New Zealand Geospatial Research and Development Priorities and Opportunities 2016 - 2020
Working in partnership to grow benefits for end users
Section C – Supplementary Information Section C
Purpose 1 Part 1: The Process 2 Part 2: The New Zealand science system 4 Part 3: Datasets – what government has and where 7 to find them Part 4: Overarching research and development 8 priorities: specific topic areas
T1 Crowd-sourcing 8
T2 Data Intensity 9
T3 Data Management and Governance 10
T4 Fundamental Datasets 11
T5 High Value Manufacturing and Services (HVMS) 12
T6 Interoperability and Standards 13
T7 Metadata 15
Part 5: Workshop themes – sector areas 16
W1 Auckland for Today and Tomorrow 16
W2 Buildings and Urban Planning 20
W3 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 24
W4 Culture, Heritage and Tourism 29
W5 Energy and Minerals 32
W6 Environment 36
W7 Emergency and Related Services 42
W8 Health and Society 48
W9 National Infrastructure 52
W10 National Resilience to Natural Hazards 59
W11 Primary Industries 62
W12 Strategic Interests Beyond our Borders 70
Front Cover Image: David Allen, NIWA
New Zealand Geospatial Research and Development Priorities and Opportunities December 2015 Supplementary Information Purpose
This document is supplementary to the New Zealand Geospatial Research and Development Priorities and Opportunities 2016-20201 document. It provides more in-depth information about: • the process used to identify New Zealand’s geospatial research and development (R&D) priorities and opportunities (Part 1) • the New Zealand science system (Part 2) • what government datasets are available and where to find them (Part 3) • the R&D opportunities identified and prioritised during the stakeholder workshops, and their linkages to end user needs and benefits (Parts 4 and 5).
1 A copy of this document can be viewed at or downloaded from www.linz.govt.nz/grdpo-overview
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Part 1: The process
How was the information gathered? An important element of gathering the information to inform this document was the guiding framework applied by the workshop facilitator, Phil Driver of OpenStrategies.2 The framework was designed to ensure the ideas generated had linkages, and therefore alignment, between R&D end users and R&D providers (Figure 1).
In this chain, there is direct engagement between the R&D end user and the R&D provider which supports the seamless adoption of the R&D outputs by the end user at the point of handover. Figure 1 demonstrates the use of this framework, using Landcare Research’s precision agriculture programme as an example.4
Why does all of this matter? As the strength and alignment of these linkages increases, so does the creation of benefits from the R&D by the end user. Creating benefits for end users creates benefit and value for New Zealand.
FIGURE 1 – THE PROJECTS-RESULTS-USES-BENEFITS FRAMEWORK3
R&D providers Handover R&D end users
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Engage
How do soil properties vary High resolution baseline/data Irrigate the farm to maintain Higher disposable income spatially over the farm? about soil properties potential yield without by having a profitable and causing drainage and nutrient productive farm leaching losses associated with irrigation events
How can soil moisture be Array of soil moisture sensors Resilient business – able to monitored and recorded transmitting information to operate within regulatory in real time at a number of a central point that stores boundaries specific locations? and make accessible real- time spatial data about soil moisture
2 Further information regarding this Project-Results-Uses-Benefit (PRUB) framework and OpenStrategies can be found at: http://openstrategies.com/. 3 R&D project results include such things as information, sensors, apps, cloud-based services, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). 4 Hedley, C., Roudier, P. (2014 March). Maximising the value of irrigation: new technologies for precision management Landcare Research. Retreived from http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/71755/Maximising-the-value-of-irrigation.pdf.
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What workshops were held? Participants were invited to attend workshops based on their sector knowledge and their roles as R&D providers and end users. There was an overarching focus for each workshop on the “benefit for New Zealand”. Māori and iwi participation was sought for all workshops.
In total, over 200 people attended the 14 workshops. Two main types of workshops were held:
1. Sector-specific workshops These workshops were informed by national strategic priorities, the government-based science investment instruments5 and ACIL Tasman’s report on the value of geospatial information to the New Zealand economy.6 The themes for these workshops were:
• Auckland for Today and Tomorrow • Buildings and Urban Planning • Canterbury Earthquake Recovery • Culture, Heritage and Tourism • Energy and Minerals • Environment • Emergency and Related Services • Health and Society • National Infrastructure7 • National Resilience to Natural Hazards • Primary Industries (2 workshops) – agriculture and forestry – fisheries and aquaculture • Strategic Interests8 Beyond our Borders.
2. A common theme workshop The aim of this workshop was to discuss the overarching themes identified during the sector- specific workshops that link R&D projects to end user uses and benefits. In addition, there was open discussion about any other matters relevant to geospatial R&D that the partipants felt were important.
What happened after the workshops? We discussed the key material gathered from the workshops with technical experts, particularly in relation to R&D priorities. We also consulted with an Advisory Group,9 which helped inform the development of this document.
5 Note these were the government-based science investment instruments for 2014 and previous years. 6 ACIL Tasman Pty Ltd. (2009 August). Spacial Information in the New Zealand Economy: Realising Productivity Gains. Retrieved from http://www.linz.govt.nz/about-linz/our-location-strategy/geospatial-projects/spatial-information-new-zealand-economy. 7 This workshop excluded building stock as this was covered in the Buildings and Urban Planning workshop. 8 This workshop included matters relating to Antarctica and international treaty-related obligations. 9 The Advisory Group included representatives from LINZ, MBIE, Treasury, R&D providers and the private sector.
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Part 2: The New Zealand science system
New Zealand’s science system has some well-developed capability in many areas, which has helped New Zealand thrive and be competitive in world markets. Our science system is however more complex than it needs to be. Government is working to reduce this complexity and thereby improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
In October 2015 The National Statement of Science Investment10 was published by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). It provides a very comprehensive and useful review of the science system. Additional information on the science system can also be found in MBIE’s 2014 Draft National Statement of Science Investment. The material presented below has drawn on these documents.
What are the levels of publicly funded R&D? The Government invests over $1.4 billion per annum in science and innovation, a figure which has grown by over 70% since 2007/08. This investment can be segmented into four broad funding types:
1. Investigator-led Science Research that generates ideas, expands the knowledge base and contributes to the development of advanced research skills:
• The Marsden Fund ($53.6m): a competitive mechanism to fund excellent, investigator-led research that advances and expands the knowledge base and is not subject to government’s socio-economic priorities, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. • Centres of Research Excellence ($50.7m): a competitive mechanism to fund collaborative research networks to support growth in world class research and researchers in areas of importance to New Zealand, administered by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). • Performance-Based Research Fund ($300m): allocates funding to tertiary education organisations based on their past research performance, administered by the TEC.
2. Mission-led Science Science undertaken towards a particular policy aim or goal:
• MBIE contestable funds ($190m): competitive process to fund research with the potential to deliver long-term, transformative impact for New Zealand. • National Science Challenges (NSCs) ($68m plus up to $64.3m of aligned Crown Research Institute core funding): a collaborative mechanism to fund research that addresses complex, long-term, national–scale issues for New Zealand, administered by MBIE. • Health Research Council (HRC) funds ($77.2m): mainly contestable funding focused on health and quality of life. • Crown Research Institute (CRI) core funding ($201.6m): direct funding to CRIs to enable them to meet their core purpose, administered by MBIE.
3. Industry-led Science Typically applied research either conducted within firms or in partnership with public research organisations, which will result in measurable benefit to firms and the economy:
• Callaghan Innovation ($68m): assists firms to develop the skills, expertise and connections to successfully develop ideas and take them to the market, administered by Callaghan Innovation.11 • Business R&D Grants ($165m): market-led cash incentives for firms to increase their R&D investment and support commercial R&D skills and capability development, administered by Callaghan Innovation. • The Primary Growth Partnership ($65m): aimed at market-driven innovations to drive substantial economic growth in the primary and food sectors through joint government and industry investment, administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). • Partnerships ($25-30m annually): partnerships between end users and research organisations – industry provides co-funding.
10 Further information can be found at http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/science-innovation/national-statement-science-investment. 11 Callaghan Innovation is a Crown entity that works with businesses to improve their growth and competitiveness through innovation.
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4. Tactical Funds MBIE has a number of funds with a more specific immediate policy aim that span the above three categories and support science across the whole system:
• Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund ($6.6m): invests in development of skilled people and organisations undertaking research to unlock the potential of Māori knowledge, resources and people for the benefit of New Zealand. • International Relationships ($9.35m): builds international relationships to ensure New Zealand science operates at the forefront of new knowledge and technology and leverages international opportunities. • Science in Society ($9m): invests in encouraging greater engagement with science and technology across all sectors of New Zealand to ensure the public is able to benefit from advances in science and technology. • Infrastructure Investments ($24.6m under contract to research infrastructures): supports access to fit-for-purpose and internationally competitive large-scale science infrastructure.
In addition to publicly funded research, New Zealand businesses funded $1,068 million of R&D in 2014. $927 million (87%) of this R&D was performed within businesses, $107 million (10%) was contracted out to government research organisations, and $33 million (3%) was contracted to universities. In 2014 New Zealand businesses funded 74% of their own R&D, government funding accounted for 11% and overseas sources a further 12%.
Where has MBIE invested its science and innovation funds? MBIE is the main government investor in R&D. The MBIE website contains a section, “Who got funded”,12 which identifies both historic and current MBIE and Callaghan Innovation investment information including details of the contract title, contract duration, contracting organisation, contact person, total funding and a description of the R&D being funded.
WHO ARE THE MAIN PUBLICLY SUPPORTED R&D PROVIDERS? New Zealand is fortunate to have a number of organisations that conduct a broad range of R&D to generate benefit to New Zealand. New Zealand has eight universities,13 14 institutes of technology and polytechnics,14 and three wānanga1,5 spread across the North and South Islands.
In contrast, CRI R&D activities are clustered around key areas known as their ‘core purpose’ as shown in the table on page 5. Further information about other active R&D providers in New Zealand can be found on the MBIE website.16
13 Further information can be found at http://www.universitiesnz.ac.nz/nz-university-system. 14 Further information can be found at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/providers-partners/about-education-organisations/itps-in-new-zealand/. 15 Further information can be found at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/audience-pages/wananga/. 16 Further information can be found at http://www.msi.govt.nz/get-connected/science-and-innovation-in-nz/.
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CRIS AND THEIR CORE PURPOSE
AgResearch – www.agresearch.co.nz AgResearch’s purpose is to enhance the value, productivity and profitability of New Zealand’s pastoral, agri-food and agri-technology sector value chains to contribute to economic growth and beneficial environmental and social outcomes for New Zealand.
Environmental Science and Research (ESR) – www.esr.cri.nz ESR’s purpose is to deliver enhanced scientific and research services to the public health, food safety, security and justice systems and the environmental sector to improve the safety and contribute to the economic, environmental and social well being of people and communities in New Zealand.
GNS Science – www.gns.cri.nz GNS Science’s purpose is to undertake research that: drives innovation and economic growth in New Zealand’s geologically based energy and minerals industries; develops industrial and environmental applications of nuclear science; increases New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards; and enhances understanding of geological and earth-system processes. GNS Science also operates GeoNet.
Landcare Research – www.landcareresearch.co.nz Landcare Research’s purpose is to drive innovation in New Zealand’s management of terrestrial biodiversity and land resources, in order to both protect and enhance the terrestrial environment and grow New Zealand’s prosperity.
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) – www.niwa.co.nz NIWA’s purpose is: to enhance the economic value and sustainable management of New Zealand’s aquatic resources and environments; to provide understanding of climate and the atmosphere; and to increase resilience to weather and climate hazards to improve the safety and well being of New Zealanders.
Plant and Food Research – www.plantandfood.co.nz Plant & Food Research’s purpose is to enhance the value and productivity of New Zealand’s horticultural, arable, seafood and food and beverage industries, to contribute to economic growth and the environmental and social prosperity of New Zealand.
SCION – www.scionresearch.com Scion’s purpose is to drive innovation and growth from New Zealand’s forestry, wood product and wood-derived materials and other biomaterial sectors, to create economic value and contribute to beneficial environmental and social outcomes for New Zealand.
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Part 3: Datasets – what government has and where to find them
Open government New Zealand is internationally recognised for its history of open and transparent government. One of the pillars of open and transparent government is open government data and information.17 Evidence suggests that opening up government data and information for reuse has considerable and widespread benefits to government, industry and the public. At the same time, technological and cultural advances also make it cheaper and easier to reuse this data and information. A number of compelling case studies have been made available that show how public data has been reused in innovative ways to create value.18 Examples include the Land Air Water Aotearoa platform (LAWA),19 Land Cover Database,20 and the LINZ Data Service.21
There are a number of important policies and initiatives that support this programme such as the “Declaration on Open and Transparent Government”,22 NZGOAL (New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing) framework23 and New Zealand Data Futures Forum.24
Where can government open data be obtained? New Zealand government open data can be discovered via the website https://data.govt.nz/. This portal provides access to over 3,700 datasets that have been collected by government in areas such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries, health, education and justice. This is an invaluable resource to those who can reuse this data for other activities.
Other sources of data are also listed on the data.govt.nz website.25
Dataset stocktakes There are many datasets that have been collected that are not in the public domain. Unfortunately, there is no single list of all government-collected datasets. However, in 2012, Statistics New Zealand conducted the Stocktake for the Environment Domain Plan,26 which provides an overview of the national-level environmental statistics and data currently available in 10 environmental topic areas, namely:
• climate change • atmosphere • fresh water • coastal and marine environment • land • materials and waste • energy • mineral resources • ecosystems and biodiversity • Māori environmental statistics.
The stocktake was compiled with the cooperation of many data custodians, including government agencies and CRIs.
17 Further information can be found at https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/. 18 Further information can be found at https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/case-studies/open-data/. 19 Further information can be found at http://www.lawa.org.nz/. 20 Further information can be found at https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/. 21 Further information can be found at https://data.linz.govt.nz/. 22 Further information can be found at https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/declaration-open-and- transparent-government/. 23 Further information can be found at https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/new-zealand-government- open-access-and-licensing-nzgoal-framework/. 24 Further information can be found at https://www.ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/open-government/nzdff/. 25 Further information can be found at https://data.govt.nz/forums/. 26 Further information can be found at http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/environment/environmental-economic-accounts/ environment-domain-plan-stocktake-paper.aspx.
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Part 4: Overarching research and development priorities: specific topic areas
This section is segmented into various topic areas that recurred across the majority of workshops. These areas have been listed in alphabetical order.
T1 Crowd-sourcing
Stakeholders in the sector workshops identified crowd-sourcing as a means of collecting and validating new geospatial data and information, especially in real time. However it was seldom proposed how this could be done effectively. R&D is required to identify cost-effective methods for sourcing and validating new geospatial data and information, and to define appropriate standards and processes for effective crowd-sourcing. Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to identify what Reports which dentify is unique about crowd- what is unique about sourced geospatial data crowd-sourced geospatial and the potential value data and the potential and impact of crowd- value and impact of sourced geospatial data crowd-sourced geospatial data
Research to identify Reports which identify opportunities for opportunities for extracting geospatial extracting more, and datasets and information more valuable, geospatial from existing crowd- datasets and information sourced datasets (eg from existing crowd- supermarket data) sourced datasets
Research to define and Reports and mechanisms develop mechanisms for on effective crowd- effective crowd-sourcing sourcing of reliable of reliable geospatial geospatial datasets and datasets and information information via a range of eg from technical experts, channels topic-enthusiasts, Google, social media, ‘instruments’ such as mobile phones etc
Research to identify and Reports which define and recommend protocols, recommend protocols, methods and procedures methods and procedures for addressing trust/ for addressing trust/ liability/validation issues liability/validation issues associated with crowd- associated with crowd- sourced geospatial data sourced geospatial data
Research to define how Reports which define how to use crowd-sourced to use crowd-sourced geospatial datasets and geospatial datasets and information to update information to update and validate existing non- and validate existing non- crowd-sourced datasets crowd-sourced datasets and information and how to and information and how to ‘mash-up’ the metadata for ‘mash-up’ the metadata for such combined datasets such combined datasets
Crowd-source the New or refined geospatial End users better manage Economic, social, collection, validation data available to end users their resources guided by environmental and cultural and dissemination of and other stakeholders new crowd-sourced and benefits to end users and geospatial data and validated data (mostly New Zealanders make it readily available geospatial datasets and to end users and other information which may stakeholders have been crowd-source captured, processed and validated)
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T2 Data Intensity
The required intensity of geospatial data (eg number, interoperability, resolution, accuracy, precision, ‘fitness-for-purpose’ of data and frequency of data collection) varies across New Zealand. For example, urban areas may require more geospatial datasets, with greater accuracy, than high country national parks.
There are currently no clear criteria for defining the intensity of geospatial data across New Zealand. R&D is required to conduct a stocktake of what is already available, as well as develop a ‘map’ of the ideal ‘intensity of geospatial data’ for all of New Zealand, to guide and prioritise future geospatial data collection and dissemination.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to define the Reports which define the concept of ‘geospatial data concept of ‘geospatial data intensity’ (with respect intensity’ (with respect to space, time, frequency to space, time, frequency and potentially other and potentially other parameters) parameters)
Research to identify Reports which identify and catalogue existing and catalogue the existing intensity of geospatial content of geospatial dataset contents and to datasets and their data objectively quantify the intensity, and which extent to which the current objectively quantify the data intensity enables end extent to which their users to generate value current data intensity using these datasets enables end users to generate value
Research to correlate end Reports which correlate users’ needs for specific desirable levels of (new) levels of data data intensity with the intensity with the potential value that end users value that end users could can generate with that generate, and hence justify intensity, and hence justify increased data intensity and secure funding for for the content of selected more collection of data at geospatial datasets optimal intensity
Development projects More (or less) intense End users better manage Economic, social, to create more (or less) geospatial datasets readily their resources guided environmental and cultural intense geospatial datasets available to be used for by geospatial datasets of benefits to end users and where doing so has been additional value creation appropriate data intensity New Zealanders shown objectively to lead through end users’ uses of for their needs to worthwhile additional these geospatial datasets value creation through end users’ uses of these geospatial datasets
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T3 Data Management and Governance
Governance issues relating to geospatial information and data (ie non-technical issues such as privacy, confidentiality, ownership, discoverability, access and liability) are often seen by end users as major impediments to the rapid and increasing use of geospatial information by end users. R&D is required to develop a minimum set of standards, possibly informed by best practice from overseas, to define the governance criteria of all key geospatial datasets irrespective of whether they are freely available and in the public domain, or available through commercial providers.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to identify the Reports which quantify the magnitude and impact of magnitude and impact of the default withholding of the default withholding of geospatial resources from geospatial resources from potential end users potential end users
Research to identify why Reports which identify why many owners of geospatial many owners of geospatial resources default to the resources default to the position of not releasing position of not releasing their data, whether or not their data, whether or not this non-release is justified, this non-release is justified, and what governance and what governance changes would liberate changes would liberate more geospatial resources more geospatial resources
Develop business cases Approved business cases and secure funding for and secured funding for improving the governance improving the governance (including potentially (including potentially legislation and enforceable legislation and enforceable standards) of geospatial standards) of geospatial resources resources
Develop and implement As much as possible of End users manage their Economic, social, improved governance NZ’s geospatial resources resources more effectively environmental and cultural policies, regulations, are discoverable, by using geospatial benefits to end users and procedures and incentives accessible and available to resources which they New Zealanders for the better governance end users with minimal but readily discovered, of NZ’s geospatial resource appropriate governance accessed and used within assets an effective and efficient governance framework
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T4 Fundamental Datasets
The work being undertaken to scope, identify, qualify and make readily available fundamental geospatial datasets and information is critically important to progress the development of a national spatial data infrastructure (SDI).
To more rapidly achieve this goal it was suggested that a hierarchy of fundamental datasets may be required to help inform future resource allocation. This hierarchy could be based on, for example: a) meeting population needs (eg positioning, elevation and time) b) meeting the majority of stakeholders’ needs c) meeting the needs of a smaller, but significant subset of key stakeholders.
R&D is required to determine the best approach to progress the availability of the fundamental datasets.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to quantitatively Reports which determine the net quantitatively define the value to NZ of each net value to NZ of each fundamental dataset fundamental dataset and of combinations of and of combinations of fundamental datasets, and fundamental datasets ,and hence develop a hierarchy hence define a hierarchy of of fundamental datasets fundamental datasets
Research to determine Reports which quantify the extent to which the extent to which implementation of implementation of interoperability standards interoperability standards for fundamental datasets for fundamental datasets will drive implementation will drive implementation of interoperability of interoperability standards for other data standards for other data
Development projects A hierarchy of End users better manage Economic, social, to establish, make fundamental datasets their resources guided by environmental and cultural discoverable, accessible and interoperable clusters discoverable, accessible benefits to end users and and usable a hierarchy of of key fundamental and interoperable New Zealand fundamental datasets and datasets is readily fundamental datasets, and interoperable clusters of discoverable, accessible clusters of fundamental key fundamental datasets and interoperable by end datasets which are also users interoperable
Development projects Non-fundamental datasets End users better manage Economic, social, to make accessible which are interoperable their resources guided by environmental and cultural and usable non- with fundamental datasets, discoverable, accessible benefits to end users and fundamental datasets and which are themselves and interoperable non- New Zealand which nevertheless need interoperable fundamental datasets, and to interoperate with clusters of fundamental fundamental datasets, datasets which are also and which are themselves interoperable interoperable
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T5 High Value Manufacturing and Services
A number of stakeholders expressed the view that the uniqueness of how geospatial data and information is used in New Zealand creates opportunities for us to develop unique tools, devices and systems which have domestic as well as international potential. Examples given included:
• the use of sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) • feature extraction from geospatial data • evaluating existing developments in the semantic web and how such developments can improve user-friendliness, usefulness and fitness-for-purpose of geospatial data and information for end users • improvements to geospatial resource processing and visualisation coupled with semantic web developments.
