition
The Exhibit Your Thesis competition invited students to create posters that highlighted research in a clear and engaging way. David’s poster was entitled: “Green vs. Growth: The effect of housing intensification on urban trees.”
GRI Director, Prof Matthew Wilson presented in Brisbane last week at #IGARSS2025.
It’s great to see Prof Matthew Wilson making and solidifying connections at IGARSS2025, as well as presenting a talk called “Satellite sensing agricultural practices: Cal/Val campaign of satellite, airborne and ground GNSS-Reflectometry of soil moisture.” Matt commented, “It has been a packed week! It has been good to reconnect with colleagues and meet new ones, […]
Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR for 3D Applications
In this seminar, this presentation will focus on polarimetric and interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques for environmental parameter estimation within the forest, agriculture and snow/ice domain.
Presentation to the Digital Services Quarterly Showcase
Yesterday, Luke Parkinson (GRI), Greg Preston (Building Innovation Partnership), and Jamie Hart (UC Digital Services) presented Ōtākaro Digital Twin work as an example of successful use of AWS (Amazon Web Services) in a collaborative project at UC’s Digital Services Quarterly Showcase.