• Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) – Progress report May 2023

    This report updated Cabinet in May 2023 on the progress of Toitū Te Whenua and Geoscience Australia’s joint SouthPAN satellite initiative to improve the accuracy of global positioning signals in Australia and New Zealand.
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    • Data
    • Geodetic
  • Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) - Progress report November 2022

    This report updated Cabinet in November 2022 on the progress of SouthPAN, Toitū Te Whenua and Geoscience Australia’s joint initiative to improve the accuracy of global positioning signals in Australia and New Zealand.
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    • Data
    • Geodetic
  • Standard for tiers, classes, and orders of LINZ data - LINZS25006

    The purpose of this standard is to ensure that the geospatial accuracy framework (LINZS25005) is consistently applied across LINZ cadastral survey and control system datasets
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    • Geodetic
  • New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 Projections - LINZG25702

    This fact sheet supersedes LINZG25702 Fact sheet - New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 Projections which was published in November 2007.
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    • Geodetic
  • Ross Sea Region Geodetic Datum 2000 - LINZG25701

    This fact sheet describes the Ross Sea Region Geodetic Datum 2000 (RSRGD2000).
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    • Geodetic
  • Standard for Ross Sea Region Geodetic Datum 2000 - LINZS25001

    The purpose of this standard is to both define the Ross Sea Region Geodetic Datum 2000 and detail the parameters that define it.
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    • Geodetic
  • Recommended transformation parameters from WGS84 to NZGD49

    This report compares currently available transformation parameters for converting between NZGD49 (New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949) and WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984) coordinates.
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    • Geodetic
  • Development of Transformation Parameters from NZGD49 to NZGD2000

    With the establishment of a new datum comes a need to transform coordinates from one datum to the other as only a small number of marks have been surveyed in terms of both datums.
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    • Geodetic
  • Darfield Earthquake Geodetic Investigations

    The 4 September 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake resulted in up to 5 metres of lateral slip along the previously unknown Greendale Fault (Figure 1) and associated ground surface displacements of up to about 2.5 metres within the surrounding region (…
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    • Geodetic
  • Specifications for Geodetic Physical Network

    These specifications relate to the provision of geodetic control maintenance to support the geodetic programme as required by the Cadastral Survey Act 2002 sec 7(1)(a) and (b).
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    • Geodetic
  • An Assessment of New Zealand's Height Systems and Options for a Future Height Datum

    This report examines height datum technologies and also looks at current international practice with respect to height datum issues. It presents some wider user perspectives before looking more specifically at the physical characteristics of New Zealand…
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    • Geodetic
  • Of capital importance: assessing the value of the New Zealand geodetic system

    This report is the response to a brief from Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to establish the economic foundation for funding a modern geodetic system for New Zealand.
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    • Geodetic
  • Specifications for the Protection of Survey Marks – Reinstating or Replacing Marks

    This specification details the requirements for the reinstatement or replacement of marks identified as needing protection.
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    • Geodetic
  • SBAS proposal to authorise joint Ministers to draw down the tagged contingency

    Improved satellite based positioning to grow an innovative, safe and efficient New Zealand
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    • Geodetic
  • Airborne Gravimetry: A Status Report

    This paper gives a status report on collecting gravity data by airborne methods, looking particularly at issues such as techniques, data densities, accuracies, and costs. The overall goal is one of assessing the applicability of this technique to the New…
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    • Geodetic
  • A Conformal Mapping Projection with Minimum Scale Error

    The following document is a scanned image of a paper published in Survey Review XXII, 168, April 1973. It is published here with the permission of Dr. Ian Reilly and describes the theory and methodology behind the development of the New Zealand Map Grid.
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    • Geodetic
  • Standard for the geospatial accuracy framework - LINZS25005

    This standard defines frameworks for specifying and classifying the accuracy of coordinates and the spatial relationships between them.
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    • Geodetic
  • Standard for New Zealand Vertical Datum 2009 - LINZS25004

    This standard defines the national vertical reference system: New Zealand Vertical Datum 2009 (NZVD2009).
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    • Geodetic
  • Ross Dependency (Antarctica): Current and Future Geodetic Activities

    This reports details the current geodetic activities of Land Information NZ in the Ross Dependency and summaries the work of other New Zealand and overseas agencies.
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    • Geodetic
  • Proposal for Continuous Access to the NZ Spatial Infrastructure

    This report discusses LINZ plans to update its requirements for providing access to the New Zealand spatial infrastructure.
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    • Geodetic
  • Implementation of a Deformation Model for NZGD2000

    This document presents some of the options and issues associated with the implementation of a deformation model, and proposes a more advanced model that can be used.
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    • Geodetic
  • Consultancy services for coordinates for PositioNZonLine, Phase 2

    In support of LINZ’s PositioNZonLine automated positioning service we have completed a set of work with three major aims.
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    • Geodetic
  • Economic Issues Regarding LINZ Conversion of its Precision Reference Network to Real Time Status

    This paper considers the economic benefits that can be expected to arise from the upgrading of Land Information New Zealand’s (LINZ) network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) to Real Time status and the costs of making that network…
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    • Geodetic
  • Computation of a new gravimetric quasigeoid model for New Zealand

    This report describes the computation of NZGeoid09, a new gravimetric quasigeoid model for New Zealand, computed at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy under contract #CON-SE-DSS-TS-45245-3 to Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).
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    • Geodetic
  • NZGD2000 Deformation Model Format

    This document describes the format used to publish the New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000) deformation model.
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    • Geodetic
  • Transforming between ITRF and NZGD2000

    New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 (NZGD2000) is aligned with the International Terrestrial Reference Frame 1996 (ITRF96) and referenced to epoch 2000.0. However the NZGD2000 coordinates also include the deformation due to earthquakes since 2000, which have…
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    • Geodetic
  • New Zealand Map Grid - Department of Lands and Survey Technical Circular

    The following document is a scanned image of the Department of Land and Survey Technical Circular 1973/32 that describes the technical details of the New Zealand Map Grid.
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    • Geodetic
  • Guidelines for Simplified Geodetic Control Survey

    This guideline was developed to assist surveyors providing geodetic control survey data to Toitū Te Whenua.
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    • Geodetic
  • New Zealand Vertical Datum 2009 - LINZG25705

    This factsheet describes the New Zealand Vertical Datum 2009 (NZVD2009) that is based on the New Zealand Quasigeoid 2009 (NZGeoid2009).
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    • Geodetic
  • Coordinate Accuracy - LINZG25706

    This fact sheet covers how LINZ describes the accuracy of coordinate data. It explains the terms network and local accuracy and shows how they have been implemented in LINZ to give coordinate accuracy classifications called orders.
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    • Geodetic
  • Datum and Projection Transformations - LINZG25703

    This fact sheet explains how to convert geographic coordinates to and from the Transverse Mercator and Lambert Conformal Conic projections.
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    • Geodetic
  • A Proposal for Geodetic Datum Development

    This document is issued by the Office of Surveyor-General to document proposals for geodetic datum development.
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    • Geodetic