Participants thought that such R&D activities could form the basis for a thriving geospatial sector.
R&D investment is required to identify and develop these New Zealand-specific geospatial opportunities.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to identify and Reports which identify and Economic, social, quantify characteristics quantify characteristics environmental and cultural which are unique to NZ unique to NZ in terms of benefits to overseas in terms of geospatial geospatial developments, customers and their developments, governance governance and uses countries and uses
Develop and export Geospatial products and Overseas customers Sustainably profitable NZ geospatial products and systems which are unique improve resource manufacturers of uniquely systems which are unique to NZ are available in management by buying NZ geospatial products to NZ (guided by the export markets and using uniquely NZ and services reports which define the geospatial products and potential for developments services which are unique to NZ)
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T6 Interoperability and Standards
There is significant value if geospatial datasets can be standardised and made interoperable. However, to achieve full interoperability of all or most key datasets in the near future would require a significant investment. In the meantime, geospatial specialists are already able to make sense of and inter-link existing geospatial datasets sufficiently well for selected end user purposes.
During the past decade there has been significant investment internationally to develop the necessary architecture and geospatial standards to support access to and reuse of complex geospatial data and information, across networked environments. These standards contribute towards the achievement of interoperability.27
It is currently rare to be able to seamlessly use a number of geospatial resources. One of the barriers is lack of knowledge, capability or capacity to adopt the new standards and apply new approaches, especially as significant investment has already been made in getting our existing, closed processes to work.
R&D is required to fully understand the potential and the constraints of standardisation and interoperability, and how to address these.
27 Interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify current and Reports which define achievable levels of current and achievable end users’ and policy- levels of end users’ makers’ geospatial and policy-makers’ literacy to define geospatial literacy and minimum requirements minimum requirements for geospatial resource for geospatial resource interoperability that enable interoperability so that the end users of these end users can generate resources to generate value for NZ from these value for NZ resources
Develop business cases Convincing business cases and secure funding have secured funding to develop and adopt to develop and adopt interoperability standards interoperability standards and systems sufficient to and systems sufficient to enable more widespread enable more widespread use of geospatial resources use of geospatial resources by end users and by end users and policy- policy-makers makers
Develop business cases Convincing business cases and secure funding to have secured funding to develop and adopt training develop and adopt training programmes to enable end programmes to enable end users and policy-makers to users and policy-makers to gain sufficient skills to use gain sufficient skills to use and understand geospatial and understand geospatial resource interoperability resource interoperability
Projects to develop and Interoperability standards adopt interoperability and systems have been standards and systems widely adopted and sufficient to enable are sufficient to enable more widespread use of more widespread use of geospatial resources by geospatial resources by end users and policy- moderately geospatial- makers literate end users and policy-makers
Projects to develop and Sufficient training and adopt sufficient training skills-development and skills-development programmes available for programmes for policy-makers and end policy-makers and end users of interoperable users of interoperable geospatial resources geospatial resources
Policy-makers and end Policy-makers and end users improve their users of interoperable interoperable geospatial geospatial resources have resources skills up to a sufficient geospatial minimum sufficient level literacy to enable them to enable them to use and to use and understand understand sufficiently interoperable geospatial interoperable geospatial resources resources
Policy-makers and Appropriate policies and/ End users better manage Economic, social, regulators develop policies or approved resource their resources guided by environmental and cultural and/or approve resource consents are in place sufficiently interoperable benefits to end users and consents guided by their (their development having geospatial resources New Zealanders enhanced geospatial been guided by enhanced coupled with the end literacy and their use geospatial literacy and users’ appropriate level of and understanding of use and understanding of geospatial literacy sufficiently interoperable interoperable geospatial geospatial resources resources)
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T7 Metadata
A recurring end user theme was the need for metadata that enables end users to determine the validity and liability status of individual and combined geospatial datasets, including metadata on the accuracy, cleanliness and consistency of geospatial data and metadata, whether the geospatial data is up-to-date, and whether the geospatial data and information is fit-for-purpose for individual end user needs.
R&D is needed to define a minimum set of standards and processes for categorising geospatial datasets and information, so that end users know what level of confidence they can have in such geospatial data and information.
While significant resources need to be invested in geospatial dataset standardisation and interoperability, an equally significant amount needs to be invested in increasing the geospatial literacy of end users, policy-makers and consultants.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to identify Reports which identify why existing metadata why existing metadata standards are not being standards are not being widely adopted for widely adopted for geospatial resources, and to geospatial resources, the identify the impediments to impediments to adoption adoption and recommend and recommended incentives for adoption of incentives for adoption of metadata standards metadata standards
When a robust Awaiting results of the first understanding has been project developed as per the first project, implement the recommendations for improving metadata standards and adoption
Assuming the current Reports on protocols, metadata standards are methods and tools for the fit-for-purpose, conduct ‘mash-up’ of metadata research into protocols, when geospatial resources methods and tools for the are combined ‘mash-up’ of metadata when geospatial resources are combined
Developers and integrators Robust geospatial End users manage their Economic, social, of geospatial resources resources and meta- resources better guided by environmental and cultural adopt metadata standards, datasets are readily geospatial resources and benefits to end users and protocols and methods for available to end users metadata, and by inter- New Zealanders the ‘mash-up’ of metadata linked geospatial resources and so produce robust with suitably ‘mashed-up’ datasets and meta- metadata which they datasets understand and can apply
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Part 5: Workshop themes – sector areas
W1 Auckland for Today and Tomorrow
CONTEXT Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city with a population of approximately 1,500,000, which equates to over 30% of the country’s population. The wider Auckland region, including the rural areas and towns north and south of the urban area, plus the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, is governed by the Auckland Council. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world.
Auckland is in a phase of significant urban growth involving major infrastructure development and construction projects. The scale of this growth is equivalent to developing three additional Christchurch-sized cities in the next 30 years.
Auckland lies on and around an isthmus, which is less than two kilometres wide at its narrowest point between Mangere Inlet and the Tamaki River. There are two harbours in the Auckland urban area surrounding this isthmus: Waitemata Harbour to the north and Manukau Harbour to the south. The total coastline of Auckland is 3,702 km in length. Auckland has a total of approximately 21,000 km of rivers and streams, about 8% of these in urban areas.
Auckland straddles the Auckland volcanic field, which has produced about 90 volcanic eruptions from 50 volcanoes in the last 90,000 years. Surface features include cones, lakes, lagoons, islands and depressions.
Given the significance of Auckland, any R&D activities that can support its longer-term development and sustainability will also have a significant impact and create wider benefits for New Zealand.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Auckland Council www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz The Auckland Council has a developed a shared vision – to be the world’s most livable city – and it has a single plan to deliver on this vision. The Auckland Plan aims to tackle such issues as: • reducing transport and housing shortages • giving children and young people a better start • creating more jobs • protecting the environment. Other useful planning documents include the Auckland Council’s: • Long Term Plan • Economic Development Strategy.
R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES Auckland Council has its own Research Group that has published the Auckland Council Research Strategy and Priority Research Areas 2013 – 2016 to guide R&D activities that target Auckland Council needs. The Council is leading New Zealand in its efforts to develop and implement a marine spatial plan for the Hauraki Gulf, the Sea Change project,1 which involves a number of parties working in partnership to secure the Hauraki Gulf as a healthy, productive and sustainable resource for all users now and in the future.
1 Further information can be found at http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/planspoliciesprojects/plansstrategies/seachange/Pages/ home.aspx.
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WORKSHOP OUTCOMES The workshop with Auckland stakeholders identified geospatial data and information as contributing strongly to the benefits of safe and secure land, buildings, and infrastructure at minimal cost. Potential users of geospatial information include land owners, insurers, developers, regulators, funders and asset owners. Geospatial projects identified included natural hazards, urban development and dissemination of location-based information models and systems.
The sector specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop and disseminate A natural hazards checklist Auckland landowners, Safe and secure Auckland a natural hazards checklist based on geospatial insurers, developers, land, buildings and based on geospatial information covering all regulators and others infrastructure etc, which information covering natural hazards available make and implement has been achieved at all natural hazards that to landowners, insurers, good decisions on minimal cost landowners, insurers, developers, regulators the management of developers, regulators and others to use to land, buildings and and others can use to guide land, building and infrastructure guide land, building and infrastructure decisions infrastructure decisions
Develop and disseminate Location-based models Asset managers optimally Robust and well- location-based models and systems for each fund and manage performing infrastructure and systems for each and every component complicated sets of assets at lowest possible and every component in infrastructure assets guided by detailed cost in infrastructure networks (power, water, geolocated information networks (power, water, sewage, telecoms) and on every aspect and sewage, telecoms) and its associated local component of their asset its associated local environment networks environment
Determine how to NZ’s deformation models Infrastructure asset integrate, and then and actual deformations managers optimise asset implement and are integrated into management guided by disseminate, NZ’s geolocated tools, systems geospatial information deformation models and and real-time databases on historical, recent and actual deformations into and are readily available predicted deformations geolocated tools, systems and real-time databases
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
AUCKLAND FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop and disseminate a natural A natural hazards database/risk Stakeholders have a natural Citizens/communities of future hazards database/risk profile of the profile of the Auckland region using hazards database/risk profile growth areas are safe and resilient Auckland region using ‘regional’ ‘regional’ datasets (to support future of the Auckland region that is because natural hazards have been datasets (to support future growth/ growth/decision-making) that is well-understood to support considered. decision-making). widely available and readily decisions about future growth. understandable (by many different stakeholders).
Develop and disseminate one or A set of widely known natural Landowners, developers, councils etc Landowners, developers, councils more natural hazards checklists to: hazards checklists that: have future-proofed assets and and other stakeholders have • inform landowners and potential • informs landowners and potential infrastructure because their confidence that their assets are safe. landowners of natural hazard risks landowners of natural hazard risks investment and maintenance and (perhaps) how to manage and (perhaps) how to manage decisions were well informed by such risks such risks natural hazards checklists. • support financing/lending • supports financing/lending organisations to make lending organisations to make lending decisions decisions Insurance companies and banks Insurance and lending is fair and • become incorporated in • becomes incorporated in make wise lending and insurance sustainable for all concerned sale-and-purchase agreements for sale-and-purchase agreements for decisions guided by natural hazard (insurance companies, lenders, use by the real estate industry use by the real estate industry checklists. owners and developers of buildings • assist landowners and insurance • assists landowners and insurance and infrastructure etc). companies to create fair and companies to create fair and reasonable insurance contracts. reasonable insurance contracts.
Determine community perceptions of Documents which define community Citizens and communities live safely Citizens/communities are safe natural hazard risk (what is perceptions of natural hazard risk because they have chosen where to and resilient. acceptable/tolerable and what isn't). (what is acceptable/tolerable and live and/or how to manage natural what isn't). hazard risks and/or how to be better prepared for emergencies guided by natural hazards checklists.
Develop, disseminate and promote National standards for geospatial Building owners, developers and Safer public and building occupiers; national standards for geospatial datasets relevant to earthquake- territorial authorities upgrade/ reduced insurance costs for building datasets relevant to earthquake- prone buildings which are widely manage earthquake-prone buildings owners; easier access to building prone buildings. known and understood (such guided by understandable geospatial finance; higher confidence of all geospatial datasets likely to include: information and other information on stakeholders that buildings are safe building shape; construction; the buildings and the hazards and comply with relevant criteria. property risks and hazards; reliable associated with their sites. point-of-truth data; precise geospatial tagging etc).
Develop, integrate and disseminate Integrated, disseminated and widely Asset and infrastructure managers Lower costs of asset and geospatial information (and its understood geospatial information align their similarly geolocated infrastructure management; less associated system) for sharing (and its associated system) for investments and maintenance disruption to citizens and information on assets and sharing information on assets and programmes (eg through installing communities. infrastructure, especially those which infrastructure, especially those which common conduits and/or by impact on each other or are similarly impact on each other or are similarly undertaking infrastructure builds/ geolocated (eg wires/pipes etc under geolocated (eg wires/pipes etc under maintenance at the same time). the same road). (Where are the the same road). (Where are the assets?; what maintenance is assets?; what maintenance is required and when?; how does this required and when?; how does this maintenance align with the maintenance align with the maintenance of other similarly maintenance of other similarly geolocated assets? etc.) geolocated assets? etc.)
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop geospatial datasets on each Each individual component and joint Asset managers fund and manage Optimal use of limited funding; individual component and joints of of networks (power, water, sewage, assets optimally guided by 30 year reliably operational assets and networks (power, water, sewage, telecoms etc) has been geolocated plans based on detailed geolocated infrastructure; high level of telecoms etc) geolocated and and associated with the right data to information about each individual confidence by numerous associated with the right data to calculate deterioration models (eg component of the network. stakeholders that asset management calculate deterioration models (eg age, material, size, soil type plans will be effective; compliance age, material, size, soil type surrounding the asset, depth, with regulations. surrounding the asset, depth, ownership, how it relates to other ownership, how it relates to other components, other attributes, components, other attributes, potential maintenance and potential maintenance and replacement schedules etc). replacement schedules etc).
Create a tool that is integrated into A tool is readily available which is Utility infrastructure is installed in the Utilities, surveyors and the public are geospatial information software, like integrated into geospatial information right places guided by surveys which more confident that their QGIS or Arc, that can do temporal software, like QGIS or Arc, that can do are highly accurate because they infrastructure was built where it and spatial transformations of temporal and spatial transformations have easily integrated survey data should be built and/or is located datasets (which are affected by of datasets (which are affected by with other geospatial data including where they think it is. deformations) on the fly in much the deformations) on the fly in much the deformations. same way it’s possible to coordinate same way it’s possible to coordinate system transformations (OR, make system transformations (OR, make new datums on a more regular basis new datums on a more regular basis to accommodate deformations). to accommodate deformations) (OR, have new datums on a regular basis – eg yearly – so that inaccuracies are affected by no more than one year’s deformations).
Develop a data federation tool which Data federation tool which can Regulators and others manage Regulators and others can manage can absorb aquaculture-related absorb aquaculture-related (marine trade-offs re marine space trade-offs in a regionally coordinated (marine productivity etc) geospatial productivity etc) geospatial management guided by decision manner. information in many different forms information in many different forms support tools and regionally from stakeholders (eg from science from stakeholders (eg from science consistent geospatial datasets organisations like NIWA, industry organisations like NIWA, industry relating to aquaculture, marine groups like Aquaculture New groups like Aquaculture New productivity, recreation etc. Zealand, companies like Sanfords Zealand, companies like Sanfords and Sealord, and individual boaties). and Sealord, and individual boaties).
Develop a decision support tool Decision support tool which can which can accommodate geospatial accommodate geospatial datasets datasets and federated datasets and federated datasets related to related to aquaculture and marine aquaculture and marine productivity productivity (while also forecasting (while also forecasting other impacts other impacts eg on recreation; eg on recreation; visual and noise visual and noise impacts; impacts; employment etc) employment etc)
Develop a regionally consistent Regionally consistent system for Aquaculture farmers and users of Sustainably profitable users of system for collecting geospatial collecting geospatial information, productive marine spaces manage marine spaces; sustainable information and use it to collect populated by regionally consistent the resources under their control to environments and ecologies; regionally consistent geospatial geospatial datasets relative to achieve their desired ends (profit, sustainable recreation etc. datasets relative to aquaculture and aquaculture and marine productivity environmental sustainability, marine productivity (and related (and related issues like visual ecological sustainability, recreational issues like visual impacts, noise impacts, noise impacts, locations of sustainability etc). impacts, locations of supply chain supply chain infrastructure etc) infrastructure etc) collected both collected both formally (eg by NIWA) formally (eg by NIWA) and less and less formally (eg crowd-sourced formally (eg crowd-sourced from from companies and the public). companies and the public). (System (System would need to specify: would need to specify: standard standard vocabularies (taxa, vocabularies (taxa, Darwincore); Darwincore); standard webservices; standard webservices; standard standard databases/parameters; databases/parameters; standard standard metadata; remote-sensing; metadata; remote-sensing; time time series vs discrete; modelling and series vs discrete; modelling and validation vs ongoing and actual etc.) validation vs ongoing and actual etc.)
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W2 Buildings and Urban Planning
CONTEXT Eighty-six percent of New Zealanders live in urban environments compared to the global average of 53%. The way we design our urban environments contributes to our quality of life and the wider economy.
Urban design, and the design, construction and operation of buildings, also contributes significantly to energy requirements, the management of the three waters (potable, waste water and stormwater) and our resilience to natural hazards.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) www.linz.govt.nz LINZ2 is a central government agency tasked with making sure that New Zealand has accurate information about where people and places are, people have confidence in their property rights and Crown property is managed well for future generations.
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) www.mbie.govt.nz MBIE is a key central government agency in the area of buildings and urban planning. MBIE is working on a number of areas to enhance housing affordability, social housing and the quality of the built environment. Key initiatives include: • Building Information Modelling (BIM) • Māori Housing Strategy • Productivity Partnership.
Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ) www.branz.co.nz Building industry representation as well as research in this area is provided by BRANZ. BRANZ is an independent and impartial research, testing and consulting organisation inspiring the building and construction industry to provide better buildings for New Zealanders.
Building a Better New Zealand, the Industry Research Strategy www.buildingabetternewzealand.co.nz This is a joint research strategy for the building and construction sector involving BRANZ, MBIE, the Construction Industry Council and the Construction Strategy Group.
R&D PROVIDERS & INITIATIVES There are a number of R&D providers, including BRANZ, the University of Canterbury, The University of Auckland and OPUS. A significant R&D initiative that focuses on urban planning is the National Science Challenge 11 “Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities”.3 This initiative is currently being further developed by R&D providers and end users.
2 Further information can be found at http://www.linz.govt.nz/. 3 Please refer to http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/science-innovation/national-science-challenges.
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WORKSHOP OUTCOMES Participants at this workshop, as well as the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery workshop, suggested that projects that integrate and disseminate fit-for-purpose geospatial data and information related to property, infrastructure and liveability were important to citizens, property owners, developers, built environment professionals, contractors and local authority decision-makers. This information and data could be used to inform purchase decisions and guide the development of creative new built environments to suit the needs of both growing and declining population bases.
The sector specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify (based on Fit-for-purpose packages Citizens make and Citizens and other building researched priorities of extensive property- implement informed occupants are happy for end users), collect, related and other relevant choices about where to live because they are living integrate into fit-for- geospatial data and (and/or build/buy property) (and/or have bought or purpose packages and information for all of NZ based on understanding of built houses) where disseminate extensive are readily available to all fit-for-purpose, property- they are confident that property-related NZers related and other relevant they understand the geospatial data and geospatial information property-related and other information for all of NZ for NZ relevant risks
Identify (based on researched priorities for end users), collect, integrate into fit-for- purpose packages and disseminate other relevant geospatial information (eg infrastructure, energy options etc) for NZ
Identify, collect, integrate Fit-for-purpose packages Like-minded property- Citizens & other building into fit-for-purpose of geospatial data and owners and developers occupants are happy packages and disseminate information are readily create and live in new because they are living geospatial data and available to guide the built environments (eg (and/or have bought or information which could development of creative, ‘permaculture-in-the-city’; built properties) in places guide the development new built environments autonomous buildings etc) which make creative use of creative new built of resources (guided by environments (eg relevant geospatial data ‘permaculture-in-the-city’; and information) autonomous buildings etc)
Identify, collect, integrate Readily available, fit- Stakeholders in Thriving and healthy areas into fit-for-purpose for-purpose packages depopulated areas and which were previously packages and disseminate of geospatial data and currently non-economically depopulated and/or non- geospatial data and information which could viable areas make and economically viable information which could guide the development of implement ‘development’ guide the development of depopulated or currently decisions guided by depopulated or currently non-economically viable relevant geospatial data non-economically viable areas and information areas
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
BUILDINGS AND URBAN PLANNING WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop, disseminate and apply Buildings have standards which are Builders/developers/occupiers use Safer building sites, more sustainable (geospatial information-based) 3D coherently defined and easily their (geospatial information buildings. (above and below ground) standards understood by many different -enabled) improved understanding for building definitions. stakeholders and this information is of their buildings to better build and readily available (for example, operate them. through councils).
Develop and populate Building BIM + geospatial information + OLC Designers/builders/developers Faster/better consenting processes, Information Modelling (BIM), systems are effectively interoperable develop and submit a single BIM better buildings, better construction geospatial information and online in a system-neutral (ie multi- model (for their buildings) to processes, reduced lifetime costs of consenting (OLC) systems which are platform) system which is readily councils in lieu of traditional building assets. effectively interoperable in a accessible to all stakeholders. consent applications and councils system-neutral (ie multi-platform) readily access both the models and system which is readily accessible to the source information (BIM + all stakeholders. geospatial information +OLC) to guide their consenting processes.
