Toronto 1967

Cold War-era space race rapidly accelerated the development of satellite and remote sensing technology. Only two years after the launch of the first man-made satellite in 1957, CIA and U.S. Air Force launched a spy satellite program under the codename 'Corona', which lasted 1959-1972. Its main purpose was to spy on Soviet Union's nuclear potential, however its coverage extended over the entire world. This webmap visualizes declassified imagery of Toronto in 1967, representing one of the earliest available timestamps for imagery acquired from space.

The Landscape of Fiji

The Goan Landscape

HexMap

RUsafe

WebAtlas

Data provision and management of health data enabled at disaggregated spatial level for different actors in Ontario. The spatial enabled content is visualized by a WebGIS interface fostering the community driven environment of health, injury and epidemiological sensitivity for smarter urban environments. Further to this, the WebAtlas will become by 2015 and has the most accurate and detailed spatial visualization infrastructure in Canada.

Happyscapes

Community driven information is playing an increasingly important role in rapidly expanding regions. The interaction of the human landscape in line with wellbeing and spatial information has led to unprecedented knowledge on place, society and economy. Social media and in particular services such as Instagram, can help to better understand and interact with the society promoting by better spatial understanding the landscapes of happiness and wellness and the context of environment. This project explores the potential understanding happiness and wellbeing landscapes in North America by using context aware social information.

Land Cover Assessment - Golden Horseshoe

This project aims to build a spatial-retrofitting model, with the objective of (i) retrofitting spatial land use based on current land use and land cover, and assessing proportional change in the past, leading to four spatial timestamps of the Golden Horseshoe's land use, while (ii) integrating this in a multi-user open source web environment to facilitate synergies for decision-making. This combined approach is referred to as a regional-spatial-retrofitting approach (RSRA), where the conclusions permit accurate assessment of land use in past time frames based on Landsat imagery. The RSRA also allows for a collective vision of regional urban growth supporting local governance through a decision-making process adhering to Volunteered Geographic Information Systems. Urban land use change can be refined by means of contribution from end-users through a web environment, leading to a constant understanding and monitoring of urban land use and urban land use change.

The Indian Business Landscape

By a combination of geocomputation, geovisualization and volunteered geographic information, we pretend to develop and contribute for a better planning and decision making on location of small and medium sized businesses in India. Taking advantage of geostatistics and spatial analysis techniques, our objectives are: (i) create a spatial database of the location of Indian business in a WebGIS interface, (ii) elaborate geostatistical analysis to understand underlying patterns of existence of business hubs in India, and their relation to urban areas and commutes, (iii) use Volunteered-geographic information and crowd sourced data to establish a definition for the modern business landscape in India, as well as to contribute to a better understanding of the locational strategy of businesses in India.