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New Zealand Esri Young Scholar Award 2022 – Winner
It is with great pleasure that Eagle Technology announces Reuben Painter of the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand as the Winner of the New Zealand Esri Young
NZ Esri Young Scholar
Understanding Esri Technical Certification
New to Esri Technical Certification exams? Read this blog to help you through the process of sitting an exam.

Step 1 – Decide on the exam you want to take.
Esri Technical Certification
Updates to the New Zealand Imagery and Elevation layers (May 2022)
Since the start of the year the New Zealand Imagery, the New Zealand Elevation and the New Zealand Hillshade layers have received new data updates.
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2022 NZ Regional User Conference Series
The New Zealand Esri Users Group and Eagle Technology will be delivering the 2022 Regional User Conference (RUC)s over two 4-hour sessions in April.
2022 RUCs
Utilising your ArcGIS Education Institution Licence
If “The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it”. Jack Dangermond, Esri then our tertiary education institutions are the prime location to do explore and imagine with GIS.
NZ LiDAR Competition
With the NZ National Elevation Programme providing more and more freely available LiDAR data for NZ, we wanted to hear about some of the great ways in which you are using this treasure trove of data along with ArcGIS to solve issues of all kinds, all scales and all across New Zealand.

So, to help gather these stories, we are asking you to tell us about your work based upon the newly available LiDAR data as well as derived data sources such as Eagle Technology's Elevation WebService which incorporates this data.
NZEUC 2021 - Videos, Resources, Competition and Feedback
With the move to virtual for this year's NZ Esri User Conference (NZEUC), we chose to split the whole-day sessions into a plenary 1/2 day followed by 4 separate stream webinars over the 2 following weeks. While we are missing out on the face-to-face connections of the in-person events, going virtual has allowed these events to be open to all and as a result we have had well over 1000 registered participants for the few first events.
GIS Emergency Assistance Resources from Eagle Technology
GIS has become integral to managing emergencies in New Zealand. This includes many Emergency Management-focussed organisations who use and embed it within their intelligence processes to collect, store, analyse and display information for decision-making before, during, and after events.
GIS Technology for NZ Agriculture
Agriculture is one of New Zealand’s leading industries, employing thousands of people and contributing to a significant portion of the country’s overseas trade.
A tribute to Anne Olsen
It was with great sadness that we heard about the death of Anne Olsen from cancer Monday 31 May 2021.