Earth Observation Lab Aotearoa

🌟 Speaker Spotlight: Peter McGown | SLR Consulting 🌟

Don't miss tomorrow's EO Lab Meet-Up to hear from our 3rd and final speaker!

Peter McGown brings over 20 years of experience in providing GIS solutions to clients in environmental, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors across Australia and New Zealand. His expertise lies in project management, spatial analysis, and promoting awareness of the spatial sector.

Drawing on his experience, Peter will dive into how remote sensing is being applied in consulting. While clients’ deadlines and costs can prevent and make it challenging, changes over the years have made remote sensing a viable solution. SLR Consulting has applied remote sensing to projects for clients to provide monitoring of activities in the resource and renewable energy sectors. Peter will provide some recent real work projects where simple remote sensing techniques have been used effectively for clients.

Grab your tickets ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/earth-observation-lab-nz-mid-year-meet-tickets-1550013284459?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Look forward to seeing you there!

🌟 Speaker Spotlight: Achim Gädke | Lynker 🌟

We would like to welcome our 2nd speaker at next week's EO Lab Meet-Up. Achim Gädke is an expert in data science, optimisation and machine learning, with experience turning complex sensor and aerial data into actionable insights for urban mapping and environmental applications.

This talk will dive into the opportunities New Zealand’s open data approach provides for land cover mapping. It will cover creation and refinement of an urban 8 class land cover mapping with computer vision and further customization like imperviousness, roof conditions or mapping out urban canopy.

🗺️ You don't want to miss this case study showcasing New Zealand’s Earth observation strengths - a story that more people should know about 🏙️.

📅 Date: Thursday 28th August 12pm
📍ONLINE: Meeting link will be emailed to those registered

👉Grab your tickets to attend! https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/earth-observation-lab-nz-mid-year-meet-tickets-1550013284459?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

🌟 Speaker Spotlight: Mahima Fisher | Te Pūnaha Ātea - Space Institute🌟

Behind every stunning Earth observation image lies a complex series of decisions, commands and operations. Mahima Fisher has commanded both TPA-1 (NZ's first 3U cubesat) and MethaneSAT, bringing knowledge in satellite operations, mission planning and more.

Next week, Mahima will take the audience behind the scenes of mission operations.
She will cover topics including:
- The decision making behind image/data capture
- How does an operator command a satellite to collect EO data?
- Case study: the practical realities behind the beautiful imagery

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the process and expertise involved in Earth observation data. 🛰️🌍

📅 Date: Thursday 28th August
📍ONLINE: Meeting link will be emailed to those registered

👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gq5Dd_2y

📢EO Lab August Mid-Year Meet-Up

📅 Thursday 28th August 2025 📍ONLINE 🕔 12–1 PM

Join us ONLINE for our mid-year EO Lab meet-up where we’ll share key updates on what we’ve been working on and where we’re heading. We're bringing together voices from across the Earth Observation (EO) community to highlight the industries and mahi on the ground putting EO data into action.

Here's what you can expect from our fantastic speakers:

📡Mahima Fisher: Spacecraft Operations Engineer, UoA's Space Institute
"The Satellites and Operations Behind EO Data"

🌿Achim Gädke: Data Scientist, Lynker Analytics
"Land Cover in New Zealand's Urban Areas"

📊Peter McGown: Senior GIS Analyst, SLR Consulting
"Remote Sensing in Consulting"

You will gain insights to the full pipeline - from satellite operations, to data processing, to applied solutions. We will be sharing more about each speaker this week and more on what you can look forward to on the 28th August over on our Linkedin.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/earth-observation-lab-aotearoa/

Come join us on your break, and hear some insightful conversations!
📌 Register now below!

Earth Observation Lab NZ Mid-Year Meet Explore what’s next in Earth Observation with EO Lab updates and guest speakers!

The EO Meet-up you’ve been waiting for…

We’re bringing our community together for the first-ever EO Lab meet-up – and you’re invited!

📍 Hybrid Event
🗓️ Thursday, April 10, 2025
🕔 5:00 - 7:30pm
🏢 SLR Consulting’s Auckland Office + Online

Expect bold ideas, real connections, and a peek into what’s next for Earth Observation in Aotearoa. We’ll have three inspiring speakers (TBA 👀), snacks, and some seriously good conversations.

Whether you’re just getting started or deep in the data, this is for you.

Follow the Eventbrite link for more details and to sign up for your spot!

Earth Observation Lab Meet-up! Earth Observation Laboratory (EO Lab) Aotearoa is excited to announce our first meet up! Join us in Auckland or online.

EO Lab Aotearoa has officially launched! We have released our first quarterly newsletter celebrating our launch and a look back on 2024! https://open.substack.com/pub/eolabaotearoanz/p/welcome-to-earth-observation-lab?r=4j7h1r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Haven't subscribed yet? Or want to join the EO Lab community? Head over to our website to find out how! https://eolabaotearoa.co.nz/community-signup/

Welcome to Earth Observation Lab Aotearoa!🌏 Looking back- 2024 highlights 💡

EO Lab, in collaboration with Imogen Napper, Heath, Jenna Guffogg, PhD, Thomas Dowling and Liddy Greenaway, have published a field guide on monitoring plastic pollution on beaches using drones! Check out the field guide here:

Monitoring Plastic Pollution on Beaches with Drones: a Field Guide This handbook is designed to guide scientists and the public on the best way to survey beaches for plastic pollution. While significant progress has been made to enable drone technologies to combat plastic waste, much of this information remains inaccessible - locked behind paywalls, commercial appl...