A literature of place,
maps and spatial knowledge.

A case for simple maps

G. D. Aitken (1972).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 2(1) · pp. 8-9 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Identifier: Journal citation

Early specialist-journal discussion of simplifying maps and practical cartographic communication.

New Zealand Map Grid

I. F. Stirling (1973).

Department of Lands and Survey Technical Circular 1973/32 · 1973/32 · 7 pp · Department of Lands and Survey · Wellington, New Zealand

23 November 1973

Identifier: Technical Circular 1973/32

Primary technical object documenting implementation of the New Zealand Map Grid in national surveying and topographic mapping.

A conformal mapping projection with minimum scale error

W. I. Reilly (1973).

Survey Review · 22(168) · pp. 57-71 · Survey Review / Taylor & Francis

April 1973

Foundational scholarly paper behind the minimum-distortion projection adopted for the New Zealand Map Grid, linking mathematical cartography directly to national topographic mapping.

The new map projection

I. F. Stirling (1974).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 4(1) · pp. 3-9 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Period professional explanation of the new national map projection following the 1973 technical definition, showing NZMG entering the cartographic community's working literature.

A conformal mapping projection with minimum scale error—Part 2: Scale and convergence in projection coordinates

W. I. Reilly; H. M. Bibby (1975).

Survey Review · 23(176) · pp. 79-87 · Survey Review / Taylor & Francis

Second paper in the mathematical publication sequence underpinning operational use of New Zealand's purpose-designed national map projection.

Automated Production 1:50 000 Topo Maps

T. H. Kihl (1976).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 7(1) · pp. 21-24 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Very early specialist evidence that automation of 1:50,000 topographic-map production was already an explicit New Zealand cartographic subject in 1976.

A conformal mapping projection with minimum scale error—Part 3: Transformation of coordinates, and examples of use

W. I. Reilly; H. M. Bibby (1976).

Survey Review · 23(181) · pp. 302-315 · Survey Review / Taylor & Francis

Third paper in the NZMG scholarly sequence, documenting coordinate transformation and practical examples of use.

A Bibliography of Material Relating to the Surveying and Mapping of New Zealand

Phillip Lionel Barton (1977).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 7(1); 7(2) · pp. 28-33; 19-23 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Identifier: Serialised journal bibliography

Contemporary attempt to consolidate the documentary record of New Zealand surveying and mapping.

Maori Geographical Knowledge and Maps of New Zealand

Phillip Lionel Barton (1978).

Papers from the 45th Conference, New Zealand Library Association · pp. 181-189 · New Zealand Library Association · 45th New Zealand Library Association Conference · Hamilton, New Zealand

6-10 February 1978

Original conference form of Barton's foundational study, later revised and expanded in the 1980 Turnbull Library Record article.

New Zealand Metric Topographical Maps; 1:50 000 & 1:250 000

Phillip Lionel Barton (1978).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 8(1) · pp. 25-27 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

June 1978

Identifier: Journal citation

Period account of New Zealand's metric national topographic map series during a major production transition.

A Computer System for a Cadastral Mapping Application

M. S. Colley (1979).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury · MSc · Christchurch, New Zealand

Early contemporary technical account of a New Zealand computerised cadastral mapping system and land-information concept.

A National Union Catalogue of Maps (New Zealand): NUCM(NZ)

Phillip Lionel Barton (1980).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 10 · pp. 21-25 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand Mapkeepers' Circle seminar precursor · Auckland, New Zealand

September 1980

Important pre-digital-data-infrastructure attempt to make distributed New Zealand map holdings discoverable as a national information system.

Māori geographical knowledge and mapping: a synopsis

Phillip Lionel Barton (1980).

Turnbull Library Record · 13 · pp. 5-25 · Alexander Turnbull Library · Wellington, New Zealand

1 May 1980

Foundational scholarly survey of Māori geographic knowledge and map drawing, including Tuki, Reko and other pre- and early-contact mapping evidence.

The history of the mapping of New Zealand

Phillip Lionel Barton (1980).

The Map Collector · 11 · pp. 28-35 · Map Collector Publications

June 1980

Early synthetic scholarly account of New Zealand mapping history, useful as a historiographical benchmark as well as a factual source.

Orthophoto mapping in N.Z.

R. C. Barrett (1980).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 9(2) · pp. 15-26 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Identifier: Journal citation

Direct specialist evidence that orthophoto production was an established New Zealand mapping subject by 1980.

Computerised map plotting at New Zealand Geological Survey

Author unresolved in recovered bibliographic trace (1981).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 11(1) · pp. 29-30 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Direct specialist-journal evidence of computerised geological map production at the beginning of the 1980s.

A microcomputer colour-graphics system for soil map retrieval and display

D. J. Giltrap (1981).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 11(1) · pp. 30-32 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Direct evidence that Soil Bureau research was using microcomputer colour graphics for spatial map retrieval and display in 1981, well before mainstream desktop GIS.

Computer-assisted contour mapping

W. I. Reilly (1981).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 11(1) · pp. 5-6 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Period evidence that computer-assisted terrain representation and contour production were active New Zealand cartographic research topics by 1981.

The Map Market in New Zealand

G. D. Aitken; S. H. Baldwin; P. R. Fraser; J. M. Hawthorn (1985).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 15(2) · pp. 2-10 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Useful pre-GIS-boom evidence about the New Zealand map market and user demand immediately before digital mapping and GIS reorganised map production and access.

A Population Cartogram of New Zealand

J. I. Kelly; R. J. W. Neville (1985).

New Zealand Journal of Geography · 79 · pp. 7-11 · New Zealand Geographical Society / Wiley · New Zealand

October 1985

Peer-reviewed precursor to Kelly's 1987 cartogram-construction paper, showing quantitative transformed mapping of New Zealand census geography before mainstream desktop GIS.

Introduction to LADEDA — a Geographic Information System

P. R. van Berkel; R. D. Williams (1985).

New Zealand Geographer · 41(2) · pp. 84-90 · New Zealand Geographical Society / Wiley

One of the clearest contemporary publications explicitly naming an operational New Zealand geographic information system before the commercial GIS boom.

Computerised production of soil maps at New Zealand Soil Bureau

D. J. Giltrap (1986).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 16(2) · pp. 13-17 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: NZSB-Pub--1156

Direct period evidence of computerised thematic-map production within a national scientific mapping agency before the main 1990s GIS adoption wave.

Use of a microcomputer in soil and land evaluation at local level

D. J. Giltrap (1986).

Transactions of the XIII Congress of the International Society of Soil Science · 4 · pp. 1627 · International Society of Soil Science · XIII Congress of the International Society of Soil Science · Hamburg, Germany

13-20 August 1986

Evidence that lower-cost microcomputers were entering New Zealand soil/land evaluation work in parallel with larger institutional GIS.

Computer aided mapping: a nationwide solution

D. J. Pimblott (1986).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 16(2) · pp. 18-20 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Period specialist evidence that computer-aided mapping was being discussed as a nationwide New Zealand solution by 1986, before the late-1980s GIS professional-convergence events.

Marine gravity and magnetic mapping

K. F. Fenaughty (1986).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 16(2) · pp. 6-7 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Identifier: ISSN 0110-6007

Shows computer-era specialist cartography extending into marine geophysical data representation.

Computer assisted production of geophysical maps

B. Clements (1987).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 17(1) · pp. 11-12 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation; page range unresolved

Adds geophysics to the documented 1980s spread of computer-assisted mapping across New Zealand scientific mapping disciplines.

Constructing an area-value cartogram for New Zealand's population

Jan Kelly (1987).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 17(1) · pp. 3-10 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Strong pre-GIS-boom example of New Zealand quantitative thematic cartography and transformed statistical mapping.

Geographic information systems

D. J. Giltrap (1988).

Proceedings, International Interactive Workshop on Soil Resources: Their Inventory, Analysis and Interpretations for Use in the 1990s · pp. 131-147 · University of Minnesota / workshop proceedings · International Interactive Workshop on Soil Resources · St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Places GIS explicitly inside Soil Bureau's late-1980s scientific information practice.

Cartography past, present and future

D. R. F. Taylor (1988).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 18(2) · pp. 9-20 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Late-1980s specialist-journal discussion of cartography’s technological transition, useful context for convergence with GIS.

Aspects of Copyright and Intellectual Property in GIS

Clive Elliott (1989).

Getting it all together with GIS: First National Multi-Disciplinary GIS Conference proceedings · pp. 106 · ERA Group, Wellington · First National Multi-Disciplinary GIS Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

26 June 1989

Demonstrates that by 1989 New Zealand GIS discourse already included ownership, copying and commercial/legal treatment of spatial information.

Terrain modelling and GIS

David Hawke (1989).

Proceedings of the Inaugural Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 90-95 · University of Otago · Inaugural SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

30 November-1 December 1989

Early New Zealand academic GIS paper on terrain modelling, documented through later thesis references.

The 1/250000 digital topographic data base of New Zealand: an outline

G. V. O'Malley; G. M. Howard (1989).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 19(2) · pp. 1-5 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Journal citation

Direct period evidence that a national-scale digital topographic database was an explicit New Zealand cartographic subject by 1989.

The cartographic collection: Alexander Turnbull Library

Kevin Moffat (1989).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 19(1) · pp. 3-5 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

May 1989

Identifier: Index New Zealand record

Period account of a national specialist map collection at the point when digital spatial information was entering professional cartography.

Integration of expert systems and GIS for land classification and assessment

P. G. Luckman; R. G. Gibb; M. R. Jessen (1989).

Getting it all together with GIS: First National Multi-Disciplinary GIS Conference proceedings · pp. 86-93 · ERA Group, Wellington · First National Multi-Disciplinary GIS Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

26-28 June 1989

Early New Zealand research combining artificial intelligence/expert systems with GIS for land classification.

Integration of remote sensing and a geographic information system for natural resource management

P. R. Stephens; R. G. Gibb; J. R. Dymond (1989).

Getting it all together with GIS: First National Multi-Disciplinary GIS Conference proceedings · pp. 74-77 · ERA Group, Wellington · First National Multi-Disciplinary GIS Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

26-28 June 1989

One of the clearest 1989 conference papers showing technical convergence between remote sensing and GIS in New Zealand resource science.

Introducing GIS Into Organisations

William Mackaness (1989).

Proceedings of the Inaugural Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 106-120 · University of Otago · Inaugural SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

30 November 1989

Identifier: ISBN 0-9597914-0-X

Important inaugural-SIRC contribution that became part of the conceptual vocabulary used in later New Zealand GIS maturity research.

The Alexander Turnbull Library map collection

Kate Olsen (1990).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 4 · pp. 29 · New Zealand Map Society

September 1990

Identifier: Journal citation

Adds the Map Society’s parallel record of specialist map-library practice at the start of the GIS era.

‘Have you got a map of ...?’: the selection policy of the cartographic collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Kevin Moffat (1990).

New Zealand Cartographic Journal · 20(1) · pp. 7-11 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Identifier: ISSN 0110-6007

Documents how the national cartographic collection defined scope and selection during the transition toward digital spatial information.

Geographical information systems (GIS) and the Department of Conservation

M. McEwen (1990).

Science & Research Internal Report · 80 · pp. 27 p. · Department of Conservation

Direct 1990 evidence that DOC was formally evaluating GIS requirements, applications and implementation issues during the early national adoption period.

Use of Expert Systems and GIS in Land Evaluation

P. G. Luckman; M. R. Jessen; R. G. Gibb (1990).

New Zealand Geographer · 46(1) · pp. 15-20 · New Zealand Geographical Society / Wiley

Peer-reviewed follow-on from the 1989 conference research and an unusually early New Zealand GIS/AI integration paper.

Information retrieval using a natural language interface to a GIS database

P. J. Sallis (1990).

Proceedings of the Second Annual Spatial Information Processing Colloquium · pp. 100-111 · University of Otago, SIRC · 2nd Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

November 1990

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Very early New Zealand research on natural-language access to a GIS database, predating later conversational spatial interfaces by decades.

Construction of interfaces for the exchange of geographic data

Richard T. Pascoe; John P. Penny (1990).

International Journal of Geographical Information Systems · 4(2) · pp. 147-156 · Taylor & Francis

International publication from the Otago group on practical exchange interfaces, documenting advanced NZ GIScience at the start of the 1990s.

Interchange of data between geographic information systems

Richard T. Pascoe; John P. Penny (1990).

New Zealand Geographer · 46(1) · pp. 26-28 · New Zealand Geographical Society

April 1990

Very early New Zealand article addressing GIS data interchange as a central technical problem.

Sharing geographical data

Richard T. Pascoe; Neville Churcher (1990).

Proceedings of the Second Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 274-287 · University of Otago, SIRC · 2nd Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

28-30 November 1990

Early New Zealand GIScience paper on sharing data between GIS, preceding later standards and interoperability work.

LIS/GIS/LINZ The View From A Different Perspective

Brian McLay (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 14-32 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Early AURISA evidence of the conceptual and institutional debate around LIS, GIS and land information in New Zealand.

The National Surveying and Mapping Agency in a GIS World: A Normative Review of Its Institutional Issues

Chris Hoogsteden; Derry Gordon (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 379-392 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Important early analysis of how GIS challenged the role and organisation of New Zealand's national surveying and mapping agency.

The Development And Future Directions For The Christchurch City Geographical Information System

David C. Dobbie; Robert W. White (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 546-557 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Direct early-1990s account of the development and planned direction of Christchurch City Council's GIS.

