Join us on Wed, March 22 at 9AM for our 1st WISA Talks of the year! WISA Associate Director Derek Robinson will be leading a talk about the multiple applications of drones such as remote sensing, thermal imaging, mapping, crop spraying, infrastructure inspection, and more!

#UWaterloo ranked among the top 30 universities in the world across 2 subject areas of the QS World University Rankings 2023. #UWaterloo's strengths in STEM were complemented by showings in hospitality and leisure studies and environmental sciences. More: bit.ly/3lHFLuK

Weather forced us indoors for University of Waterloo #drone #course #Geography and #aviation 270, but we used the opportunity to break out all the gear! LeicaGeosystems GS18 DJI #inspire1 #matrice 600, Teledyne FLIR R60, and Phoenix LiDAR w RIEGL. Great questions & discussion!

It’s official - as of today, all Canada Student Loans and Canada Apprentice Loans are permanently interest-free, including ones being repaid right now. We know the pandemic has been hard on students, and we'll be there for them for as long as it takes.

Perfect weather to resume field activities to monitor ephemeral gullies in Southern Ontario Asim Biswas Prasad Daggupati Derek Robinson Thanks School of Environmental Sciences @OMAFRA NSERC CREATE Climate-Smart Soils

We were so lucky to learn about drones and their uses from U of W Prof Derek Robinson (Sheppard Dad) and Masters student Brandon Giura. Thank you Derek and Brandon for giving our Flyers such a cool and amazing presentation! Waterloo Region DSB

Using #drones / #uav w Waterloo Geography #MSc #student B. Giura to monitor ephemeral gullies in Southern Ontario w Asim Biswas Prasad Daggupati Hitesh School of Environmental Sciences and generously funded by @OMAFRA. Stay tuned for exciting results and drone vs manual measurements!

Another great Annual General Meeting w Environments of Change SSHRC project led by Steven Bednarski St.Jerome's University & including many others like Andrew Trant Waterloo Environment, @WzMacdonald. Inclusion of AR for Gr4 by @aliringbull Waterloo Region DSB & Nick Graham Queen's University... & some #drone work too!

Lots of fun talking about #remotesensing #drones / #UAV with pix4d Phoenix LiDAR at the "#mapping the past" workshop hosted by Environments of Change University of Waterloo today. Great questions and intersection of #History and #Geography!

New set of #drone / #uav presentations provided by Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics brings @SkySightCanada, Drone Spray Canada, GHD, and Terresky together to talk about #agriculture, #Construction, #ecology, #carbon monitoring, and #realestate applications youtu.be/51Hx7EXKooU #Geography

#UWaterloo is proud to announce that a full tuition waiver will be offered to all qualifying students from two First Nation communities on whose traditional territory the University is situated. More: bit.ly/431yA10 | #UWaterlooNews

Pleased to share a new paper discussing the opportunities for #AI to increase the representation of #learning in #agent-based #models . Led by the great Li AN SDSU Geography and coauthored by many other great colleagues. authors.elsevier.com/c/1hA584sKhEZG…

Very excited to continue working w Korotu to quantify #tree #carbon as a WWF-Canada RBC Microsoft Nature x Carbon Tech Finalist! Our Phoenix LiDAR #drone / #uav & Mitacs funded Waterloo Geography #students are shown with other fantastic finalists. Thank you WWF-Canada!

Put the land back in the Greenbelt now! Auditor General's report shows that the Ontario Government colluded with developers to remove lands from the Greenbelt environmentaldefence.ca/2023/08/09/sta… via EnvironmentalDefence #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #onpoli

New collection of Jupyter Notebooks enables programmatic access to cloud-hosted USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data Blog: opentopography.org/blog/new-colle… GitHub: github.com/OpenTopography… #lidar #dataviz #3dep

School of the Environment @ UWindsor Thanks for a great day meeting #Students & faculty from School of the Environment @ UWindsor & GLIER at UWindsor. Great discussions about #fish #telemetry #data, #drones / #uav, and so much more. First time to see an autonomous under water vehicle too! The Slocum Glider. Waterloo Geography

Congratulations to Drs. David C.Del Rey Fernández and Amr ElAlfy, #WISA's newest Associate Directors. Special thanks to Drs. Derek Robinson and Mihaela Vlasea, who conclude their tenures this year. We're truly grateful for your leadership in our #research community.

Read about Simon Fraser University ECCE student associate Lan Qing Zhao's experience at the 31st International Geoinformatics Conference. Congrats on starting your PhD at University of Waterloo with Derek Robinson! bit.ly/3MyXz5e We're not here anymore -- SFU Library SFU Faculty of Graduate Studies @SandsofJura Jon Salter Shiv Balram

Impressed with inthehills.ca/2024/09/birds-… article about #drones / #uavs . A great introduction for those curious about some #uav applications. They even managed to squeak in a little about my work with #carbon & #trees Waterloo Geography with Phoenix LiDAR and RIEGL equipment.

Flying University of Waterloo last week with our @harrisaerial H6 and RIEGL Ultra 120 put together by Phoenix LiDAR with Waterloo Geography #coop #student Campbell Bowser and #PhD student Brandon Giura when we ended up in the Waterloo Region Record 😀