Earth Space Strategy

Research in Geomatics Engineering

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$2.7 M

research funding per year

25

faculty members

4

exciting research themes

2

research chairs

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Research areas

We’re advancing knowledge and solutions in positioning, navigation and wireless location. We also focus on digital imaging systems, land tenure, remote sensing, unmanned systems, Earth observation and more.

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Steve Liang

Research facilities

State-of-the-art facilities support our research. Specialized labs, including an observatory, facilitate research in geospatial vision metrology, navigation, sensors, biogeoscience, computing and beyond.

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Biomedical Engineering

Research across Schulich

Our faculty members recognize the power of collaboration. Get an at-a-glance look at Schulich's expansive body of research. Explore our main research themes and the amazing projects that support them.

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Multi-sensor systems are flying high

Multi-sensor systems are flying high

Dr. Naser El-Sheimy, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Geomatics Multi-Sensor Systems, is fine-tuning unmanned aerial vehicles for flight. Using low-cost GPS, navigation systems, cameras and lasers, his technologies can do what traditional manned airborne mapping systems can - at a fraction of the cost.

Intelligent unmanned systems

Intelligent unmanned systems

Dr. Mozhdeh Shahbazi, PhD, is researching autonomous mapping using unmanned aerial systems (UASs). She’s developing new ranging and imaging technologies as well as autonomous, vision-guided UASs for high-precision mapping. This will transform infrastructure inspection, agriculture, search and rescue and beyond.

Predicting forest fires

Predicting forest fires

Dr. Quazi Hassan, PhD, is using remote sensing and data from NASA satellites to monitor for forest-fire risk. Areas previously not covered by traditional weather stations are now on our radar. With this technology, we can monitor the full landscape and give emergency responders more time to prepare.