Learn, develop, test new urban Emergent urban development Builders/developers build, and People are satisfied and confident development models (eg models (eg ‘permaculture in the city’ groups and individuals purchase/ about their building/community 'permaculture in the city' type type models) which have been rent, high-performance autonomous choices because they are living more concepts) guided by geospatial underpinned by robust GI. These buildings (in resilient/autonomous sustainably in independent resilient information. models will include information on communities) based on new urban autonomous buildings with reduced resilient buildings/infrastructure as models, especially resilient, dependence on utilities. well as on the resilience and self-sufficient/sustainable models. autonomous nature of the communities which will develop in these buildings and clusters of buildings.
Develop and implement a process for Geospatial information is available, Building designers use validated, Liability-free (re geospatial turning 'grey' geospatial information current, accessible, accurate and council-accepted (liability-free) information) construction/ into 'black-and-white' or 'approved' vetted/approved/validated so that it geospatial information to populate development of properties (liability-free) geospatial information. can be used safely, free of data- building and resource consent (buildings, roading, infrastructure related liability (wind zones, applications and to guide long-term etc); reduced costs and increased corrosion zones, seismic zones, asset management. effectiveness of consenting sunlight zones, noise zones, sources processes; clear liability-tracking for of energy and other on-or-off-grid actual specifications vs ideal utilities, cultural classifications, specifications; better long-term asset HazMat, historic places, LIM, flooding management. zones, liquefaction zones, earthquake history and predictions, transportation links, local resource consents etc – for roads as well as buildings).
Develop noise modelling data 3D visualisations of noise impacting Landowners and potential Lower noise-related stress levels for visualisations. on a building fabric/form. landowners select, manage and live landowners. in buildings with better noise management. Note that this entry came from the Energy and Minerals Workshop
Determine the impact of urban A detailed and documented Local planners/developers/TLAs Healthier New Zealanders. design on all aspects of human understanding of the impact of urban design and build more health- health and encapsulate it in design on all aspects of human oriented urban environments (ie Note that this entry came from the geospatial information-based health which is encapsulated in which encourage and support Health and Society Workshop datasets which are readily geospatial-based datasets that are healthy behaviour and health discoverable and accessible to readily discoverable and accessible outcomes). planners, developers, land owners to planners, developers, landowners and health providers. and health providers.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop 'site vulnerability/resilience' 'Site vulnerability/resilience' Prospective purchasers/renters/ Citizens are safer, more resilient and geospatial information for all NZ geospatial information for all NZ developers of land make informed live more sustainable lives because addresses and make this information addresses is readily available in decisions guided by readily they are better informed about the readily available in intuitive form via intuitive form via user-friendly discoverable and accessible relevant vulnerabilities and resilience of their user-friendly channels (smart channels (smart phones, internet, geospatial information on site- specific sites. phones, internet, traditional media, traditional media, social media etc). specific vulnerability and resilience. social media etc). (It will need to be Note that this entry came from the determined what is actually meant Health and Society Workshop by 'site vulnerability/resilience' and hence what geospatial information needs to be collected and kept up-to-date.)
Engage with NZ stakeholders to Nationwide geospatial information LINZ and others use the nationwide Better built environment develop an accurate, current, about building outlines which is geospatial information of building development. regularly updated nationwide always up-to-date and is based on outlines to update the Topo maps building outline dataset which is agreed and well-understood and create 3D visualisations of cities, based on agreed and well- standards. which in turn will be used by understood standards. planners, developers, designers, architects, etc to guide the development and operation of better built environments.
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W3 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery
CONTEXT In September 2010 and February 2011 two major earthquakes struck the Canterbury region; these have been followed by approximately 10,000 subsequent aftershocks, causing widespread devastation for the built, social, cultural and economic environment.
There have been and continue to be many learnings from this experience, and the associated $40 billion rebuild process, especially in relation to New Zealand’s overall preparedness and resilience to hazards and disasters. New geospatial tools, such as the Forward Works Viewer,4 have been developed to improve interactions between a range of stakeholders in both the private and public sectors. This work has highlighted the potential value of R&D to increase our understanding of the impacts of natural hazards and disasters and create mechanisms to improve preparedness, response and recovery.
Rebuilding Greater Christchurch is one of the Government’s four priorities and is the biggest economic undertaking in New Zealand’s history. It will have huge social, cultural and environmental impacts on the Canterbury region and for the entire country for years to come.
In 2016 a new Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill will replace the Canterbury Recovery Act 2011. The Bill will provide a new legal framework to support the regeneration of greater Christchurch. It is likely to remove a number of emergency powers, cover a smaller area and will expire in five years.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Ministry of Business Employment and Innovation (MBIE) www.mbie.govt.nz MBIE have been the lead agency with a major role to now work with the Building and Housing lessons learned and understand how these could be applied in other regions or for the whole of the country
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) www.cera.govt.nz (ceases to operate in 2016). They have been responsible for the Recovery Strategy.
Regenerate Christchurch (new Crown organisation) www.regeneratechristchurch.org They will carry on the work of major projects within the central city and manage and divest land owned by the Crown.
The Canterbury Group – Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) www.dpmc.govt.nz Established in late 2015 to provide overall coordination, monitoring and advice on the regeneration of greater Christchurch, including the future uses of the Christchurch residential red zone, and supporting the establishment and ongoing operation of new entities and administer part funding and/or joint governance of horizontal infrastructure repairs.
Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT) www.strongerchristchurch.govt.nz The team of organisations and companies with responsibility for rebuilding Christchurch’s roads, fresh water, wastewater and storm water networks.
Christchurch Central Development Unit (CCDU) www.ccdu.govt.nz The CCDU was established in April 2012 to manage the redevelopment of central Christchurch.
Other organisations involved in the rebuild include: www.ccc.govt.nz/the-rebuild/ Christchurch City Council (CCC) strategic-plans Fletcher EQR www.eqr.co.nz Ngai Tahu www.ngaitahu.iwi.nz LINZ www.linz.govt.nz Ministry of Health www.moh.govt.nz Earthquake Commission (EQC) – Canterbury Home Repair Programme www.eqc.govt.nz
4 See the Overview document for more information
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WORKSHOP OUTCOMES This workshop covered a range of topics. One significant feature was that there were many valuable learnings that could be taken from the Canterbury earthquake experience; learnings that could help New Zealand become more prepared and resilient to any future natural disasters.
The sector specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify (based on Fit-for-purpose packages Citizens make and Citizens are happy researched priorities of property-related implement informed because they are living for end users), collect, geospatial and other choices about where to (and/or have bought or integrate into fit-for- relevant information for live (and/or build or buy built houses) where they purpose packages and Canterbury are readily and property) based on their are confident that they disseminate property- available to all Cantabrians understanding of fit-for- understand the property- related geospatial and potential Cantabrians purpose, property-related related risks information for Canterbury geospatial information for Canterbury
Identify (based on researched priorities for end users), collect, integrate into fit-for- purpose packages and disseminate other relevant geospatial information (eg infrastructure, energy options etc) for Canterbury
Research to objectively Reports which objectively identify the reasons identify the reasons why, and recommend why, and recommend practical solutions for, the practical solutions for, the widespread and systemic widespread and systemic non-sharing of geospatial non-sharing of geospatial data by Canterbury’s data by Canterbury’s infrastructure repairers infrastructure repairers
Canterbury’s infrastructure Geospatial data and Canterbury’s infrastructure Cantabrians are repairers adopt and information relating to repairers make and happy because their implement the reports’ Canterbury’s infrastructure implement better infrastructure has been recommendations for rebuild is readily repair decisions (often repaired as effectively and comprehensive sharing of available (and ideally more collaboratively) efficiently as possible the Canterbury rebuild’s is interoperable) for all guided by shared and geospatial data and Canterbury’s infrastructure interoperable geospatial information repairers data and information on Canterbury’s rebuild
Research to understand Reports which define (and Disaster management and Better prepared disaster and describe the make recommendations recovery agencies around management and recovery lessons being learned about) what has been NZ (and overseas) adopt agencies in NZ (and in Canterbury relating learned in Canterbury recommendations relating overseas) to the use (and misuse) relating to the use (and to the more effective and of geospatial data and misuse) of geospatial efficient use of geospatial information for disaster data and information for data and information management and post- disaster management and relating to disasters disaster recovery post-disaster recovery
Research to determine Reports which define Canterbury’s built and Well-maintained and inter-relate the and inter-relate the natural heritage is being Canterbury built and geospatial characteristics geospatial characteristics effectively and efficiently natural heritage which of Canterbury’s built and of Canterbury’s built and managed (guided by is appreciated by natural heritage (as a natural heritage (as a fit-for-purpose geospatial Cantabrians and visitors guide to their effective guide to their effective data and information) management including, management including, where relevant, protection where relevant, protection and restoration) and restoration)
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
(Possibly using carefully designed A plan for sustainable asbestos Builders, subbies, inspectors and Lower health costs, safer buildings crowd-sourcing/community management including testing current and future owners live and and building values retained engagement), map the risk of (where/when/reporting eg in work in buildings in which asbestos (because asbestos has been asbestos (the probability of it being Building Information Model), has been or is being effectively managed effectively). present, its actual presence and form, removal, disposal, mitigation. managed (if it's present at all). location, buildings at risk, resolution, neighbouring properties with asbestos).
Develop the accuracy of digital Appropriately accurate digital Better property investments based More sustainable businesses and cadastral data so that it meets end cadastal data which aligns well with on better informed decisions and other properties. user needs and aligns well with other other geospatial data (and which which are based on appropriately geospatial data. may require changes to the accuracy accurate digital cadastral data that is of these other geospatial datasets). suitably aligned with other geospatial data.
Develop an open hazards-geospatial An open hazards-geospatial Community organisations, local and Potentially vulnerable people and database to determine vulnerability database which defines the central government agencies and communities are better supported to of building dwellers/occupants to vulnerability of building dwellers/ other providers identify vulnerable live full lives and retain their dignity floods, earthquakes, tsunami, occupants to floods, earthquakes, people and communities and modify both during and between landslides, rockfalls and social tsunami, landslides, rockfalls and their services and support to provide emergencies. deprivation arising from locally social deprivation arising from locally appropriate help. changing demographics (eg people changing demographics (eg people moving out of red zones and leaving moving out of red zones and leaving vulnerable communities behind). vulnerable communities behind).
Develop secure, geospatial-based Secure, geospatial-based tools are Insurance companies buy and use Better informed customers who have tools to enable customers to access available to enable customers to the system to securely report claim a greater level of confidence in the their insurance claims. access their insurance claims. status, live and in detail, direct to handling of their claim. claimants.
Develop a geospatial package that Visualisations of the geospatial Other NZ cities, local authorities and Faster and better recovery by other integrates the physical rebuild with information of before, during and central government develop, and cities and regions in the event of social, economic, environmental, after the earthquakes and rebuild when necessary implement, their major disasters like earthquakes. cultural and policy dimensions. including the tracking of key resilience and recovery plans guided indicators in space and time. by the integrated visualisations/ geospatial information of Canterbury's earthquakes and recovery.
Develop a geospatial information- A geospatial information-based Key Canterbury organisations, Optimally managed recovery, based check/score sheet of heritage check/score sheet for evaluating community groups and others restoration and management of value, risk zones, age (built heritage) Canterbury's heritage including optimally manage Canterbury's Canterbury's heritage. etc. biophysical, geophysical, regulatory, heritage guided by the heritage environmental, legal and other evaluations encapsulated in the factors. geospatial information-based check/ score sheets.
Develop and populate a web- Local history is readily available on a Visitors and locals learn the history Local, iwi, European, Asian and other supported mobile application that range of web and mobile devices (eg of a region via multiple channels histories will have been told and can receive and moderate on GPS-enabled phones, websites, and including multiple cultural preserved. geolocated stories/histories from public displays) and provided from perspectives (iwi, European, most stakeholders and use this the perspective of locals, iwi, Asian etc). information to present geolocated Europeans, Asians etc. history in an intuitive way (eg using augmented reality maps etc).
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Coherent and accurate (known risk/ Key information of known certainty We (central and local government, Well being is created for Christchurch uncertainty) capture of geospatial about the Christchurch rebuild. Treasury) can track Christchurch inhabitants. information about the Christchurch rebuild progress, especially with rebuild; namely building and respect to money spent, in a Tax-payers’ money is used wisely to infrastructure information about: transparent manner so that we can maximise ‘bang for buck’. • what has been built manage (with informed decisions) • what doesn’t need rebuilding the operation with confidence, • what still needs to be built effectively and rapidly. • who is doing what and how much it is costing • when it is happening and where.
Social research about people's Results about how people behave We (local government, emergency Improved response in future hazard perceptions and responses to major and perceive major events like the services) can use the information to events (resilience and more rapid events (hazards/risks/rebuild/ Christchurch earthquakes. plan our responses more effectively recovery). resilience/sustainability). to hazard events.
Collect and make readily available LIM reports have the ‘right’ We (public) can inform our choices Happy public as they have the Canterbury geospatial information information (eg flood risk, slope about where we live (and insure our life-style they want. about demographics (StatsNZ), stability, ownership, earthquake risk, properties) guided by traffic/roads, community ground response to earthquake etc) comprehensive, end user-friendly characteristics, civil defence, flood to allow users to make informed geospatial information relating to all risk, built environment, slope decisions. aspects of a piece of land and stability, earthquake risk, ground building. response to earthquakes, history of liquefaction, history of land-filling and hazards, lateral spreading, rock fall history and risk etc).
Identify user sectors and their needs Geospatial information tailored to User examples: Minimal disruptions and closures in terms of information products users both in terms of the content of • Kiwirail stops trains or not, or of services. post-disasters (like earthquakes) and the geospatial information and its NZTA closes roads or not (rockfall, then develop relevant geospatial presentation/accessibility (new data trapped motorists). Lower levels of risk as they have products/services. feeds, interpreted data feeds, • City Council building inspectors been better understood and web-based services, publicly check buildings, hydropower managed. accessible, social media etc). plants to determine safety of continuing to operate. • Public respond to personal/family situations. • Central government/Treasury determine likely losses. • Insurers/EQC rapidly estimate likely claims . • Civil Defence responds rapidly.
Identify and document (in geospatial Geospatial information which defines Regulators and property developers Healthy environment; optimised land terms) areas of contaminated land areas of contaminated land that are optimise land remediation and use for habitation. that are suitable for remediation suitable for remediation and habitation guided by geospatial and habitation. habitation (nature of contamination information on the nature and and potential remediation options distribution of contamination. defined).
Determine the current land values in Geospatial information about the Councils and government make Fairly minimised costs to tax and rate red-zoned areas and compare to current land values in red-zoned informed and fair purchasing offers payers for buying out red-zoned payouts to residents who have left areas compared to payouts to and actual purchases of red-zoned properties. and to the costs of maintaining residents who have left and the costs land to minimise net costs. infrastructure and community of maintaining infrastructure and services. community services.
Develop a set of geospatial A set of geospatial information Contact people in community Providers have greater confidence information-based criteria for -based criteria (which any organisations, local and central that they have responded effectively assessing the risk/vulnerability of stakeholder can understand) for government and other providers to support vulnerable people. building dwellers and occupants. assessing the risk/vulnerability of understand the criteria for building dwellers and occupants. vulnerability so they correctly direct Vulnerable people receive better vulnerable people to the right support. sources of help.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Generate a catalogue of geospatial A catalogue of geospatial data as Users grow the economy by $500 The public have confidence that their data defined by the Government's defined by the Government's Open million per year through their use of real-time decisions and action are Open Data Policy. Data Policy is readily available. authoritative geospatial information robust (because they were based on sourced under the Government's better information available under Open Data Policy. the Government's Open Data Policy).
Develop alternatives to survey pegs Effective alternatives to survey pegs Construction workers easily find, Survey-based construction so they are less likely to be lost, are are readily available and widely protect and use the survey-peg requirements have been accurately, more readily seen and are less at risk known about and understood. alternatives so surveyors have more rapidly and reliably addressed with from damage. reliable marks to underpin their work. lower risks due to the use of more effective alternatives to survey pegs.
Collaboratively develop a TLA-owned A TLA-owned spatial planning Key Canterbury stakeholders and Families are confident that public spatial planning process that actively process that actively engages all organisations develop and services (schools, doctors, vets, engages all relevant stakeholders relevant stakeholders (TLAs, MoE, implement local initiatives (schools, social welfare) are provided locally so (TLAs, MoE, PHOs, MSD, developers PHOs, MSD, developers etc) is readily medical services, social services etc) can optimise their house purchasing/ etc). available to those stakeholders. which integrate real-time renting decisions. demographics, and public services are guided by real-time geospatial data, models and planning processes.
Develop geospatial information/ Readily available real-time geospatial Canterbury people choose where to Canterbury people have optimised maps of the distribution and models able to combine likely travel live, work and establish businesses their living, working, shopping and characteristics of suburban destinations of people from new guided by readily available other arrangements. businesses/employers. subdivisions coupled with employee/ geospatial models/maps which employer satisfaction about their integrate destination patterns, travel current location coupled with patterns, location-specific employee/customer/supplier travel satisfaction levels, particularly in patterns and business characteristics relation to the advantages and in relation to suburban businesses disadvantages of suburban vs and which can be used to predict the CBD-based businesses. likely impacts of the CBD rebuild on suburban centres (and vice versa).
Develop locationally accurate Current, locationally accurate, reliable People are undertaking recreational People who are undertaking geospatial information on all aspects geospatial information is readily activities and/or travelling within the recreational activities or are travelling of rockfall hazards (slope, contour, available to all stakeholders potential rockfall hazard zones within the potential rockfall hazard rainfall, rockfall history, rockfall (residents, recreationalists, road guided by high-quality, real-time zones are safer from the impacts of pathways, frequencies, trigger users, visitors, regulatory authorities, geospatial information relating to the rockfall (because they have taken events, probabilities etc). developers etc) relating to rockfall rockfall hazard. suitable precautions guided by hazard (so people can decide/ high-quality, real-time geospatial determine whether to undertake information relating to the rockfall activities in the area). hazard).
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W4 Culture, Heritage and Tourism
CONTEXT With over 3 million international visitors in the past year and forecasts of a 4% per annum growth rate, tourism has a significant impact on New Zealand’s economy, environment and society. Tourism accounts (directly and indirectly) for 7.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) and the total visitor expenditure is forecast to rise to $11.1 billion by 2021. It also supports the sustainability and growth of the wider culture and heritage sector within New Zealand.
There are mutually beneficial synergies between the cultural and tourism sectors, in particular enhancing the economic viability of cultural businesses and organisations through more effective engagement with the tourism market.
The value proposition of tourism is articulated in the following extracts from the workshop:
“100% Pure New Zealand tells the story of how this country’s unique combination of landscapes, people and activities cannot be found anywhere else in the world.”
“A country brand is a marriage of identity and reputation. The closer the reputation is to the experience, the more likely people will visit the country, and those visitors will spend money and become advocates of the country in the future.”
“29% of international visitors said New Zealand’s spectacular landscapes and natural beauty were the most important factors in their decision to visit New Zealand.”
“There is a growing demand for simple and transparent products and services, and authentic and personal experiences.”
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Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) www.mch.govt.nz MCH works to enrich the lives of New Zealanders by supporting our dynamic culture and preserving our heritage. MCH supports many of New Zealand’s arts, media, heritage and sports organisations, advises government on cultural matters and provides research and resources for everyone to access.
Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) www.tourismnewzealand.com TNZ is the organisation responsible for marketing New Zealand to the world as a tourist destination. The 100% Pure New Zealand marketing campaign has evolved over the past 16 years to make New Zealand one of the world’s most well-respected tourism brands.
National Library of New Zealand www.natlib.govt.nz The National Library is here to help New Zealanders access and use the collective knowledge of our nation. It collects New Zealand’s documentary taonga in words, sounds and pictures and connects New Zealanders to resources through knowledge networks.
Heritage New Zealand www.heritage.org.nz Formerly known as the Historic Places Trust, is the leading national historic heritage agency which provides advice to both central and local government, and property owners, about the conservation of New Zealand’s most significant heritage sites. They also maintain the New Zealand Heritage List, manage 48 nationally significant heritage properties, regulate the modification of archaeological sites, and manage the national heritage preservation incentive fund.
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R&D INITIATIVES MBIE supports a number of R&D activities in this area through, for example, their Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund,5 which is aimed at unlocking the innovation potential of Māori knowledge, resources and people to assist New Zealanders to create a better future.
