Massey Geoinformatics Collaboratory

Finding our way to an open world

The New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference (NZGRC) 2022 will be held at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand on 29-30 August 2022.

Geospatial data is essential for adequate management of many of the challenges the world faces, and this conference will bring together geospatial researchers from around New Zealand and the region to share the latest research. We invite researchers at all career levels to get involved.

See you in Wellington!

All you need to know about NZGRC 2022 here!

The past two years have seen increased restrictions on physical movement around the world, but also increased need for cross-border, cross-discipline and cross-domain data access, use and visualisation. We are also on the cusp of a step-change in how we live and work. How we can harness these changes for the benefit of society is key.

Many of the world’s contemporary challenges include a location component at a variety of scales. Geospatial information helps us to make sense of the problems and gives us a better way of framing and addressing them. Knowing where people and things are, and their relationship to each other, is essential for evidence-informed decision-making. Not only is real-time information needed to prepare for, and respond to, things like the ongoing pandemic, natural disasters and political crises, but location-based services are helping governments to develop strategic priorities, make decisions, and measure and monitor outcomes.

NZGRC-2022 will bring the geospatial community together to explore how research in geospatial science and technology can help to address these challenges over the coming decades – both in terms of technological foundations and applied areas – and to consider how geospatial research can contribute to an open world. The conference will showcase the latest research by featuring a mix of full papers, short papers, posters and workshops. Contributions are invited from academics, postgraduates, Crown Research Institutes, government and the private sector.

We invite you to come to Wellington a few days early and also attend GeoCart’2022 (Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10th National Cartographic Conference) which will be held from 24-26 August at the Tiakiwai Conference Centre in the National Library of New Zealand, Wellington.

Read the report from the chair, read the conference proceedings, or check out photos of the event.