Dr. Barry WellarBarry Wellar appointed to Strategic Safety and Security Panel of NSERC

Dr. Michael Sawada receives the Young Researcher of the Year Prize from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa

Dr. Barry Wellar receives 2006 Ullman Award from the Association of American Geographers outstanding contributions in transportation geography

Dr. Barry Wellar named Distinguished Research Fellow of Transport 2000 Canada.

Dr. Barry Wellar named Distinguished Geomatics Scientist of LAGGISS.

Read about the GIS Day 2005 Success

Zoran Reljic2nd Place finish in theInternational ENVI challengefeatured in ENVI Newsletter.

Melanie Zahab receives ESRI Canada Student Scholarship for her work on merging archeology and geomatics.

LAGGISSreleases 2nd High-School DVD for educational resources in geomatics.

Samuel Herold receives the CAG Student Paper Award at the MSc level at the CAGONT annual meeting.

Research at LAGGISS ranges from population health to disaster management to archeology. Common within all research themes is the application and development of geomatics technologies and methodologies. Population Health Internet Mapping Broadband Wireless Telecommunications Geovisualization / Scientific Visualization Archeology Palaeoecology Biogeography Climate Change Precision Agriculture Hydrological Modeling in GIS


The following research reprints illustrate some of the recent work undertaken at LAGGISS.

Amaratunga, C., Fowler, H.S., Sawada, M., Jones, L., and McLaren, K. (2005). Report on the National Tsunami Forum From Aid to Capacity Development: Fostering research alliances for medium to long term tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction - National Forum Final Report. University of Ottawa, Institute for Population Health, 8pp.

SAWADA, M., Daniel Cossette, Gérald Chouinard, G.Briggs, and Peter G. Johnson. The Combination of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Radio Frequency (RF) Planning Software, to Assess the Market Potential of Wireless Broadband Internet to Unserved Rural Populations . Proceedings of the 98th Annual Conference of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics , Ottawa, Canada June 2005, CDROM.

Reljic, Z. and SAWADA, M. Integrated GIS and 3D Visualization for Dynamic Landscape Representation, Proceedings of the 98th Annual Conference of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics , Ottawa, Canada June 2005, CDROM.
Zahab, M. and SAWADA, M. Artefacts of Mass Distinction: Onsite Program for Archaeological Artifact Data Catalogue and Mapping in ArcGIS, Proceedings of the 98th Annual Conference of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics , Ottawa, Canada June 2005, CDROM.

Seguin , E., SAWADA, M., and Wilson K. Extending Churchill's shipping season using GIS based modeling , Proceedings of the 98th Annual Conference of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics , Ottawa, Canada June 2005, CDROM.

Herold, S., SAWADA, M., and Wellar, B. Integrating Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Databases and the Internet: A Framework for Disaster Management, Proceedings of the 98th Annual Conference of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics , Ottawa, Canada June 2005, CDROM.

Reljic, Z. Using ENVI to study the ecological integrity of Canada's National Parks. 2nd Place Winner of 2005 International ENVI Challenge

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