A research poster, entitled “An Interactive Web-based 3D GIS Platform for Estimating Urban Solar Energy Potential” and prepared by Wei Huang, Shahram Sattar, Annie Chow and Shishuo Xu, won the 4th place in the 2016 Graduate Student Poster Session held during the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) 124th Annual General Meeting, 24-26 February 2016 […]
Wei Huang, Shahram Sattar and Shishuo Xu attended the exhibition of FutureOxford Expo 2016, held in Oxford County on 28 January 28 2016, to showcase the 3DSolar tool developed under an OCE-funded project. The 2016 Future Oxford Expo was announced by Future Oxford Transition Board on October 28, 2015 following the endorsement of the Future […]
PhD candidate, Wei Huang, won the first prize of Doctoral Student Paper Competition organized by the International Conference on Location-based Social Media Data held in Athens, Georgia, USA, March 13-14, 2015. The conference aims to bring along researchers from multidisciplinary fields and perspectives to share ideas and findings of research related to social media data and bid data analysis. […]
Dr. Li has been elected as the President of the Technical Commission II of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) for 2012-2016 during the ISPRS Congress held in Melbourne, Australia from August 25 to September 1, 2012. Technical Commission II is on Theory and Concepts of Spatial Information Science.
Dr. Songnian Li is visiting KEIO University in Japan under a research fellowship awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) under its “Invitation Fellowship Programs for Research in Japan” program. Dr. Li will spend two months there working with local researchers towards building longer-term international research collaborations.
Annie Chow and Neda Poursaied have won the first place prize at the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors’ annual research poster competition, which was held in Ottawa, Ontario, in February 2012. The poster was prepared based on a NSERC-funded research project they both have been involved over the past year. The title of the poster […]
Dr. Songnian Li was awarded $152,000 research grant for three years from 2011 to 2014 to study spatiotemporal database modeling and web-based sea ice information services for supporting “CanICE – A sea ice information database and web‐based portal with novel, interactive knowledge discovery tools”, which is a collaborative research effort led by Canadian Ice Service […]
Prof. Wanglin Yan, from KEIO University in Japan, is visiting GIS and Geospatial Collaboration lab. Prof. Yan will conduct collaborative research on urban environment and mobile geospatial applications here at Ryerson for eight months, followed by a research and conference trip to Europe and Austrilia.