From geographic information systems (GIS) to the use of artificial intelligence, our researchers are utilizing advance technology and data analysis to improve public policies and responses to critical issues.
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Advancing seven Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
Jonathan Li
Geography and Environmental Management
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LiDAR-based simultaneous localization and mapping in GNSS-denied environments
- Mobile laser scanning for autonomous driving
- LiDAR remote sensing and its applications
- Urban remote sensing and land cover/land use change detection
- Intelligent information extraction from multi-/hyperspectral and SAR/PolSAR images
John McLevey
Department of Knowledge Integration
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Social network analysis
- Science and public policy
- Sociology of education
- Environmental sociology
- Computational social science
- Information science
- Research methods
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and Geography and Environmental Management
Derek Robinson
Geography and Environmental Management
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Unmanned aerial vehicle systems
- Land-use and land-cover change
- Agricultural land management and erosion
- Agent-based modelling and geographical information systems
- Landscape ecology
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning
Su-Yin Tan
Geography and Environmental Management
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Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS)
- Spatial statistics and data analysis
- Vegetation and climatology
- Public health and crime mapping, medical geography
Peter Deadman
Geography and Environmental Management
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Geographic information systems and artificial intelligence
- Natural resources management
- Common pool resources
- Computer modelling and simulation
- Landscape architecture
Robert Feick
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Application of spatial information technology to assist decision making
- Public participation in land management and planning
- Web 2.0 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools that facilitate citizen involvement in planning through spatially referenced forms of community dialogue
- Web-based spatial data visualization methods for assessing urban scale climate change impacts as well as adaptation and mitigation alternatives
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Christopher Fletcher
Geography and Environmental Management
- Using numerical Earth System Models to investigate large-scale climate processes, variability and change
- Remote-sensing of terrestrial snow from space
- Deploying machine-learning to improve Earth System Models and their projections
Peter Johnson
Geography and Environmental Management
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Open data, open government, and civic technology
- Geographic information systems (GIS), and the Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb)
- The application and evaluation of geospatial technologies
- Crowdsourcing geographic data
- The use of artificial intelligence (AI) for governance
Yuri Leonenko
Geography and Environmental Management
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Global warming
- Climate control
- Development of technologies for greenhouse gas reduction
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Geothermal energy
Quinn Lewis
Geography and Environmental Management
- Morphology and evolution of fluvial landscapes
- Research on process, form, and the transfer of material and energy that links morphology and evolution of fluvial landscapes
- Developing new techniques to study lake and reservoir water levels globally with remote sensing