National Marine Vessel Portal

The development of the Marine Vessel Portal was an unprecedented undertaking which had been attempted before by others but did not come to fruition until the pioneering thinking of the Ethos Environmental team attempted it.
What was originally pitched as a portal for "the regional councils of the top of the North Island to collaborate on marine biosecurity data" soon grew into a national system as other councils discovered its powerful simplicity.
It now includes a database of over 15,000 boats with hundreds of active users, tracking and preventing the spread of invasive marine pests between our fragile harbours.
This unique system was created using ArcGIS Hub Premium and was the first system in NZ to "go live" with this very specialised Esri product. It also uses some unprecedented and ingenious FME processes and pushed the out-of-the-box ArcGIS Online tools to their absolute limit (at which point we kindly asked Esri extend that limit so we can achieve our conservation goals).
Esri recognised this groundbreaking work by awarding Ethos Environmental a Special Achievement in GIS Award which was presented to us at the Esri international conference in San Diego in 2024.