The Influence Of Data Complexity On GIS Performance

David V. Hawke (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 57-65 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Early New Zealand conference research treating GIS computational performance and data complexity as explicit technical problems.

New Zealand's Topographic Database - Where To Next?

Geoff M. Howard; Geoff V. O'Malley; Robin Pickering (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 407-418 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Direct follow-on evidence for the national digital topographic database after its late-1980s establishment.

Managing Information - Land And Forest Resources

Geoffery R. Fenn; M. L. Higgs (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 506-518 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

AURISA evidence for information-system approaches to land and forest-resource management in the early GIS adoption period.

Spatially related knowledge: the multimedia experience

P. J. Sallis (1991).

Proceedings of the Third Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre: GIS: Realising the Potential · pp. 107-118 · University of Otago, SIRC · 3rd Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

27-28 May 1991

Identifier: ISBN 0-9597914-3-4

Shows SIRC research moving beyond conventional map/database output toward multimedia spatial information by 1991.

Modelling the sharing of geographic data

Richard T. Pascoe; Neville Churcher (1991).

New Zealand Journal of Computing · 2(1) · pp. 45-53 · New Zealand Computer Society

Journal development of the SIRC data-sharing research, showing GIS as a computer-science interoperability problem by 1991.

The Resource Management Process in New Zealand And Its Implication for Land Information Systems

Stephen D. Walsh; Russel M. McQuoid (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 34-44 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Contemporary evidence linking the emerging Resource Management Act environment with requirements for land-information systems.

Local Government Information Systems In New Zealand - Directions Please!

Steve Critchlow (1991).

AURISA '91 Proceedings · 1 · pp. 558-566 · Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association · 19th AURISA Annual Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

19-22 November 1991

Contemporary national discussion of local-government information-system direction during the GIS adoption boom.

Urupare Torohiko: Planning for the Equitable Use of Spatial Information in the Resolution of Treaty Claims

Vaughan R. J. Payne (1991).

University of Otago thesis · University of Otago, School of Geography · MA · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10523/11440

Very early scholarly examination of spatial information in Treaty-claims resolution, predating the better-known mid-1990s Māori GIS literature.

gistt: a geographic information systems teaching tool

David V. Hawke (1992).

International Journal of Geographical Information Systems · 6(4) · pp. 291-298 · Taylor & Francis

Near-primary evidence that University of Auckland senior undergraduate GIS teaching was established from 1985.

Geographic information systems: Some problems of interest to computer scientists

G. C. Ewing; Richard T. Pascoe; D. G. Ashby; John P. Penny (1992).

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 227-233 · University of Otago, SIRC · 4th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

18-20 May 1992

Shows the breadth of GIS problems being framed explicitly as computer-science research in the early SIRC community.

A Survey of GIS Usage Amongst Local Authorities in New Zealand and Victoria, Australia

M. R. Anderson; George L. Benwell (1992).

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 11-24 · University of Otago, SIRC · 4th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

18-20 May 1992

Early comparative survey of local-government GIS use and a key predecessor to the 1995-96 maturity studies.

Mature GIS — or Taking the G out of GIS

P. R. Zwart (1992).

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 1-9 · University of Otago, SIRC · 4th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

18-20 May 1992

Early New Zealand professional argument that mature GIS becomes embedded in organisational information practice rather than remaining a standalone specialist system.

Dunedin Pilot Hazards Information System — A System Analysis and Proposal

C. H. Aldridge; G. L. Benwell; I. Turnbull; P. Glassey; J. Henderson; M. Harris; Ah-Lek Tay (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 247-264 · University of Otago · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Important early New Zealand hazards-information-system design linking GIS, RMA/Building Act information needs and local authority practice.

The use of a geographic information system (GIS) for farm soil conservation planning

C. N. S. Priyono (1993).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · Master's · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/6066

Strong evidence for practical PC-based ARC/INFO analysis in New Zealand farm soil-conservation research by 1993.

Using the WORLD projection and mapping program with CorelDRAW

Geoff V. O’Malley; Tony Fraser (1993).

New Zealand Cartography and Geographic Information Systems · 23(2) · pp. 16-21 · New Zealand Cartographic Society

Identifier: Journal citation

Direct 1993 evidence of specialist mapping software being combined with general desktop graphics software in New Zealand cartographic practice.

On the Spatial Analysis of Hieracium and Towards a Fuzzy Representation

George L. Benwell (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 279-288 · University of Otago · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Evidence of early New Zealand GIScience work moving beyond map production into uncertainty and fuzzy spatial representation.

Cartography, map-making and GIS

Jan Kelly (1993).

New Zealand Cartography and Geographic Information Systems · 23(2) · pp. 1-8 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · New Zealand

Contemporary warning that computer mapping widened map production faster than it widened cartographic expertise.

GIS Education in New Zealand

John P. Wilson; Pip Forer (1993).

GIS education literature · University affiliations in New Zealand

Near-period survey of GIS teaching, including Canterbury graduate GIS from 1987 and ARC/INFO/ERDAS workstation acquisition in 1989.

A Survey of GIS Usage amongst Local Authorities in Western Australia

M. R. Anderson; George L. Benwell (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 213-218 · University of Otago, SIRC · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Companion Australasian evidence to the New Zealand local-government GIS adoption surveys.

Life at Taiaroa Head (Pukekura)

Martin Purvis; Chris Gaskin; Ian Smith; Bruce McLennan (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 265-278 · University of Otago · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Early ecological spatial decision-support work that led into later GPS-based wildlife GIS research.

Dynamic Modelling of the Resource Management Act

Martin Purvis; Marie Purvis (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 225-240 · University of Otago, SIRC · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Early SIRC research linking spatial/dynamic modelling to the new Resource Management Act environment.

Using Hybrid Connectionist Systems for Spatial Information Processing

N. Kasabov; V. Trifonov (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 85-96 · University of Otago, SIRC · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Early New Zealand conference evidence for neural and connectionist methods in spatial-information processing.

Semantic Data Modelling Abstractions and the Modelling of Spatial Relationships

Peter G. Firns (1993).

Fifth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 73-84 · University of Otago · 5th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Part of the strong Otago spatial-database and information-systems research cluster of the early 1990s.

The New Zealand Archaeological Association Site Recording Scheme

A. Walton (1994).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 8 · pp. 9-16 · New Zealand Map Society

Documents a national mapped archaeological site-recording framework before widespread web heritage GIS.

Data Acquisition by GPS for a Wildlife Management Decision Support System

Bruce R. McLennan; Albert K. Chong; Martin K. Purvis (1994).

Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · University of Otago · 6th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

17-19 May 1994

Early documented integration of GPS data capture with a New Zealand wildlife-management spatial decision-support system.

Internationalizing SDTS: An Australasian Experience

Don Miller; Richard Hume (1994).

Cartography and Geographic Information Systems · 21(3) · pp. 176-179 · ACSM / Taylor & Francis archive

Direct evidence of New Zealand participating in formal internationalisation of geographic-data transfer standards in the early 1990s.

Conceptual data modelling for geographical information systems

Erzsebet Bekesi (1994).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · MA (Information Systems) · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Contemporary evidence that GIS database design and organisational data requirements were established New Zealand research problems by 1994.

Use of digital terrain models for land resource assessment

Garth R. Harmsworth; J. R. Dymond (1994).

Proceedings of the 4th National Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Workshop · pp. 9-14 · Landcare Research · 4th National Remote Sensing and GIS Workshop · Aokautere, New Zealand

7-8 April 1994

Documents a distinct national remote-sensing/GIS professional research stream outside SIRC.

Towards automated land resource mapping using digital terrain models

J. R. Dymond; Garth R. Harmsworth (1994).

ITC Journal · 1994(2) · pp. 129-138

Important bridge from manual land-resource mapping to semi-automated DTM-based mapping methods.

The Use of GIS in New Zealand Local Authorities — A Survey Comparing the Situation in July 1993 with February 1992

K. G. Fraser; E. Todd (1994).

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 147-159 · University of Otago · 6th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

17-19 May 1994

Key near-contemporary measure of the rapid early-1990s expansion of council GIS.

Dunedin Pilot Hazards Information System — Trial by GIS

P. Glassey; P. Forsyth; I. Turnbull; C. Aldridge; R. Clements; George L. Benwell (1994).

Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 105-116 · University of Otago · 6th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

17-19 May 1994

Operational follow-on to the 1993 hazards-information-system proposal, showing GIS implementation around statutory hazard-information duties.

New Zealand Geographic Board

Penelope Lawrence (1994).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 8 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: Issue contents record

Documents the institutional context for official geographic names alongside emerging digital name databases.

Database of New Zealand geographic names

Steve Brettell (1994).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 8 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: Issue contents record

Direct 1994 specialist evidence for a database of New Zealand geographic names.

Suggestions for a New Zealand place names database

Trevor M. Cobeldick (1994).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 8 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: Issue contents record

Evidence that a national place-name database was an explicit cartographic information-system problem by 1994.

Local government GIS in New Zealand since 1989

Andrew J. Marr; George L. Benwell (1995).

Information Science Discussion Paper 95/13 · pp. Full paper · University of Otago, Spatial Information Research Centre · Dunedin, New Zealand

September 1995

Identifier: hdl:10523/854

Core contemporary evidence for the 1993-95 council adoption surge and organisational GIS maturity.

Using ArcInfo To Value Infrastructural Assets In New Zealand

Charles A. Hansen (1995).

Esri International User Conference Proceedings · Esri · Esri International User Conference · United States

Early vendor-conference evidence of ArcInfo/ArcView being used for infrastructure valuation and accounting requirements in New Zealand local government.

Raupatu: the Waikato confiscated lands

Evelyn Stokes (1995).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 9 · pp. 27-40 · New Zealand Map Society

Historically significant cartographic treatment of Waikato confiscated lands by a major NZ historical geographer.

NLP and GIS Techniques for a Railway Safety Audit Reporting System

F. Barrow; P. J. Sallis (1995).

Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 229-236 · SIRC / AURISA · 7th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Palmerston North, New Zealand

26-28 April 1995

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Applied continuation of SIRC’s early natural-language/GIS research in a railway-safety reporting problem.

Geographic Information Systems and other databases: Planning tools for iwi and hapu

Garth R. Harmsworth; D. Taumata (1995).

Proceedings of the Inaugural NAMMSAT Conference · Shortened 3-page proceedings version; full paper 20 pp · National Association of Māori Mathematicians, Scientists and Technologists · Inaugural NAMMSAT Conference · Auckland, New Zealand

5-8 July 1995

One of the earliest securely documented Māori-focused GIS conference papers in New Zealand, showing substantive iwi/hapū planning use by 1995.

Tuki's map of New Zealand

Jan Kelly (1995).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 9 · pp. 11-18 · New Zealand Map Society · New Zealand

Identifier: Index New Zealand record

Important later scholarly interpretation of Tuki's map, explicitly considering cultural, spiritual, historical and strategic dimensions rather than judging it only by European geographic accuracy.

An investigation of the application of remote sensing and geographic information systems for resource management in Westland, New Zealand

Leonard John Brown (1995).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · PhD in Soil Science · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Substantial doctoral study showing GIS and remote sensing applied to indigenous-forest and alluvial-gold-mining resource questions.

GIS in environmental management

Samuel Mann; George L. Benwell (1995).

AURISA / 7th Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 295-310 · SIRC / AURISA · 7th SIRC Colloquium · Palmerston North, New Zealand

26-28 April 1995

Documents tensions between GIS availability and actual use in environmental management, feeding directly into later geocomputation research.

The use of a geographic information system to investigate soil slip distribution and the land use capability classification in the East Coast region, New Zealand

Sheryl Denise Hendriksen (1995).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · Master's · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/6303

Contemporary applied GIS research on erosion and land-use capability in a major land-management region.

Land use changes on the Hautere Plains: a study using digital image analysis and geographic information systems

Sumbangan Baja (1995).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · Master's · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Strong mid-1990s example of combined digital image analysis and GIS for longitudinal land-cover change.

Geographic Information Systems Maturity in New Zealand Local Government

Andrew J. Marr (1996).

University of Otago thesis · 126 pp · University of Otago · MSc · Dunedin, New Zealand

Underlying thesis for the best-known mid-1990s national local-government GIS maturity analysis; respondent-level detail remains valuable.

GIS Maturity and Integration

Andrew J. Marr; George L. Benwell (1996).

GeoComputation '96 Special Issue 96/25 · pp. Full paper · University of Otago, Department of Information Science · GeoComputation '96 · Leeds presentation; Otago special issue publication

December 1996

Identifier: hdl:10523/944

Key synthesis showing GIS becoming an organisation-wide production and information-management tool rather than a specialist island.

Maturing GIS in New Zealand Local Government

Andrew J. Marr; George L. Benwell (1996).

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 60-66 (reported in later bibliographies; verify against proceedings) · University of Otago, SIRC · 8th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

9-11 July 1996

Conference-stage presentation of the maturity model that underpinned later GIS integration analysis.

The Evolution of the Use of GIS in New Zealand Local Government

Andrew J. Marr; George L. Benwell (1996).

New Zealand Surveyor · 286 · pp. 30-35 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · New Zealand

April 1996

Near-contemporary account of the speed and organisational character of council GIS diffusion in the early 1990s.

Geographic Information Systems and Māori land values

Garth R. Harmsworth (1996).

