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✨Whenua Fridays✨ Keeping on top of weeds and pests across 2 million hectares of Crown land is a constant battle. It requires a strategic and targeted long-term approach. We’ve recently been working with district and regional councils, iwi, landowners and the local community to develop our biosecurity control work programme for the coming year. The programme outlines how we’ll work with our partners to help look after these landscapes and the native species that call them home. The work includes controlling weeds, predators on braided rivers and invasive lakeweeds on LINZ-administered whenua (land) and arawai (waterways), like Lake Whakatipu below. If you’re keen to know more, or check out the work programme visit https://lnkd.in/gSifi3gc

Congratulations to LINZ Senior Geospatial Specialist, Susan Shaw, who has been recognised in this year’s Australasian Women in Emergencies Network (AWE) awards 👏 Today is AWE Day, the yearly event that recognises achievements in the emergency management and disaster resilience field across New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific. Susan has been commended for mentoring, supporting, and encouraging other women in the emergency management and disaster resilience sector 🤝 The award speaks to the work Susan does to support the sector during a response, but also the significant contribution she and her colleagues at LINZ make in ‘peace time’. Susan’s role provides value in three key areas: ·      Improving crucial data in peace time to support emergency managers and decisionmakers ·      Activating in a declared emergency to collect, coordinate and host valuable data ·      Being an active leader in the GEMA - Geospatial Emergency Management Aotearoa community which supports the emergency management system. Data collected during declared emergencies is vital for situational awareness and helps support emergency managers to focus their attention where it is needed the most 🛰 To find out more about Susan’s work, read here: https://lnkd.in/geqcMQB6

Thanks for sharing, Jenny Cameron 🙌 It’s always great to see our maps and databases combined with other data to provide value to communities. Helping the growers and landowners of Aotearoa make more informed decisions is a great potential outcome from this creative application of existing data and tools! Check out the Manawatū CEDA Crop suitability map in Jenny’s post to view the plentiful crop-portunities in the region. 🌿 You can explore other map-based datasets via the LINZ Data Service: data.linz.govt.nz

Experts from all over the world have gathered in Wellington to attend a United Nations (UN)-backed International Committee on GNSS meeting to discuss satellite-based positioning and navigation matters. 🛰️ Together with Geoscience Australia, we’re hosting the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) meeting, which coincides with World Space Week. 🚀 Around 250 delegates are attending the meeting, with 177 joining in-person at the Tākina Convention Centre. This includes representatives from over 20 countries. Minister for Land Information Chris Penk officially welcomed delegates this morning following a traditional Māori welcome, mihi whakatau. LINZ Director – Customer Delivery Michael Appleyard says the meeting is an opportunity to showcase our rocketing space sector and collaborate on satellite-based positioning and navigation of mutual interest. “Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) operate on a basis of global cooperation and coordination across jurisdictions. This meeting is an important opportunity for the international community to come together and align their future plans, share best practice and innovation. “We look forward to showcasing how we’re contributing to this through our joint investment with Geoscience Australia into new satellite infrastructure, the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN).” To find out more, visit ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gucDGUET #ICG #InternationalCommitteeonGlobalNavigationSatelliteSystems #WorldSpaceWeek #SouthPAN United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

✨Map it Monday ✨ Over the last month our Feature Data Squad has worked hard on publishing a spree of updates to our NZ Building Outlines dataset. Updates have been made to the following regions using aerial imagery captured between 2019-2022: Wellington Otago Canterbury Auckland (including some rural areas captured for the first time) Bay of Plenty and Rangitikei Since the middle of last year, we've updated hundreds of thousands of buildings across the country, with 280,472 in the Wellington region alone. The map of Wellington below has been specially treated to show buildings in orange that were captured from urban resolution imagery, and in blue from rural resolution imagery. The updated dataset can be found in the LINZ Data Service here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gV3DCjns #buildings #outlines #aerial #imagery #featuredata

We’re excited to be jointly hosting with Geoscience Australia the United Nations-backed International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) meeting which kicks off today 🛰️ We would like to extend a warm welcome to the 177 delegates from all over the world that have made the trip to discuss satellite-based positioning and navigation matters, as well as the 75 joining us remotely.   Nau mai haere mai 👋 The meeting is an opportunity to come together to align future plans, share best practice and innovation.     NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration European Space Agency - ESA Ayuntamiento de Málaga World Space Week Association Kenya Space Agency IAC2024 United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

✨ Whenua Fridays ✨ Canterbury’s stoney braided riverbeds may not look like the most comfortable place to nest, but for freshwater birds the gravel provides the perfect camouflage for their eggs. Around this time, every year, pied stilt (poaka), banded dotterel (tūturiwhatu), wrybill (ngutu pare), black-fronted terns (tarapirohe) and South Island pied oystercatcher flock to the area to breed. Like clockwork, they’ve returned to the Rakitata and we’ve received reports from our partners that nesting is well underway. The Rakitata is the second largest breeding ground in New Zealand. Over the last five years, we’ve been working with landowners, Environment Canterbury, Department of Conservation (DOC) and Boffa Miskell Limited to control weeds and predators to make these breeding grounds as safe as possible for these vulnerable birds. Around 1800 traps are being serviced again in the Rakitata as part of efforts to give these birds a helping hand. To find out more about the work we’re doing to help native species, visit ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g9s4YrkP

Exciting news! We are looking for motivated policy practitioners who have experience working on large legislative reforms and/or partnering with Māori to enable our ambitious work programme to support the government's plan. We have a number of fixed term roles with a variety of durations available for you to come join our team as an Advisor or Senior Policy Advisor. Wellington and Christchurch locations available; click the links below for more information and to apply: https://lnkd.in/gDGxZ3aW - Christchurch https://lnkd.in/gnVvcmrJ - Wellington

Today marks the start of World Space Week, which celebrates the space, science and technological advancements that benefit our everyday lives. 🚀 It’s fitting this global celebration blasts off today, as 67 years ago the first satellite was launched into space. 🛰️ This breakthrough contributed to the development of GPS and ultimately changed our lives.  GPS supports a number of sectors, from shipping to aviation, and many of us rely on it to get to where we need to be.  Together with Geoscience Australia, we’re proud to be building on this legacy through the development of the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN).   SouthPAN improves positioning accuracy in New Zealand and Australia from five to 10 metres to less than a metre, and in some cases to as little as 10cm.  This precision will help a number of industries, including farming, forestry and aviation, take their productivity to new heights. To find out more, visit ➡️ www.linz.govt.nz/southpan  World Space Week Association #WorldSpaceWeek #SouthPAN

A great example of how our aerial imagery can be georeferenced to show how the landscapes of Aotearoa have changed over time Tom Kay Tom sourced imagery from Basemaps (basemaps.linz.govt.nz) and combined it with imagery from RetroLens (retrolens.co.nz) to create this compelling mosaic of the Ruamahanga River near Martinborough, South Waiarapa District 📍 RetroLens is an interactive way to view images from the Crown Aerial Film Library, featuring over half a million aerial images scanned from our catalogue 📸 The library is an important national taonga, and we’re proud of the work involved in digitising the images in it. The nine-year project ensures the images can be preserved for historical research and future use 🔒 To learn more about the mahi involved, visit https://lnkd.in/gV-7Aqxx