The Geospatial Research Institute Toi Hangarau provides a unique opportunity for all branches of the geospatial community. It is a broadly-conceived research institute at the University of Canterbury that conducts innovative research across the geospatial research spectrum. Our mission is to provide a national centre of gravity for geospatial research, to provide the underpinning research that enables New Zealand to more fully realize the benefits of spatial information technology. The GRI is a world class centre of interdisciplinary geospatial expertise. With our interdisciplinary partnership-based geospatial research, we aim to assist NZ Inc. to: - Leverage latent value from investments in public and other datasets – Deliver expected productivity gains from smarter use of geospatial data, technologies and analytics - Grow geospatial capacity, by providing access to a range of types and levels of geospatial capability - Realise the opportunities for geospatial innovation and R&D offered by the scale and nature of the New Zealand jurisdiction - Provide ongoing global leadership in the rapidly growing field of indigenous GIS.