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES The main theme that came up during this workshop was that readily available, accurate and well-communicated location-based information can greatly improve the quality of the experience for tourists as well as protect their health and safety. Another matter that came up was that cultural, heritage and tourism assets can also be better managed with the availability of location-based information. This provides scope for wide ranging R&D activity. Note that some of the R&D questions in the Environment sector also apply to this sector.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to identify and Authoritative and wide- Stakeholders of cultural, Less damage to cultural, then collect, inter-link and ranging location-specific heritage and tourism heritage and tourism disseminate location- data and information is assets better manage assets from natural specific information on readily available on natural their assets and minimise and artificial hazards; natural and artificial and artificial hazards and hazard risks (guided by potentially lower insurance hazards and risks to risks to cultural, heritage authoritative and wide- premiums cultural, heritage and and tourism assets ranging location-specific tourism assets data and information)
Research to identify and Real-time and historical Tourists plan and update Happier tourists; more then respond to tourists’ geospatial information on their visits to NZ’s cultural, profitable operators of real-time and medium- New Zealand’s cultural, heritage and tourism cultural, heritage and term needs for geospatial heritage and tourism assets guided by real-time tourism assets information on New assets is readily available and historical geospatial Zealand’s cultural, heritage to tourists both locally and information on these and tourism assets overseas assets (eg to spread the tourist-loading of popular assets)
5 See http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/science-innovation/investment-funding/te-punaha-hihiko-vision-matauranga-capability- fund/?searchterm=Vision%20Matauranga.
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CULTURE, HERITAGE AND TOURISM WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefit
Develop tools which better guide Tools are developed that tourists can Tourists plan and enjoy safe travel The NZ economy benefits from decision-making based on geospatial easily use. around NZ by using clearly presented tourists staying longer in NZ, information, for example a traffic geospatial information and decision spending more, having fewer light system to communicate risk (eg support tools (eg 'traffic-light' accidents and having great a tourist enters their intended travel/ indications of driving times) coupled experiences so they tell other driving plans into an App which then with geospatial information on potential tourists to come to NZ. colour-codes their route showing restaurants, places of interest etc. that they are currently planning to drive too far in one day).
Develop ways to anonymously track Geospatial information available on Tourism operators and agencies More widespread economic gains the geospatial location of visitors eg the location and types of activities of develop geospatial-based from tourism. where they are and what they are tourists which clarifies where tourists information (and operator training doing – in order to create information are concentrated and where there programmes) on the density of More tourists have had great which will help guide future tourists. are fewer tourists. tourist numbers to guide future experiences in more remote parts of tourists to disperse more widely NZ and so encourage more tourists throughout NZ’s 'tourism estate'. to come.
Develop accessible and All geospatial information relevant to Tourists decide what to do in a given Tourists enjoy their visit because they understandable geospatial a location (eg tramps, living location by reviewing (on their are well informed. information about a location’s natural environment, geomorphology, mobile) all geospatial information capital (eg tramps, living natural history features, events etc) is relevant to the location (eg tramps, More tourists have had great environment, geomorphology, readily available at the site via living environment, geomorphology, experiences. natural history features etc) and mobile technologies. natural history features, events etc). events. Note that this originates from the Energy and Minerals workshop
Develop and test new ways of Geospatial information-based Apps A wide range of 'public' stakeholders Decisions and actions are guided by increasing the useability of which are more useable by a wide (with widely varying skills in geospatial information. geospatial information by end users range of end users. geospatial information) is accessing with widely varying levels of and using geospatial information to expertise. guide their decisions and actions.
Digitise 500,000 air photos in the The Crown's 500,000 air photos are Various end users use geospatial- Various end users have confidence Crown archive from 1936-2005 and better preserved in digital rather linked historic air photos to: review that their management decisions are establish a management/access than hard copy form and readily changes in land use/infrastructure/ robust (because they were also system so they are readily available available/discoverable by many buildings; identify historic sites of informed by historic geospatial to users: digitise with good stakeholders. cultural significance; ‘go back in information). metadata; make them easy to time’; overlay historic air photos with discover and access; create other spatial datasets to help guide machine-readable indexes; minimise management decisions. licence restrictions; make available in formats that suit end users' needs.
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W5 Energy and Minerals
CONTEXT New Zealand’s energy system comprises a range of fuels and sources including oil, gas, coal, geothermal, wind, solar, hydro and biomass. Our high proportion of renewable electricity helps give New Zealand a competitive advantage exporting products to markets that value sustainability.
The energy market is dynamic and faces a number of challenges including uncertainty of supply, ageing assets, changing consumer expectations and emerging technologies, such as household scale photovoltaic (solar) generation. Opportunities exist with smart grid initiatives to further enhance service delivery and use.
Liquid fuels are predominantly utilised in land, sea and air transport. Almost all liquid fuel in New Zealand is imported either for refining at New Zealand’s only refinery at Marsden Point or to marine ports around the coast.
Gas is produced onshore and offshore Taranaki and is a very significant contributor to economic activity. Natural gas is distributed via pipeline in the North Island only. LPG is also supplied to localised pipeline networks in the South Island or as bottled gas nationwide.
New Zealand also has an abundance of mineral resources including gold, silver, coal, ironsands, phosphate and limestone. These contribute to the construction, energy, transport, agriculture and manufacturing sectors. The mining sector contributes 2.5% to GDP per annum.
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Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals (NZP&M) (within MBIE) www.nzpam.govt.nz/cms NZP&M is repsonsible for managing the government’s petroleum and www.mbie.govt.nz minerals portfolio. Their aim is to maximise the return that energy and resource industries deliver for the benefit of all New Zealanders. They aim to attract operators and companies with high environmental and health and safety standards and are committed to responsible management of New Zealand’s resources.
Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand www.pepanz.com (PEPANZ) PEPANZ6 is the national membership association representing the upstream oil and gas exploration and production industry. Its membership accounts for an estimated 95% of petroleum production. PEPANZ works with local and central governments to ensure that the country’s regulatory and commercial framework promotes investment and maximises the return to the New Zealand’s industry and community from developing the nation’s oil and gas resources.
Straterra www.straterra.co.nz Straterra7 is the industry body for the minerals and mining sector. Its goal is to increase the investment and growth in minerals exploration and mining in New Zealand. They believe the New Zealand minerals sector could treble in output and on-the-ground investment over coming years if properly encouraged and managed.
6 See http://www.pepanz.com/. 7 See http://www.straterra.co.nz/.
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R&D INITIATIVES AND PROVIDERS There are a number of key R&D providers in this area, including GNS Science and NIWA. In addition, there are capabilities residing in organisations such as CRL Energy,8 The University of Auckland, the University of Canterbury, the University of Waikato and the University of Otago.
The National Science Challenge “Sustainable Seas”9 is an important initiative in this area as it aims to enhance the use of New Zealand’s vast marine resources while ensuring that our marine environment is understood, cared for, and used wisely for the benefit of all, now and in the future.
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES Geospatial information contributes strongly to the way resources are managed across the energy and mineral sectors providing opportunities for further R&D; this was reflected in the conversations we had with stakeholders in this workshop.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify and map all Geospatial information Industries, commerce Industries, commerce and forms of energy supply (especially maps) of all and citizens make and citizens have optimised and supply networks plus forms of energy supply implement investment economic, environmental, forecast population and and supply networks plus decisions guided by social and cultural benefits economic growth (to forecast population and geospatial information due to wise, geospatial guide investments which economic growth (to on all forms of energy information-guided are dependent on this guide investments which supply, supply networks, investment decisions information) are dependent on this infrastructure and forecast information) population and economic factors
Identify and map all Geospatial information forms of infrastructure (especially maps) is which could support available for all forms future developments (to of infrastructure which guide investments which could support future are dependent on this developments (to guide information) investments which are dependent on this information)
Research on how best Guidelines on how best Citizens, governments to identify, develop and to identify, develop and and others are happy that disseminate geospatial disseminate geospatial the energy and minerals ‘good-news’ stories about ‘good-news’ stories about sectors are operating the energy and minerals the energy and minerals wisely and sustainably sectors (to help these sectors (to help these sectors gain and maintain sectors gain and maintain ‘social licences’ to operate) ‘social licences’ to operate)
Energy and minerals sector Readily available and Citizens, governments The energy and minerals identifies, develops and widely disseminated and others grant the sector has lower costs disseminates geospatial geospatial ‘good-news’ energy and minerals because they more ‘good-news’ stories about stories about the energy sector ‘social licences’ to efficiently and effectively the energy and minerals and minerals sectors operate (because they secured their social sectors (to help these (to help these sectors read and are convinced by licences to operate sectors gain and maintain gain and maintain ‘social the energy and minerals ‘social licences’ to operate) licences’ to operate) sector’s geospatial ‘good news’ stories)
8 Further information can be found at http://www.crl.co.nz. 9 Further information can be found at http://sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz/.
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
ENERGY AND MINERALS WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop a complete and accessible A complete and widely accessible Landowners, resource developers Optimised resource investments minerals ownership dataset (which minerals ownership dataset (which and regulators efficiently allocate (better economically, identifies where minerals are and identifies where minerals are and and develop resources (using environmentally, socially, culturally). who owns them). who owns them). geospatial information) to optimise returns, where appropriate, to all parties.
Resource-impacting industries use Resource-impacting industries have Stakeholders throughout the Resource-impacting industries are geospatial information (physical, convincing geospatial-based cases to community (citizens, iwi, DOC, local able to proceed with their activities financial, social, environmental, enable them to secure a 'social government etc) read and accept the with confidence that stakeholders cultural etc) to develop convincing licence' for their intended activities. resource-impacting industry's support (or at least accept) those cases to enable them to secure a geospatial-based cases (mining, activities (ultimately leading to 'social licence' for their intended fracking, oil and gas extraction etc) sustainable resource-impacting activities. and give them a 'social licence' to industries, increased employment, proceed with their intended healthy environment and the activities. protection of cultural heritage).
Develop models of 3D topologically 3D topologically structured models Manage trees growing under/near More precisely scheduled logistics structured models of assets and trees of assets and trees readily accessible powerline assets based on 3D (cheaper, more effective clearing and readily accessible online with areas on-line with areas of risk highlighted. models of above-ground powerline thinning) on the basis of more of risk highlighted. assets and rates of growth of trees accurate risk assessments supported that threaten those assets. by geospatial information.
Develop sunlight-access data 3D visualisations of sunlight/solar Landowners correctly position their Lower energy costs and more visualisations. access to building fabric/form. solar panels guided by relevant 3D sustainable energy supply for visualisations of sunlight/solar landowners. access.
Develop geospatial information Maps of all forms of energy supply, Design energy supply networks Optimised investment in network about all forms of energy supply, supply networks and assets plus based on geospatial information development based on geospatial- supply networks and assets plus forecast population and regional relating to forecast demand. based understanding of demand forecast population and regional economic growth. patterns economic growth.
Devise a compelling local marketing Publicly accessible and Building and home owners optimise Home and building owners have campaign to promote solar energy understandable location-specific their energy options (from initial more resilient, energy efficient based on a geospatial information geospatial information and decision investments through to ongoing homes/buildings at lower overall cost platform which includes local calculator/tool relating to all aspects operation and maintenance) guided thereby improving health and weather, terrain, economics, physical of energy options. by location-specific geospatial reducing environmental degradation. environment, bio-environment, information and decision calculator/ forecast impacts of climate change, tool relating to all aspects of energy Note that this entry came from the energy market forecasts, energy options. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery resource availability, demographics, Workshop demand-side characteristics, building materials and construction, building designs with respect to efficiency/ insulation, resilience etc.
Determine, and link to geospatial Geospatial information which Power system operations optimised More resilient and more efficient information, a national database encapsulates the geographically so as to minimise the adverse power system. which encapsulates the distributed impacts of planned and impacts of planned and unplanned geographically distributed unplanned power outages. power outages. impacts of power outages.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify the location, type, quality, Robust geospatial information on the Aggregate industries secure a 'social Aggregate industries able to quantity, fitness-for-purpose (and location, type, quality, quantity, licence' (and all necessary regulatory establish and run their aggregate other characteristics) of aggregates fitness-for-purpose (and other licences) based on the high quality of extraction and distribution plants. including potential constraints of characteristics) of aggregates their geospatial information- mining them (compatibility with including potential constraints of informed extraction plans. neighbours, water management, mining them (compatibility with noise management, dust neighbours, water management, management, resource ownership noise management, dust etc). management, resource ownership etc).
Develop geospatial information- Geospatial information-based based aggregate extraction plans aggregate extraction plans exist which are likely to meet regulatory, which are likely to meet regulatory, social, financial, environmental, social, financial, environmental, cultural and other criteria (sources of cultural and other criteria. aggregates, projected quantities required, future scenarios, impacts on other stakeholders etc).
Develop maps and 3D visualisations Maps and 3D visualisations of all Stakeholders engage with Stakeholders feel that they have of all aspects of energy and minerals aspects of energy and minerals transparent and easily understood been genuinely listened to because relative to urban and rural areas relative to urban and rural areas visualisations of energy and minerals engagements with them were well- (present and future). (present and future). as it relates to impacts on them. targeted, specific and meaningful.
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W6 Environment
CONTEXT New Zealand’s environment contributes significantly to our economic, social and cultural well being. Geospatial information is an important contributor to the improved management of our natural environment and resources, enabling us to better understand the state of the environment, the pressures placed upon it and the monitoring of any responses implemented.
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Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Department of Conservation (DoC) www.doc.govt.nz DoC is the government agency charged with conserving New Zealand’s natural and historic heritage. DoC’s vision is for New Zealand to be the greatest living space on Earth. This vision means ensuring that New Zealanders gain a wide range of benefits from healthy functioning ecosystems, recreation opportunities, and through living our history.
Ministry for the Environment (MfE) www.mfe.govt.nz MfE is the Government’s adviser on the environment in New Zealand and on international environmental matters. MfE focus on providing environmental management systems, legislation, regulations and national environmental standards, national direction through national policy statements and strategies, and information about the health of the environment.
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) www.pce.parliament.nz PCE is an independent Officer of Parliament, who has wide-ranging powers to investigate environmental concerns. They are independent of the government of the day, reporting to Parliament through the Speaker of the House and the Officers of Parliament Committee. Current activities include investigations into sea level rise, marine protected areas and the Emissions Trading Scheme.
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R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES There are a number of R&D providers that operate in this area including universities, SCION, Landcare Research, NIWA, CRL Energy and GNS Science.
There are a number of National Science Challenges that contribute to this theme.
• New Zealand’s Biological Heritage: the objective of this initiative is to conduct research that helps protect and manage our biodiversity, improve our biosecurity, and enhance our resilience to harmful organisms. This initiative is hosted by Landcare Research; its participants include all eight universities and all other CRIs.10 • Our Land and Water: the objective of this initiative is to conduct research to enhance primary sector production and productivity, while maintaining and improving our land and water quality for future generations.11 • Sustainable Seas: the objective of this initiative is to conduct research to enhance the use of New Zealand’s vast marine resources while ensuring that our marine environment is understood, cared for, and used wisely for the benefit of all, now and in the future.12 • The Deep South: the objective of this National Science Challenge is to understand the role of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean in determining our climate and our future environment. This initiative is hosted by NIWA and involves Antarctica New Zealand, GNS Science, Landcare Research, New Zealand Research Institute, University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington.13
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES Geospatial information, tools and capabilities enable us to understand better the state of our environment, the pressures placed upon it and the success of our management responses. This was a recurring theme in this workshop.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
10 See http://www.biologicalheritage.nz/home. 11 http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/science-innovation/national-science-challenges. 12 See http://sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz/. 13 See http://www.deepsouthchallenge.co.nz/.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop public geospatial Public geospatial All stakeholders wisely People and assets are safe forecasting and risk models forecasting and risk invest and manage fire and despite environmental fire for wildfire & inundation models for wildfire and inundation risks guided and inundation risks threats (taking into account inundation threats (taking by fire and inundation risk topography, vegetation, into account topography, profiles and forecasting demographics, fuel, vegetation. demographics, models based on infrastructure, weather, fuel, infrastructure, weather, geospatial information flood and fire histories, flood and fire histories, potential impacts etc) potential impacts etc)
Determine what is the Reports which define most valuable geospatial what is the most valuable information to collect from geospatial information to NZ’s entire EEZ and how to collect from NZ’s entire collect it and disseminate EEZ and how to collect it it most cost-effectively and disseminate it most cost-effectively
Collect and disseminate the The most valuable Stakeholders create Economic, social, most valuable geospatial geospatial information + value for NZ utilising environmental and cultural information from NZ’s tools, protocols, models the most valuable benefits for NZ entire EEZ (including etc relating to NZ’s EEZ geospatial information and the development and is readily accessible to associated tools, models dissemination of geospatial stakeholders who will and protocols and so on models, tools, protocols maximise the value of this relating to NZ’s EEZ etc) information to NZ
Identify, quantify and Reports which identify, Land and water ‘managers’ Higher quality terrestrial spatially locate the many quantify and spatially sustainably manage and marine environments small day-to-day impacts locate the many small land and water guided at lowest cost people have on land and day-to-day impacts people by more accurate, water to determine how have on land and water timely and detailed they accumulate, and and how they accumulate, geospatial information on hence how significant they and hence how significant accumulating micro and are compared to single they are compared to macro land and large impacts single large impacts water uses
Develop and implement a A widely disseminated Investments in NZ’s natural NZ has more sustainable ‘economy – environment and valued ‘economy – resources are guided by a economy, environment and – ecosystem’ (EEE) index environment – ecosystem’ weekly EEE index based ecosystems based on geospatial (EEE) index based on on real-time geospatial information which geospatial information information on NZ’s becomes as significant as which is as significant as economy, environment stock market indices for stock market indices for and ecosystems managing NZ’s natural managing NZ’s natural assets assets
Develop, operate and A Biodata Services Stack NZ’s biosecurity and NZ has a sustainably disseminate a Biodata (BSS) based on geospatial biodiversity are being cost- healthy bio-environment Services Stack (BSS) information is readily effectively and sustainably based on geospatial available to underpin managed guided by a information to underpin better management of widely available Biodata better management of NZ’s biosecurity and Services Stack NZ’s biosecurity and biodiversity biodiversity
Develop/apply geospatial NZ’s landscape values are Land and water ‘managers’ NZ has a more sustainable methodology to authoritatively represented manage land and water economy and landscapes authoritatively represent in a Visual Values Index in ways which optimise with optimised visual NZ’s landscape values based on geospatial landscape values guided values ie a ‘Visual Values Index’ information by each landscape’s Visual (visual absorption capacity, Values Index visual sensitivity, iconic landscapes, sites of special significance etc)
Identify, characterise (in Real-time geospatial Wide range of users of Healthier users of NZ’s terms of end users’ needs information on fresh and fresh and marine water fresh and marine water and uses) and then collect marine water quality (industries, recreational, real-time geospatial throughout New Zealand domestic etc) locate their information on fresh and is readily available to activities where water is marine water quality all users (to guide their safe for their purposes throughout NZ decisions on where to (guided by real-time locate their water-using geospatial information on activities) fresh and marine water quality)
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
ENVIRONMENT WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Integrate national landcover and land A single national authoritative and Primary productivity is reported on a Better understanding (by interested use mapping into a single national frequently updated fundamental map spatial and temporal basis; drought stakeholders) of primary production; fundamental map (LCDB and LUCAS which integrates land cover and land impacts are estimated (crops and NZ able to supply data for UN SEAIA LUM): confirm land use and land use is readily available. From this stock); conservation entities better accounting (land use change in $ cover classes required; confirm vegetation (land-cover) and land manage fragile ecosystems guided terms); lower cost and improved temporal update cycle; confirm management (use) across NZ can be by authoritative, up-to-date land accuracy for both existing mapping minimum mapping unit/mapping derived. cover/use geospatial information; programmes (LCDB research approach. land managers such as regional programme and MfE LUCAS LUM); councils manage land better because rare ecosystems are better protected. their decisions have been guided by authoritative geospatial information on land cover/use.
Develop linked space-time Space-time datasets and meta- Animal populations (wild and More and happier dolphins and other visualisation tools backed up with datasets eg identifying clusters of domestic) are being managed well, protected species; happier tourists; spatial analysis modelling tools eg animals in an abstracted view – guided by geospatial information on more profitable tourist operators; for identifying clusters of animals including the ability to select populations, species etc, especially in fewer pests. (determined from animal tracking individual animals or clusters and link protected areas. data). Develop associated metadata them to others in a linked map view. on existing space-time datasets (eg from Forest and Bird and on Maui's Dolphins).
Develop a nationally consistent set of National wildfire threat analysis National and local fire-management Improved allocation of fire fighting inputs for wildfire threat analysis and model is readily available (based on authorities manage fire risk based on resources (efficiency and a streamlined model to allow an consistent models) online to all fire up-to-date fire threat maps which effectiveness; increased public online tool to deliver a 'live' fire authorities and land managers and is are consistent and equal across the safety; increased readiness to act as threat map. Inputs likely to regularly updated with risk country. local conditions change; less include: vegetation/fuel; climate; information: risks (of ignition); duplication of effort of local RFAs in infrastructure; weather; hazard (what might burn and how capturing and analysing data; fewer demographics; topographic (note much); values (people, buildings, errors in resource allocation and that fire threat is not the same as fire infrastructure, property). decisions because there are fewer behaviour). errors in the fire threat maps; increased public awareness of fire danger (this would require a separate Project to inform the public)).
