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Visiting New Zealand Bioeconomy Institute and Earth Sciences New Zealand to discuss our work on DGGS and water quality modelling

In the end of November 2025 Evelyn Uuemaa and Alexander Kmoch visited the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science Limited (formerly Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research) in Palmerston North.

Attending FOSS4G and New Zealand Hydrological Society Annual conference

From November 17 to 23 Evelyn Uuemaa and Alexander Kmoch participated at the global FOSS4G Conference 2025 (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) in Auckland, New Zealand.

Exploring Soil and Water with Students: Hands-On Workshops in Tartu Mart Reiniku School

In October and November 2025, our project team hosted three interactive workshops as part of our educational outreach for WaterSmartLand.

OGC API - DGGS published as an official OGC standard

In the WaterSmartLand project, we’re exploring how Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) can revolutionize large-scale hydrological modeling, making it more efficient, spatial representative and avoiding distortions and constraints that come with typical map projections when building data cubes.

Participating at the Big Data in space Conference in Riga

Photo by: Gatis Orlickis From September 29th to October 3rd 2025, our team was represented at the Big Data from Space 2025 conference (BiDS) organised by the European space Agency (ESA).

Presenting first version of the data cube at the Living Planet Symposium 2025

In June 2025, our team was represented at Europe’s largest remote sensing conference – the ESA Living Planet Symposium in Vienna and shared our latest advancements in Earth Observation!