Please come in person or online to our next GRISS seminar. It will be on Thursday, May 7th at 1pm, featuring Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, Principal Scientist at Earth Sciences NZ. She will be giving a talk Quantifying agricultural CH4 events.humanitix.com/methanesat
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A huge congratulations to Martin Nguyen for earning his Doctor of Philosophy from University of Canterbury!! We at the GRI are very proud.
What exciting times for the GRI. In 2026, we've already had 3 PhD students pass their oral exams. Congratulations Sidney Wong, Andrea Pozo Estívariz, and David Pedley.
Today we kicked off the Second New Zealand Radar Remote Sensing School. It is organised by Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) New Zealand Chapter and the Geospatial Research Institute (GRI) supported by the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), USA.
We are excited to announce the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau PhD Scholarship 2026! Total NZ$35650/year, plus fees and $4000 expenses. To apply visit: geospatial.ac.nz/jobs-and-sch... #phdscholarship #geospatial #scholarship Please share with your networks!
Come watch the first GRISS talk of 2026 and learn about Current Trends in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Techniques. The seminar is led by Professor Marwan Younis Spaceborne Radar Systems, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT). events.humanitix.com/sarimaging
On December 4th, 2025 the Star, page 17, put out an extensive article, entitled “AI, open datasets being used to help communities plan.” The article features Geospatial Research, Xander Cai and Professor Matthew Wilson.
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.
Join us: 27th November for an exciting talk coming up for GRI Seminar Series entitled: Nationally Consistent Flood Hazard and Risk Information for Aotearoa by Earth Sciences New Zealand's Principle Scientist Dr Emily M Lane. In person and on Zoom. events.humanitix.com/floodhazarda...
GRI Director, Matthew Wilson and GRI Geospatial Developer, Luke Parkinson gave a talk entitled Development of open-source digital twins for automated analysis of flood risk at the #FOSS4G 2025 this week in Auckland #opensource #geospaital #digitaltwin
Yesterday at the Waterways Conference 2025, held at Lincoln University, New Zealand, Sunil Tamang delivered an insightful oral presentation titled: “Automating the outline: How accurately can deep learning delineate rock glacier extent?” #geospatial #deeplearning #glaciers
The GeoHealth Lab's Malcolm Campbell is featured in a UC article: "UC launches interactive tool to guide low-carbon urban planning" www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-eve...
Wishing Xander Cai a huge congratulations for his latest published article in journal Remote Sensing, titled: JSPSR: Joint Spatial Propagation Super-Resolution Networks for Enhancement of Bare-Earth Digital Elevation Models from Global Data www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17... #geospatial #remotesensing
Call for applications for an exciting opportunity to work in the GeoHealth Laboratory! Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow GRI Spatial Data position available. tinyurl.com/geohealthres...
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Call for Submissions – Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium #SDSS2025 Are you an undergraduate, postgraduate student, or postdoctoral fellow working in geospatial science? This is your chance to showcase your research geospatial.ac.nz/sixth-spatia...
You are invited to our GRISS seminar on Thur, November 27th, featuring Dr Emily Lane, Principal Scientist at Earth Sciences New Zealand (formally NIWA). She will be giving the talk “Nationally Consistent Flood Hazard & Risk Information for Aotearoa” geospatial.ac.nz/nationally-c...
Congratulations Phoebe Eggleton on publishing "Investigating the long-term impact of experiencing a major disaster in mid-adulthood on body mass index and waist circumference: A prospective birth cohort study" to SSM-Population Health." doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
A big congratulations to GRI Research Associate, Martin Nguyen for having his paper, “Estimating uncertainty in flood model outputs using machine learning informed by Monte Carlo analysis” published to the Journal of Hydrology. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
Please attend our GRISS seminar on Thursday, September 18th from 12:30-2pm, featuring Prof Justin Morgenroth. He will be giving a talk called “Spatial insights for greener cities”. Details, registration, and zoom invite: events.humanitix.com/spatial-insi...
A big congrats to GRI PhD Candidate David Pedley on winning 2nd place in the Exhibit your Thesis competition! #geospatial
GRI Director, Prof Matthew Wilson presented in Brisbane last week at #IGARRS2025. He reconnected with colleagues and met new ones, and found it especially good to get the some of the IGARSS 2028 (Auckland NZ) planning team together.
Congratulations GRI Scholarship recipient and PhD Candidate, David Pedley and Professor and Director of Studies Forestry Science, Justin Morgenroth on publishing "Green vs growth: The effect of residential intensification on urban tree canopy loss in Christchurch, New Zealand
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Congrats to GRI PhD student Katherine Booker for getting the first element of her PhD research published!!
sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Modelling urban growth for long-term planning under future climate uncertainty: A systematic review and decision pathway
Join us for the joint seminar hosted by GRI and School of Earth and Environment. The talk is being delivered by Professor Irena Hajnsek. She will be speaking on "Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR for 3D Applications" on July 30th from 1:15 to 3. geospatial.ac.nz/polarimetric...
Visit: geospatial.ac.nz/jobs-and-sch... to learn about the Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau PhD Scholarship. Total NZ$35000/year, plus fees and $4000 expenses at the University of Canterbury. #geospatial #scholarship #PhD
We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Geospatial Research Institute (GRI) #scholarship. This PhD scholarship has been implemented with the aim to increase the amount of novel #geospatial research in all areas across the University of Canterbury. geospatial.ac.nz/jobs-and-sch...
GRI PhD candidate, David Pedley gave a talk at the Esri Regional User Conference last week at Christchurch Town Hall about the potential conflict between housing intensification and urban tree loss.
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.
Today in Professor Matthew Wilson’s 4th year class, students got a sneak peek at a VR project the GRI is doing for the National Hazards Commission. Read more and see the video at geospatial.ac.nz/vr-sneak-peek/ #geospatial #VR
The GeoHealth Laboratory recently completed project on Carbon Neutral Neighbourhoods funded by BRANZ and has just released the final report alongside a website with the interactive geospatial platform. Read more: www.branz.co.nz/pubs/researc...