Program 2107

Thursday,

February 23

 

7:00-?pm

Join us for the Icebreaker, the traditional opening to Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada at the Maple Leaf Grill at 137 Banff Ave. A group will be leaving the conference hotel (Banff Park Lodge) at 6:45. If you're coming in later, join us at the Grill anytime after 7pm.  
 
 

Friday,

February 24

 

4:00-4:30pm

Welcome, Opening Remarks, Introductions

Castle Room, Main Floor Banff Park Lodge

 
 
 
4:30-5:30pm Paper Session 1  

1

Local Patterns of National Household Survey Non-Response in Canadian Cities Scott Bell, Kelsey Bates, Jessica Alegria & Kyle Snarr

2

Spatial Modelling of Air Pollutants in the City of Calgary and Surrounding Areas Isabelle Couloigner, Fox Underwood, Markey Johnson & Keith Van Ryswyk

3

A Community-based Smart Cities Air Sensing Internet of Things Pilot in Calgary Steve Liang & Tania Khalafbeigi

4

Quantification of Root Density with Digital Camera Photos and GIS Jingting Lei, Thuan Ha, Weiping Zeng, Dandan Xu, Karen Tanino, Rensong Liu, Rongrong Xiang & Scott Bell
 
 

5:30-6:30pm

Dinner (at venue)
 

6:30-7:30pm

Keynote with Renée Sieber, 10 Things You Should Know About Engagement, Volunteerism, and Participation in Geospatial Technologies  
 

7:30-8:30pm

Paper Session 2
 

1

The Potential Role of Open Data for Public Engagement in Environmental Assessment Lauren Arnold, Jon Corbett & Kevin Hanna

2

Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Osteoarthritis Patients in Alberta Mina Nasr, Judy Seidel, Alka B. Patel, Rizwan Shahid, Claire Barber, Raj Sharma, Stefania Bertazzon, Nigel Waters

3

Grassland canopy vertical structure retrieval from multi-angular and multi-temporal fine quad-pod Radarsat-2 images Zhaoqin Li & Xulin Guo

4

Open Geospatial Data Flows of Civic Apps Suthee Sangiambut & Renee Sieber
 
   
8:30-9:30pm  Paper Session 3  

1

An OGC Open Standard-based Internet of Things Prototype of Vegetation Recovery Monitoring in Northern Alberta Kan Luo, Sara Saeedi, James Badger & Steve Liang

2

Spatial Data Standardization for Rural Open Data Eric Hoodicoff

3

Geographical variation and temporal trend of myocardial infarction hospital admissions in Calgary Xiaoxiao Liu & Stefania Bertazzon

4

An Open Source WebGIS Framework for Collaborative
Research for Food Security in West Africa
Meng Li, Colin Minielly, Derek Peak, Weiping Zeng, Xiaojing Lu, Jingting Lei & Scott Bell
     

Saturday,

February 25

 

5:00-6:00pm

Paper Session 4
 

1

RADARSAT Constellation Mission Serving Canadians Daniel De Lisle, Steve Iris & Stéphane Chalifoux

2

Developing an Open Source WebGIS Framework for Census Data Visualization Meng Li, Xiaojing Lu, Weiping Zeng, Jason Disano, Joe Garcea, Lori Wilkinson, Stan Yu, Dazawray Landrie-Parker & Scott Bell
3
A Novel Oil Spill Detection Approach on Terrestrial Area: A Case study in Alberta M. Mahdianpari, B. Salehi, S. Homayouni
4
The Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Homeless Social Capital: Using Critical Cartographic Methods to Impact the Health and Wellbeing of the Homeless Shelley Cook & Jon Corbett
5 Object-based Wetland classification in Newfoundland and Labrador using Random Forest Algorithm Meisam Amani, Bahram Salehi, Sahel Mahdavi, Jean Elizabeth Granger, Brian Brisco

6:00-7:30pm

Dinner (at venue)
 
  Photo Competition
 
 

7:30-8:30pm

Paper Session 5
 

1

Using OGC Sensor-Things API for Boreal Environmental Monitoring Sara Saeedi, Kan Luo, James Badger & Steve Liang

2

Addressing Multicollinearity in Local Modeling of Spatially Varying Relationship using GWR Rizwan Shahid & Stefania Bertazzon

3

Geomatics and Open Textbooks Scott Bell, Heather M. Ross, Jordan Epp & Kelsey Bates

4

The Policy Mobility of Police Interactions Open-Data Brennan Field & Scott Bell
 
   

Sunday,

February 26

 
7:00-10:00am  Meetup at Melissa's Missteak (for the stragglers)