Geomatics
Geography professors who conduct research in this area include:
- Alexander Brenning - Geostatistics and spatial classification; digital terrain analysis and visualization; statistical modeling in geomorphology and geocryology, especially rock glaciers and landslide susceptibility.
- Peter Deadman - Natural resources
management, Common pool resources, Modeling and simulation, Geographic
information systems
- Douglas Dudycha - Digital
terrain models, Geographic information systems, Urban system simulation
- Claude Duguay - Extraction of geophysical parameters from optical and
microwave imagery, development and improvement of numerical ice growth
and heat transfer models, climate variability and change using lake ice
and snow as indicators.
- Peter Johnson - Develop and evaluate several geospatial technologies, including agent-based models (ABM), geographic information systems (GIS), and the Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb), determining how they can be used to facilitate better planning decisions
- Richard Kelly - Remote Sensing
of the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments, using ground,
aircraft and satellite earth observation data
- Ellsworth LeDrew - Atmosphere-cryosphere-hydrosphere
feedback processes in the Canadian Arctic, Study of climate variability
and the impact on tropical corals, Change detection of sea ice from radar
imagery, The use of satellite imagery in global change studies, Validation
of geophysical indices on radar imagery
- Jonathan Li - Satellite remote sensing and urban
mapping, intelligent object extraction algorithms, digital terrain modeling
and analysis, wireless sensor networks and spatial sensor web, environmental
modeling and visualization, WebGIS for disaster management, mobile
mapping systems and ubiquitous mapping
- Derek Robinson -
Land use, land management, and the carbon cycle, agent-based modelling as an approach to integrate GIS, ecological, and human decision-making models to evaluate socio-economic contexts and policy scenarios on changes to land use and land cover, ecological function and the provision of ecosystem services, and human well-being.
A list of graduate student research provides an idea of the types of projects our students undertake.
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