Proceedings of the 5th National Workshop for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Natural Resource Management · pp. 15-16 · National Remote Sensing and GIS Workshop / Massey University · 5th National Workshop for Remote Sensing and GIS for Natural Resource Management · Palmerston North, New Zealand

18-19 April 1996

Direct 1996 technical-conference evidence that Māori land values, cultural information and GIS representation were being addressed within the national remote-sensing/GIS research community.

Environmental decisions with spatial process modelling

Samuel Mann (1996).

GeoComputation '96 Special Issue 96/25 · pp. Full paper · University of Otago, Department of Information Science · GeoComputation '96 · Leeds presentation; Otago special issue publication

December 1996

Identifier: hdl:10523/1057

Important New Zealand GIScience work on integrating GIS with dynamic/process models for regional environmental decisions.

Spatial Process Modelling for Regional Environmental Decision Making

Samuel Mann (1996).

Proceedings of the 8th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · University of Otago, SIRC · 8th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

9-11 July 1996

Immediate conference predecessor to Mann's later GeoComputation paper and thesis on integrating GIS with process models.

Effort Estimation for the Development of Spatial Information Systems

Stephen G. MacDonell; George L. Benwell (1996).

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC'96) · pp. 149-155 · University of Otago · 8th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

Shows GIS research intersecting with software-engineering methods and using a New Zealand hazards information system as an applied case.

Data Visualisation for New Zealand Forestry

Alan J. Thorn; Terry C. Daniel; Brian Orland (1997).

Proceedings of GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · pp. 15-24 in retrieved proceedings section · University of Otago / New Zealand Forest Research Institute · GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · Dunedin, New Zealand

26-29 August 1997

Rich mid-1990s example of GIS feeding data-driven 3D/photorealistic forest-management visualisation for public assessment under the RMA.

Interoperable GIS and Spatial Process Modelling

Andrew J. Marr; Richard T. Pascoe; George L. Benwell (1997).

Proceedings of GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · pp. 15-21 (conference pagination reported in project sources) · University of Otago · GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · Dunedin, New Zealand

26-29 August 1997

Early New Zealand GIScience work anticipating service-oriented and interoperable spatial analysis rather than file-bound desktop GIS.

Māori values and GIS: The New Zealand experience

Garth R. Harmsworth (1997).

GIS Asia Pacific · pp. 40-43

April 1997

Foundational publication articulating both opportunities and risks of representing Māori values in GIS, including control of sensitive information.

An Evaluation of Digital Elevation Models for Upgrading New Zealand Land Resource Inventory Slope Data

James R. F. Barringer; Linda Lilburne (1997).

Proceedings of GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · pp. Conference paper; starts p.15 in retrieved proceedings segment · University of Otago / Landcare Research · GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · Dunedin, New Zealand

26-29 August 1997

Direct evidence of NZLRI being reworked from paper-map-derived categorical slope data toward raster terrain analysis supported by GPS validation.

The GIS revolution, are we ready for Geocomputation?

Samuel Mann (1997).

Proceedings of GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · University of Otago · GeoComputation '97 & SIRC '97 · Dunedin, New Zealand

26-29 August 1997

Shows New Zealand researchers engaging with the late-1990s shift from GIS as database/map system toward computational spatial modelling.

Geometrically rectified images for resource mapping and precision farming

Albert K. Chong; Chris F. Pearson (1998).

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 63-68 · University of Otago · 10th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

16-19 November 1998

Early NZ scholarly link between geometrically controlled digital imagery, resource mapping and precision agriculture.

A new geocentric datum for New Zealand (NZGD2000)

Don Grant; Graeme Blick (1998).

New Zealand Surveyor · 288 · pp. 40-42 (per later technical references) · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · New Zealand

Contemporary explanation of the shift from NZGD49 to a geocentric datum capable of supporting GPS and modern spatial data.

Indigenous values and GIS: A method and framework

Garth R. Harmsworth (1998).

Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor · 6(3) · pp. 3-7 · Nuffic / Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor

December 1998

Seminal New Zealand publication articulating both the value and risks of GIS for Indigenous knowledge, including protection of sensitive information and community control.

Possibility of a Dynamic Cadastre for a Dynamic Nation

Graeme Blick; Don Grant (1998).

Advances in Positioning and Reference Frames, IAG Symposia · pp. 107-113 · Springer · IAG Scientific Assembly · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paper presented 1997; published 1998

Early explicit argument that New Zealand's tectonic deformation required a dynamic relationship between geodetic coordinates and cadastral information.

Restructuring the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory to meet the Changing Needs for Spatial Information in Environmental Research and Management

James Barringer; Hugh Wilde; Janice Willoughby; Stephen Burgham; Allan Hewitt; Robert Gibb; Peter Newsome; Wim Rijkse (1998).

Proceedings of the 10th Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 25-33 · University of Otago · 10th SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

16-19 November 1998

Documents the transition from a classified national land inventory toward a broader LRIS architecture supporting mechanistic environmental modelling and multiple users.

Connectionist modelling of asthma incidence in New Zealand

Simon Hales; Qingqing Zhou; Simon Lewis; Martin K. Purvis (1998).

Proceedings of the 10th Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 111-117 · University of Otago, SIRC · 10th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

16-19 November 1998

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Evidence that neural-network methods were being applied to New Zealand spatial health questions by 1998.

Surface hydrologic modeling and GIS: a case study of the Kaimai Hydropower project catchment, New Zealand

Sohail Afzal Choudhry (1998).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · University of Waikato · PhD · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/15302

Substantial late-1990s NZ research integrating hydrological models with GIS, object-oriented programming and spatial time series.

Second Manapouri tailrace tunnel control survey

Alan Dymock; John Hannah; Chris Pearson (1999).

New Zealand Surveyor · 289 · pp. 13-18 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

Contemporary technical account of high-precision control surveying for a major New Zealand infrastructure project.

ORDBMS Goes Spatial: An Introduction

Cindy Munns (1999).

Esri International User Conference Proceedings · Esri / Informix · Esri International User Conference · United States

International conference paper containing unusually detailed contemporary technical evidence about LINZ's Core Records System, including spatial database architecture, conversion scale and Internet deployment.

Precision farming: adopt or perish?

I. Yule (1999).

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association · 61 · pp. 209-214 · New Zealand Grassland Association

A strong late-1990s New Zealand marker for GPS, GIS, yield mapping and variable-rate farming entering mainstream agricultural discussion.

Early surveying and surveyors in the Nelson region

J. B. Mackie (1999).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 12 · pp. 4-13 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: Journal citation

Substantive account of early surveying methods and professional practice in Nelson.

The development of a Java based GIS viewing tool

James Maguire (1999).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · Master of Technology in Information Engineering · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/12025

Rare primary software-development artefact from the transition to networked and casual-user GIS viewing.

The use of habitat analysis in the control of wildlife tuberculosis in New Zealand

Joanna McKenzie (1999).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · PhD · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/2480

Substantial late-1990s spatial decision-support research culminating in EpiMAN-TB for wildlife-related tuberculosis management.

Spatial Aspects of Vineyard Management and Wine Grape Production

L. Smith; Peter A. Whigham (1999).

SIRC '99: Our Safe Living Environment: The Changing Face of Spatial Systems · pp. 171-181 · University of Otago, SIRC · 11th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

13-15 December 1999

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-18-1

Late-1990s evidence of spatial information being applied to vineyard management and production.

Estimating Spatial Thematic Uncertainty in the NZLRI

Robert G. Gibb; Mark R. Johnston; Garth R. Harmsworth (1999).

SIRC '99: Our Safe Living Environment · pp. 301-304 · University of Otago · 11th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

13-15 December 1999

Identifier: ISBN 1877139181

Documents concern about thematic uncertainty as NZLRI moved into broader raster modelling by users distant from the original survey context.

Modelling potential distribution of disease vectors in New Zealand: Aedes camptorhynchus

Simon Hales; M. Hearnden (1999).

SIRC '99: Our Safe Living Environment: The Changing Face of Spatial Systems · pp. 43-50 · University of Otago, SIRC · 11th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

13-15 December 1999

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-18-1

Early national spatial modelling of an invasive mosquito and disease-vector risk.

Some Core Issues in Design for a General Purpose Three Dimensional Spatial Information System

Yuxiao Li; Peter A. Whigham; George L. Benwell; Nick Mulgan (1999).

SIRC '99: Our Safe Living Environment: The Changing Face of Spatial Systems · pp. 267-276 · University of Otago, SIRC · 11th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

13-15 December 1999

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-18-1

Direct evidence that general-purpose 3D spatial-information-system design was an active New Zealand GIScience topic by 1999.

Visualising Spatial Patterns in Fruit Quality and Productivity of Persimmon Orchards using Self Organising Maps

Alistair Mowat (2000).

SIRC 2000 - Sircumnavigation: The Evocation of Spatial Knowledge · University of Otago, SIRC · 12th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

10-13 December 2000

Early NZ use of self-organising maps to explore geographically structured horticultural production data.

The delivery of orthodontic care in New Zealand: use of spatial information systems in a national study

Andrew Marriott; Kit MacGillivray; George L. Benwell; Nancy J. Devlin; Winifred J. Harding (2000).

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 73-81 · University of Otago Press · 12th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

10-13 December 2000

Identifier: Proceedings citation

National use of spatial information systems to examine delivery of orthodontic care.

Identifying Cook’s discoveries in Hauraki Gulf - 1769

Brian Hooker (2000).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 13 · pp. 93-95 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: Journal citation

Map-society scholarship using cartographic evidence to identify Cook’s 1769 discoveries in Hauraki Gulf.

Classifying New Zealand's Landscapes Automatically with GIS

Lars Brabyn (2000).

Esri International User Conference Proceedings · Esri · Esri International User Conference · United States

Documents automated GIS-based landscape classification in New Zealand at the turn of the century.

Rural Unit Needs Assessment System (RUNAS)

P. J. Farry; George L. Benwell; K. MacGillivray; K. Elston; M. I. Williamson; M. Tilyard (2000).

SIRC 2000 - Sircumnavigation: The Evocation of Spatial Knowledge · pp. 219-228 · University of Otago, SIRC · 12th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

10-13 December 2000

Early NZ health-geoinformatics work using spatial methods to assess rural service needs.

Informal crash-reporting system

Sam Moyle; Reece Arnott; Julian Kardos; Richard Williams (2000).

SIRC 2000 - Sircumnavigation: The Evocation of Spatial Knowledge · University of Otago, SIRC · 12th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

10-13 December 2000

Early NZ research linking web reporting, crash location and anticipated handheld/GPS field capture.

Spatial patterns of mortality in relation to particulate air pollution in Christchurch, 1988-1997

Simon Hales; Clare Salmond; Daniel Exeter; Martin Purvis; Alistair Woodward; Tord Kjellstrom (2000).

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 37-43 · University of Otago Press · 12th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

10-13 December 2000

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Early New Zealand spatial epidemiology linking mortality patterns with particulate air pollution.

An Overview of Web Based Geographic Information Systems

A. Shaig (2001).

SIRC 2001 proceedings · University of Otago / SIRC · SIRC 2001 · Dunedin, New Zealand

2-5 December 2001

Contemporary evidence that web GIS had become a formal research and technical subject in New Zealand by 2001.

Land Information New Zealand’s maps and land records: the current situation

Author not identified in recovered bibliographic index (2001).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 14 · pp. 33-35 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: ISSN 0113-2458

Near-contemporary account of LINZ map and land-record arrangements during the Landonline-era transition.

Land Environments of New Zealand: A Quantitative Geographic Framework for Biodiversity and Resource Management

Gareth Wilson; John Leathwick; Daniel T. Rutledge; Fraser Morgan; Kirsty Johnston (2001).

SIRC 2001 - 13th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · University of Otago, SIRC · 13th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

2-5 December 2001

Conference-stage documentation of LENZ, a major quantitative national environmental classification built from multiple geographic layers.

The Effective Use of GIS for the Monitoring of Citizen Complaints to New Zealand Local Authorities

Gerard A. Quinn (2001).

University of Otago thesis · University of Otago, School of Geography · Master of Regional and Resource Planning · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10523/11705

Shows GIS being studied as an everyday administrative and service-monitoring tool rather than only a specialist mapping system.

GEOCART’2001 - visualizing New Zealand in the new data environment: report

Jan Kelly (2001).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 14 · pp. 37-42 · New Zealand Map Society · GeoCart 2001 · Wairakei / Taupō, New Zealand

Identifier: ISSN 0113-2458

Contemporary report on the first GeoCart conference and the cartographic community’s response to the new spatial-data environment.

New Zealand’s Continental Shelf Project

Jerome Sheppard (2001).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 14 · pp. 7-17 · New Zealand Map Society

Identifier: ISSN 0113-2458

Specialist account of the spatial and cartographic work supporting New Zealand’s continental-shelf project.

Mapping health events: a comparison of approaches

Lars Brabyn; Duane Wilkins (2001).

Health Informatics Journal · 7(3-4) · pp. 207-213 · SAGE

Strong contemporary technical publication on automated communicable-disease mapping and representation in New Zealand public health.

Investigating the Potential of Geographic Information Systems in Habitat Corridor Design

Mike Hankey (2001).

University of Otago dissertation · University of Otago, School of Geography · BSc (Hons) · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10523/11195

Early student research applying GIS explicitly to ecological connectivity and habitat-corridor design.

Urban Ecological Mapping

Oliver Buck; Claire Freeman; W. Daniel Kissling (2001).

