PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING AND OTHER INDUSTRIES
Rangimarie 1 Room

Cloud Computing and Continuous Monitoring of Resource using high Cadence Satellite Data
Dr Pete Watt, Indufor

Combining remote and proximal sensing for lowering barriers in the adoption of precision agriculture
Dr Armin Werner, Lincoln Agritech

SPACE™ – Pasture measurement via satellites
Simon Parry, LIC

Current research and applications of Satellite based observation in Forestry
Bryan Graham, SCION

A bird’s eye view of New Zealand’s forest carbon uptake: using atmospheric data and high resolution models to estimate CO2 exchange with our land biosphere
Dr Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, NIWA

Satellite Earth observations to optimise sustainable crop production in New Zealand
Allister Holmes, Foundation for Arable Research

Application of extended multispectral satellite data for orogenic and geothermal mineral mapping in New Zealand
Dr Salman Ashraf, GNS Science

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WORKSHOP
TOWARDS A TEN YEAR EARTH OBSERVATION STRATEGY FOR NEW ZEALAND
Oceania Room

Facilitated by Dr Andrew Cleland,
Chief Executive, Royal Society Te Apārangi

MAPPING AND MONITORING OF WATER
AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
Rangimarie 2 Room
 

Observing long-term change in New Zealand’s coasts and oceans: satellite observation of water quality and productivity
Dr Matt Pinkerton, NIWA

How earth observation imaging platforms can improve maritime domain awareness systems
Paul Kennedy, MDA Corporation

25 years of getting value from satellite observations
Dr Michael Uddstrom, NIWA

Aquatic Earth Observation: State-of-the-art, case studies, and looking forward
Dr Magnus Wettle, EOMAP Australia

Using Remotely Sensed Tools for Combined Drought Indicators to Enhance Drought Early Warning for Decision Support
Dr Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center/University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Developing, validating, and using a Combined Drought Indicator: insights from co-development approaches in Tunisia
Stephen Fragaszy, Ministry for the Environment

Nowcasting convective weather in New Zealand using neural networks
Dr Sébastien Delaux, Met Ocean Solutions

Remote Sensing for Automated Lake Monitoring
Dr Moritz Lehmann, University of Waikato

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NEW SPACE - NANOSATELLITES AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SPACE FOR NEW ZEALAND
Rangimarie 1 Room

Responsive New Space
Dr John Kay, Defence Technology Agency

University of Canterbury Sounding Rocket Program – development of research foundation and student training for the NZ space industry
Dr Chris Hann, University of Canterbury

Space Systems Development at The University of Auckland
Dr Nicholas Rattenbury & Dr John Cater, University of Auckland

Ground network capability for new space
Borre Pedersen, Kongsberg Satellite Services

ATLAS – An Enabling Technology Partner for New Zealand
Mike Carey, Atlas Space Operations

The future of the space industry from the perspective of Maxar Technologies including potential commercial challenges and opportunities
Tod Cooper, MDA Corporation

Continuing Satellite Ground Station Developments in Southland
Robin McNeill, Venture Southland 

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MAPPING AND MONITORING
OF LAND ENVIRONMENTS
Oceania Room

Advances in remote sensing for terrestrial hydrology
Dr Delwyn Moller, Centre for Space Science Technology

New eyes to shed new light on New Zealand ever-changing topography
Dr Pascal Sirguey, University of Otago

Natural Hazard Remote Sensing: using satellite and aerial imagery to map landslides in New Zealand
Katie Jones, GNS Science

12-years of earth observation for greenhouse gas reporting in New Zealand
Deborah Burgess, Ministry for the Environment

Expanding forest plot data using UAVs and terrestrial lidar to better ground-truth satellite data
Dr Ben Jolly, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Application of remote sensing products and techniques at ecologically relevant spatial scales
Terry Greene,  Department of Conservation

Automatic masking of cloud & cloud shadow from New Zealand’s Sentinel 2 imagery – not an easy task
Dr James Shepherd, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Vertical GPS, tectonics and effective sea level rise in New Zealand
Dr Tim Stern, Victoria University of Wellington

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BIG DATA, A.I. AND
MACHINE LEARNING
Rangimarie 2 Room

How reliable is your Data?
Nicolás Erdödy, Open Parallel Ltd

Lauder, a hot spot for satellite climate observations
Dave Pollard, NIWA

Exploring the benefits of cloud computing services on satellite data processing
Dr Rogier Westerhoff, GNS Science

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leaning, 'deep learning' models in New Zealand Agriculture and the problems that can be solved with satellite data
James Beech and Tony Cooper, Precision AI

Build automated feature extraction systems from data collected from any platform
Kurt Janssen, Orbica
 

Monitoring Big Issues with Big Data – developments at the University of Waikato
Dr Mathew Allan, University of Waikato

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