NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) recently wrote about the Matariki Project and how we are using their Mahuika supercomputer to scale up Satellite Photogrammetric Mapping (SPM) across the Southern Alps. NeSI resources enable us to process over 5,000 km2 of stereoimagery in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park and Titiea/Mt Aspiring National Park to map the spatial and temporal distribution of snow and ice, and on the West Coast to detect landscape change driven by landsliding and glacial retreat.
Read more here.