Proceedings of SIRC 2001, 13th Annual Colloquium · University of Otago · SIRC 2001 · Dunedin, New Zealand

2-5 December 2001

Documents ArcView-based urban ecological mapping used to support development of a Dunedin open-space strategy.

Power/knowledge and space: the creation and alienation of the 'reserve' at Porirua

Robert McClean (2001).

New Zealand Map Society Journal · 14 · pp. 1-5 · New Zealand Map Society

Uses mapping and spatial history to analyse creation and alienation of reserve land at Porirua.

An Evaluation of non-parametric relative risk estimators for disease maps

A. B. Clark; A. Lawson (2002).

GeoHealth 2002: Supporting Decision Making in Health · SIRC / University of Otago · GeoHealth 2002 · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-58-0

Methodological disease-mapping contribution in the inaugural GeoHealth proceedings.

A requirements engineering framework for developing COTS GIS applications

Adrienne Kim Bonnington (2002).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · Master of Information Science (Information Systems) · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/11365

Contemporary study of how New Zealand GIS applications were being built around commercial packages rather than bespoke systems.

The circle tree – a hierarchical structure for efficient storage, access and multi-scale representation of spatial data

Antoni Moore (2002).

Proceedings of the Spatial Information Research Centre 14th Annual Colloquium: Physical and Cognitive Space · pp. 149-156 · University of Otago, SIRC · 14th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: Proceedings volume 175 pp

Part of the Otago lineage in efficient spatial-data representation and automated cartographic structures.

Disease surveillance in rural communities is compromised by address geocoding uncertainty: a case study of campylobacteriosis

Chris Skelly et al. (2002).

Health / spatial epidemiology literature · New Zealand research institutions

Identifier: PMID 12047502

Early peer-reviewed New Zealand demonstration that geocoding quality materially constrained rural disease surveillance.

Constructing a Survey Accurate Digital Cadastre

David Spaziani (2002).

FIG XXII International Congress Proceedings · pp. 11 p. · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG XXII International Congress · Washington, DC, USA

19-26 April 2002

Technical companion to the e-cadastre programme explaining construction of a survey-accurate digital cadastre.

Geographical Variation of Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Risk Factors: Application of Bayesian Modeling and GIS

Elena Moltchanova; Mika Rytkönen; Anne Kousa; Olli Taskinen (2002).

GeoHealth 2002: Supporting Decision Making in Health · pp. 25-33 · SIRC / University of Otago · GeoHealth 2002 · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-58-0

Shows the first GeoHealth meeting explicitly joining GIS and Bayesian disease mapping.

Management and visualization of spatiotemporal information in GIS

Francisco Javier Escobar Martínez; Simon McBride; Denis Ma (2002).

Proceedings of the Spatial Information Research Centre 14th Annual Colloquium: Physical and Cognitive Space · pp. 49-62 · University of Otago, SIRC · 14th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: Proceedings volume 175 pp

Paper-level evidence of spatiotemporal GIS becoming an explicit research topic at SIRC in 2002.

Implementing OGC Web Map Service Client Applications Using JSP, JSTL and XMLC

Hao Ding; Richard T. Pascoe; Neville Churcher (2002).

Proceedings of the Spatial Information Research Centre 14th Annual Colloquium: Physical and Cognitive Space · University of Otago, SIRC · 14th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: Proceedings volume 175 pp

Important evidence that OGC Web Map Service interoperability and web-client implementation were active New Zealand research topics by 2002.

Benefits of Stakeholder Involvement

Jeffrey Alan Needham (2002).

FIG XXII International Congress Proceedings · pp. 12 p. · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG XXII International Congress · Washington, DC, USA

19-26 April 2002

Captures the human and organisational side of New Zealand's cadastral automation, including stakeholder involvement and implementation change.

Topoclimates and topoclimate mapping: what do the scientific abstracts tell us about research perspectives?

K. Richards (2002).

Proceedings of the Spatial Information Research Centre 14th Annual Colloquium: Physical and Cognitive Space · University of Otago, SIRC · 14th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: Proceedings volume 175 pp

Relevant evidence for the continued specialist role of thematic environmental mapping within SIRC.

Modelling Population Access to New Zealand's General Practitioners

Lars Brabyn (2002).

Esri International User Conference Proceedings · Esri · Esri International User Conference · United States

Identifier: Esri paper PAP0145

Detailed national health-access GIS study with unusually explicit Arc/Info methods and census geography.

Modeling population access to New Zealand public hospitals

Lars Brabyn; Chris Skelly (2002).

International Journal of Health Geographics · BioMed Central

Influential early nationwide GIS model of population access to public hospitals using approximately 38,000 census-area centroids.

The scale matcher: A framework for assessing scale compatibility of environmental data and models

Linda Lilburne (2002).

University of Otago thesis · Full thesis · University of Otago · PhD · Dunedin, New Zealand

9 April 2002

Identifier: hdl:10523/1495

Significant NZ GIScience thesis addressing scale mismatch between spatial data, models and decision problems.

Spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in Cumbria, February to September 2001

M. A. Stevenson; J. W. Wilesmith; C. C. King; R. S. Morris (2002).

GeoHealth 2002: Supporting Decision Making in Health · pp. 167-176 · SIRC / University of Otago · GeoHealth 2002 · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-58-0

Connects New Zealand veterinary epidemiology researchers to advanced spatiotemporal outbreak analysis at the first GeoHealth meeting.

A development and application of GIS in Whanganui Catchment based river environment classification system

Qian Zhai (2002).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · Master in Resource and Environmental Planning · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/8392

Academic implementation work linked to the emerging national River Environment Classification methodology.

A GIS-based decision support tool for targeting biophysical and socio-economic niches in tropical agriculture

Rachel O’Brien; Robert Corner; Michael Peters; Simon Cook (2002).

Proceedings of the Spatial Information Research Centre 14th Annual Colloquium: Physical and Cognitive Space · pp. 111-120 · University of Otago, SIRC · 14th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Wellington, New Zealand

3-5 December 2002

Identifier: Proceedings volume 175 pp

Illustrates SIRC’s international reach and the maturation of GIS decision-support methods by 2002.

e-Cadastre - Automation of the New Zealand Survey System

Tony Bevin; Anselm Haanen; Neil Sutherland (2002).

FIG XXII International Congress Proceedings · pp. 13 p. · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG XXII International Congress · Washington, DC, USA

19-26 April 2002

A primary international account of automating New Zealand's cadastral survey system and the organisational changes surrounding Landonline.

Sport and time geography: A good match?

Antoni Moore; Peter A. Whigham; A. Holt; C. Aldridge; K. Hodge (2003).

SIRC 2003: Land, Place and Space · pp. 109-115 · University of Otago, SIRC · 15th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

1-2 December 2003

Identifier: Proceedings volume 157 pp

Precursor to later SIRC sports visualisation work and fine-grained movement-data analysis.

The storage and reconstruction of polygon boundaries using circles

Antoni Moore; Steve Mason; Peter A. Whigham; Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (2003).

SIRC 2003: Land, Place and Space · pp. 139-145 · University of Otago, SIRC · 15th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

1-2 December 2003

Identifier: Proceedings volume 157 pp

Continuation of Otago research on compact, multi-scale geometric representation.

Implementation and Development of NZGD2000

Graeme Blick (2003).

New Zealand Surveyor · 293 · pp. 15-19 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · New Zealand

Near-primary technical account of NZGD2000 implementation, GPS realisation and continuing datum development.

Preparations for a new gravimetric geoid model of New Zealand, and some preliminary results

Matt J. Amos; W. E. Featherstone (2003).

New Zealand Surveyor · 293 · pp. 3-14 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · New Zealand

June 2003

Documents the digital data and modelling infrastructure behind replacement of fragmented local height datums.

The development of predictive models to enhance biological assessment of riverine systems in New Zealand

Michael Kevin Joy (2003).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · PhD in Ecology · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Important early integration of GIS and neural-network predictive modelling for New Zealand freshwater biological assessment.

Towards a community GIS for the Bluff oyster fishery

Peter Knight; Antoni Moore (2003).

SIRC 2003: Land, Place and Space · University of Otago, SIRC · 15th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

1-2 December 2003

Identifier: Proceedings volume 157 pp

Earliest recovered conference-stage publication in the Bluff community-GIS research lineage.

The new Map Librarians: Local perspectives and local experiences on digital spatial data and map librarianship

Rose Holley (2003).

GeoCart 2003 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · Taupō, New Zealand

February 2003

Direct New Zealand evidence that libraries were having to transform from paper-map custodians into access points for GIS and digital spatial data by 2003.

A vector-agent paradigm for dynamic urban modelling

Yasser Hammam; Antoni Moore; Peter A. Whigham; Claire Freeman (2003).

SIRC 2003: Land, Place and Space · pp. 99-104 · University of Otago, SIRC · 15th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

1-2 December 2003

Identifier: hdl:10523/699

Documents movement beyond cellular GIS models toward vector-based agents for dynamic urban simulation.

GIS as a mine rehabilitation tool: Examples from Wangaloa Coal Mine

A. Todd; C. Rufaut; D. Craw; Peter A. Whigham (2004).

Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy New Zealand Branch 37th Annual Conference · pp. 93-101 · AusIMM · AusIMM NZ Branch 37th Annual Conference · New Zealand

Demonstrates GIS use in environmental rehabilitation planning and monitoring for a New Zealand mine site.

Digital near-infrared camera for 3D spatial data capture

Albert K. Chong (2004).

SIRC 2004: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · University of Otago, SIRC · 16th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 November 2004

Evidence of low-cost digital cameras being investigated for 3D spatial capture in NZ surveying research by 2004.

GIS as a mine rehabilitation tool: examples from Wangaloa Coal Mine

Andrea Todd; Cathy Rufaut; Dave Craw; Peter A. Whigham (2004).

SIRC 2004: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · University of Otago, SIRC · 16th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 November 2004

Identifier: hdl:10523/816

Applied GIS integrating interdisciplinary monitoring and differential-GPS sampling for mine-site rehabilitation.

Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Accomplishments and Horizons

C. M. Croner; T. L. Lenahan; M. J. Salling; G. D. Weiner (2004).

GeoHealth 2004: Surveillance and Intervention · pp. 22-31 · Public Health Intelligence / GeoHealth · 2nd GeoHealth Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

November 2004

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Keynote-level synthesis placing New Zealand’s GeoHealth community in the wider public-health GIS field.

An Online Collaboration Model for the Distance Education of Cartography

Kate Sherren; Manolya Kavakli (2004).

Proceedings of GeoCart 2003 National Cartographic Conference · pp. 123-132 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2003: Accessible New Zealand: Capitalising on Contemporary Technologies · Taupō, New Zealand

Presented 12-14 February 2003

Identifier: ISBN 0476007682

Shows GeoCart functioning as a research venue for adapting cartographic education to networked and online methods in the early 2000s.

Transmission of pathogens across a landscape

Peter A. Whigham (2004).

GeoHealth 2004: Surveillance and Intervention · pp. 53 · Public Health Intelligence / GeoHealth · 2nd GeoHealth Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

24-26 November 2004

Part of the second GeoHealth meeting, showing the dedicated NZ health-geoinformatics forum moving beyond mapping toward transmission modelling.

From BSE to bird flu: Application of spatial methods in surveillance and control of disease epidemics

R. S. Morris; M. A. Stevenson; D. J. Prattley; R. Jackson; H. J. Benard (2004).

GeoHealth 2004: Surveillance and Intervention · pp. 19 · Public Health Intelligence / GeoHealth · 2nd GeoHealth Conference · Wellington, New Zealand

November 2004

Identifier: Proceedings citation

GeoHealth keynote-stage evidence of spatial methods being integrated into animal-disease surveillance and epidemic control.

GIS in Years 7-13 Social Sciences Education: A New Zealand Perspective

Sally Brodie (2004).

Esri Education User Conference Proceedings · pp. 20 p. · Esri · Esri Education User Conference · United States

Identifier: Esri paper 5097

Provides rare quantitative and institutional evidence for school GIS uptake, including formal promotion from 1994 and adoption barriers in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Abstraction and Scale in Spatialization

Sara Irina Fabrikant (2004).

Proceedings, Second National Cartographic Conference (GeoCart 2003) · pp. 35-43 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2003 · Taupō, New Zealand

Presented 12-14 February 2003

Useful evidence of the advanced GIScience and geovisualisation themes being brought into the New Zealand cartographic community through GeoCart.

Digerud online GIS: developing an online community GIS resource in the Frogn municipal district of Norway

Tomas Fritsvold; Antoni Moore; Albert K. Chong; Stephan Milosavljevic (2004).

SIRC 2004: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · University of Otago, SIRC · 16th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 November 2004

Identifier: Proceedings volume 146 pp

Shows online community GIS as a specific SIRC research topic by 2004.

Model-based cartographic generalisation with uncertainty

Antoni Moore (2005).

SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · University of Otago, SIRC · 17th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

Identifier: hdl:10523/695

NZ cartographic research addressing intelligent automated generalisation and uncertainty using agent models.

Rule extraction from spatial data using local learning techniques

Brendon J. Woodford (2005).

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 125-130 · University of Otago · SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

Identifier: hdl:10523/731

Direct evidence that machine-learning and spatial data-mining methods were established subjects in New Zealand GIScience by 2005.

Report on the development and use of GIS for iwi and hapū: Motueka case study, Aotearoa-New Zealand

Garth Harmsworth; Mick Park; Dean Walker (2005).

