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2017-01-01

Irwin, Katherine, Beaulne, Danielle, Braun, Alexander, Fotopoulos, Georgia

The detection and monitoring of surface water and its extent are critical for understanding floodwater hazards. Flooding and undermining caused by surface water flow can result in damage to critical infrastructure and changes in ecosystems. Along major transportation corridors, such as railways,...

Spring 2015

Jensen, Daniel E

Gaps in the forest canopy are common in boreal aspen, spruce and mixedwood stands and can negatively affect forest volume. Data from four Alberta Vegetation Inventory (AVI) polygons, two aspen (Populus tremuloides) and two white spruce (Picea glauca), were analysed to determine how forest volume...

Fall 2013

Hartman, Sharlene E.

The Crowsnest Pass area, located in the Rocky Mountain foothills of the Canadian Cordillera, provides an exceptional example of a thin-skinned thrust belt from which the deformational history can be determined. Use of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data, acquired by high-resolution remote...

Spring 2019

Gargoum, Suliman Ali

The adoption of a safe system approach is seen by many as a critical element to achieving the aims of vision zero (i.e., eliminating fatalities and serious injuries on roads). Unlike in traditional approaches, in a safe system approach it is acknowledged that road users are humans who are prone...

Fall 2016

Bjelanovic, Ivan

Understanding variability in forest productivity is important to sustainable forest management. The main objective of this thesis was to evaluate efficient and cost-effective ways to predict potential forest productivity (Site Index) using ecological site data obtained from either ground-based...

Fall 2014

Van Rensen, Cassidy K

Mapping of oil reserves involves the use of seismic lines (linear disturbances) to determine size of reserves. These linear disturbances fragment forests and in many cases fail to regenerate trees even decades following their use. With the continued rise in anthropogenic disturbances,...

2015-09-01

Lieffers, V., Van Rensen, C., Vinge, T., Nielsen, S.

Restoration of legacy seismic lines has become a topic of frequent conversation among land managers. The release of the federal recovery strategy for woodland caribou in 2012 has contributed to this momentum with companies now investing considerable resources in restoring legacy seismic lines....

Fall 2011

Russell, James A.

Rockfalls are a hazard concern for many transportation corridors in Alberta and British Columbia. A method of analyzing and further understanding rockfalls could help to reduce the hazard potential that rockfalls present. Rockfall hazard assessments are carried out in three steps: (1)...

Fall 2024

Lim, Sangwon

While recent advancements in deep-learning point cloud upsampling methods have improved the input to intelligent transportation systems, they still suffer from issues of domain dependency between synthetic and real-scanned point clouds. This thesis addresses the above issues by proposing a new...

2019-04-10

Farmakis, Ioannis, Hutchinson, D. Jean