Program 2015

Preliminary Programme (subject to changes). You will soon be able to download the entire proceedings, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

 

TO ALL SKI PARTICIPANTS: Thursday, February 26: Mixer in the evening to welcome new and returning participants, Banff Ave Brewing, 7pm.

 

Friday,

February 27

 

3:30-3:45pm

Opening Remarks
 
 
 
3:45-4:45pm Keynote Address with Brian Klinkenberg, Transformative Research in the Geographical Sciences  
 
 

4:45-5:00pm

BREAK  
 
 

5:00-6:00pm

Geospatial Modelling
 

1

An evaluation of the predictive performance of the Random Forest model for predicting wildfire residuals Yikalo Araya and Tarmo Remmel

2

Exploring the impacts of cash transfers on household resilience in Amazon estuary region of Brazil--an agent-based simulation Yue Dou, Peter Deadman, Derek Robinson, Oriana Almeida, Sergio Rivero and Nathan Vogt

3

Flood Hazard Mapping for Canada based on Spatial Data Integration and Modeling Qiaoping Zhang, Michael Wollersheim, Natalie Findlay and Stephen Griffiths

4

Computer simulation of urban land use growth: a spatial Genetic Algorithm method Rongxu Qiu and Wei Xu
 
 

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner
 

7:00-8:00pm

Sensors and Things
 

1

A Context-Aware Method for Sensor Network Deployment and Coverage Optimization  Meysam Argany and Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi

2

KINECT Activity Detection in a Collaborative Environment Faisal Ahmed and Marina Gavrilova

3

MobiliSIG: Development of a Geospatial assistive technology for navigation of people with motor disabilities Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi

4

A Proposal to Address the Big Data Challenges for the Internet of Things Tania Khalafbeigi and Steve Liang
     

8:00-9:00pm

Crowdsourcing and #opendata
 

1

“Geocollective”: A Tool for Harvesting Geographic Information From Social Media

Matthew Tenney, Renee Sieber and G. Brent Hall

2

Mapping experiences of injustice: developing a crowdsourced mapping tool for documenting good practices for overcoming social exclusion Ailsa Beischer, Logan Cochrane, Jon Corbett, Mike Evans, Mark Gill and Emily Millard

3

A Typology of Canadian Open Data Apps

Suthee Sangiambut and Renee Sieber

4

Reconsidering Usability and the Participatory Geoweb: The Challenges to Mapping Positive Experiences of Employment for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Jon Corbett and Rachelle Hole
5 What is Time? Indigenous Conceptualizations of Time and the Geoweb Geneviève Reid and Renee Sieber
     
     
AFTERWARDS

Banff Avenue Brew Pub

 

 

Saturday,

February 28

 

3:30-4:30pm

Remote Sensing Theory and Practice
 

1

Deriving water depth and water column optical properties using satellite remote sensing Christopher Ilori and Anders Knudby

2

Satellite-based Spatio-temporal Data Fusion: Current Status and its Implications Khaled Hazaymeh, Quazi Hassan and Khan Rahaman
3 Challenges and Benefits Using a GPS-tracking Method for Understating Human Behaviours during Navigation Wook Rak Jung and Scott Bell
4 Sample Analysis of a Population Survey for the ‘Public Attitudes towards Nuclear Issues in Saskatchewan’ Study Jana Fried, Lauren Arnold, Scott Bell, Loleen Berdahl and Maureen Bourassa

4:30-4:45pm

BREAK
 
     

4:45-5:45pm

Geospatial Applications Spanning Wildlife to Health
 

1

Big elephant data: analysis of 15 years of tracking across Africa Jake Wall, Brian Klinkenberg, George Wittemyer, Lemay Valerie and Iain Douglas-Hamilton

2

Painting the Town Red: Graffiti and Violent Injury in Vancouver, British Columbia Blake Byron Walker and Nadine Schuurman

3

Land-use Impacts on Water Quality and Salish Sucker Distribution in the Fraser Valley Jill Miners and Brian Klinkenberg

4

Determining drought stress resistance mechanisms in potato plants using ESRI ArcGIS Pankaj Banik, Weiping Zeng, Helen Tai and Karen Tanino
5 Dental Service Disparities in Canada Marina Jones, Scott Bell, Alyssa Hayes and Gerry Uswak

6:00-7:00pm

Dinner

 

 

7:00-7:40pm

Speaking Spatially
 

1

Geographic Variability in Primate Social Networks Dipto Sarkar, Colin Chapman and Raja Sengupta
2 The future of map projections Nicholas Chrisman

3

Representations of Space and Spatial Representations Scott Bell

4

TBD TBD
 

 

 

7:40-8:40pm

Awards and Closing
 

 

 
AFTERWARDS

Banff Anvenue Brew Pub

 

 

 

Sunday,

March 1

 

7:00-10:00am

Wrap up at Melissa's Missteak (the breakfast place across the street)