Integrated Catchment Management / Landcare Research report · 33 pp · Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd · Motueka / Te Tau Ihu, New Zealand

Detailed primary research case of iwi/hapū-controlled GIS, including governance, data access, confidentiality and resource-management workflows.

Implementation of a Semi-Dynamic Datum for New Zealand

Graeme Blick; Chris Crook; Don Grant; John Beavan (2005).

A Window on the Future of Geodesy · pp. 38-43 · Springer · IAG General Assembly / geodesy proceedings · Sapporo, Japan

Conference work 2003; book publication 2005

Key scholarly account of the semi-dynamic model that reconciles moving ground with mapping users' expectation of stable coordinates.

The benefits and barriers to GIS for Māori

Huia A. Pacey (2005).

Lincoln University thesis · 182 pp · Lincoln University · Master of Indigenous Planning and Development · Lincoln, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10182/655

Foundational thesis documenting both benefits and concrete barriers to Māori GIS adoption, including costs, capability and control.

Landonline e-survey design, development and testing

Joanne Head (2005).

Survey Quarterly · 41 · pp. 26 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

Contemporary professional account of Landonline e-survey design, development and testing.

Progress towards implementation and development of a New Zealand national vertical datum

Matt J. Amos; W. E. Featherstone; Graeme H. Blick (2005).

A Window on the Future of Geodesy · pp. 338-343 · Springer · IAG General Assembly / geodesy proceedings · Sapporo, Japan

Conference work 2003; book publication 2005

Explains the programme to replace thirteen separate local vertical datums with a national system linked through geoid modelling.

The complexities of everyday life: balancing practical and realistic approaches to modelling probable presence in space-time

O. Huisman; P. Forer (2005).

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 155-168 · University of Otago · SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-90-4

Represents mature mid-2000s SIRC research on modelling human presence through space and time.

Keep your eye on the ball: Local versus global statistics in sport visualisation

Peter A. Whigham (2005).

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre · pp. 137-142 · University of Otago · SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

Identifier: ISBN 1-877139-90-4

Direct precursor to Whigham’s 2008 revisit of the rugby movement-data system.

Power and persuasion: GIS as a tool to combat inequality; injustice and environmental destruction in the Bluff oyster fishery

Peter Knight (2005).

SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · University of Otago, SIRC · 17th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

Identifier: hdl:10523/806

Early NZ public-participation GIS project using spatial science to represent community knowledge and contested fishery management.

Object-oriented classification and Ikonos multispectral imagery for mapping vegetation communities in urban areas

Renaud Mathieu; Jagannath Aryal (2005).

17th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre (SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop) · University of Otago · SIRC 2005 · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

Identifier: Record 9926478459301891

Good marker of mid-2000s shift toward high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and object-oriented classification.

Clustering of childhood asthma hospital admissions in New Zealand, 1999-2004

Simon Hales; Clive E. Sabel; Daniel J. Exeter; Julian Crane; Alistair Woodward (2005).

SIRC 2005: A Spatio-temporal Workshop · pp. 15-26 · University of Otago, SIRC · 17th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

24-25 November 2005

National analysis of asthma clusters, including testing spatial relationships with Auckland biological-insecticide spraying.

Issues Involved in the Development of Internet-Based GIS Applications

Adam Forbes (2006).

University of Otago dissertation · pp. Full dissertation · University of Otago, Information Science · BAppSc (Hons) · Dunedin, New Zealand

16 October 2006

Identifier: hdl:10523/1199

Useful mid-2000s synthesis of the technical, commercial and social issues shaping web-based GIS development.

An assessment of the precision of the observational data used in New Zealand's national cadastral system

B. E. Donnelly; John Hannah (2006).

Survey Review · 38(300) · pp. 502-512 · Maney / Survey Review

Quantitative assessment of the precision embodied in New Zealand's national cadastral observations during the Landonline era.

A Strategy for Space-Time Data Collection, Processing and Representation on Complex Transportation Networks

C. Y. Chew; Antoni Moore; Albert K. Chong (2006).

Proceedings of GeoCart 2006 National Cartographic Conference · pp. 111-123 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2006: Going Global: Mapping New Zealand’s Trajectory · Auckland, New Zealand

4-6 September 2006

Identifier: Proceedings citation; editor Igor Drecki

Documents GeoCart’s move into complex networked space-time data rather than static cartographic products.

Wellington Walks: An exercise in topographic map development

G. D. Aitken (2006).

Proceedings of GeoCart 2006 National Cartographic Conference · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2006: Going Global: Mapping New Zealand’s Trajectory · Auckland, New Zealand

4-6 September 2006

Identifier: Proceedings citation; editor Igor Drecki

Practical GeoCart case showing continued evolution of purpose-designed topographic mapping in the digital era.

Quality of data for geo-spatial studies of alcohol-related harm

Geoff C. Hay; Kypros Kypri; Peter A. Whigham; John D. Langley (2006).

SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes · University of Otago, SIRC · 18th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 November 2006

Identifier: hdl:10523/807

Shows that data quality and geocoding were recognised methodological constraints in NZ spatial epidemiology, not merely later implementation issues.

The development and application of a cognitively-intuitive dynamic map based on a diffusion-based density equalizing algorithm

Grant Carroll (2006).

SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes · University of Otago, SIRC · 18th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 November 2006

Identifier: Proceedings citation

Evidence of algorithmic dynamic cartography and cognitively oriented map design in New Zealand GIScience by 2006.

Can spatial analysis be used to target swine Salmonella surveillance for public health in Denmark?

Jackie Benschop; Mark Stevenson; J. Dahl; R. S. Morris; Nigel P. French (2006).

GeoHealth 2006 proceedings · pp. 38 · Ministry of Health / GeoHealth conference · GeoHealth 2006: Methods in Practice · Nelson, New Zealand

28-30 November 2006

Identifier: ISBN 0-478-30096-4

Illustrates the widening GeoHealth community and New Zealand researchers' use of GIS-based surveillance methods across human and animal public-health problems.

Neighbourhoods and health: a GIS approach to measuring community resource accessibility

Jamie Pearce; Karen Witten; Phil Bartie (2006).

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health · 60(5) · pp. 389-395 · BMJ

May 2006

Influential New Zealand GIS-based framework for measuring neighbourhood access to health-relevant community resources.

Representing movement data using a multi-representational framework

Jinfeng Zhao; Pip Forer; David O'Sullivan (2006).

Proceedings of GeoCart 2006 National Cartographic Conference · pp. 125-141 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2006: Going Global: Mapping New Zealand's Trajectory · Auckland, New Zealand

4-6 September 2006

Documents GeoCart's mid-2000s expansion from conventional cartography into complex spatio-temporal data visualisation.

A 'Technological Gearing' Strategy for Leveraging Geographic Information System Investment

Linda M. Way (2006).

Esri International User Conference Proceedings · pp. 7 p. · Esri · Esri International User Conference · United States

Identifier: Esri paper 1928

Unusually detailed evidence of a small New Zealand surveying firm scaling from one ArcView licence to a wider GIS strategy, including costs, staffing, data acquisition and deferred enterprise components.

An integrated GIS for Fiordland’s marine habitats

M. Hamish Bowman; Stephen Wing (2006).

SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes · University of Otago, SIRC · 18th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 November 2006

Identifier: hdl:10523/804

Integrated years of Fiordland marine observations with high-resolution physical models for biodiversity and management.

The View from the Chathams: Geovisualisation of Web Site Hits using Google Earth

Nigel Stanger (2006).

SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes · pp. 53-59 · University of Otago, SIRC · 18th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 November 2006

Early NZ academic experimentation with Google Earth as a geovisualisation interface beyond conventional GIS.

Visualising the dynamics of suburbs

P. Wong (2006).

Proceedings of GeoCart 2006 National Cartographic Conference · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2006: Going Global: Mapping New Zealand’s Trajectory · Auckland, New Zealand

4-6 September 2006

Identifier: Proceedings citation; editor Igor Drecki

GeoCart paper focused on representing suburban change rather than static urban geography.

Exploratory Analysis of Movement Trajectories

Patrick Laube; T. Dennis (2006).

Proceedings of GeoCart 2006 National Cartographic Conference · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2006: Going Global: Mapping New Zealand’s Trajectory · Auckland, New Zealand

4-6 September 2006

Identifier: Proceedings citation; editor Igor Drecki

Part of the strong movement-data and spatiotemporal theme in GeoCart 2006.

Revealing the local geospatial knowledge base of oyster fishing at Bluff, New Zealand

Peter Knight; G. Brent Hall; Nick Hankey; Antoni Moore (2006).

SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes · University of Otago, SIRC · 18th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 November 2006

Identifier: hdl:10523/800

Documents digitisation of fishers’ historical knowledge into a public geospatial resource, including decade-by-decade oyster-bed geography.

A Century through GIS: Diocesan School 1904-2004

Sally Brodie (2006).

Esri Education User Conference Proceedings · pp. 14 p. · Esri · Esri Education User Conference · United States

Documents a mature school GIS project and the institutional support network around GIS education in Auckland.

The effect of internal migration on the New Zealand Deprivation Index

Sarah Horsburgh; Pauline Norris; G. Becket (2006).

GeoHealth 2006: Methods in Practice · pp. 44 · Public Health Intelligence / GeoHealth · 3rd GeoHealth Conference · Nelson, New Zealand

28-30 November 2006

Identifier: ISBN 0-478-30096-4

Shows GeoHealth research interrogating the stability and interpretation of area-based spatial health indicators.

Relationships between Cancer and Geological Setting, NSW, Australia

Simon Benger (2006).

GeoHealth 2006: Methods in Practice · Ministry of Health / GeoHealth · 3rd GeoHealth Conference · Nelson, New Zealand

28-30 November 2006

Identifier: ISBN 0-478-30096-4

Example of GeoHealth 2006’s widened application of spatial methods to environmental and geological health relationships.

The QMAP dataset and an example of its application in modelling gold prospectivity in New Zealand

Simon C. Cox; Mark S. Rattenbury (2006).

SIRC 2006: Interactions and Spatial Processes · University of Otago / GNS Science · 18th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 November 2006

Documents QMAP as a national ArcInfo-based geological dataset and its reuse in derivative mineral-prospectivity modelling.

Estimating particulate pollution exposure in New Zealand: the HAPiNZ method

Simon Kingham; Gavin Fisher; Simon Hales; Ionara de Lima; Phil Bartie (2006).

GeoHealth 2006: Methods in Practice · Public Health Intelligence / GeoHealth · 3rd GeoHealth Conference · Nelson, New Zealand

28-30 November 2006

Identifier: ISBN 0-478-30096-4

Conference-stage presentation of a nationally important health-and-air-pollution spatial exposure methodology.

First off the block with e-survey

Abby Tozer (2007).

Survey Quarterly · 50 · pp. 32 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

Professional evidence of operational e-survey adoption after the Landonline development phase.

Geographic information systems at AgResearch

Bruce McLennan (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: hdl:10523/815

Rare contemporary account of fragmented GIS use within a CRI and its intended transition toward enterprise GIS.

Spatial variation in the association between neighbourhood deprivation and access to alcohol outlets

Geoff C. Hay; Peter A. Whigham; Kypros Kypri; John D. Langley (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · pp. 87-98 · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: hdl:10523/772

National GIScience/public-health study demonstrating spatial non-stationarity in deprivation and alcohol access.

Point allocation inside polygons and geographically weighted regression

J. Francisco; Peter A. Whigham; Antoni Moore (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · pp. 55-64 · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: Proceedings volume 126 pp

Addresses methodological problems arising when point patterns must be reconstructed from polygon-based data.

Sea level change in New Zealand – spatial impacts from a surveyor’s perspective

John Hannah (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · pp. 51 · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: hdl:10523/680

Connects sea-level science to cadastral boundaries, vertical reference systems and coastal subdivision practice.

Two new tools for aggregation and geoprocessing of raw spatial data

M. Hamish Bowman (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: hdl:10523/802

Direct scholarly evidence of NZ-developed GRASS GIS modules for massive point clouds and spatially correcting historic sonar imagery.

Spatial analysis of home range and habitat use

M. Netzer; Peter A. Whigham; K. Dickinson; J. Lord (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · pp. 111-118 · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: Proceedings volume 126 pp

Example of mature ecological spatial analysis within the late SIRC corpus.

Mapping seasonal snow using image fusion

Pascal Sirguey; Richard Mathieu; Y. Arnaud (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · pp. 13-24 · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: hdl:10523/736

Documents advanced satellite image-fusion methods for snow mapping in the New Zealand geospatial research community.

A preliminary investigation of stability of geographically-weighted regression

Peter A. Whigham; Geoff C. Hay (2007).

SIRC 2007: Does Space Matter? · pp. 119-126 · University of Otago, SIRC · 19th Annual SIRC Colloquium · Dunedin, New Zealand

6-7 December 2007

Identifier: Proceedings volume 126 pp

Shows geographically weighted regression becoming a defined methodological research topic in the SIRC community.

Development of a map service

Xiaotie (Anthony) Huang (2007).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · University of Waikato · MSc · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/2263

Documents location-aware map-service development and client/server spatial application architecture at Waikato.

A Web-based Geographical Information System for Low Bandwidth Access

Zhennan Shi (2007).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · University of Waikato · MSc · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/2434

Shows Google Maps API being adapted in NZ university research for low-bandwidth access to agricultural spatial data.

Development of a 3D Visualisation Model of the Island of Rava

Ana Kuveždić; Miljenko Lapaine; Dražen Tutić (2008).

