About GRC

The group was established in August 2007, although individual researchers have worked in Geo-Spatial research for many years.  The principal researchers have backgrounds in Mathematics and Computer Science, Environmental Science, Electrical and Engineering Geodetic Science and Remote Sensing.    Principle areas of current research include projects in data mining and modelling, trend analysis and prediction sytems, audio mining (speech and voice recognition), signal and image processing, remote sensing and GIS applications, wireless sensor networking with associated database and web interface technologies.

The Centre at AUT consists of researchers, Masters and PhD students and Post-Doctoral Fellows.  Associated with the Centre are researchers in Chile, Uruguay, Japan and the United States.

 The principal areas of research in the Centre concern climatalogical, atmospheric and environmental modelling with associated projects in sensor and wireless technologies, signal and image processing.  This project called Eno-Humanas is an over-arching research programme concept that numerous individual projects are related to as constituents. It concerns the synthesising of precise climatic and other environmental data with imprecise or fuzzy (rough) human sensory perception data.  It relates specifically to the grape growing and wine production industry but has general relevance to viticulture, horticulture and agricultural applications.  The project is described in more depth elsewhere on this web site.The Centre, growing out from this initial project, widens the group's activities to include graduate students and other collaborative research in such areas as signal processing, speech recognition, remote sensing and text data analysis.