Our vision
The Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau is a world class centre of interdisciplinary geospatial expertise in New Zealand.
With our interdisciplinary partnership-based geospatial research, we aim to assist NZ Inc. to:
- Leverage latent value from investments in public and other datasets – Deliver expected productivity gains from smarter use of geospatial data, technologies and analytics
- Grow geospatial capacity, by providing access to a range of types and levels of geospatial capability
- Realise the opportunities for geospatial innovation and R&D offered by the scale and nature of the New Zealand jurisdiction
- Provide ongoing global leadership in the rapidly growing field of indigenous GIS.
Our Mission
Our mission is to be a national centre of gravity for geospatial research to deliver transdisciplinary solutions that enables the benefits of spatial information technology to be fully realised.