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Colloquium of SIRC in conjunction with GeoCart 2008 · pp. 37-50 · SIRC / New Zealand Cartographic Society · SIRC 2008 / GeoCart 2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2008

Identifier: ISBN 978-0-473-14010-6; GeoCart/SIRC CD ISBN 978-0-473-14011-3

One of the fully traceable papers appearing in both the 20th SIRC print proceedings and the GeoCart/SIRC electronic proceedings.

Geospatial Vision: New Dimensions in Cartography

Antoni Moore; Igor Drecki (editors) (2008).

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography · pp. xxii, 234 · Springer · 4th National Cartographic Conference GeoCart'2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

Identifier: ISBN 978-3-540-70967-1; eISBN 978-3-540-70970-1; ISSN 1863-2246

International scholarly volume arising from Auckland GeoCart'2008, demonstrating NZ's role as a host and organiser of advanced cartographic/GIS research.

Assessment of vertical oceanographic measurements using high-rate GPS buoy observations

Ashley Marshall; Paul Denys (2008).

FIG Working Week 2008 proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2008 · Stockholm, Sweden

14-19 June 2008

Identifier: ISBN 978-87-90907-67-9

New Zealand field research demonstrating high-rate GPS buoys as an independent vertical oceanographic measurement system.

Rule extraction from spatial data using an entropy-based evolving fuzzy neural network

Brendon J. Woodford (2008).

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Colloquium of SIRC & GeoComp / GeoCart 2008 · pp. 55-66 · University of Otago Press / conference organisers · SIRC 2008 / GeoCart 2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2008

Evidence that machine-learning approaches to spatial data were established in the NZ geospatial research forum by 2008.

Oceanographic considerations for management and protection of surfing breaks

Bryan Scarfe (2008).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · University of Waikato · PhD · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/2668

Rich late-2000s example of enterprise spatial databases, multibeam surveying and RTK positioning integrated in coastal-resource research.

A predictive model for identifying the potential location of Powelliphanta land snails in the South Island of New Zealand

C. Wildman; K. J. Peters (2008).

SIRC 2008 / GeoCart 2008 conference proceedings · New Zealand Cartographic Society / SIRC · SIRC 2008 / GeoCart 2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2008

Applied predictive GIS for locating threatened native land-snail habitat.

Using Remote Sensing for Mapping the Effects of Natural Hazards in New Zealand

Karen E. Joyce; Stephen E. Belliss; Sergey V. Samsonov; Stephen J. McNeill; Phil J. Glassey (2008).

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Proceedings · IEEE · IGARSS 2008 · Boston, USA

8-11 July 2008

Strong international-conference evidence for New Zealand remote sensing being applied systematically to natural-hazard effects by 2008.

Farmer experiences in achieving productivity gains through GPS

M. J. Casey; I. J. Yule; R. Murray; C. M. Hedley (2008).

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association · 70 · pp. 177-181 · New Zealand Grassland Association

Documents practical farm-level use of GPS and spatial mapping for productivity, fertiliser and irrigation decisions.

A User-defined Virtual Reality Chart for Track Control Navigation and Hydrographic Data Acquisition

M. Ternes; P. Knight; Antoni Moore; H. Regenbrecht (2008).

GeoCart 2008 / 20th Annual SIRC Colloquium · New Zealand Cartographic Society / SIRC · SIRC 2008 / GeoCart 2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2008

Identifier: GeoCart/SIRC CD ISBN 978-0-473-14011-3

Evidence of virtual-reality chart interfaces being applied to navigation and hydrographic acquisition in the 2008 GeoCart/SIRC research forum.

Keep your eye on the ball: Revisiting a mouse-based spatio-temporal system for collecting rugby union patterns

Peter A. Whigham (2008).

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Colloquium of SIRC in conjunction with NZ Cartographic Society and GeoComp · pp. 17-26 · SIRC / New Zealand Cartographic Society · SIRC 2008 / GeoCart 2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2008

Identifier: ISBN 978-0-473-14010-6

Illustrates expansion of spatial research into fine-grained human activity data and interface design.

Simulation and representation of the positional errors of boundary and interior regions in maps

Tomaž Podobnikar (2008).

Geospatial Vision: New Dimensions in Cartography · pp. 141-169 · Springer · GeoCart 2008 · Auckland, New Zealand

GeoCart 2008 paper; selected volume publication 2008

One of the peer-reviewed selected GeoCart 2008 contributions, documenting advanced error and uncertainty representation in the Auckland conference programme.

Assessment of vertical oceanographic measurements using high-rate GPS buoy observations

Ashley Marshall; Paul Denys (2009).

New Zealand Surveyor · 299 · pp. 24-30 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

New Zealand Surveyor version of the GPS-buoy research, documenting transfer from conference research into the national surveying literature.

VLBI -- A new tool for geodesy in New Zealand

Graeme Blick; Leonid Gulyaev (2009).

Survey Quarterly · 58 · pp. 23 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

Documents the addition of very long baseline interferometry to New Zealand's geodetic technology repertoire.

ALGGi Auckland Local Government Geospatial Information

Mark Stevenson (2009).

Survey Quarterly · 58 · pp. 18 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

Evidence of an organised Auckland local-government geospatial information network during the regional governance transition period.

Geospatial threat measurement: an analysis of the threat the diatom Didymosphenia geminata poses to Canterbury, New Zealand

Norman John Thornley (2009).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · MPhil in Geographic Information Systems · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Applied geospatial threat framework for invasive-species management in Canterbury.

Geomorphic Hazards associated with Glacial Change, Aoraki/Mount Cook region Southern Alps, New Zealand

Simon Keith Allen (2009).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury · PhD in Geography · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/3087; doi:10.26021/7573

Strong pre-drone example of mature GIS and remote-sensing integration for rapidly changing alpine geomorphic hazards.

Geovisualisation of land use in rivers: visualisations of the downstream effects of the rural lands of New Zealand

B. Hock; I. Nti; P. Sallis (2010).

GeoCart 2010 / ICA Symposium on Cartography · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2010 / 1st ICA Regional Symposium · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2010

NZ conference research applying geovisualisation to downstream consequences of rural land use.

Matching of image features and vector objects to automatically correct spatial misalignment between image and vector data sets

Daniel Gerard O'Donohue (2010).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury, Geography · MSc · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/4434; doi:10.26021/6506

Shows research moving toward automated correction of increasingly voluminous directly georeferenced imagery.

An alternative cadastral survey dataset for New Zealand

David Goodwin; George McKinnon (2010).

New Zealand Surveyor · 300 · pp. 33-42 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors

Research into alternative ways of structuring New Zealand cadastral-survey data after the transition to Landonline.

New Zealand geodetic system Part 4 – PositioNZ GNSS continuously operating network

Graeme Blick; Dave Collett (2010).

Survey Quarterly · Issue 63 · pp. 20 onward · Survey and Spatial New Zealand predecessor professional publication · New Zealand

September 2010

Near-primary account of PositioNZ as geodetic infrastructure and emerging broader geospatial infrastructure.

Landonline: Effects on the New Zealand Survey Process

Julia Nicolson (2010).

University of Otago School of Surveying honours research · University of Otago · BSurv(Hons) · Dunedin, New Zealand

Substantive honours research examining how a national digital land-information system altered everyday survey practice and workflow.

Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Mainstream Land Surveying

Mike Pinkerton (2010).

XXIV FIG International Congress 2010 proceedings · 10 pp · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Congress 2010 · Sydney, Australia

11-16 April 2010

Identifier: Paper 3814

Near-contemporary New Zealand practitioner evidence that terrestrial laser scanning was moving from specialist niche toward mainstream land surveying around 2010.

Monitoring Snow Cover and Modelling Catchment Discharge With Remote Sensing in the Upper Waitaki Basin, New Zealand

Pascal Jean Bruno Sirguey (2010).

University of Otago thesis · Full thesis · University of Otago, School of Surveying · PhD · Dunedin, New Zealand

Substantial New Zealand doctoral work joining remote sensing of snow with catchment-flow modelling.

Viticultural zoning for the identification and characterisation of New Zealand 'Terroirs' using cartographic data

S. Shanmuganathan (2010).

GeoCart 2010 / ICA Symposium on Cartography · pp. 53-64 · New Zealand Cartographic Society · GeoCart 2010 / 1st ICA Regional Symposium · Auckland, New Zealand

1-3 September 2010

Identifier: ISBN 978-0-473-17612-9

Applied NZ geospatial research linking cartographic data and viticulture to define and characterise terroirs.

Improving GIS use in City Retail Planning: A Look at the Dunedin City Council's Geographic Information System

Hussam Al-Mahoozi (2011).

University of Otago thesis · Full thesis · University of Otago, Marketing · Master of Business · Dunedin, New Zealand

Shows GIS crossing from technical planning departments into retail, marketing and general organisational decision support.

A GIS approach to landslide hazard management for the West Coast region, New Zealand

Kevin England (2011).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury, Geological Sciences · MSc · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/5337; doi:10.26021/6979

Detailed GIS-based landslide susceptibility and hazard-management study for a high-risk New Zealand region.

Properties and Distribution of Soils on the Ruataniwha Plains: Integrating Classical and Digital Mapping Techniques

Sharn Bernard Hainsworth (2011).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · University of Waikato · MSc · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/6129

Strong bridge from classical soil survey into LiDAR-supported digital soil mapping and the national S-map era.

GIS coupled water budget for spatial and temporal analysis of water resources: Horowhenua, New Zealand

Simon Vale (2011).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · MSc Geography · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Example of mature GIS being used to integrate daily surface and groundwater data into spatial water-resource modelling.

Geospatial Visualisation

Antoni Moore; Igor Drecki (editors) (2012).

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography · pp. xiv, 273 · Springer · GeoCart 2010 / 1st ICA Regional Symposium · Auckland, New Zealand

1 October 2012

Peer-reviewed book evolved from GeoCart 2010, with NZ-authored chapters on ambulance displays, movement data and trans-species geovisual analytics.

Putting 'Te Kawa a Maui' (Maori Studies) on the Map

Bruce McFadgen; Ocean Mercier (2013).

Proceedings of the SIRC NZ Conference · University of Otago · SIRC NZ - GIS and Remote Sensing Research Conference · Dunedin, New Zealand

Direct 2013 conference paper connecting Māori Studies teaching, cultural mapping and open-source GIS tools.

Not as an artist but as a mathematician: photogrammetry, remote sensing and the surveying discipline

Pascal Sirguey (2013).

Celebrating the Past: Redefining the Future - NZIS / SIRC NZ 2013 proceedings · pp. 64-76 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · SIRC NZ 2013 / 125th NZIS Annual Conference · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 August 2013

Useful contemporary reflection on how photogrammetry and remote sensing fitted within New Zealand surveying as digital imaging matured.

Proceedings of the 125th New Zealand Institute of Surveyors Annual Conference and the Spatial Information Research Centre New Zealand GIS and Remote Sensing Research Conference: Celebrating the Past: Redefining the Future

Paul Denys; Mark Strack; Antoni B. Moore; Peter A. Whigham (editors) (2013).

NZIS Annual Conference / SIRC NZ 2013 proceedings · 225 pp · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · 125th NZIS Annual Conference and inaugural SIRC NZ GIS and Remote Sensing Research Conference · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 August 2013

Primary proceedings object for the separately styled inaugural SIRC NZ conference and the 125th NZIS annual meeting.

Recent ice wastage on the Tasman Glacier obtained from geodetic elevation changes

S. Vivero; Pascal Sirguey; S. J. Fitzsimons; D. Strong; A. Soruco (2013).

Celebrating the Past: Redefining the Future - NZIS / SIRC NZ 2013 proceedings · pp. 113-116 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · SIRC NZ 2013 / 125th NZIS Annual Conference · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 August 2013

Applied NZ research using repeated geodetic elevation data to quantify rapid glacier change.

Implementing automated photogrammetry for the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) facilities

Stephen Mills; David Eyers; Zhe Huang; Kai-Chieh Leung; X. Tang (2013).

Celebrating the Past: Redefining the Future - NZIS / SIRC NZ 2013 proceedings · pp. 216-218 · New Zealand Institute of Surveyors · SIRC NZ 2013 / 125th NZIS Annual Conference · Dunedin, New Zealand

29-30 August 2013

Shows photogrammetric processing being moved onto national eScience/high-performance computing infrastructure by 2013.

The effect of a rise in mean sea level on the New Plymouth coastline: a GIS investigation

William Gorrie Tate (2013).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · MPhil in Geographic Information Systems · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/5784

Useful example of mature GIS combining 3D terrain, property and census data for local climate-risk analysis.

A New Zealand Strategy for Cadastre 2034

Don Grant; Mark Dyer; Anselm Haanen (2014).

FIG Congress 2014 Proceedings · pp. 16 p. · International Federation of Surveyors · XXV FIG Congress · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

16-21 June 2014

Identifier: FIG paper 6845

Authoritative strategy document defining the long-term direction of New Zealand's cadastre and its expected technological evolution.

Approaches to forecast volcanic hazard in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

Gabor Kereszturi (2014).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · PhD in Earth Science · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Shows mature integration of topographic/remote-sensing data and GIS for probabilistic and spatial volcanic-hazard research.

Filling the gap: The geospatial skills shortage in New Zealand

Mairéad de Róiste (2014).

