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Geospatial Research Institute

27 August 2024

The Geospatial Research Institute does interdisciplinary, partnership-based geospatial research across the social and physical sciences. Our research is culturally appropriate, ethical, and engaged. Find out more about the Geospatial Research Institute.

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Our vision

The Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau is a world class centre of interdisciplinary geospatial expertise in New Zealand.

With our interdisciplinary partnership-based geospatial research, we aim to assist NZ Inc. to:

  • Leverage latent value from investments in public and other datasets – Deliver expected productivity gains from smarter use of geospatial data, technologies and analytics
  • Grow geospatial capacity, by providing access to a range of types and levels of geospatial capability
  • Realise the opportunities for geospatial innovation and R&D offered by the scale and nature of the New سԹjurisdiction
  • Provide ongoing global leadership in the rapidly growing field of indigenous GIS.

Our Mission

Our mission is to be a national centre of gravity for geospatial research to deliver transdisciplinary solutions that enables the benefits of spatial information technology to be fully realised.

Our Projects

We conduct leading transdisciplinary geospatial research towards a just and sustainable society for our whānau and communities. Our research is culturally appropriate, ethical, engaged and partnership-based.

Our GeoHealth Laboratory

It undertakes applied research in health geography, spatial epidemiology and GIS. Research addresses the local and national contexts which shape health outcomes and health inequalities.

Our Expertise

Geospatial Analysis

It uses geographic data to make complex spatial relationships understandable, either by maps, graphs or statistics.

Digital Twins

Developing automated methodologies to assimilate geospatial data and provide the analytics needed by stakeholders for improved decision-making.

Geographic Information Science

It uses software such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to collect, manage, analyse and display geographic information.

Geospatial AI

We assimilate large amounts of geospatial data to conduct predictive analytics using machine learning in a range of domains.

Remote sensing

It provides a rich source of information for our environmental and urban analytics.

Geospatial Software Development

Building new tools to help view and understand the complexities of multiple sets of Geographic Information.

Who We Are

Learn more about GRI

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