Moana Data Service

06/17/2026

Meet the crew. This week our team was on the ground in Viti Levu, GPS rovers in hand, mapping the coast metre by metre.

Real people. Real places. Real ground truth.

06/17/2026

What if the problem isn't a lack of data?

Across the Pacific, vast amounts of information are already being captured. The real opportunity lies in transforming that data into insights that inform policy, infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and sustainable development.

Read The Moana Brief's monthly newsletter on why the Pacific's data challenge is less about collection—and more about connection and application.

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pacific-doesnt-have-shortage-captured-data-has-jonina-wetzell-jc3mc/

June 2026 | Moana Data Service Fiji & The Pacific In Focus Last month, fifteen Pacific Island nations gathered in Palau for the COSPPac3 Annual Session — meteorologists, land surveyors, development partners, all in the same room. The agenda covered climate outlooks, ocean data services, early warn...

06/15/2026

The Nadi flood plain holds thousands of homes. When the river rises, every centimetre of ground matters. We map it — so the people who plan around it can see what the water sees.

06/10/2026

What good data makes possible: a clinic above the flood, a road that survives the wet season, a village that plans with its eyes open. This is what Moana is for. The rest is how.

06/08/2026

The ocean was never a border 🌊 👣 . It was the road.

Our hope: that one day this terrain knowledge is open to every island nation in the South Pacific — because the sea that connects us should connect what we know.

06/04/2026

Why we built it. 🌴
For too long, knowing the land precisely meant sending the work offshore. Moana Data Service keeps that knowledge here — measured at home, by people who call this place home.

06/01/2026

Moana.

It means the ocean — the same word, across the islands the ocean connects.
We took the name on purpose.

05/27/2026

Big news the Moana Data Service website is officially live! 🚀

Designed to make it easier to explore our services, connect with our team, and stay updated on the latest in data and connectivity solutions across the Pacific.

Take a look and experience the new digital home of Moana Data Service.

🌐 moanadataservice.com

05/14/2026

We started Moana because the Pacific keeps starting from scratch.

Kristian Wares puts the industry-wide version of this problem into words better than we've managed to ourselves. If you work in Pacific infrastructure, climate resilience, or spatial data this one's worth your time.

Six-figure LiDAR survey. Delivered.

05/06/2026

Has your team ever had to re-survey a site because the data wasn't on the right datum? How many days and how much budget did that cost?

Na Vanua Na Bula.

When survey data isn't tied to local control, the problems don't show up on screen. They show up on site design surfaces off the road alignment, floor levels that don't match the kerb, boundaries that don't tie to the cadastral record.

Every Moana topographic survey is tied to the closest benchmark, referenced to FGD86, and delivered with a full control report in PDF. Ready to work with existing drawings the moment it lands on your desk.

For the planner in Suva and the developer in Nadi this is how data stops being an obstacle and starts being a foundation.