Technical Reports

LINZ has produced a series of geodetic technical reports from 1997. These reports, and other more recent documents, can be accessed from the table below.

Report
Number
Title Year
97/11 Recommended transformation parameters from WGS84 to NZGD49 1997
TR 2 A Proposal for Geodetic Datum Development 1998
TR 3 New Zealand Geodetic Strategic Business Plan 1998
TR 4 Conversion Between Latitude and Longitude and New Zealand Map Grid 2003
TR 5 Realisation of the New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 2000
TR 6 Proposal for Continuous Access to the NZ Spatial Infrastructure 1999
TR 7 Ross Dependency (Antarctica): Current and Future Geodetic Activities 1999
TR 8 Proposal for Datum 2000 Meridional Circuits 1999
TR 9 Principles for a Seabed Cadastre 1999
TR 10 A Proposal for Vertical Datum Development in New Zealand (PDF 1,198KB) 2001
TR 11 GPS Guidelines for Cadastral Surveys 1999
TR 12 New Zealand Geodetic Operations 1995-98 (PDF 443KB) 1999
TR 13 Development of Transformation Parameters from NZGD49 to NZGD2000 2001
TR 14 Transformation Parameters from Chatham Islands 1979 to NZGD2000 2000
TR 15 Realisation of Ross Sea Region Geodetic Datum 2000 2000
TR 16 Preferred Option for Development of a National Vertical Reference System 2001
TR 17 Options for Automated Processing of GPS Continuous Tracking Data 2003
TR 18 New Zealand Geodetic Operations 1999-2002 2003
TR 20 Implementation of a Deformation Model for NZGD2000 2003
- New Zealand Vertical Datum: 2004/05 Milestone 6b Completion Report 2005
1973/32 Definition of New Zealand Map Grid (PDF 231KB) 1973
1978/1 First-Order Geodetic Triangulation of New Zealand 1909-49, 1973-74 (PDF 8.6MB) 1978
- Consultancy Services for Coordinates for PositioNZonLine, Phase 2 (PDF 1.46MB) 2008
- Economic Issues Regarding LINZ Conversion of its Precision Reference Network to Real Time Status (PDF 97KB) 2009
- Computation of a New Gravimetric Quasigeoid Model for New Zealand (PDF 2MB) 2009