New Zealand Geographer · 70(3) · pp. 179-189 · Wiley / New Zealand Geographical Society

12 December 2014

Strong national evidence that geospatial capability constraints had become a workforce and education issue, not primarily a software-access issue.

Settlement Patterns and Indigenous Agency in Te Tau Ihu, 1770-1860

Moira Annette Jackson (2014).

University of Otago thesis · Full thesis · University of Otago, Archaeology · PhD · Dunedin, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10523/4861

Important historical-GIS study using spatial evidence to foreground Indigenous agency rather than treating colonial settlement as the sole driver of landscape change.

Hyperscale terrain modelling of braided rivers: fusing mobile terrestrial laser scanning and optical bathymetric mapping

Richard D. Williams; James Brasington; Damià Vericat; Murray Hicks (2014).

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms · 39(2) · pp. 167-183 · Wiley

February 2014

Strong New Zealand example of mobile terrestrial laser scanning being fused with optical mapping to create sub-metre terrain models of a highly dynamic braided river.

Developing a Three-Dimensional Digital Cadastral System for New Zealand

Trent Gulliver; Anselm Haanen (2014).

FIG Congress 2014 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · XXV FIG Congress · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

16-21 June 2014

Formal 2014 international paper on the technical development path toward a 3D New Zealand cadastre.

Using Satellite Imagery and Novel Low Altitude Aerial Imagery to Classify Coastal Wetland Vegetation for Change Detection at Whatipu Scientific Reserve, Auckland, NZ

Grant Lawrence (2015).

Auckland University of Technology thesis · Full thesis · Auckland University of Technology · Master of Science · Auckland, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10292/9774

Useful early-mid-2010s New Zealand research combining high-resolution satellite imagery and 6 cm low-altitude UAS imagery for vegetation classification.

Bridging Māori indigenous knowledge and western geosciences to reduce social vulnerability in active volcanic regions

Natalia Pardo; Hildalene Wilson; Jonathan N. Procter; Erica Lattughi; Taiarahia Black et al. (2015).

Journal of Applied Volcanology · 4:5 · pp. Article 5 · SpringerOpen

5 February 2015

Important later peer-reviewed example of bringing Māori knowledge and western geoscience together in volcanic-risk work without reducing mātauranga to a GIS layer.

Developing a 3D Digital Cadastral Survey System for New Zealand

Trent Frederick Douglas Gulliver (2015).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury · Master of Geographic Information Science · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/11730; doi:10.26021/8682

Links the digital-cadastre lineage to emerging 3D property-rights modelling.

Aligning the New Zealand National Datum with the International Terrestrial Reference Frame in the Face of Tectonic Deformation

Chris Crook; Dionne Hansen; Paula Gentle (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8138; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Authoritative account of maintaining NZGD2000 against ongoing tectonic deformation and earthquake patches, including the PositioNZ network and operational relationship with ITRF.

Surveying a Broken City - A Story of Innovation and Collaboration

Chris Scott (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8216; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Documents the scale of SCIRT geospatial surveying, including about 150 surveyors, about 200,000 survey hours, 16 survey consultancies and delivery of city-wide infrastructure data through a shared digital platform.

Technological inroads into understanding city children's natural life-worlds

Claire Freeman; Yolanda van Heezik; Aviva Stein; Kathryn Hand (2016).

Children's Geographies · 14(2) · pp. 158-174 · Routledge

3 March 2016

Shows GIS and aerial imagery adapted into a participatory mapping interface for children's fine-scale ecological knowledge.

Canterbury Earthquake Response: Lessons for Land Administration Policy

Donald Grant; David Mitchell; Mark Dyer (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8364; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Shows how digital land records, survey infrastructure, cadastral rules and spatial-data sharing became core recovery infrastructure after the Canterbury earthquakes, and records data-sharing weaknesses exposed by the disaster.

GIS Response to the Christchurch Earthquakes - Getting Started, Keeping it Going, Living with it

Kyle Dow (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · pp. 2 p. · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8358; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Rare first-person operational record of Christchurch City Council's sustained GIS response, including round-the-clock staffing, workload, data management, data sharing and near-real-time situational mapping.

Combining QuickBird, LiDAR, and GIS topography indices to identify a single native tree species in a complex landscape using an object-based classification approach

Lien T. H. Pham; Lars Brabyn; Salman Ashraf (2016).

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 50 · pp. 187-197 · Elsevier

August 2016

Strong example of New Zealand LiDAR and spectral imagery being combined with machine-learning classification for native-tree mapping.

Improving New Zealand's Geoid-Based Vertical Datum with Airborne Gravimetry

Matt Amos (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8103; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Documents the airborne-gravity programme used to improve New Zealand's national vertical datum from roughly 8 cm toward better than 3 cm accuracy in developed areas.

Enabling the Uptake of New Zealand's Improved National Vertical Datum

Rachelle Winefield; Matt Amos (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8081; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Shows that improved coordinate infrastructure required migration tooling and user adoption, not only a better geoid model, including transformation from thirteen legacy orthometric datums.

Canterbury SDI: Lessons Learned from Post-Earthquake Recovery

Robert Deakin (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8218; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Primary retrospective on the approximately $5 million Canterbury SDI Programme and its eight recovery projects, showing how earthquake GIS response developed into coordinated spatial-data infrastructure and then informed national SDI thinking.

Realigning the Christchurch Digital Cadastre after the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence

Scott King (2016).

FIG Working Week 2016 Proceedings · International Federation of Surveyors · FIG Working Week 2016: Recovery from Disaster · Christchurch, New Zealand

2-6 May 2016

Identifier: FIG paper 8092; ISBN 978-87-92853-52-3; ISSN 2307-4086

Direct technical record of attempts to realign Christchurch's digital cadastre after earthquake-related land movement and reconcile pre- and post-earthquake cadastral evidence.

A 3D Digital Cadastre for New Zealand by 2021: Leveraging the Current System and Modern Technology

Trent Gulliver; Anselm Haanen; Mark Goodin (2016).

5th International FIG 3D Cadastre Workshop Proceedings · pp. 473-489 · International Federation of Surveyors · 5th International FIG 3D Cadastre Workshop · Athens, Greece

18-20 October 2016

Extends the New Zealand 3D cadastre lineage from research concept toward a defined implementation target and technology pathway.

Understanding Warming Effects on Vegetation Through Geothermal Hotspots: A Case Study of the Wairakei-Tauhara Geothermal Field, Taupo, New Zealand

Abdul Nishar (2017).

Auckland University of Technology thesis · Full thesis · Auckland University of Technology · PhD · Auckland, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10292/10631

Combines long-run aerial-photo change analysis, thermal remote sensing and UAV-supported ecology in a geothermal landscape.

Use of UAV mounted / Structure-from-Motion (SfM) data capture for engineering geological landslide mapping

D. Bevan; Jon Tunnicliffe; Martin Brook; Nick Richards (2017).

20th New Zealand Geotechnical Society Symposium · New Zealand Geotechnical Society · 20th NZGS Symposium · New Zealand

24 November 2017

Identifier: ISSN 0111-9532

Applied New Zealand evidence of UAV/SfM moving into routine high-resolution engineering-geological mapping.

Determining Canopy Vigour in G3 Kiwifruit using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems

G. G. Hull (2017).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · University of Waikato · MSocSc · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/11465

Illustrates mature integration of drone multispectral imagery, LiDAR-derived terrain and GIS in NZ horticultural research.

Te Koronga: Mapping case studies

Hauiti Hakopa; Anne-Marie Jackson; Ngahuia Mita; Chelsea Cunningham (2017).

He Whare Hangarau Māori: Language, culture & technology · Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao / University of Waikato

Documents Māori-led mapping case studies within a wider Māori technology publication and provides a non-vendor account of applied mapping practice.

Drawing the line with Google Earth: the place of digital mapping outside of geography

O. Ripeka Mercier; Arama Rata (2017).

Journal of Geography in Higher Education · 41(1) · pp. 75-93 · Taylor & Francis

Published online 24 November 2016

Shows mass-market digital mapping moving outside geography/GIS courses into Māori Studies and place-based learning.

Ballistic impact crater modelling using UAV and structure from motion technology: 2012 Te Maari volcanic eruptions, New Zealand

Ravitej Pitchika (2017).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury · Master of Geographic Information Science · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/13752; doi:10.26021/5664

Direct comparison of UAV/SfM terrain modelling with earlier LiDAR/orthophoto crater mapping after the 2012 eruption.

Mapping crime harm and priority locations in New Zealand: A comparison of spatial analysis methods

Sophie Curtis-Ham; Darren Walton (2017).

Applied Geography · 86 · pp. 245-254 · Elsevier

September 2017

Major peer-reviewed extension of New Zealand Police spatial analysis from crime counts toward harm-weighted national geographic prioritisation.

Urban biodiversity and the ecology of cities: a landscape-pattern approach for Wellington, New Zealand

Amin Rastandeh (2018).

Victoria University of Wellington thesis · Full thesis · Victoria University of Wellington · PhD · Wellington, New Zealand

Substantial Wellington GIS study linking landscape metrics and urban biodiversity, strengthening coverage of the capital's academic geospatial research.

Utilisation of crowdsourced geographic information for benefitting disaster response in New Zealand

Andrew Cunningham (2018).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury, Geography · MSc · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/15951; doi:10.26021/8369

Documents the move from professionally produced spatial data toward public and volunteer geographic information as a potential operational input to New Zealand disaster response.

A new GIS data model for depicting traditional knowledge of spatio-temporal patterns via motifs, folk thesauri, narratives and accompanying visualisations

Kierin Jeffrey Mackenzie (2018).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury · PhD in Geography · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/16187; doi:10.26021/6613

Important later GIScience work addressing limitations of conventional raster/vector/layer models for interconnected traditional knowledge.

A multi-level perspective on a spatial data ecosystem: needs and challenges among urban planning stakeholders in New Zealand

Mirjam Schindler; Rita Dionisio; Simon Kingham (2018).

International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research · 13 · pp. 223-252 · New Zealand

August 2018

Identifier: 10.2902/1725-0463.2018.13.art15; hdl:10092/17302

Important empirical study showing that New Zealand spatial-data problems in the late 2010s concerned inconsistent definitions, attributes, bulk access, relationships, organisational culture and governance as much as technical platforms.

Challenges in Creating an Annotated Set of Geospatial Natural Language Descriptions

Niloofar Aflaki; Shaun Russell; Kristin Stock (2018).

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), GIScience 2018 · 114 · pp. 20:1-20:6 · Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics · GIScience 2018

Documents New Zealand participation in international GIScience research on machine-readable geospatial language before the current large-language-model era.

LiDAR mapping the Auckland region

Sam Hackett (2018).

Surveying+Spatial · 96 · pp. 24-27 · Survey and Spatial New Zealand

December 2018

Professional account of regional-scale LiDAR mapping in Auckland during the expansion of high-resolution elevation data.

VGTrust: measuring trust for volunteered geographic information

C. Severinsen; Mairead de Roiste; Femke Reitsma; E. Hartato (2019).

International Journal of Geographical Information Science · 33(8) · pp. 1683-1701 · Taylor & Francis

NZ-linked GIScience contribution addressing trust and quality in volunteered spatial data through a government-related building-footprint case.

Integrating building information modelling and geographic information systems for characterising urban risk and resilience—a proposed geospatial workflow

Daniel Jones (2019).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury, Civil Engineering · Master of Engineering · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/16954; doi:10.26021/1484

Secure New Zealand academic evidence that BIM-GIS integration was being explicitly framed as a digital-twin workflow for urban risk and resilience by 2019.

GeoDataHub: Building centralised repository of authoritative cartographic and geospatial resources

Igor Drecki (2019).

Abstracts of the ICA · 1 · pp. 66 · Copernicus / International Cartographic Association · International Cartographic Conference

15 July 2019

Documents a modern digital infrastructure for integrating and exposing New Zealand cartographic heritage and geospatial resources.

LiDAR in New Zealand Archaeology: prospects and pitfalls

Josephine May Hagan; Andrew A. Brown (2019).

Journal of Pacific Archaeology · 10(2) · pp. 80-91 · New Zealand Archaeological Association / Journal of Pacific Archaeology

4 December 2019

Documents both the growing availability and practical limits of LiDAR for New Zealand archaeological mapping, including fortified pā and smaller features.

Mapping New Zealand 2025 – A National Perspective

Karl Baker; Roger Carman; Graeme Blick; Stuart Caie (2019).

Abstracts of the ICA · 1 · pp. 21 · Copernicus / International Cartographic Association · International Cartographic Conference

15 July 2019

Concise contemporary statement of LINZ's integrated national mapping, hydrographic and geodetic direction in the late 2010s.

He Tatai Whenua: Automated Extraction of Landscape Terms and their Meanings in New Zealand Māori

Kristin Stock; H. W. Morris; M. Forster; R. Paraku; E. Egorova (2019).

GeoComputation 2019 Proceedings · GeoComputation / University of Otago · 15th International GeoComputation Conference / NZGRC 2019 · Queenstown, New Zealand

18-21 September 2019

Connects te reo Māori landscape concepts with computational extraction methods in the joint GeoComputation/NZGRC research forum.

Monitoring active landslides in the Auckland region utilising UAV/structure-from-motion photogrammetry

Martin S. Brook; Jesse Merkle (2019).

Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication · 6(2) · pp. 1-6 · Japanese Geotechnical Society

30 April 2019

Peer-reviewed example of repeat UAV/SfM monitoring becoming a practical landslide-displacement method in urban Auckland.