Collect and make available spatially Spatially and temporally relevant Resource management companies Sustainable co-existence of and temporally relevant geospatial geospatial information on NZ's EEZ is (eg miners) are sustainably industries producing wealth in the information on NZ's EEZ including: readily available (visualised? online) developing (or not) and reporting on EEZ in harmony with a sustainable benthic organisms (what's there?); on: oceanic currents salinity, (to meet compliance requirements) environment and in ways which do how rare or unique are the species; temperatures, acidity, bathymetry, resources within NZ's EEZ because not compromise the ability of the how dispersed is the potential impact fish populations, benthic ecology, sea the EPA has made better decisions environment to support future use of resource development (eg levels, human activities etc. about the resources guided by options. sediment plumes, fertiliser and spatially and temporally relevant impurities therein from land-based geospatial information (see farming); what activities are there associated Result for details). and how are they changing the environment over time; how do different resource developments affect each other (eg fishing and sea-bed mining); do we have enough data to model benthic communities with accuracy and at the right scale (there is a perceived large gap in data in this area)?
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify and use 'non-traditional' People involved in the crowd- Members of the public enjoy The public have enhanced sources for the collection, sourcing activities relating to landscapes which have been better perceptions of land ownership and management, validation and geospatial information are more managed in terms of land-cover (and management due to their positive dissemination of geospatial aware of the value and potential undersea-cover) due to better access experiences of well-managed land. information – eg crowd-sourcing, applications of geospatial to and use of more accurate, timely crowd-analysis etc potentially information for themselves, their and detailed land-cover geospatial developing and using new geospatial communities and the environment. information. infrastructure, social networks, Apps and other technological infrastructure to tap in to such sources of geospatial information generation and validation – all of which should help keep geospatial information up-to-date and detect any unforecasted changes that may occur.
Develop an authoritative 'economy/ A weekly EEE index balance report is People make investment decisions Improvements in all 4 well beings environment/ecosystems' index (EEE disseminated by media and other guided by the EEE index (at all levels (economic, environmental, social and index) which can be updated and channels and is able to be – local to national). cultural) as a result of better reported on at least weekly and interrogated at suburb, city, regional investment decisions which were which develops a level of importance and national levels – coupled with guided by the EEE index reports. at least as great as stock market regular news-snippets and analysis indices and other regularly reported by 'Jim Hickey'-type commentators indices. as to how changes in the index will impact on people's well being.
Develop a method for authoritatively An extensive database of geospatial- See below for uses and benefits and validly representing landscape specific public preferences of values as perceived by people (New landscape values – ie their Zealanders, tourists, others) – eg a geolocated VVIs (likely to require 'Visual Values Index' – an index which projects to train people to work out can describe the visual value of a their own VVIs and input them into location (landscape classification, the VVI system). (May involve landscape management units, developing and running systems for recreational opportunity spectrum crowd-sourcing visual landscape (DOC is working on this), visual values/perceptions (eg inputting absorption capacity, sensitivity of ratings of landscapes, stories on why landscapes, iconic landscapes, sites certain features are important, of special significance, rareness/ notifying areas for improvement or uniqueness, naturalness, GDP where damage is occurring etc)). contribution etc)
Survey the public to capture their geospatial information-specific preferences of landscape values – ie their geolocated VVIs (likely to require projects to train people to work out their own VVIs and input them into the VVI system). (May involve developing and running systems for crowd-sourcing visual landscape values/perceptions (eg inputting ratings of landscapes, stories on why certain features are important, notifying areas for improvement or where damage is occurring etc)).
Build a national map of VVIs which The VVI map is a trusted, Territorial authorities make better More visually attractive and can be overlaid with other geospatial authoritative source of public decisions (eg consenting, regional economically/environmentally/ information maps (eg maps of preferences re visual values which is plans etc) influenced or guided by socially/culturally sustainable business and infrastructure locations, readily available. the nationwide VVI map and these environment. landforms and cover, water, lead to better land/water dominant land use, visibility from management (assisted by the fact roads/urban areas/walkways/sea/ that all decision-makers are guided lakes/rivers, catchment boundaries/ by the same authoritative and archaeological and heritage sites/ transparent VVI geospatial current protection status etc). information).
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop a publicly accessible An App or a website where anyone Members of the public, public Individuals and organisations have forecasting model with scenarios can enter a location and time horizon agencies and private sector invest greater confidence in their relating to differing forecasts of and be shown what land uses will be wisely (in a spatial context) guided investments because they have been inundation extent, impacts and viable appropriate given forecast by readily understood and accessible better informed by geospatial future land uses for affected areas. inundations (sea level rise, flooding and discoverable geospatial information on inundation risks and etc) and 'what do I need to be information about land inundation impacts. worried about?'. risks and impacts.
Build, maintain and make readily Up-to-date and accurate land-cover Landowners sustainably manage Land is ecologically sustainable with available accurate land-cover and and undersea-cover geospatial land and water guided by more positive visual characteristics while undersea-cover geospatial maps/ maps/charts are readily available, accurate, timely and detailed also being productive. charts (ideally historical, current and especially including coastal strips land-cover and undersea-cover forecast), especially including coastal and urban environments – must be geospatial information. strips and urban environments – freely available to all users including must be freely available to all users farmers, land managers, local including farmers, land managers, authorities, fire services, trampers local authorities, fire services, and mountain bikers, tourists, trampers and mountain bikers, photographers, government etc – tourists, photographers, government needs to also include socio-physical etc – needs to also include geospatial information on how socio-physical geospatial information people perceive and enjoy land/ on how people perceive and enjoy water in relation to landforms and land/water in relation to landforms land/undersea cover. and land/undersea cover.
Develop, promote and run a readily A readily accessible 'Biodata Services Government and others respond Reduced environmental impacts accessible 'Biodata Services Stack' Stack' (BSS) of geospatial quickly, collaboratively, professionally from biosecurity 'events'; safer (BSS) of geospatial information information relevant for the and appropriately in the event of citizens; NZ's economic interests relevant for the subsequent better subsequent better management of biosecurity or biodiversity issues better protected. management of biosecurity and biosecurity and biodiversity. because they have all collaboratively biodiversity. The BSS to include rapidly used the same historical, up-to-date and forecast comprehensive, interlinked/ geospatial information collected and interoperable BSS geospatial collated from multiple sources. information to inform their decisions and actions.
Locate and collate all available Geospatial information is available Public and other stakeholders reduce Healthier people who have safely and geospatial information on levels and online and on mobile devices their exposure to pollutants, guided confidently experienced a wider types of pollution (historical, detailing pollution ‘hot spots’ or by web/mobile-accessible geospatial range of environments. real-time and forecast) and make it areas affected by pollutants including information on pollution (historical, web-accessible and mobile- forecast future pollution levels. real-time and forecast). accessible to the public.
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W7 Emergency and Related Services
CONTEXT Emergency services in New Zealand generally refer to police, fire, ambulance, civil defence and search and rescue services. Emergency services are expected to maintain an acceptable operational capability under a wide range of adverse conditions. They rely increasingly on information and communication technology (ICT) to support their operational capability, so the ICT must be resilient to the same range of adverse conditions. Real-time or near real-time geospatial information supports emergency services to make and implement faster and better decisions in emergency situations.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
MetService www.metservice.com MetService is the authorised provider of warnings (for example, heavy snow, heavy rain, thunder storms, strong winds, damaging tornadoes) and other public safety weather services to the people of New Zealand, for example marine forecasts, mountain forecasts and short forecasts. MetService also provides certified weather information to the aviation industry and all airlines flying into and within New Zealand.
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) www.linz.govt.nz LINZ is responsible for developing and assuring addressing standards and an address database that supports the delivery of emergency and related services.
Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management (MCDEM) www.civildefence.govt.nz MCDEM sits within DPMC and provides policy advice, planning and operations, to ensure there is coordination at local, regional and national levels, including central government responses to large scale civil defence emergencies.
National Cyber Policy Office (NCPO) www.dpmc.govt.nz NCPO sits within DPMC and leads the development of cyber security policy advice for government and advise on government investment in cyber security activities. They are also responsible for leading international engagement on cyber security and facilitating coordinated engagement with the private sector on cyber security policy issues.
New Zealand Customs Service www.customs.govt.nz The government agency tasked with ensuring the security of New Zealand’s borders, they protect the economy against illegal exports and imports, help promote international trade and make sure that lawful travellers and goods can move across our borders as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
New Zealand Fire Service www.fire.org.nz Are tasked with fire safety, fire prevention and fire extinction. This organisation falls under the control of the New Zealand Fire Service Commission, a Crown Entity.
New Zealand Police www.police.govt.nz Functions include keeping the peace, maintaining public safety, law enforcement, emergency management and national security.
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R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES There are a number of R&D providers that undertake work that helps support activities in this area, including universities, GNS Science, NIWA and Opus Research.
There are a number of significant multiparty R&D initiatives that help support activities in this area:
• Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (resiliencechallenge.nz): the objective of this National Science Challenge is to enhance our resilience to natural disasters. This initiative includes the Natural Hazards Platform (www.naturalhazards.org.nz). Both initiatives are hosted by GNS Science and involve such research organisations as BRANZ, Massey University, NIWA, OPUS Research, SCION, The University of Auckland, and University of Canterbury. These activities cover the broad spectrum of natural hazards such as fire, flooding, earthquake and tsunami. • The Deep South: the objective of this National Science Challenge is to understand the role of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean in determining our climate and our future environment. This initiative is hosted by NIWA and involves Antarctica New Zealand, GNS Science, Landcare Research, New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute, University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington. • QuakeCoRE (www.quakecore.nz): is a centre of research excellence (CoRE) focussing on earthquake resilience. It is based in the University of Canterbury and involves a number of stakeholders such as BRANZ, GNS Science, The University of Auckland, Waikato University, the National Infrastructure Unit in Treasury and the MBIE Building Performance Group.
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WORKSHOP OUTCOMES Workshop participants identified that emergency and related services can make and implement faster and better decisions in emergency situations by having access to real-time or near real-time geospatial information such as from crowd sourcing, UAVs, 3D visualisation and augmented reality.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop UAV (Unmanned UAV geospatial data- Emergency services make Reduced negative impacts Aerial Vehicle) geospatial collecting sensor and and implement faster of emergency situations data-collecting sensor and information processing and better decisions in information processing systems able to operate emergency situations systems able to operate beyond line-of-sight for use guided by real-time beyond line-of-sight for use by emergency services in UAV-sourced geospatial by emergency services in complex, rapidly evolving information complex, rapidly evolving emergencies emergencies
Develop real-time 3D Real-time 3D scene Emergency services scene reconstruction reconstruction tool based use guidance from the tool based on local data on local data input (eg real-time 3D scene input (eg from mobile from mobile phones, reconstruction tool to phones, multiple cameras multiple cameras etc) effectively manage local etc) to remote scene sent to remote scene aspects of an emergency reconstruction system reconstruction system to which feeds real-time feed real-time guidance guidance back to local back to local emergencies emergency situation situation
Develop systems for real- Systems for real-time In emergency situations, time scanning, filtering scanning, filtering and emergency services rapidly and representing high representing high priority make and implement priority summaries of large summaries of large decisions guided by amounts of geospatial data amounts of geospatial prioritised real-time and information, especially data and information geospatial information in fast-moving emergency especially in fast-moving relating to the emergency situations emergency situations
Develop real-time Real-time augmented Emergency service augmented reality system reality system which can operators more effectively which feeds augmented feed augmented reality manage emergencies reality information to information to emergency guided by real-time emergency service service operators at the augmented reality operators at the local local emergency situation geospatially-based emergency situation information
Develop, implement and Systems containing Multiple as-yet undefined Multiple as-yet undefined populate (with data) collated real-time location- uses which will depend economic, social, systems to collect and based information (eg on the nature of the environmental and cultural share real-time location- local weather) from new geospatial data and benefits which will depend based information (eg ‘the ‘internet of things’ information that can on the nature of the new local weather) from (interconnected ‘crowd- potentially be collected geospatial information ‘the internet of things’ owned’ devices with from ‘the internet of that can potentially be (interconnected ‘crowd- sensors and GPS) things’ collected from ‘the internet owned’ devices with of things’ sensors and GPS)
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
EMERGENCY AND RELATED SERVICES WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop a single source of agreed Commonly agreed standards for Emergency services and others use Happy, healthy and safe ‘customers’ 'address' which can be used by all 'addresses' (or a well-maintained commonly agreed addresses for of emergency services; sustainable services, or which, as a minimum, system for correlating different despatch from and for despatch to. and effective emergency services. correlates/inter-relates each type of address types) is widely available address system (eg postal, fire and known in relation to: locality service, legal descriptions of land boundaries; cities; suburbs; streets; parcels). regions; houses; land parcels; locations within addresses; organisations (eg universities/ schools/businesses) at an address.
Appoint a custodian to manage and A custodian is in place to manage Warnings of extreme weather events maintain the single source of agreed and maintain the single source of (or indeed of any other events) are 'address' geospatial information. agreed 'address' geospatial targeted to ONLY the people in the information. relevant specified area (underpinned by validated geospatial address information).
Collect, maintain, inter-link and make Pre-flood and during-flood event Emergency services respond to flood Lives have been saved; property has readily available in pre-agreed and geospatial information is available events in a timely manner (because been protected; emergency service effective formats pre-flood and on: address/contacts and means of they are pro-actively prepared with crews have not been injured; during-flood event geospatial communication with emergency historical and real-time geospatial emergency services have used information (made available to those services; locations of people and information on flooding risk relative minimal (but appropriate) resources; who need/can benefit from it – but stock (including evolving lists of to: forecast and evolving rainfall; soil citizens/communities and others don't overload them with geospatial casualties); where people and stock types; run-off rates; infrastructure; have a greater trust in the flood information): locations of people and are likely to move to if flooding is locations of emergency services and forecasts because they were more stock; where they are likely to move forecast; lines of floods; safe supplies etc. specific and accurate. to if flooding is forecast; lines of locations at specific times during floods; safe locations at specific flooding; locations of emergency times during flooding; locations of shelters and equipment; soil types; emergency shelters and equipment; run-off forecasts; historical flooding soil types; run-off forecasts; historical patterns; topography; road access; flooding patterns; topography; road communications options; locations of access; communications options; valuable property etc. locations of valuable property etc.
In consultation with end users, Rolling flood alerts issued on a Farmers move stock to higher communities, citizens etc develop, location-specific basis in response to ground; citizens and emergency trial and implement system(s) for forecast bad weather. services install sandbags and other issuing (and stakeholders receiving) flood mitigation measures; Zodiacs/ flood alerts (loud hailers, web alerts, crews/ropes/diggers etc are available txt alerts, door knocking, TV, radio, and used exactly where/when SMS). needed; ambulances/police/fire services/SAR are deployed efficiently guided by geospatial information.
Identify and make readily available Readily integrated/interoperable and The correct police and related Police and emergency services are (subject to privacy criteria) to the highly reliable (because people's emergency service resources safer; the public are safer; all police and emergency services those lives are potentially at risk) (ambulance etc) attend domestic providers have a better reputation; geospatial datasets (and other geospatial information available to disputes as soon as possible using domestic violence has been reduced information) which will improve the police and emergency services 24/7 geospatial information containing all (due to more refined operations effectiveness of police and including: history of domestic relevant historical and real-time because all were better informed emergency services when responding violence at an address; the address; information and simultaneously with relevant geospatial information). to domestic disputes, especially people expected to be at the capturing and appropriately where there has been a history of address; quickest ways of getting to disseminating new and relevant domestic violence. the address (routes/traffic density); geospatial information as the safe vantage points near the address; incident unfolds. people potentially at risk near the address.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop systems (including Maps/geospatial visualisations/ Construction site managers, site and Safer work places; fewer incursions positioning technologies) to rapidly geospatial data which, in real time, fire wardens, first aid officers, safety into culturally sensitive sites (and/or and objectively identify, map and has captured and displayed all officers and others control access less damage to culturally sensitive collect all relevant information on information necessary for effective and on-site activities guided by sites). hazards and risks in any given construction-site management and geospatial information on the nature environment, especially construction for informing construction workers. and location of on-site risks and sites (includes geospatial-based other factors (eg cultural sensitivity) information on incidents, near- which need to be respected/ misses, injuries, deaths and property managed. damage, mitigation measures, safe proximity information etc – what else does a site manager need to know?).
Develop UAV systems (UAV Potential to obtain real-time SAR and emergency command Lives saved; property protected; platforms, flight times, altitudes, integrated 'views' of all SAR (and/or centres use real-time integrated faster recovery from disasters; weather minima etc) for use by emergency) data/geospatial geospatial information/data from increased safety for SAR and police/ambulance/fire service/SAR information at command centres. in-field UAVs to: guide the SAR/ emergency workers; better visibility (Search and Rescue) in emergencies Also has potential for any other form recovery operations and target the of remote locations. (disasters, search and rescue etc) – of surveillance operation. delivery of supplies to 'lost' people. may include inter-linked swarms of UAVs (with cameras, sensors, communications/radio etc) able to operate beyond line-of-sight (perhaps via interlinked UAVs, balloon-based communications hubs etc – could potentially also improve communications for ground-based SAR/emergency personnel so would need common radio communications protocols).
Research to determine customer Geospatial information is available NZ Post delivers parcels efficiently, Happy NZ Post customers and preferences for the geospatial via a web portal/App to NZ Post safely, reliably and they can be senders. information-guided delivery of including: real-time location of the tracked direct to customers wherever parcels (where; when; how; at what customer; confirmation of the they may be – guided by historical cost etc). customer's identity; location of the and real-time geospatial information. customer at the address (eg within a building); constraints at the address (eg security/access/dogs/people with a history of violence/terrain issues/traffic etc); address of the customer; customer/sender preferences re delivery (where, when, how); parcel location with time; how to get the parcel to the customer efficiently/effectively/profitably.
Develop positioning/risk Have positioning/risk identification Construction workers work safely Fewer construction site incidents, identification technologies to rapidly/ technologies to rapidly/easily track because they are aware of and are injuries and deaths (including less easily track construction workers construction workers around a site guided by real-time and historical property damage). around a site and alert them when and alert them when they come into geospatial information on the nature they come into the proximity of fixed the proximity of fixed and/or moving (hazard type, severity, consequences and/or moving risks/hazards (the risks/hazards (the moving risks such etc) and location/proximity of moving risks such as vehicles would as vehicles would also need to be hazards and potential mitigation and also need to be tracked and fed into tracked and fed into the risk-alert management methods. the risk-alert system) and to advise system) and to advise them in real them in real time of how to manage/ time of how to manage/mitigate/ mitigate/avoid the risks. avoid the risks.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop systems to provide Systems available to fire-fighters and Fire-fighters and other emergency Lives saved; fewer injuries; reduced fire-fighters and other emergency other emergency services with services respond rapidly, safely and damage from evolving hazard events services with continuous connectivity continuous connectivity and appropriately to evolving hazardous like building fires and floods; lower and augmented reality about a augmented reality about a situation situations (guided by relevant insurance premiums; lower costs of situation (eg a fire in a building) (eg a fire in a building) where the real-time geospatial information and emergency services providing where the operators need to know operators need to know things like: augmented reality). effective services. things like: orientation (which wall/ orientation (which wall/floor is floor is that?); corridors and exit that?); corridors and exit points; points; status of the hazard (eg fire); status of the hazard (eg fire); casualties (type and location of casualties (type and location of casualties including casualties to casualties including casualties to emergency service personnel); emergency service personnel); environmental hazards such as environmental hazards such as chemicals or HV cables; on-the-fly chemicals or HV cables; on-the-fly re-mapping of the environment/ re-mapping of the environment/ hazards/people/resources etc. hazards/people/resources etc.
Develop historical and real-time Police and emergency services have Police and emergency services Reduced crime in targeted areas; geospatial information packages historical and real-time geospatial engage effectively with communities better and safer communities; relating to crime, crime trends, crime information packages relating to guided by historical and real-time victims of previous crimes feel better risk and safety in an area. crime, crime trends, crime risk and geospatial information relevant to supported and less afraid; better safety in an area. the areas and communities they relationships between police and are in. communities/individuals; local culture has shifted from reactive to pro-active responses to potential crime.
Develop and populate a geospatial Up-to-date weather/environment Search and rescue personnel can Fewer deaths and injuries; reduced information model of historical geospatial information is available on quickly find lost people, guided by search and rescue times and costs; information on where/how/when mobile devices and has been coupled up-to-date geospatial information on fewer people lost. people got lost, and their patterns of with historical information on the local environment plus historical behaviour in certain situations and previously lost people and their data on previously lost people. their correlate this information with local situations. situations and their patterns of geospatial information on the terrain, behaviour. People venturing into the environment, weather etc. outdoor access the same information so are better informed about hazards and other challenges they may face.
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W8 Health and Society
CONTEXT New Zealand has an accessible and affordable education, health and social system. Many essential services and support are provided through our public healthcare and social systems. While we rate highly in some international indicators for health, education and well being, we don’t fare so well in others. Geospatial information can contribute greatly to improving health, education and social outcomes for New Zealanders by providing new insights and improved information to inform activities and interventions in these areas.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Health Research Council (HRC) www.hrc.govt.nz The HRC manages Government’s investment in public-good health research.
Ministry of Health (MoH) www.health.govt.nz MoH has overall responsibility for the leadership, management and development of our health and disability system.
Ministry of Education (MoE) www.minedu.govt.nz The Government’s lead advisor on the education system.
Ministry of Social Development (MSD) www.msd.govt.nz MSD provides a number of services such as the care and protection of vulnerable children and young people, funding to community service providers and special housing assessments.
