Geospatial Research Institute (GRI) | Toi Hangarau

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 #methanesat

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.

A huge congratulations to Martin Nguyen for earning his Doctor of Philosophy from University of Canterbury!! We at the GRI are very proud.

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-schol… #phdscholarship #geospatial #scholarship Please share with your networks!

We wish GRI Scholarship recipient, Sunil Tamang a big congratulations for getting his paper: "A review of evolving remote sensing and automated techniques in rock glacier mapping" published in Earth-Science Reviews doi.org/10.1016/j.ears…

Please join us this Friday, March 6th for a GRI Seminar 6th featuring Professor Marwan Younis. He will be giving a talk called “Current Trends in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Techniques” events.humanitix.com/sarimaging

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/floodhazardand…

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

The GeoHealth Lab's Malcolm Campbell is featured in a UC article: "UC launches interactive tool to guide low-carbon urban planning" canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-event…

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 mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/2… #geospatial

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/geohealthresea… #geohealth #geospatial #geospatialjobs

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” events.humanitix.com/floodhazardand…

Call for Submissions – Sixth Spatial Data Science Symposium (SDSS 2025) 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-spatial-…

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.ssmp…

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.jhyd…