The GeoHealth Lab and the GRI have 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,…
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.
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…
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, University of Derby, Leeds Beckett University as well as the West Yorkshire & Harrogate Cancer Alliance.
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.
Te Whare Wānanga of Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) academics have been awarded two of four inaugural IIT-Delhi India-New Zealand Centre Fellowships. For more information go to: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-events/news/2024/iit-delhi-fellowships-awarded-to-university-of-canterbury-resear Congratulations Matt!
In this seminar, Dr Graeme Woodward will be introducing some of the work at UC’s Wireless Research Centre.
Curious what the Geospatial Research Institute is writing about? Here’s a word cloud based on 104 published journal titles.
On Thursday 26th October, Te Papa Hauora hosted the Health Research Society of Canterbury’s 2023 Emerging Researcher Awards Evening. Andrew Kindom was awarded with the 1st prize, presenting: A geospatial analysis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) ruptures to guide screening in NZ. Andrew is currently…
In this seminar, Peter Shaw will be giving an overview of areas of interest at Trimble, particularly, their ongoing pursuit of increased accuracy, reliability, and efficiency in positioning techniques (including mitigation against space weather/ionospheric effects) and the application of AI to Geospatial problems.