R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES There are a number of R&D providers active in these areas, including our universities, Environmental Science and Research (ESR),14 OPUS Research, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research15 and Callaghan Innovation.16
There are a number of significant R&D initiatives in this area in the form of National Science Challenges17 and their objectives:
• A Better Start: improving the potential of young New Zealanders to have a healthy and successful life • Ageing Well: harnessing science to sustain health and well being into the later years of life • Healthier Lives: reducing the burden of major New Zealand health problems.
14 See http://www.esr.cri.nz/. 15 See http://www.malaghan.org.nz/what-we-do/?gclid=CNHM_K--ickCFVgRvQodDoANOA. 16 See https://www.callaghaninnovation.govt.nz/. 17 See http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/science-innovation/national-science-challenges.
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WORKSHOP OUTCOMES The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify, characterise Extensive collections of Health providers and Healthier NZ citizens (in terms of end users’ geospatial information on citizens manage health needs and uses) and the identity, characteristics better (guided by then collect real-time and content of real-time extensive collections of geospatial information on geospatial information on geospatial information all determinants of health, all determinants of health, on health determinants, including site-specific including site-specific including site-specific vulnerabilities (a huge vulnerabilities (a huge vulnerabilities) topic) topic)
Identify, characterise Collections of geospatial Health providers, Healthier farmers, farm (in terms of end users’ information on the farmers and associated workers, farm visitors and needs and uses) and identity, characteristics stakeholders better animals then collect real-time and content of real-time manage on-farm health geospatial information geospatial information and safety (with a focus on farm-related health on farm-related health on prevention of health risks (machinery, animals, risks (machinery, animals, deterioration guided by environmental stress etc) environmental stress etc) better health-related on-farm geospatial information
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
HEALTH AND SOCIETY WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Collect geospatial information (real Geospatial information about the Hospital and other health providers More efficient and effective hospitals time) of people’s movements real-time movements of people manage their services/bed and ward and other health providers. interlinked with geospatial inter-linked with geospatial utilisation more effectively and information (real time and historical) information about historical and efficiently based on their predictions about environmental determinants of real-time environmental of acute admissions, which in turn health including temperature, determinants of health including are based on historical and real-time pollutants, virology, incidences of temperature, pollutants, virology, geospatial information about communicable diseases, area-specific incidences of communicable environmental determinants of disease-risk locations, sub- diseases, area-specific disease-risk health including temperature, populations with specific health locations, sub-populations with pollutants, virology, incidences of behaviours (eg attitudes to specific health behaviours (eg communicable diseases, area-specific immunisation) etc. attitudes to immunisation) etc. disease-risk locations, sub- populations with specific health behaviours (eg attitudes to immunisation) etc.
Determine the relationships between An understanding of the Regulators of Class 4 venues Reduced harm from Class 4 venues the locations and natures of Class 4 relationships between locations and (gambling venues) use geospatial (because they have been located venues (gambling venues) and harm natures of Class 4 venues (gambling information about social indicators where they will cause the least to individuals and communities. venues) and harm to individuals and (at a mesh-grid scale) to guide their harm). communities and especially the extra decisions relating to the approval (or harm likely to be caused by otherwise) of Class 4 venues in terms additional venues in specific of their likely impacts and harm (and locations. then Class 4 venues are subsequently established within the planning decision constraints).
Develop better ways of collecting, Social-service related geospatial MSD social service clients find and Happier MSD social service clients; storing and disseminating historical information (historical and real-time) use the most appropriate MSD more efficient and effective MSD and real-time social-service-related is readily discoverable, accessible services, guided by intuitively operations. geospatial information within MSD and intuitively understandable to all understandable geospatial and with social service clients so that business units within MSD and to information relative to the services they can intuitively understand it and social service clients. they need (and MSD develops and apply it to their decision-making makes available the most appropriate (eliminating duplication of geospatial and well-located social services, information collection, storage, guided by intuitively understandable dissemination). geospatial information).
Undertake a stocktake (and keep it Updated geolocated information on Farmers select more appropriate Safer farmers; less ACC expenditure. updated) or the agricultural and the agricultural and machinery fleet machinery and/or use machinery machinery fleet in NZ including type in NZ including type of machine, more appropriately, ACC has to pay of machine, model, year, fuel model, year, fuel efficiency, use-type, for fewer accidents and ACC levies efficiency, use-type, safety safety parameters/risks, injuries etc is are reduced for farmers who select parameters/risks, injuries etc. available. more appropriate machinery and/or undertake training relative to their specific machinery.
Determine the correlations between Geocoded information is readily Children are learning and behaving Healthy children achieving well health and education in school-aged available on the correlations between well because government, DHBs, educationally; happy parents; happy children and encapsulate this health and education in school-aged schools and others have tailored schools. information in geocoded datasets children. programmes which parents and which are readily available to all children are participating in. stakeholders.
Develop, promote, implement and Real-time 'sufficiently-validated' Health providers respond in real time Disease spread is prevented or validate user-friendly crowd-sourcing crowd-sourced geospatial to geospatial information on reduced, resulting in better health for processes for collecting real-time information about health issues is outbreaks of health-related issues populations and individuals. geospatial information on health readily available to health providers and contain/manage these issues. and citizens. outbreaks.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Design and implement detailed Geospatial information available (at Smokers reduce their smoking under Healthier ex-smokers (and/or (mesh-block level) geospatial mesh-block level) on where smokers the influence of interventions from healthier smokers who are smoking information about where smokers live and what their smoking habits health providers who have been less). live and what their smoking habits are. guided by geospatial information on are. smoking habits.
Develop and implement a software Geocoded information is readily Health providers, councils and others Improved respiratory health of app that will use historical and available on forecast pollution levels. use micro-level air pollution citizens; lower healthcare costs. real-time geospatial information to geospatial information and forecasts forecast air pollution levels. of pollution levels to target vulnerable people with warnings, advice and healthcare.
Develop spatial micro-simulations of Better (and finer detail) geospatial Health providers develop and target Healthier New Zealanders. health outcomes and behaviours in information on health issues their health services guided by more NZ eg related to such issues as encapsulated in more intuitive health detailed geospatial information on obesity (these models take existing maps for providers and the public. heath issues. information and use algorithms to interpolate and extrapolate existing geospatial information to a finer mesh-grid scale).
Determine the relationships between An understanding of which aspects Local government, DHBs and central Improved post-earthquake (and geospatial variability in earthquake of living in an, for example, an government develop and implement other events) population and exposure (and other stressors such earthquake-affected area, have the post-earthquake health response individual health. as flooding) and health (mental and most effect on the health of plans guided by earthquake- physical), taking into account residents. accounting for geospatial variations mobility (including the ability of in risk. people to relocate or not).
Develop geospatial datasets on Geospatial datasets on sub- Researchers access and use a wider More targeted and effective health sub-populations: elderly, mental population groups: elderly, mental range of health-related geospatial services leading to happier and health, children, low income, specific health, children, low income, specific information to generate new healthier sub-population groups. diseases, vulnerable (in various diseases, vulnerable (in various information to guide health providers ways), and potential successful ways), and potential successful on how to provide and target better interventions. interventions. health services.
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W9 National Infrastructure
CONTEXT Infrastructure is the foundation on which much of our economy relies, whether it is reliable electricity, clean drinking water, or transport networks that allow us to safely undertake and live our lives every day. Over the next 10 years, approximately $110 billion is forecast to be spent on infrastructure. The Crown’s infrastructure assets alone are worth more than a full year of total output from the economy.
Infrastructure tends to refer to fixed, long-term assets such as roads, phone and water networks, where the money spent on them influences the overall performance of our economy and New Zealanders’ quality of life. It includes structures such as schools, hospitals, prisons, libraries and swimming pools.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) www.caa.govt.nz CAA is a Crown Entity that oversees aviation and the rules underpinning it.
Electricity Authority (EA) www.ea.govt.nz The EA) is an independent Crown entity responsible for the efficient operation of the New Zealand electricity market. The EA is the electricity market regulator; they develop and set the market rules, enforcing and administering them and monitoring the market’s performance. Geospatial information supports decisions relating to electricity supply and demand and understanding of the geophysical aspects of rainfall, run-off, snow melt, hydrology, wind and geothermal.
Ministry of Transport (MoT) www.transport.govt.nz MOT is the government’s principal transport advisor with the aim of improving the overall performance of the transport system • Transport Sector Research Strategy 2016-2020 (expected release 2016) • Transport Domain Plan (expected release 2016).
National Infrastructure Unit (NIU), The Treasury www.infrastructure.govt.nz The NIU was established to deliver the Government’s objectives related to infrastructure. They recently released The Thirty Year New Zealand Infrastructure Plan.
New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) www.nzta.govt.nz NZTA delivers transport solutions for New Zealand. They work with local and regional government to fund land transport activities, including local roads, state highways and public transport infrastructure and services.
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R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES There are a number of R&D providers that undertake work that helps support activities in this area including universities, GNS Science18 and NIWA.19
There are several significant multiparty R&D initiatives that help support activities in this area:
• Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (resiliencechallenge.nz): the objective of this National Science Challenge is to enhance our resilience to natural disasters. This initiative includes the Natural Hazards Platform (www.naturalhazards.org.nz). Both initiatives are hosted by GNS Science and involve research organisations such as BRANZ, Massey University, NIWA, OPUS Research, SCION, The University of Auckland, and University of Canterbury. • QuakeCoRE (quakecore.nz): a CoRE focussing on earthquake resilience. It is based in the University of Canterbury and involves a number of stakeholders such as BRANZ, GNS Science, The University of Auckland, Waikato University, the National Infrastructure Unit in Treasury and the MBIE Building Performance Group.
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES A number of themes were raised during this workshop, for example the need to know what datasets are best used to manage infrastructure assets, such as data about location, elevation, and the nature of the infrastructure asset. Another theme was the need to inter-link this data and communicate it.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
18 GNS Science Core purpose is to address our resilience to natural hazards and reduce risk from earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis, they also operate GeoNet. 19 NIWA’a core purpose is to increase the resilience of New Zealand and South-West Pacific islands to tsunami and weather and climate hazards, including drought, floods and sea-level change.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Research to determine Reports which objectively the geospatial datasets identify the geospatial and information which, datasets and information when inter-linked, will be which, when inter-linked, most valuable to national will be most valuable to infrastructure managers national infrastructure managers
Establish protocols, Protocols, systems Infrastructure managers Effective and efficient systems and tools for and tools in place for skilled in the use of national infrastructure collecting, validating, collecting, validating, geospatial data and (including lowest whole- inter-linking (and where inter-linking (and where information make and of-life costs; happy relevant visualising) relevant visualising) implement informed asset infrastructure users) national infrastructure- national infrastructure- management decisions related geospatial data related geospatial data using comprehensive sets and information and information of interoperable, visualised geospatial data and information
Determine the Avionics-compatible Manned and unmanned Greater safety for users of characteristics of, and then elevation datasets readily aircraft operate safely manned and unmanned collect and disseminate, available throughout New guided by avionics- aircraft avionics-compatible Zealand compatible elevation elevation datasets datasets throughout New Zealand
Collect and make available Real-time, accurate and Operators of driverless Users/passengers of real-time, accurate and rigorously validated vehicles (terrestrial, driverless vehicles are safe rigorously validated transport-related water-based, aviation- and physical resources are transport-related geospatial data and based) accurately control undamaged by driverless geospatial data and information is readily their vehicles guided vehicles information for operators available to operators by real-time, rigorously of driverless vehicles of driverless vehicles validated transport-related (terrestrial, water-based, (terrestrial, water-based, geospatial data and aviation-based) aviation-based) information
Research to determine A report (and business the appropriateness of case?) justifying (or not) formally establishing establishing a national a national geospatial geospatial infrastructure infrastructure on the scale on the scale necessary to necessary to support the support the desired tenfold desired tenfold increase increase in value extracted in value extracted from from using geospatial data using geospatial data and and information information
Establish (and populate A national geospatial Many end users make and Many and diverse with geospatial data and infrastructure populated implement better decisions economic, social, information) a national with data/information informed by accessing and environmental and cultural geospatial infrastructure is available on the scale using geospatial data and benefits on the scale necessary to necessary to support the information encapsulated support the desired tenfold desired tenfold increase in the national geospatial increase in value extracted in value extracted from infrastructure from using geospatial data using geospatial data and and information information
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Define, develop and make available A nationally agreed set of 'geospatial Constructors build infrastructure Improved well being in NZ because standardised 'geospatial information- information-based infrastructure- which better addresses NZ's national infrastructure better meets based infrastructure-construction construction datasets' which address economic, social, environmental and NZ's needs and opportunities. datasets' which address economic, the economic, environmental, social cultural opportunities and needs environmental, social and cultural and cultural constraints and (with less on-site re-work), guided by constraints and opportunities. opportunities. a nationally agreed set of 'geospatial information-based infrastructure- construction datasets and NZ- customised infrastructure development models.
Develop geospatial information- Geospatial information-based Constructors safely build Healthy and safe workforce which based education and training education and training resources infrastructure with better-trained has suffered few injuries or other resources addressing health and addressing health and safety issues builders and guided by health-and- H&S incidents. safety issues. are readily available to all safety geospatial information and infrastructure projects. training resources.
Map key locations where GNSS does GNSS receivers can accurately GNSS users accurately identify Users can confidently base their not provide accurate locations and determine location either on their locations using GNSS on its own or, decisions on accurately identified provide augmented signals to those own or coupled with the augmented where necessary, GNSS + augmented positions. locations. signals. signals.
Develop a procedure to rapidly and A military-spec database of 1:50,000 Military planners/command and More effective operations, eg SARs regularly update and make available topographic geospatial information control (C2) use topographic operations. military-spec database of 1:50,000 for NZ (and its territories) is readily databases/geospatial information topographic geospatial information available in NZ. integrated with their own systems, for NZ (and NZ territories) in a form standards and context, and enhance which readily integrates with military situational awareness and so guide, charting and command-and-control for example, Search And Rescue (C2) systems. (SARs) decisions.
Develop/acquire an improved, High-quality (military quality) Mission planners create plans for Safer, more effective missions; military-spec, avionics-compatible assured/validated NZ elevation effective use of Air Force craft and regulatory compliance. elevation dataset for NZ. dataset suitable for the production of pilots use these plans, all guided by aero charts and compatible with Air military-quality NZ elevation data to Force avionics. operate effective missions.
Develop geospatial information Geospatial information systems Vehicle operators control their speed Fewer and less severe traffic systems that track vehicle mandated and in place on vehicles better because they are tracking infringements, accidents, injuries and movements in real time and mandate and that track vehicle movements in their own vehicle speeds using deaths because vehicle operators are these devices for all vehicles (subject real time subject to acceptable geospatial information as well as driving within speed limits and aware to developing acceptable privacy/ privacy/security policies. knowing that their speeds are being they are being more closely security policies). monitored remotely eg by the police monitored. (privacy issues are likely to be significant).
Develop a geospatial information- A geospatial information-based road The government/NZTA collect Transport-related taxes/revenue are based road user charging system user charging system suitable for revenue (to fund transport collected fairly and efficiently. suitable for fossil-fuel-power fossil-fuel-power vehicles, electric infrastructure) using a new revenue vehicles, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles and hybrid vehicles is collection system underpinned by vehicles. operational. geospatial information (eg based on distance-charging using GPS on vehicles).
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Establish and populate a An operational, populated, National land transport initiatives are Efficient, effective, safe, resilient comprehensive, up-to-date comprehensive, up-to-date meta- implemented guided by decisions national land transport. meta-geospatial information system/ geospatial information system/data which have been informed by database of validated network safety, base of validated network safety, comprehensive, up-to-date likely uses, efficiency/travel times, likely uses, efficiency/travel times, geospatial information on validated population growth/trends, land use, population growth/trends, land use, network safety, likely uses, efficiency/ maintenance characteristics, funding maintenance characteristics, funding travel times, population growth/ availability, resilience, national availability, resilience, national trends, land use, maintenance impact, quality. impact, quality. characteristics, funding availability, resilience, national impact, quality.
Develop a geospatial information- Geospatial information-savvy asset Asset managers finance, build and Assets have been managed and savvy asset management database data eg BIM models of whole cities operate their assets in a way which integrated as efficiently and and continually populate it with new which interface with their many optimally integrates with all other effectively as the geospatial asset information, ideally mostly assets (water/wastewater/transport/ assets (their own and those of other information-savvy data/models electronically and automatically power etc) and provide platforms for organisations) all guided by allow. collected, and make this geospatial integrated asset management across geospatial information-savvy asset information readily available to all agencies (councils for water, power data/models (while also collecting asset managers across all relevant providers, gas providers, NZTA for new data and feeding it back into the organisations. transport networks etc) to define asset database/models (a Project). resilience (high risk assets/location/ impacts), forecast demand, monitor changing asset conditions etc.
Develop and operate web-accessible Web-accessible (and/or mobile- Organisations and citizens make Organisations and citizens are safer; (and/or mobile-device-accessible) device-accessible) real-time location-specific decisions guided by fewer resources are wasted; real-time geospatial information on geospatial information on outages real-time geospatial information on organisations are able to more outages and problems with all and problems with all infrastructure infrastructure operation/outages/ rapidly and collaboratively address infrastructure (telco, gas, electricity, (telco, gas, electricity, roads etc) problems. outages/problems. roads etc) including geospatial including geospatial information on information on how outages and how outages and problems with one problems with one part of the part of the infrastructure may impact infrastructure may impact on (or on (or in real-time are impacting on) in real-time are impacting on) other other infrastructure and the uses of infrastructure and the uses of all all the infrastructure. the infrastructure.
Develop (and populate) a geospatial UAV-geospatial information readily Controllers/regulators track (and Few UAV incidents relative to information system to track and- available on current capabilities and control?) commercially flown UAVs manned flights. isplay (and control?) the position of vulnerabilities of the GNSS system, (and privately flown UAVs?) as the 'active' UAV and associated/attached system resilience, interoperability etc. UAVs have unique identifiers and UAV equipment. characteristics that make them readily visible to controllers/ regulators and other airspace users.
Develop NZ-customised UAVs that NZ-customised UAVs are available There is a steady growth in the People and property are healthy, safe have appropriate and relevant which have appropriate and relevant number of UAVs which are being and not adversely affected in the geospatial information capture and geospatial information capture and flown safely in many parts of NZ to presence of UAV operations. which can be tracked and controlled which can be tracked and controlled capture real-time geospatial using geospatial information. using geospatial information. information.
Collect road-related geospatial Publicly available, readily Individuals, companies, government Reduced travel times, lower levels of information from many sources and understood, seamlessly integrated agencies, emergency services and all pollution from vehicles, lower levels develop publicly available, readily real-time geospatial information on other stakeholders optimise their of driver frustration, reduced travel understood, seamlessly integrated all aspects of roads (surface road travel guided by readily costs, fewer accidents. real-time geospatial information on conditions, local weather, road works, understood, seamlessly integrated all aspects of roads (surface intersections, driver behaviour, real-time geospatial information on Note that this came from the conditions, local weather, road works, chemical spills and other incidents all aspects of roads. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery intersections, driver behaviour, such as animals on roads, data from workshop. chemical spills and other incidents transport and courier companies/ such as animals on roads, data from crowd-sourced GPS information). transport and courier companies/ crowd-sourced GPS information, information from new sensors and that is processed in new ways).
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop and implement a plan to A MHWM layer of geospatial Land owners/developers and Infrastructure is built that is resilient generate/maintain a MEAN HIGH information (which can be overlaid regulators and developers of against current and future WATER MARK (MHWM) layer of on maps etc) which is liability-free, infrastructure determine where it is inundations. geospatial information (which can be readily accessible, available, safe to build (eg how far out a road overlaid on maps etc) which is discoverable, authoritative, legal, or motorway can be extended taking Note that this came from the liability-free, readily accessible, up-to-date and online or via other into account MHWM/king tides etc) Environment workshop. available, discoverable, authoritative, GIS services. guided by coupling MHWM legal, up-to-date and online or via geospatial information with forecasts other GIS services. of the extent and impacts of future inundations.
Develop a readily accessible Readily accessible train-oriented Control the speed and direction of Safer, more efficient trains; happier train-orientated geospatial geospatial information (speed, every train and vehicle on tracks patrons; more profitable train information (dataset). location, direction, train type, correct using train-and-track-specific operators; legal compliance. maximum speed, correct speed geospatial information (speed, profile, correct switch position, actual location, direction, train type, correct Note that this originates from the switch position etc). maximum speed, correct speed Energy and Minerals workshop profile, correct switch position, actual switch position etc).
Develop a geospatial information- A geospatial information-savvy Developers, asset managers and NEW assets have been managed and savvy integrated database/ integrated database/notification other stakeholders finance, build and integrated as efficiently and notification model of NEW asset or model of NEW asset or ASSET operate their NEW assets in a way effectively as the geospatial ASSET GROWTH and continually GROWTH that is continually which optimally integrates with all information-savvy data/models populate it with new asset populated with new asset other assets (their own and those of allow. information, ideally mostly information, ideally mostly other organisations) all guided by electronically and automatically electronically and automatically geospatial information-savvy asset collected, and make this geospatial collected, made readily available to data/models (while also collecting information readily available to all all asset managers across all relevant new data and feeding it back into the asset managers across all relevant organisations. This geospatial geospatial information-savvy asset organisations. This geospatial information would inter-link database/models (a Project). information would inter-link developers intentions with asset developers’ intentions with asset managers existing and planned managers’ existing and planned assets (water, wastewater, power, assets (water, wastewater, power, gas, transport, telco etc). gas, transport, telco etc).
