Day 1
TUESDAY, 6 MARCH 2018
Oceania Room
8.30am - Registration
9.00am - Mihi whakatau
Formal welcome and introduction of the Minister
Dr Peter Crabtree, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
9.15am - Welcome
Hon David Parker, Minister for Economic Development
9.30am - Earth observation programmes - Focus on SAR and climate change
Alexander Kaptein, Airbus Defence and Space
10.00am - Earth Observation for Humanity
Dr Niklas Reinke, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
10.30am - K-SAT MicroSAR and maritime surveillance programmes
Borre Pedersen, Kongsberg Satellite Services (K-SAT)
10.50am - Break
11.30am - The Copernicus Programme
Dr Astrid-Christina Koch, European Commission (video conference)
11.45am - Sentinel Hub: Making Earth Observation available to all New Zealanders
Grega Milcinski, Sinergise
12.05pm - Open Data Cube: Making Earth Observation available to all New Zealanders
Dr Robert Woodcock, CSIRO
12.25pm - Panel: Making Earth Observation available to all New Zealanders
Grega Milcinski, Sinergise
Dr Robert Woodcock, CSIRO
Rafael Kargren, Centre for Space Science Technology (CSST)
Graeme Blick, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)
Dr David Pairman, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Rangimarie 1 Room
1.30pm - 1.50pm - Access to orbit for New Zealand innovation
Joshua Lamorie, Rocket Lab
Oceania Room
1pm - 2pm - Lunch
2pm - Mapping New Zealand 2025: Earth Observation
Graeme Blick, LINZ
2.35pm - Operational processing and satellite remote sensing: Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
Dr David Pairman, Dr John Dymond
3.05pm - CSST Strategy and Vision
Steve Cotter, CSST
3.25pm - Strategic space, regional development and collaboration opportunities for New Zealand
Stephen Canny, Venture Southland
3.45pm - Break
4.30pm - Q & A with the day's speakers
6.30pm - Gala Dinner
Foxglove Bar & Kitchen, 33 Queens Wharf, Wellington
Day 2
WEDNESDAY, 7 MARCH 2018
Oceania Room
8.15am
Arrive
8.45am
Strategic context - Land Information
Hon Eugenie Sage - Minister for Land Information
9am - 11am
Parallel Sessions
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
About the speakers & abstracts
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
About the speakers & abstracts
11am
Break
11.30am - 1.10pm
Parallel Sessions
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
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
About the speakers & abstracts
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
About the speakers & abstracts
1.10pm
Lunch
Oceania Room
2pm - 4pm
Workshop: Implementation of the strategy, including establishment of a community
Facilitated by Dr Andrew Cleland, Chief Executive, Royal Society Te Apārangi
4.00pm
Break
4.15pm - 5.15pm
Panel: Remote sensing for conservation and climate change management
5.15pm - 5.30pm
Closing Remarks
Dr Peter Crabtree, MBIE
The two-day colloquium is fully catered and the menu will include morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. Tea and coffee will also be available during catering breaks.
*Please note that the colloquium partners reserve the right to make changes to the programme without notice.
Registrations have now closed.
For any enquiries relating to the Colloquium, please contact
Adina McDowell
Email: Adina@venturesouthland.co.nz