Monitoring population fluctuations in Rakiura, New Zealand using volunteered geographic information and novel indicators

Sarah Darling; Benjamin Adams; Caroline Orchiston; Tom Wilson; Bruce A. Bradley (2019).

GeoComputation 2019 proceedings · University of Auckland / GeoComputation · GeoComputation 2019 · Queenstown, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/102253; doi:10.17608/k6.auckland.9846323.v1

Demonstrates NZ disaster and population research using unconventional volunteered spatial-data sources.

Potentials, problems and possibilities for developing New Zealand’s built environment through high-value geospatial information

Vivienne C. Ivory; Kai O'Donnell; Mirjam Schindler (2019).

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online · 14(1) · pp. 95-111 · Taylor & Francis / Royal Society Te Apārangi journal · New Zealand

Published online 1 November 2018

Important late-2010s scholarly assessment of New Zealand geospatial data infrastructure, showing that technical platforms, governance, cost-sharing and institutional culture had become inseparable parts of the spatial-data problem.

GIS mapping with Māori groups and community projects

Duane Wilkins (2020).

Surveying+Spatial · 103 · pp. 16-20 · Survey and Spatial New Zealand

November 2020

Practitioner evidence of GIS methods being applied with Māori groups and community projects within the national spatial profession.

Predicting spatiotemporal yield variability to aid arable precision agriculture in New Zealand: a case study of maize-grain crop production in the Waikato region

Guopeng Jiang (2020).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · PhD · Palmerston North, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/16440

Important New Zealand precision-agriculture study linking combine yield maps and accessible environmental variables with machine learning for within-field management zones.

Mapping Māori knowledge from the past to inform marine management futures

Kura Paul-Burke; Tuwhakairiora O'Brien; Joseph Burke; Charlie Bluett (2020).

New Zealand Science Review · 76(1-2) · pp. 32-41 · New Zealand Association of Scientists

1 January 2020

Strong Māori-led evidence that mapped place-based marine knowledge was being used as a baseline for field surveys and management decisions, while retaining kaupapa Māori research and governance principles.

Rapid, cost-effective 3D monitoring of urban landslide displacements using UAV-Structure from Motion (SfM)

Martin Brook; John Tunnicliffe (2020).

Natural Hazards Commission / EQC research report 3809 · University of Auckland / EQC · Auckland, New Zealand

21 May 2020

Identifier: EQC 18/762; Paper 3809

Shows transition from experimental UAV/SfM papers into funded operational hazard-monitoring research.

A comparative assessment of ensemble-based machine learning and maximum likelihood methods for mapping seagrass using Sentinel-2 imagery in Tauranga Harbor, New Zealand

Nam-Thang Ha; Merilyn Manley-Harris; Tien Dat Pham; Ian Hawes (2020).

Remote Sensing · 12(3) · pp. Article 355; 1-16 · MDPI

1 February 2020

Peer-reviewed New Zealand case showing machine-learning methods applied to operational coastal vegetation mapping before the later popularisation of GeoAI terminology.

Using textual volunteered geographic information to model nature-based activities: A case study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Ekaterina Egorova (2021).

Journal of Spatial Information Science · 23 · pp. 25-63 · JOSIS

Strong NZ case showing volunteered textual data becoming a formal source for spatial analysis beyond conventional mapped features.

Predicting spatiotemporal yield variability to aid arable precision agriculture in New Zealand: a case study of maize-grain crop production in the Waikato region

Guopeng Jiang; Miles Grafton; Diane Pearson; Mike Bretherton; Aaron Holmes (2021).

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science · 49(1) · pp. 41-62 · Taylor & Francis

6 January 2021

Peer-reviewed publication of the precision-agriculture research programme, showing machine-learning-assisted spatial yield prediction as a practical New Zealand cropping research problem.

Transforming scientific research and development in precision agriculture: the case of hyperspectral sensing and imaging

Megan Cushnahan (2021).

Massey University thesis · Full thesis · Massey University · PhD · Manawatū, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10179/16749

Documents how data-rich remote sensing changed the organisation and workflow of New Zealand precision-agriculture research, shifting effort from acquisition toward processing and analysis.

Remote sensing of dynamics and aboveground biomass of seagrass in Tauranga Harbor (Bay of Plenty), New Zealand

Nam-Thang Ha (2021).

University of Waikato thesis · Full thesis · The University of Waikato · PhD · Hamilton, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10289/14586

Major New Zealand research lineage combining satellite remote sensing, machine learning and an open-source web-GIS application for long-term seagrass monitoring.

Detecting Multi-Decadal Changes in Seagrass Cover in Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand, Using Landsat Imagery and Boosting Ensemble Classification Techniques

Nam-Thang Ha; Merilyn Manley-Harris; Tien Dat Pham; Ian Hawes (2021).

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · 10(6) · pp. 371 · MDPI

31 May 2021

Strong peer-reviewed demonstration of long-term New Zealand environmental change mapping using historical satellite archives and modern ensemble classification.

The use of radar and optical satellite imagery combined with advanced machine learning and metaheuristic optimization techniques to detect and quantify above ground biomass of intertidal seagrass in a New Zealand estuary

Nam-Thang Ha; Merilyn Manley-Harris; Tien Dat Pham; Ian Hawes (2021).

International Journal of Remote Sensing · 42(12) · pp. 4712-4738 · Taylor & Francis

Peer-reviewed New Zealand example of multi-sensor Earth observation and advanced machine learning being used for quantitative environmental mapping before 2022.

Using Historic Satellite and 3D UAV Imagery to Map the Dynamics of the Coast at Sites with Anthropogenic Debris in Southland New Zealand

Cassandra Leigh Bascombe Newman (2022).

Auckland University of Technology thesis · Full thesis · Auckland University of Technology · Master of Science (Research) · Auckland, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10292/15494

Late-period example of a repeatable GIS methodology combining historic satellite evidence with seasonal 3D UAV monitoring.

RONGOWAI: A Pathfinder NASA/NZ GNSS-R Initiative Supporting SDG-15 - Life on Land

Delwyn Moller; Matthew Wilson; Rajasweta Datta; Andrew O'Brien; Ryan Linnabary; Chris Ruf (2022).

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Proceedings · pp. 4212-4215 · IEEE · IGARSS 2022 · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

17-22 July 2022

Documents a New Zealand/NASA pathfinder extending GNSS technology into environmental remote sensing rather than positioning alone.

Geospatial Analysis of Marine Habitat Representation for Marine Spatial Planning Around Waiheke Island Auckland New Zealand

Levi Murdoch-Tighe (2022).

Auckland University of Technology thesis · Full thesis · Auckland University of Technology · Master of Science (Research) · Auckland, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10292/15445

Strong current example of GIS and Marxan applied to representative marine protected-area design around Waiheke.

Matariki Project: 3-D change detection with satellite photogrammetric mapping

Pascal Sirguey; James Miller; Pierre Carle; Simon Cox; Todd Redpath; Nicolas Cullen (2022).

New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2022 · New Zealand geospatial research community · NZGRC 2022 · New Zealand

Contemporary NZ research using repeat satellite photogrammetry for landscape-scale 3-D change detection.

Disaster response

James McKenzie (2023).

Surveying+Spatial · 112 · pp. 8-9 · Survey and Spatial New Zealand

June 2023

Operational evidence for rapid aerial-imagery and LiDAR acquisition after major 2022-23 flood and cyclone events, including the trade-off between speed and production quality.

Quantifying co-seismic and post-seismic erosion using geomorphic change detection following the Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

Katie Jones (2023).

Victoria University of Wellington thesis · Full thesis · Victoria University of Wellington · PhD · Wellington, New Zealand

Detailed post-earthquake spatial research using photogrammetry and LiDAR to quantify landscape change after Kaikōura.

Spatial exploration, explanation, and exhibition of adolescents: Geographic distribution, association, and communication of active transport to school and its factors

Long Chen (2023).

University of Otago thesis · Full thesis · University of Otago, Surveying · PhD · Dunedin, New Zealand

Repository publication 2023; thesis dated October 2022

Identifier: hdl:10523/16181

Illustrates contemporary GIScience combining spatial statistics, visual analytics and decision-support communication.

Satellite imagery technology: then and now

Steve Critchlow (2023).

Surveying+Spatial · 111 · pp. 5-8 · Survey and Spatial New Zealand

March 2023

Useful practitioner history of satellite-imagery capability and its changing resolution, spectral and radar options in New Zealand practice.

How to make a mapmaker: a social and technical study of digital geography

David Garcia (2024).

University of Canterbury thesis · Full thesis · University of Canterbury · PhD in Geography · Christchurch, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10092/106844; doi:10.26021/15276

Useful late-period scholarship on the labour, participation and social production underlying apparently frictionless digital mapping.

Digital Twin Technology for Sustainable Urban Development: A Review of Its Potential Impact on SDG 11 in New Zealand

Urva Rajnikant Patel; Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini; Ali Ghaffarianhoseini; Andrew Burgess (2024).

Cities · 155 · pp. 105484 · Elsevier

13 October 2024

A New Zealand-specific peer-reviewed assessment of digital-twin potential and barriers, showing the concept moving from infrastructure experimentation into explicit urban-policy and planning research.

Urban characteristics and land surface temperature in Wellington, New Zealand

Hossein Panahi (2025).

Victoria University of Wellington thesis · Full thesis · Victoria University of Wellington · PhD · Wellington, New Zealand

Recent Wellington spatial-data-science research integrating remote sensing, GIS and geographically weighted regression to explain urban heat patterns.

Large Multi-Modal Model Cartographic Map Comprehension for Textual Locality Georeferencing

Kalana Wijegunarathna; Kristin Stock; Christopher B. Jones (2025).

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), GIScience 2025 · 346 · pp. 12:1-12:19 · Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics · 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science · Christchurch, New Zealand

26-29 August 2025

Shows New Zealand GIScience researchers testing large multimodal models for spatial interpretation and georeferencing in a major international conference hosted in Christchurch.

Evaluating geospatial education provision: a case study of Aotearoa New Zealand

Mairéad de Róiste; Scott C. Pool; John H. Lowry (2025).

Journal of Geography in Higher Education · 49(2) · pp. 185-202 · Taylor & Francis

Published online 20 September 2024

Current national snapshot of geospatial education provision and skill categories, useful as the endpoint of the education lineage.

Between mapping and maps: Translocal knowledge in the making of Hochstetter and Petermann's Atlas of New Zealand (1863)

Norman Henniges; Johannes Mattes; Sascha Nolden (2025).

Journal of Historical Geography · 89 · pp. 69-86 · Elsevier

September 2025

Recent archival scholarship reconstructing how New Zealand field knowledge was transformed through transnational atlas production, including marginalised contributors.

Georeferencing Historical Maps at Scale

Rere-No-A-Rangi Pope; Marcus Frean (2025).

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), GIScience 2025 · 346 · pp. 11:1-11:11 · Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics · 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science · Christchurch, New Zealand

26-29 August 2025

A locally hosted GIScience paper showing automated georeferencing of New Zealand historical maps at scale, linking map heritage with contemporary spatial AI methods.

Assessing alternative data sources for site-specific seeding map creation in the absence of multi-year yield data

Simon Tenbusch (2025).

Lincoln University Master of Precision Agriculture dissertation · pp. Dissertation · Lincoln University · Master of Precision Agriculture · Lincoln, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10182/20373

Useful late-period evidence of New Zealand precision agriculture integrating open satellite imagery, LiDAR terrain data and GIS as a substitute where farms lack long yield-monitor histories.

Towards a Well-being-Oriented Framework for Urban Digital Twins

Urva Patel; Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini; Ali Ghaffarian Hoseini; Andrew Burgess (2025).

Cities · 169 · pp. 106579 · Elsevier

22 October 2025

Publication-stage output showing digital-twin research in New Zealand addressing social indicators and open-source technical feasibility rather than only physical infrastructure.

Leveraging Digital Twins to Improve Wellbeing Aspects in Smart Cities via the Living Standards Framework in New Zealand

Urva Rajnikant Patel (2025).

Auckland University of Technology thesis · Full thesis · Auckland University of Technology · PhD · Auckland, New Zealand

Identifier: hdl:10292/19956

Secure pre-cutoff evidence that New Zealand digital-twin research had moved beyond infrastructure visualisation into governance, well-being metrics, interoperability and open-source platform evaluation.

Te Kete Kōrero o Ōhinemutu: the story of a cultural mapping tool

Dean Patrick Walker; Maria Rita Dionisio; Luke Parkinson; Mokonuiarangi Kingi; Riria McDonald et al. (2026).

AlterNative · 22(1) · SAGE

Online-first DOI 2025; volume 22(1) within 2026 cutoff

Contemporary Māori-led cultural mapping research that challenges conventional consultation-centred spatial planning and emphasises community aspirations and knowledge.

Nationwide 8m Hydrologically Conditioned Digital Elevation and Hydraulic Roughness Maps for Aotearoa New Zealand

Rose Pearson; A. Harang; C. Bosserelle; S. Dean; C. Cattoën; T. Carey-Smith; R. Srinivasan; H. Shiona; M. Wilkins; G. Smart; S. Wadhwa; G. Reeves; E. M. Lane (2026).

Geoscience Data Journal · 13(2) · pp. e70061 · Wiley

10 February 2026

Strong book-cutoff endpoint showing widespread open LiDAR being converted into repeatable nationwide modelling infrastructure rather than remaining project-by-project elevation data.