Collect and develop readily Readily accessible geospatial Consumers purchase and operate An efficient, thriving and constantly accessible geospatial information on information on locally-specific, optimal energy systems guided by refined energy market which has locally-specific, real-time power real-time power transmission costs, comprehensive and readily been guided by market demand and transmission costs, pollution, energy pollution, energy density etc. accessible/understood geospatial extensive, validated geospatial density etc. information on all aspects of locally information. available power sources.
Research, develop, validate and Validated and authorised inter- Constructors build better More sustainably profitable secure authorisation for the operable CAD and geospatial infrastructure which has been better infrastructure builders (due to better inter-operability of CAD and information systems available to designed based on validated, geospatial information-guided geospatial information systems in geospatial information-literate authorised, inter-operable CAD/ designs and less rework). order to guide better infrastructure designers/builders to guide better geospatial information systems. design and construction. infrastructure design and construction.
Develop an agreed national An agreed national geospatial MCDEM controllers manage Less loss of life and property in the geospatial information framework information framework, back-office emergency situations guided by event of emergencies. and back-office systems for systems for recording/updating comprehensive, up-to-date recording/updating infrastructure infrastructure and system nodes/ geospatial information which and system nodes/links/hazards. links/hazards (populated with interlinks infrastructure/system relevant geospatial information nodes/links/hazards etc. content).
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop, populate (with data) and A 3D cadastre is readily available on Real estate agents are able to guide Well-informed property purchasers make readily available online and on mobile communication systems and potential purchasers using able to make better quality, real-time mobile devices a validated 3D includes 3D geospatial information GPS-enabled smartphones to access purchasing decisions. cadastral model for all property in on property valuation, postal 3D geospatial information to NZ. address, geotechnical information, determine the owner, valuation, legal building rating etc. description, earthquake risk, earthquake rating etc for a building or property.
Develop geospatial information on Geospatial information on location- Heavy vehicle operators and law Less damage to fragile road where/when different types of heavy specific road network restrictions (eg enforcement agencies identify infrastructure; better optimised vehicles can safely operate without bridge weight limits) and heavy location-specific road restrictions heavy vehicle movements; less and infringing local road network vehicle characteristic is available on (bridge weight limits etc) using better targeted infringement restrictions (eg bridge weight limits). mobile devices to heavy vehicle geospatial information and correlate management (involving less time and This may include the real-time operators and law enforcement them in real time with heavy vehicle resources of the enforcement sensing/monitoring of heavy agencies. information to minimise agencies). vehicles. infringements (vehicle operators) and to identify infringements (law enforcement agencies).
Develop and populate a system on Detailed geospatial information is Vehicle drivers combine geospatial Lower fuel costs, reduced pollution, geospatial information on road readily available on mobile devices information with vehicle performance more competitive transport, safer elevations, conditions, speed limits, giving accurate, precise, validated information to guide the pre- transport. corners etc and make it available on information on road profiles and selection of the most appropriate mobile devices for road users. conditions. gears, engine power etc consistent with location.
Identify options, develop a business Mobile-accessible, accurate, Pilots flying into small airports and in Safe flights into and out of small, case, secure funding and develop validated, real-time 3D geospatial bad weather without ground-based poorly serviced airports. and populate a geospatial information including safe guidance aids at the airport are guided by information system with augmented of aircraft for avoiding hazards is mobile-accessible, accurate, GNSS information for each NZ airport available at and for each airport. validated, real-time 3D geospatial and its surroundings including information including safe guidance hazards (masts, wires, local weather, of aircraft for avoiding hazards at elevations etc) and recommended each airport. arrival and departure procedures.
Develop and populate a geospatial Accurate, validated, real-time Transport planners and operators Efficient, effective, safe, resilient information system for the collection geospatial information on actual road avoid dynamic bottle-necks and national land transport; reduced (via sensors?) and real-time and rail network usage. choke points in the transport congestion. dissemination of geospatial network using real-time geospatial information on actual road and rail information on actual road and rail network usage. network usage, and use this geospatial information to plan investments to improve the transport network.
Establish and populate a real-time Real-time and historical geospatial More cyclists are using the safest Fewer cycling-related injuries and and historical geospatial information information available on mobile routes guided by validated deaths; more people who cycle and system (accessible on mobile devices relating to cycle route geospatial information on routes and who are healthier as a result; lower devices) relating to cycle route conditions, historical accident rates their history of accidents. pollution; reduced congestion. conditions, historical accident rates and locations, numbers of cars etc. and locations, numbers of cars etc.
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W10 National Resilience to Natural Hazards
CONTEXT New Zealand’s exposure to natural hazards, including flooding, landslides, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami and climate change events continues to increase. New Zealand’s vulnerability (the degree of loss that can be expected from a given hazard event) is high because:
• we are a small economy; therefore, the shock of an event that might be easily absorbed in a larger economy will potentially have a more severe impact • decisions made long ago have dictated our settlement and land development patterns, increasing the consequences of many natural hazard events.
Although we actively manage for natural hazards, we are also faced with an increasing population, land use intensification in known hazard-prone areas, and the impacts of climate change.
To better manage natural hazard risks, there is a need to develop an improved and shared understanding of natural hazards so that New Zealand can take meaningful steps to improve practices, develop tools, target investment, and better understand public and private sector roles, leading to a less vulnerable, more aware and resilient country.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) www.dpmc.govt.nz DPMC have lead responsibility for the National Security System which includes sustaining economic prosperity, ensuring public safety and protecting the natural environment. Natural hazard risks feature in all of these.
Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management (MCDEM) www.civildefence.govt.nz MCDEM sits within DPMC and has responsibility for national crisis management in most cases relating to natural hazards.
R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES There are a number of R&D providers that undertake work that helps support activities in this area, for example universities, GNS Science and NIWA.
There are a number of significant multiparty R&D initiatives that help support activities in this area:
• Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (resiliencechallenge.nz) – the objective of this National Science Challenge is to enhance our resilience to natural disasters. This initiative includes the Natural Hazards Platform (www.naturalhazards.org.nz). Both initiatives are hosted by GNS Science and involve such research organisations as BRANZ, Massey University, NIWA, OPUS Research, SCION, The University of Auckland, and University of Canterbury. • The Deep South (deepsouthchallenge.co.nz): the objective of this National Science Challenge is to understand the role of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean in determining our climate and our future environment. This initiative is hosted by NIWA and involves Antarctica New Zealand, GNS Science, Landcare Research, New Zealand Research Institute, University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington. • QuakeCoRE (www.quakecore.nz): a CoRE focussing on earthquake resilience. It is based in the University of Canterbury and involves a number of stakeholders such as BRANZ, GNS Science, The University of Auckland, Waikato University, the National Infrastructure Unit in Treasury and the MBIE Building Performance Group.
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES The topics raised in this workshop were wide ranging – there were many opportunities identified where geospatial R&D could lead to an increase in our resilience to natural hazards.
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The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify the characteristics Reports which define of trusted, validated and the characteristics of understandable sources trusted, validated and of geospatial information understandable sources post-natural-hazard events of geospatial information as a guide to developing post-natural-hazard events such sources of geospatial to guide development of information such geospatial information
Develop and maintain Trusted, understandable Emergency services and All stakeholders have sources of geospatial and readily accessible all other stakeholders established post- information (maybe ‘single geospatial information react effectively to hazard-event processes points of truth’) which will available to stakeholders natural hazard events by and systems that have be trusted, understandable after hazard events accessing, understanding, minimised harm and and readily accessible trusting and using post- maximised the speed and by all stakeholders after natural-hazard event quality of recovery hazard events geospatial information models and scenarios
Develop 4D models 4D models (x,y,z,t) of (x,y,z,t) of all major urban all major urban areas areas (infrastructure, (incl infrastructure, demographics etc), and demographics etc), plus create forecasting and create forecasting and real-time scenario tools to real-time scenario tools predict outcomes in rapidly to predict outcomes in evolving post-hazard-event rapidly evolving post- situations hazard-event situations
Determine the impacts Report on the impacts throughout NZ if actions, throughout NZ if actions, organisations and organisations and infrastructure which is infrastructure which is critically dependent on critically dependent on geospatial information geospatial information suddenly loses that suddenly loses that information during a major information during a major natural hazard event natural hazard event
Identify the SWOT Report on the SWOT (Strength, Weakness, characteristics of historical Opportunities, Threats) collection and post- characteristics of historical natural hazard event use collection and post- of geospatial information natural hazard event use as a basis for guiding the of geospatial information design and installation of as a basis for guiding the appropriate sensors and design and installation of warning systems appropriate sensors and warning systems
Design and implement Effective sensors and more effective sensors warning systems in place and warning systems for for post-natural hazard post-natural hazard event event use of relevant use of relevant geospatial geospatial information information
Develop ‘heat-maps’ ‘Heat-maps’ of of the vulnerability the vulnerability of infrastructure of infrastructure (roads, water, power, (roads, water, power, communications) to major communications) to major natural hazard events natural hazard events
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
NATIONAL RESILIENCE TO NATURAL HAZARDS WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Establish relevant historical Historical and real-time geospatial In the event of a substantial volcanic Citizens and others have a good geospatial information on Auckland information is available to eruption in Auckland, Aucklanders sense of security because they have (with respect to volcanic eruptions Aucklanders in the event of a make decisions (and act) on whether confidently made the right decisions and what people should do) and substantial volcanic eruption in to stay or leave (and where to find (post-natural hazard event) guided make it available, together with Auckland – available through all relatives and friends, where to go by reliable, integrated, validated real-time post-volcano geospatial possible trusted channels (although that is safe etc), guided by historical geospatial information which they information (from official sources many may not be working) including: and real-time geospatial information have accessed through trusted and crowd-sourced) through as traditional media like radio/TV, social which they have accessed through sources. many trusted channels as possible media, websites, on mobile devices. a range of TRUSTED sources: and make sure that this information Geospatial information likely to traditional media like radio/TV, social is intuitive and helps people make include escape or retreat paths, media, websites, on mobile devices. decisions (eg geospatial information wind/rain forecasts, handling which includes information on capacity of retreat paths and impacts of volcanic events, destinations, state of transport recommendations for when to leave, options etc. where to go, which routes to take, what modes of transport to use etc).
City council builds/uses virtual City councils and others have City councils and others pre- Safe, resilient cities where people models, digital elevation maps and detailed flood-risk information which emptively minimise their risks and have a high quality of life. other geospatial information to run they can subsequently use to impacts from flooding using detailed simulations of flooding (at individual pre-emptively minimise their risks flood-risk geospatial information/ property level) throughout a city to and impacts from flooding (this other information (can be duplicated identify flood risks and inform land Result can be replicated for all forms for other natural hazards) (includes owners and owners of man-made of natural hazard) (includes more the councils preparing long-term and natural assets (and also to clarify accurate weather/land boundaries climate-change adaption plans for the current and evolving demarcation (shorelines, rivers, estuaries, lakes) coastal and river flood plains). of land/water boundaries for TLAs and how they are varying and are and RCs). predicted to vary over time).
Identify, collect and monitor Information is available about NZTA (and others) make and More robust roads despite local risks historical and real-time/dynamic historical and real-time/dynamic implement decisions on the of inundation; commerce can geospatial information on roading geospatial information on roading rebuilding and operation of sections proceed unfettered; cost-efficient hotspots that are at high risk of hotspots that are at high risk of of the highway network that are at road network (development, being disrupted by inundation events being disrupted by inundation high risk of being disrupted by operation and maintenance). and make this information available events. inundation events (floods, lahars, to the public. other forms of inundation eg storm surges, rising sea levels etc) based on this information.
Identify what a 'spatial plan' national A national geospatial-based 'spatial TLAs create viable, credible and Better communities/society/ framework (especially for TLA plan' framework as the basis for TLAs integrated spatial plans which are businesses as a consequence of well planning) could look like and what to to develop spatial plans. well-informed by the national developed communities/areas include, and create a persuasive, geospatial-based 'spatial plan', and (guided by TLA spatial plans which in evidence-based business case to communities, organisations, turn were guided by the spatial plan support it. businesses (banks, insurance national framework). companies, utilities, developers etc) and individuals develop their communities/areas in line with these widely accepted spatial plans.
Determine the resilience of The resilience of networks is known: Network providers build and operate Safe public (able to do what they geospatial-based and related baseline BAU, impact (level of service resilient, integrated geospatial want to do). networks taking a systems affected and populations affected), networks and lifelines which perspective on (inter-dependencies geospatial information (location, minimise negative impacts on if there is a failure – downstream impacts). populations/assets/commerce. consequences) lifelines (communications, electricity, transport, water, waste).
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W11 Primary industries
CONTEXT Agriculture, horticulture, forestry, mining and fisheries all play an important role in New Zealand’s economy, particularly in the export sector and in employment. Overall, primary industries account for 7.5% of real GDP and contribute to around half of New Zealand’s total export earnings. In addition primary sector processing (food and forestry) makes up a significant proportion of the manufacturing sector’s 11% contribution to real GDP and 12% of the workforce.
Whilst some primary industries face a range of challenging trade conditions, for example the decline in world prices for diary products, other sectors such as meat, horticulture and seafood have been growing strongly.
Growing our primary industries’ productivity requires us to innovate and remain competitive, ensuring our reputation for safe food and sustainable use of resources is maintained.
Geospatial information can support sector growth and productivity and help with quality assurance and sustainability of resources.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) www.mpi.govt.nz MPI has oversight of our primary industry activities whereby they aim to help maximise export opportunities, improve sector productivity, ensure the food we eat is safe, increase sustainable resource use and protect New Zealand from biological risk. A number of strategies can be found on their website.
Aquaculture New Zealand www.aquaculture.org.nz • New Zealand Aquaculture Strategy • Aquaculture New Zealand Research Strategy • Aquaculture Growth Strategy Phase II
Dairy NZ www.dairynz.co.nz • The Dairy Industry Strategy
Forest Owners Association (FOA) www.nzfoa.org.nz • New Zealand Forestry Science and Innovation Plan • Forest Biosecurity Research Strategy
Wood Council of New Zealand (Woodco) ww.woodco.org.nz • Forestwood Strategic Action Plan 2012-2022 • Forest Industry Study • Forest and Wood Products Industry Strategic Plan • Woodco Research Science & Technology Group Statement on R&D for the Forest Industry
HorticultureTM New Zealand www.hortnz.co.nz • HorticultureTM New Zealand Strategy
New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Inc (NZKI) www.nzkgi.org.nz • NZKI strategic Plan 2013/14
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R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES Given the importance of this industry to our economy, there are a large number of R&D providers operating in this space. In addition to our universities, other providers include AgResearch, ESR, Landcare Research, NIWA, Plant and Food Research, SCION and the Cawthron Institute.20
The Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) Programme is an initiative managed by MPI that invests in long-term programmes, in partnership with industry, to increase the market success of primary industries.21 As of 30 May 2015, there were 17 PGP programmes underway in areas such as bee- keeping, dairy, meat and forestry. More detail about these programmes can be found on the MPI website.22
There are a number of National Science Challenges that operate in this area.
• Our Land and Water:23 the objective of this initiative is to conduct research to enhance primary sector production and productivity while maintaining and improving our land and water quality for future generations. • High-Value Nutrition (highvaluenutrition.co.nz): the objective of this initiative is to develop high-value foods with validated health benefits. • New Zealand’s Biological Heritage (biologicalheritage.nz): the objective of this initiative is to conduct research that helps protect and manage our biodiversity, improve our biosecurity, and enhance our resilience to harmful organisms. This initiative is hosted by Landcare Research and its participants include all eight universities, and all other CRIs. • Sustainable Seas (sustainableseachallenge.co.nz): the objective of this initiative is to conduct research to enhance use of New Zealand’s vast marine resources while ensuring that our marine environment is understood, cared for, and used wisely for the benefit of all, now and in the future.
THE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY WORKSHOP Location-based information and tools that enable informed decision-making around, for example, the health status of stock, optimisation of harvesting and the management of disease outbreaks are some of the themes that arose in this workshop.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
20 See http://www.cawthron.org.nz/ . 21 See http://www.mpi.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/primary-growth-partnership/overview/ . 22 See http://www.mpi.govt.nz/funding-and-programmes/primary-growth-partnership/primary-growth-partnership-programmes/ . 23 See http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/science-innovation/national-science-challenges.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop an interactive A readily accessible In the event of animal Public health and the tool based on geospatial interactive tool based on disease outbreaks health of tourists and information for rapidly geospatial information for requiring large scale overseas consumers of choosing options for large- rapidly choosing options carcass disposal, public NZ’s animal products has scale carcass disposal in for large-scale carcass health and related been preserved the event of a foot-and- disposal in the event of stakeholders rapidly mouth or similar outbreak a foot-and-mouth or select and operationalise (includes groundwater and similar outbreak (includes disposal sites soil models) groundwater and soil models)
Develop methods and Methods and systems Horticultural producers, High-quality harvested systems for collecting available for collecting harvesters and processors crops at minimal cost location-based real-time location-based, real-time accurately schedule trends in horticultural trends in horticultural harvesting and processing crop growth stages (eg crop growth stages (eg operations guided by ripeness) to couple with ripeness) to couple with real-time geospatial data weather data to underpin weather data to underpin and models of crop growth predictions of time-to- predictions of time-to- states and weather data harvest harvest
Develop and integrate Integrated maps of Growers, investors, risk Higher-quality crops; maps of historical frost historical frost (and other) managers and insurers lower cost frost protection (and other) risks, nearby risks overlaid with climate improve crop management (because it was used only frost events, climate change forecasts and and minimise insurance when necessary); less crop change forecasts and shorter-term weather costs guided by real damage; lower insurance shorter-term weather forecasts time frost (and other) premiums forecasts risks + climate + weather forecasts
Projects relating Results relating to flooding Farmers and other land Land is in good condition to flooding – see – see Environment managers manage flood (due to minimal inundation Environment and Natural and Natural Hazards risk more effectively damage) Hazards SubStrategies SubStrategies (with riparian plantings, constructed wetlands, sediment traps, tree planting etc) guided by geospatial information on inundation risk
Models based on Models based on Clusters of farmers Sustainable, collaborative geospatial information geospatial information aggregate their similar farms (where production of farm clusters and their of farm clusters and their land parcels into viable of the same crops would collaborative productive collaborative productive (but locally dispersed) be non-viable without land potential if similar land potential if similar land clusters to achieve and crop clustering guided types on multiple farms land types on multiple minimum viable sized by geospatial information) are ‘aggregated’ into farms are ‘aggregated’ production of crops viable modules of into viable (but locally same-crop production are dispersed) clusters of same-crop production
Develop, populate and Readily available, Farmers effectively Healthier NZ animals; make readily available liability-free, authoritative, manage stock health maintained and improved liability-free, authoritative, real-time geospatial guided by location-based international NZ reputation real-time geospatial information on the health disease risk models and for animal and food health information on the health status of all NZ stock and information (especially status of all NZ stock and disease-carrying wild re TB) eg locations of TB, disease-carrying wild animals and birds stock movements, non- animals and birds stock vectors etc
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
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Projects Results Uses Benefits
1: Develop a geospatial tool based 1: Land managers/farmers/others Land managers, farmers and clusters Resilient rural communities are on catchments to evaluate have a user-friendly land- of farmers maximise the long-term optimally inter-dependent; end user options (12.5, 25, 50 and 100 year management geospatial tool value of their operations using the consumers of produce (eg in export scenarios) and value propositions based on catchments to evaluate geospatial tool which recommends markets) have higher quality produce for each option, for land options (12.5, 25, 50 and 100 year land management options and value supplied sustainably and with long- management under changing scenarios), and value propositions propositions at farm and catchment term resilience (with the produce climate . for each option, for land level in response to changing certifiably linked back to the 2: Determine how best to management under changing climates (eg developing diversity of production source on the sustainable disseminate this tool to land climate. farm income consolidated across NZ farms). managers/farmers and others. 2: Tool to address all layers of multiple properties such as a cluster 3: Disseminate this tool to land geospatial information relating to of farmers all growing blueberries on managers (these tools need to a catchment/locality including the south faces of their lands in a address: short-term operational biophysical modelling, soil and way which is not economic if issues at farm level; longer-term erosion geospatial information, individually isolated but which is strategic issues at farm level; grass growth, nutrient status, economic when the blueberries are ‘foresight’ issues in the long term future climate modelling, consolidated into a single supply at the level of collaborative landscapes, land use potential, chain – ie each farm is profitable by networks for farmers; tactical extreme events and their impacts, working collaboratively with adjacent issues for networks of drought and flood vulnerability, farms by consolidating small collaborating farmers). recovery options etc disseminated amounts of diverse production which to land managers/farmers and has been achieved by optimising the others. crop selection etc for each micro-climate/environment).
