Research and education

University of Canterbury

Canterbury’s computing, engineering and geography work appears across several stages of the history. The MAPPAK thesis records cadastral computer mapping in 1979, while later laboratories and GIS education supported a developing discipline. Postgraduate projects preserved unusually detailed descriptions of software and workflows that might otherwise have disappeared.

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University of Canterbury Chronicle, New System in Mechanical Engineering / Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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Building a workstation laboratoryUniversity teaching and research
Local channelsCompanies and user groups
Conferences and meetingsCompanies and user groups
Users organise themselvesCompanies and user groups
The GIS roomDesktop GIS
The parcel becomes a keyCouncil GIS
Digitising map sheetsComputer cartography
A crater field above TongariroDrone mapping
Buildings meet geographyMapping in 3D
A cadastre with volumeMapping in 3D
Commercial workstationsEarly GIS systems
Teaching GISEarly GIS systems
The CRI reorganisationScientific mapping

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University of Canterbury

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1985 · Senior undergraduate GIS course offered at Aucklandyear precision
1985 · DSIR Science Mapping Unit begins Intergraph GIS useyear precision
July 1992 · Intergraph supplies Canterbury engineering teaching softwaremonth precision
2009 · AAMHatch produces Wellington’s textured 3D city modelyear precision

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Associated withJohn Thyne
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