Subscribe
Subscribe using RSS by clicking the feed icon or enter your email to receive updates via email.
Subscribe to our Blog Feed
Subscribe to our Events Feed
Delivered by FeedBurner
Subscribe using RSS by clicking the feed icon or enter your email to receive updates via email.
Delivered by FeedBurner
Seasons greetings. I am most definitely in wind down mode and looking forward to a trip along the West Coast of New Zealand this holiday. It's been a hectic and very fruitful 8 months, establishing the New Zealand operations of the CRC for Spatial Information and 2011 will see some important milestones being achieved. read more
LINZ is currently developing real-time provision of position data from a number of its PositioNZ stations. PositioNZ is a country-wide network of 33 continuously operating global navigation satellite system (GNSS) stations. read more
Every minute Fonterra saves when collecting milk reaps the company an extra $2 million a year. read more
The Rotorua District Council has launched a new online service that allows people to search by name for an individual cemetery or crematorium record, with results including the exact location of burial. read more
Advances in GPS technology have enabled the mapping of habitat, seabed, catch information, and fish stocks. These advances have helped transform spatial data into meaningful information that can be used to catch fish as well as manage stocks over time. read more
GPS is used by MFish as part of the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) to monitor fishing activities in the New Zealand fishing zone. VMS was introduced in NZ in 1994 and New Zealand currently operates a VMS involving up to 200 fishing vessels. read more
Fisheries stock monitoring for rock lobster has traditionally involved the use of trained technicians in two-person teams on board fishing vessels. These technicians manually record information about rock lobster length, sex, maturity, and injury, as well as weather and sea conditions, water depth, and method of capture. read more
Fonterra is the world's leading exporter of dairy products and responsible for more than a third of international dairy trade. In New Zealand it is co-operatively owned by 11,000 New Zealand dairy farmers. The company's annual turnover is $19.5 billion with a sales volume of 2.6 million tonnes and 15,900 employees. read more
Ravensdown is a large cooperative of New Zealand farmers, formed in 1978 by a group of farmers who wanted to gain better control of their fertiliser supplies (Ravensdown, 2008). Ravensdown reported a turnover of $672 million in 2008, with nearly 1.5 million tonnes of fertiliser sold in that year. read more
This case study has been taken from the Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy - Realising Productivity Gains report, August 2009. read more