NZARM Masterclass: Making open geospatial data work for you

The increasing availability of Location Data through open sources, combined with a Geographic Information System (GIS), provides a framework and process for tackling almost every kind of challenge that people need to address. This includes natural resource management activities, such as Farm Planning, via enabling valuable spatial insights and improve critical decision-making.

It all begins with data and measurement, which we then want to be able to visualise and analyse for a deeper understanding to get to those important stages of planning and designing our interventions. Making decisions about priority, how, when, and where to act and then we take that action and monitor or evaluate our outcomes.

With specific reference to Farm Planning activities, the team at @eagletechnologynz highlighted the many and varied sources of GIS Open Data sources include multiband satellite imagery, local and central government planning and regulatory layers, LINZ data, national environmental datasets and LIDAR derived terrain and slope layers.