GEM professors who conduct research in this area include:
- Peter Deadman:
- Natural resources management
- Common pool resources
- Modeling and simulation
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- 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.
- Suzanne Kearns:
- Human factors and education within the aviation industry
- E-learning in aviation
- Competency-based education in aviation
- International aviation
- Aviation safety
- Safety management systems
- 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.
- Su-Yin Tan:
- Geomatics and spatial data analysis with diverse application areas within both physical and human geography.