Some of the current working topics in the Laboratory of Geographic Information and Spatial Analysis (LaGISA) are:
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Change detection from multi-scale remotely sensed data
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Object-based feature extraction and from high-resolution images
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Multi-scale analysis and modelling of environmental change using remote sensing and GIS
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Spatial and temporal analysis and modelling of infectious diseases
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Optimization in land use planning and resource management
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Modelling the impact of land use and climate changes on water quality
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Air quality mapping and dynamic modelling
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Point pattern analysis (PPA)
Major Funded Research and Training Projects (since 2008)
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Reconstruction of Landsat time series to 1972 for nature smart climate solutions fund baseline determination (2023-2026)
Environment and Climate Change Canada funding -
Automated road extraction and integration across forest management units (2024-2026)
The Forestry Futures Trust -
Automatic change detection of landslides using remote sensing imagery (2024-2026)
Queen's Internal PDF Fund -
New genomics and aerial drone tools for monitoring, managing, and mitigating threats in aquatic ecosystems (2023-2026)
NSERC alliance grant -
Emerging Infectious Disease Modelling (EIDM) network (2021-2024)
NSERC network grant -
Developing new, real-time, community-based environmental DNA protocols for assessing freshwater ecosystem health (2020-2022)
NSERC NEW Frontier -
Spatial and social patterning of COVID-19 prevention and transmission in Canada: Investigating the impacts of risk perception and preventive behaviour on individual activity space (2020-2022)
CIHR Operating Grant COVID-19 Rapid Research -
Towards accurate monitoring of habitat disturbances in Canada: Implementing an AI approach to continuously monitoring caribou habitat changes (2020-2023)
Natural Resources Canada Research Affiliate Program -
Big data exposed: What smartphone metadata reveals about users (2020-2022)
Queen's Wicked Idea -
Target based multiple-scale change detection from time series remotely sensed environmental data (2019-2025)
NSERC Discovery -
LEaders in wAter anD watERshed Sustainability (The LEADERS Project) (2019-2025)
NSERC CREATE -
A National Research Network on Lyme Disease (2019-2023) CIHR Team Grant
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Semi-automated tools for outlining forest resources and biomass from high resolution digital images (2015-2016)
OCE VIP II grant -
Effects of nitrogen deposition on CH4 emissions from paddy fields in the south area of China based on remote sensing techniques (2015-2018)
China NSF grant -
Methods and uncertainty modeling for land cover change detection from multi-resolution remotely sensed data. (2013-2018)
NSERC Discovery grant -
Image-objects Manipulation Engine (IoME): semi-automated feature extraction from Very High Resolution (VHR) remotely sensed imagery.(2013-2015)
MITACS ELevated PDF -
Cloud enabled object-based feature extraction tools for high resolution remotely sensed images. (2013-2014)
SOSCIP -
Object-based change detection for forest resources from high resolution digital images. (2013)
NSERC Interactive -
Rural well water contamination and human health: An investigation in Eastern Ontario. (2011-2013)
PSI Health Research Grant -
Developing feature extraction tools for time series of remotely sensed data. (2010-2011)
NSERC Engage -
Establishing a Queen's Geocomputation and Analysis Laboratory for Public Health and Disease Modeling. (2010-2013)
CFI, OMR, Queen's -
Measuring traffic exposure and assessing environmental equity.(2010-2012)
CRS -
Access to primary care services after hours and during regular office hours and utilization of external health care resources.(2010-2011)
SOAMA AHSC AFP innovation grant -
Development of a spatial framework to enhance chronic disease surveillance (2009-2010)
PHAC Chronic surveillance program -
CODIGEOSIM project: Geosimulation tools for simulating spatial-temporal spread patterns and evaluating health outcomes of communicable diseases" (2008-2012)
GEOIDE phase IV pilot project -
Multi-scale classification error and uncertainty modeling on categorical maps.(2008-2013)
NSERC discovery grant
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