Celebrating GIS Day at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Location: HNES 140, York University Keele Campus
Join us as we mark GIS Day, a global event celebrating the transformative power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geomatics. Every year, institutions and enthusiasts worldwide recognize the profound impact these technologies have on our daily lives, from urban planning and environmental conservation to disaster management and beyond.
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Agenda
Time: 10:00 - 10:10
Presenter: Professor Tarmo Remmel
Activity/Presentation: Welcome and Intro
Professor Tarmo Remmel is GIS scientist with years of experience teaching and conducting research involving remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics. His research focus on developing theoretical approaches and tools for quantifying and comparing 2D shapes and patterns and extend those to the segmentation of 3D features into morphological classes and voxels. He also uses local measures of landscape configuration to measure landscape patterns, assess landscape changes, and to understand boundary structures and complexities inherent on landscapes. His lab strives to develop new tools and to disseminate them openly to support better scientific analysis of data. Intertwined in this work is the desire to quantify and understand uncertainty, accuracy, and the sensitivity of measurements.
Time: 10:10 - 10:30
Presenter: Professor Ranu Basu
Activity/Presentation: Urban Sustainability, Socio-Spatial Politics and Critical GIS: Examining Spaces of Engagement in Toronto Schools
Ranu Basu is a Professor of Geography at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), York University, and research faculty at the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS). Her research and teaching interests relate to the geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; anti-imperialism and post-colonial geographies; geopolitics of forced migration and subaltern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; and spatial methodologies including critical GIS.
Time: 10:30 - 10:50
Presenter: Assistant Professor Adeyemi Olusola
Activity/Presentation: Selfie to science: Enhancing river flow measurements using velocimetry techniques
Adeyemi Oludapo Olusola is an Assistant Professor in EUC with research and teaching interests in fluvial geomorphology, ecohydrology, environmental science as well as GIS/remote sensing. His other research interests include landscape evolution, polluted pathways and sediment fingerprinting. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Free State in South Africa and has served as a lecturer at the University of Ibadan and Osun State University, both in Nigeria. He finished his PhD at University of Ibadan with a dissertation on the process-form dynamics of Upper Ogun River Basin in Southwestern Nigeria.
Time: 10:50-11:10
Presenter: Katherine Tse
Activity/Presentation: Hydrological modeling of Black Creek's response to the July 16 storm event using a semi-distributed model
Katherine Tse is a fifth-year Environmental Science student at York University, currently completing her final semester. With a strong interest in both geography and biology, she has tailored her degree to encompass both areas of study. Beyond academics, Katherine enjoys reading comics and drawing, and recently, she has taken up hiking in forests with friends. This past summer, she was awarded the EUC Undergraduate Research Award, which allowed her to work alongside Professor Adeyemi Olusola. In this role, she applied the Hydrologic Engineering Centre - Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS) to analyze hydrologic changes within the Black Creek Basin.
Time: 11:10 - 11:30
Presenter: Professor Jianguo Wang
Activity/Presentation: Modern Direct Georeferencing Technology: Overview and Prospects
Dr.-Ing. Jianguo Wang has been a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Space Science Engineering in Toronto, Canada since 2006 and a founding member of Lassonde School of Engineering of York University. His current research interests focus on multisensor integrated kinematic positioning and navigation, GNSS, precision Engineering Surveying and advanced data processing methodologies. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 publications (papers, book chapters and books).
Time: 11:30 - 12:00
Presenter: Chifuniro Ngalande
Activity/Presentation: Creating image labels and annotations for deep learning models using GIS
Chifuniro (Chifu) Ngalande is the recipient of the 2023 Esri Canada YorkU GIS Scholarship. Chifu is a Graduate student in the Earth and Science Master’s graduate program, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, working with Professor Costas Armenakis.
Chifu was nominated for her work entitled “An environmentally-driven maritime route selection based on fuzzy reasoning.” where she applied a multi-criteria decision-making approach and minimized the uncertainty through fuzzy reasoning to identify optimal vessel routes considering environmental conservation, using the ArcGIS Pro GIS system.
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Activity/Presentation: Lunch and Visit AR Sandbox in Lounge
Time: 13:00 - 13:30
Presenter: Dan Clayton
Activity/Presentation: LiDAR shines the light; Rouge River watershed landuse change detection and other applications
Dan Clayton is the Manager of Geospatial Services for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority where he has been an employee for 32 years. In that time he has worked on all manner of GIS projects including LiDAR, imagery, Floodplain mapping, species and vegetation mapping, enforcement actions, trail planning, park planning, habitat restoration and many more.
Time: 13:30 - 14:00
Presenter: Professor Tarmo Remmel
Activity/Presentation: Final Remarks and Q&A
Professor Tarmo Remmel is GIS scientist with years of experience teaching and conducting research involving remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics. His research focus on developing theoretical approaches and tools for quantifying and comparing 2D shapes and patterns and extend those to the segmentation of 3D features into morphological classes and voxels. He also uses local measures of landscape configuration to measure landscape patterns, assess landscape changes, and to understand boundary structures and complexities inherent on landscapes. His lab strives to develop new tools and to disseminate them openly to support better scientific analysis of data. Intertwined in this work is the desire to quantify and understand uncertainty, accuracy, and the sensitivity of measurements.