Determine how to present Visualisations toolkit on ways to Many more users use geospatial Numerous: essentially the four areas visualisations of geospatial represent geospatial information so information because it is in a form of well being. information so that they are used that they are used and understood they can discover, access, understand and understood by policy-makers, by policy-makers, landowners and and use to guide their decisions and landowners and citizens. citizens. subsequent management of their land.
Develop an interactive tool which A model that informs users of areas Disease response coordinators Disease outbreaks have been rapidly incorporates all relevant parameters that are unsuitable for different types optimise management of the disease contained; economic losses from for choosing options for carcass of carcass disposal (exclusion layer); outbreak including quickly excluding FMD events have been minimised; disposal in a foot and mouth disease tool enables the pre-selection of areas from consideration for carcass health risks have been minimised (a (FMD) event (including creating a areas that may be suitable for disposal in a FMD event. This rapid potential negative is that if an area standardised geospatial dataset that disposal and so enables pre-event decision-making must not require the has been identified as suitable for models groundwater depth, soil data, site visits and ground truthing; tool is use of geospatial experts – ie the tool carcass disposal, this could Crown land parcels etc). (Must be flexible enough to enable parameters must be user-friendly to non- potentially lower the land value). readily available and kept up-to- to be changed (eg changing geospatial specialists. date.) separation distances for certain types of disposals); able to run scenarios.
Collect temporal trends in fruit Real-time maps of fruit development Orchardists harvest fruit at a time to Reduced harvesting cost (due to development to predict time-to- and predicted time to harvest. optimise their chosen fruit quality precision-timed harvesting harvest across space using geospatial and yield parameters. sequencing); high quality fruit weather data. available for consumers; high quality fruit tagged for premium markets; optimised supply chains (because they have precise advance notice of the availability and timing of produce supplies).
Develop, populate (with geospatial Readily accessible visualised Government agencies produce Enhanced NZ natural capital information) and visualise a system geospatial information on the state state-of-the-environment reports in (because it is being managed for up-to-date, state-of-the- of NZ's natural capital. compliance with international better); hotspots of natural-capital environment reporting of NZ's agreements; land owners and loss have been identified and actions natural capital assets (soil, land, investors make both capital and taken to minimise those losses. water, vegetation). operational investments guided by up-to-date natural capital geospatial information (and to improve the natural capital value of their land).
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R&D on the precision application of Tools and systems to guide the Hill-country farmers match inputs Hill-country farms are more fertiliser on hill-country properties precision application of fertiliser (and (especially fertiliser) to outputs, economically and environmentally (where intensive farming techniques other land management practices) predict pasture growth and manage sustainable. such as grid-sampling of soils are not on hill-country properties (where their properties better using cost-effective). This research has intensive farming techniques such as up-to-date (weekly) geospatial identified the need for most cost- grid-sampling of soils are not cost information about their properties. effective geospatial information effective). This research has collection because of the huge identified the need for most cost variability of hill-country land (soils, effective geospatial information aspect, altitude, streams, waterways, collection because of the huge climate, land-cover, plant stress etc). variability of hill country land (soils, aspect, altitude, streams, waterways, climate, land-cover etc).
Develop remote-sensing A farmer-friendly geospatial tool Farmers optimise the management More sustainable farms; lower stress technologies and a farmer-friendly which combines climate change of their pastures and hence optimise levels for farmers; greater confidence geospatial tool which combines geospatial information with regularly animal production, guided by in their decisions and management. climate change geospatial collected geospatial information on detailed and up-to-date geospatial information with regularly collected pasture combined in a predictive tool information tool/data which predicts geospatial information on pasture for forecasting paster growth. pasture growth. combined in a predictive tool for forecasting paster growth.
Develop a modelling tool which Geospatial information which shows Applicators of, for example, 1080, Minimal run-off of 1080 during and collects accurate, real-time real-time views of waterways across manage drops to minimise after drops; greater public geospatial information on flows in NZ, their flow rates and the different rainfall-event run-off and provide confidence in the safety and waterways and correlates them with effects of different rainfall events; reliable, confidence-building effectiveness of 1080 drops; less rainfall events of varying magnitudes, also where different waterways end/ information to the public and others secondary poisoning of flora and all integrated with weather converge, and the risks of run-off (eg based on real-time geospatial fauna. geospatial information to predict the of 1080 and fertiliser). information of river flows, rainfall interactions between rainfall and events and potential run-off. waterways.
Develop operational tool for creating Operational tool for creating Land managers optimising land Increased profits; sustainable profits; optimised flight plans for nutrient optimised flight plans for nutrient production due to flight lines for lower costs of resources; more secure (eg fertiliser) dispersal (taking into (eg fertiliser) dispersal (taking into nutrient dispersal flights optimised to supply-chain contracts; greater account the geospatial-informed account the geospatial-informed most effectively target areas while resilience in the face of changing soils chemistry, terrain, aspect, plant soils chemistry, terrain, plant species, minimising side effects and costs (all climates; minimal adverse species, nutrient-loss vulnerability, waterways, no-fly zones etc). guided by comprehensive geospatial environmental impacts (eg minimal waterways, no-fly zones, locations of information). over-application of nutrients etc). airfields, type of aircraft etc).
Develop, populate, implement and A readily available, liability-free, Farmers systematically reduce and/ Lower levels of stress for stock make readily available a liability-free, authoritative interactive map/tool for or manage disease (especially TB) farmers; more secure supply chains authoritative, interactive map/tool farmers to query re TB-related or incidence and severity (via stock to market due to certified disease for farmers to query re TB-related or movement-related issues and receive movement control (determined and free status of stock; lower losses due movement-related issues and receive real-time information to guide: stock imposed by MPI); culling; purchasing to culling; better reputation of farms; real-time information to guide: stock management/movement decision- of disease-free stock) all guided by less/better constraints on stock management/movement decision- making (map/tool must clearly geospatial information maps of movements; increased industry making (map/tool must clearly define farm boundaries (farm disease risk. confidence in the sustainability of the define farm boundaries (farm polygons, yard points, VAT points)); stock-farming sector. polygons, yard points, VAT points)); infection risks; requirements/ infection risks; requirements/ constraints re animal movements; all constraints re animal movements; all animal tags geolocated; all animal tags geolocated; all movements recorded within the last movements recorded within the last 48 hours; all farms uniquely 48 hours; all farms uniquely identified; all TB incidents recorded identified; all TB incidents recorded and geolocated; calf parentages and geolocated; calf parentages identified etc). identified etc).
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Develop and populate (with data: A real-time system for planning and Dairy tankers follow optimal routes Lower fuel costs; time savings; less identify, collect, integrate, interpret) scheduling milk tanker routes (based based on route plans guided by road damage; milk collected sooner a real-time system for planning and on historical info: location of tankers; extensive historical and real-time and hence needing shorter on-farm scheduling milk tanker routes (based volumes of milk typically on each geospatial information. storage times; less environmental on historical info: location of tankers; farm (daily/trends); vat locations damage; better-targeted roading volumes of milk typically on each (+/- 10metres); access/driveways infrastructure. farm (daily/trends); vat locations (+/- 100 metres); and real-time (+/- 10metres); access/driveways information on: location of tankers (+/- 100 metres); and real-time (+/- 10 metres); actual milk ready for information on: location of tankers collection on each farm; weather (+/- 10 metres); actual milk ready for conditions (hourly), road conditions collection on each farm; weather (hourly)). conditions (hourly), road conditions (hourly)).
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THE FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE WORKSHOP Location-based information and tools that enable informed decision-making around, for example, the prediction of algal blooms and harvesting times, as well as identifying the best locations for aquaculture farms, are some of the themes that arose during this workshop.
The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Develop, implement and Reliably interpolated & Coastal space managers Economic, environmental, disseminate algorithms extrapolated existing more effectively manage social and cultural Benefits for interpolating and (minimal and insufficient) coastal space guided by of better coastal space extrapolating existing coastal-space geospatial reliable interpolated and management (minimal and insufficient) datasets which ‘fill in the extrapolated geospatial coastal-space geospatial gaps’ in existing coastal- datasets datasets to ‘fill in the gaps’ space geospatial datasets
Develop a comprehensive A comprehensive Land and marine based Economic, environmental, geospatial ‘heat-map’ of all geospatial ‘heat-map’ of all aquaculture businesses social and cultural benefits the needs and constraints the needs and constraints established and run in of an expanded land- of land and marine based of land and marine based the best possible places, based and marine-based aquaculture (access to aquaculture (access to guided by comprehensive aquaculture sector employees, water, power, employees, water, power, geospatial ‘heat-maps’ infrastructure, land types, infrastructure, land types, of all the needs and social drivers, bathymetry, social driver, bathymetry, constraints of land- recreational values etc) recreational values etc) based and marine-based aquaculture
Develop, implement and A widely disseminated Aquaculture and coastal Maximised quality and disseminate geospatial geospatial marine water managers optimise quantity and safety of marine water forecasting water forecasting tool aquaculture production aquaculture tool for predicting harvest for predicting harvest and safety as well as products at lowest cost times, algal blooms, times, algal blooms, recreational and natural sedimentation events, sedimentation events, environment safety pollution, pathogen pollution, pathogen and quality guided by distributions, biosecurity distributions, biosecurity geospatial marine water risks etc risks etc forecasting tool and data
Identify what geospatial Report which defines High-quality, safe data and information what geospatial data natural environment for could potentially be and information could recreational use and easily collected relating potentially be easily enhanced biodiversity to marine and coastal collected relating to marine spaces with the aim of and coastal spaces and the determining the value quantification of the value that could potentially be that could potentially be generated from this data generated from this data and information and information
Develop and implement Geospatial datasets and Fishing and aquaculture Economic, environmental, system for fishers and information on fisheries- managers optimise social and cultural benefits other marine area users to related information catch and aquaculture of better coastal space collect, share and integrate (collected semi-randomly production guided by management semi-random location- by marine-space users) is semi-crowd-sourced based fisheries-related readily available fisheries-related geospatial information they collect information as they move about the coastal environment
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES – FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Identify, apply for and secure Harbour and off-shore space has Significant new aquaculture ventures Economic and social benefits for harbour and off-shore space for been secured for shellfish/finfish are operating in Northland Northland inhabitants. shellfish/finfish aquaculture aquaculture development in (permitted using geospatial development in Northland (for Northland (for settlement between information; operations guided by settlement between the Crown and the Crown and Iwi) by layering real-time geospatial information). Iwi) by layering geospatial geospatial information on: access; information on: access; costs; costs; planning constraints; water planning constraints; water flows and flows and quality; availability of quality; availability of nutrients; nutrients; location of on-shore location of on-shore infrastructure. infrastructure.
Collect and disseminate coastal Live food safety maps relating to the Aquaculture sector and government Improved food safety; public geospatial information on: food marine environment (updated at respond quickly and effectively to confidence that seafood is safe and safety pollution sources eg baches least daily) including forecasts of biosecurity risks (guided by healthy because it is linked to (90% known) and non-notified algal blooms and toxigenic potential; geospatial information). geospatial information about where consents (barely known by maps which delineate distinct marine it came from and the conditions it stakeholders); algal/toxin data and coastal 'food-safety-zones' was grown in; better NZ reputation including forecasts (20% known); (epidemiological zones); data on risk for seafood and coastal/marine daily/weekly farm data/ pathways and conveyors of risk tourism; preserved market access; hydrodynamics/stock movements/ (stock, boat movements, flows etc). more profitable industry; reduced catchment info (40% known for environmental impacts. finfish like trout and 100% for salmon, 10% for molluscs); pre- border risks such as other countries' health status (30% known); post-border risks (not well known); movements of all boats (not known); status of marinas (25% known).
Identify and layer geospatial Comprehensive, inter-linked Land-based aquaculture in operation Additional marine-based finfish/ information relating to all needs and geospatial information 'heat-map' on due to: effective geospatial shellfish production based on constraints of land-based all needs and constraints of information-based consenting complementary high-value aquaculture (so as to increase overall land-based aquaculture: access to processes and decision-making; land-based aquaculture. aquaculture production by doing suitable water; access to power appropriate infrastructure having high-value aquaculture – eg (source and transmission); been built; and readily available, hatcheries – on land to generate infrastructure locations and type; real-time geospatial information to stock for marine farms). land type; topography; distance to guide operations. markets/export nodes; social drivers; costs/benefits of production; social and environmental impacts.
Develop online platforms for the Online platforms for the collection All stakeholders (industry, public, Improved public confidence in the collection and dissemination of and dissemination of aquaculture/ regulators, researchers etc) access management of NZ's aquaculture, aquaculture/fisheries-related fisheries-related geospatial and use aquaculture-related fisheries and marine environment. geospatial information (and other information (and other data) that are geospatial information to better data) that are standardised and have standardised and have oversight manage the coastal and marine oversight across the whole industry. across the whole industry. environment.
Develop and implement fine-scale Fine-scale longitudinal daily More effective fisheries and coastal Improved public confidence in the longitudinal geospatial information geospatial information of coastal management guided by real-time/ management of NZ's fisheries and of coastal marine habitats, and fish marine habitats and fish species (eg daily geospatial information on marine environment. species and their daily movements. snapper). coastal habitats and fish species.
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W12 Strategic Interests Beyond our Borders
CONTEXT New Zealand has a number of strategic interests beyond our shores that contribute to our prosperity, stability, security and resilience, for example in Antarctica and our vast Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), as well as the extended continental shelf.
STAKEHOLDERS, STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES – A SNAPSHOT
Stakeholders, strategies and initiatives Website
Antarctica New Zealand antarcticanz.govt.nz Antarctica New Zealand is a Crown Entity responsible for developing, managing and executing New Zealand Government activities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. They also manage Scott Base, New Zealand’s Antarctic research station which supports science in the Ross Sea region.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) www.mfat.govt.nz MFAT is primarily responsible for advancing Government’s international priorities. This includes understanding what changes are taking place in the world, advising Government on the implications for New Zealand, and then acting to promote and protect New Zealand’s interests.
New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) www.nzdf.mil.nz NZDF, in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, supports the delivery of the Government’s national security interests. Contingent military capabilities are maintained for unforeseen emergencies or to reinforce existing operations.
R&D PROVIDERS AND INITIATIVES There are a range of R&D providers that are active in this area including Antarctica New Zealand, our universities, GNS Science and NIWA.
An important R&D initiative in this area is the National Science Challenge The Deep South. The objective of this National Science Challenge is to understand the role of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean in determining our climate and our future environment. This initiative is hosted by NIWA and involves Antarctica New Zealand, GNS Science, Landcare Research, New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute, University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington.
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WORKSHOP OUTCOMES This workshop covered a number of topic areas. The sector-specific priorities and opportunities that were distilled upwards from this workshop are presented below.
Projects Results Uses Benefits
Determine the risks to Extensive validated International Association Antarctic visitors and people working and geospatial information of Antarctic Tour Operators workers are safe; IAATO visiting the Antarctic, (refer Rescue Coordination (IAATO) members safely members are sustainably how these risks can be Centre NZ) readily available run Antarctic tours guided profitable and have not mitigated by the right in real time to IAATO by extensive validated had to defend legal actions geospatial information members (see Uses) and geospatial information associated with a lack of and then collect and make other visitors and workers (refer Rescue Coordination safety management this information readily in the Antarctic Centre NZ) and workers available in real time work safely
Refine an Antarctic- An Antarctic-specific Antarctic ‘managers’ People and resources in specific ‘disaster charter’ ‘disaster charter’ including (including NZ Defence the Antarctic are as safe as including synthesis and real-time geospatial Force) understand risks reasonably possible dissemination of the information, models and and prepare for and most relevant geospatial pre-agreed protocols is then effectively manage information, models and available and disseminated Antarctic disasters guided protocols to minimise to minimise disaster risk by a disaster charter disaster risk and optimise and optimise post-disaster informed by geospatial post-disaster recovery recovery information
Determine how to robustly Robust ‘crowd-sourced’ ‘crowd-source’ real-time real-time Antarctic Antarctic geospatial geospatial information information (pre/during/ has been collected from post disaster) from ships, ships, yachts and aircraft yachts and aircraft visiting visiting the Southern the Southern Ocean and Ocean and South West South West Pacific Pacific, integrated and made readily available to Antarctic visitors and workers
Identify location-specific Location-specific ‘tourist ‘tourist densities’ (actual densities’ (actual and and forecast) in Antarctica forecast) in Antarctica and link with geospatial linked with geospatial information on local information on local resources, hazards, resources, hazards, attractions and economic attractions and economic viability viability are readily available in real time
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The following table provides more detail about what was heard at this workshop.
STRATEGIC INTERESTS BEYOND OUR BORDERS WORKSHOP
Projects Results Uses Benefits
In acknowledgement of the Extensive and validated geospatial IAATO members run tours in the Inspired tourists; revenue for IAATO likelihood of increased numbers of information (historical and real-time) is Antarctic guided by: the polar code members; tax revenue for NZ people going to the Antarctic available to guide IAATO (International for vessels; environmental standards; government; protected (tourists, governments establishing a Association of Antarctic Tour charts; maps; knowledge of environments. 'presence', minerals explorers, Operators) operators (marine and infrastructure and SAR (Search and scientists etc), determine the risks land) regarding such things as: charts; Rescue). and develop and share relevant maps; locations of infrastructure; geospatial information to minimise locations of people in real time; rules the risks to the Antarctic and the of access; hazards; protected areas; people who are visiting it. points of interest; escape routes; weather and sea conditions.
Refine a 'Disaster Charter' to govern Pre-agreements/contracts in place Antarctica NZ and others respond to Reduced negative impacts of the collection, synthesis and (rescue operations; communications emergencies in the Antarctic guided emergency situations due to dissemination (historically and in real protocols; opening access to by better streamlined geospatial ‘readiness/preparedness’. time during disasters) of the most geospatial information etc) pre- information (some of which is relevant geospatial information disaster and emergency situations in released only in such circumstances necessary (raw geospatial information Antarctica so that rescue operations – it would be better if this geospatial and synthesised geospatial can rapidly get up to speed in information were more readily information) to minimise pre-disaster emergency/disaster situations. This will available in non-emergency risk and optimise post-disaster include: the identification of the most situations). recovery. This will include the at-risk areas, including the type of risk; pre-approved permitting of the use of the geospatial information necessary drones, balloons etc for the real-time to minimise the risks pre-and-during collection of geospatial information/ disasters/emergencies; historical images post-disaster (including models and predictions; models to protocols and mechanisms for run in the event of emergencies to crowd-sourcing real-time geospatial predict how the emergency is likely information post-disaster/emergency). to develop etc.
Establish (and promote the existence Accessible warehouse of Antarctic Logistics, environmental and other Antarctica NZ has excellent of and access to) a (prototype?) environmental geospatial information managers better manage resources international credibility because it warehouse of Antarctic (what, where, when, how, who – (plan travel, identify suitable sites, has demonstrated best-practice by environmental geospatial information penguin colonies, vegetation, manage activities etc) in the following and adhering to all (what, where, when, how, who) weather, freshwater, campsites, Antarctic guided by historical and international agreements and sound (penguin colonies, vegetation, waste depots etc). real-time geospatial information from environmental management of its weather, freshwater, campsites, the Antarctic's environmental areas of responsibility in the waste depots etc). geospatial information warehouse. Antarctic.
Establish a NZ-owned geospatial Geospatial information readily NZ government, aid agencies and Reduced losses from disasters due to satellite (or system of drones/ available to NZ agencies and island governments use geospatial improved localised disaster balloons/other) covering the South-West Pacific countries to information specific to the South- preparedness based on geospatial South-West Pacific to generate enable better planning and change West Pacific to better manage aid, information (eg on inundation NZ-relevant geospatial information management. disaster responses, resource modelling of low-lying areas in NZ which is freely available to all NZ management (eg fishing). and the Pacific). interests.
Collect and make accessible Vessel operators in the South-West Mariners confidently navigate around Mariners and their cargos are safe; up-to-date geospatial information Pacific have charts which are simple, NZ and its off-shore interests guided mariners have lower insurance about NZ waters that is fit-for- coloured, electronic and hard-copy, by robust charts and other geospatial premiums; mariners are more purpose. up-to-date, compliant with information which conform to profitable; NZ has a good reputation international standards, liability-free, international standards and due to its high-quality, relevant available on the vessel and on land expectations. geospatial information that conforms etc. to international standards and expectations.
Develop geospatial information on Geospatial information about Cruise ship operators design and run Improved economies and sustainable potential 'tourism densities' (ie where potential 'tourism densities' (i.e. economically, socially, environments in South-West Pacific might tourists like to go; what where might tourists like to go; what environmentally and culturally communities because cruise ships attractions are there; what facilities attractions are there; what facilities sustainable cruises guided by 'tourist and their customers have visited and are in place etc) to guide the are in place etc) to guide the density' geospatial infomration. sustainably engaged with those ecologically and economically viable ecologically and economically viable communities. development of the tourism industry development of the tourism industry in the South-West Pacific. in the South-West Pacific is available.
New Zealand Geospatial Research and Development Priorities and Opportunities December 2015 Supporting Documents This strategy been published in three sections. This is Section C; the other information is available at:
New Zealand Geospatial New Zealand Geospatial Research and Development Research and Development Priorities & Opportunities Priorities & Opportunities 2016 - 2020 2016 - 2020
Working in partnership to grow Working in partnership to grow benefits for end users benefits for end users
Section B – Appendix Section A – Overview
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