Innovation Under Pressure: Tackling Banff’s Urban Mobility Challenges
Posted 2 months ago
My Experience at the 7th Annual National Geomatics Competition I had the privilege of attending the 7th annual Canadian National Geomatics Competition (NGC) from February 5th to 9th as a representative of BCIT’s GIS Advanced Diploma cohort and the BCIT Geomatics Club. The NGC is a student-led consulting engineering competition that challenges geomatics students to […]
Interning at CBRE’s Location Intelligence Team
Posted 11 months ago
Introduction CBRE is a commercial real estate firm devoted to providing clients with top of the line real estate services. One of these services happens to be using GIS to locate and call attention to areas which fit a client’s desired location for future development or relocation. As a BCIT student currently in their Advanced […]
Pavement Marking Inventory using GIS and Computer Vision – Part II
Posted 2 years ago
Aligned with the City of Surrey’s Digital Transportation Strategy, which aims to create a user-centric and data-driven Intelligent Transportation System, significant strides were made in 2022. The city collaborated with a student from the GIS Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) to develop a deep learning model. This model automates the collection […]
A Day in a Life of a GIS Intern at CBRE
Posted 2 years ago
As a BCIT Advanced Diploma GIS student, part of the curriculum involves an industry sponsored project or practicum. Earlier this year, I was fortunate and grateful to start an internship at CBRE working with their Location Intelligence team here in Vancouver, BC. CBRE is the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm globally and […]
Looking at Favourite Mall Destinations Throughout Toronto’s Metropolitan Area
Posted 3 years ago
Blog Summary: Thorough understanding of a location is fundamental for real-estate professionals and stakeholders. Geospatial visualizations and data have the capacity to capture a geographic snapshot in time explaining the synergy and interaction between people and areas of interest. In this blog post I describe how GIS and data are used at CBRE to visualize […]
Urban Landcover Mapping: Using Deep Learning to Extract Impervious Surfaces
Posted 3 years ago
The first of multiple blog posts in which Esri Deep Learning technology is utilized for urban landcover mapping and impervious surface coverage.
Using Optical Imagery and Fuzzy Logic to Map Wildfires in British Columbia
Posted 3 years ago
Exacerbated by human-induced climate change, wildfires have become increasingly severe and devastating in recent years. In British Columbia over the past decade, wildfires have consistently cost hundreds of millions in damages and pose serious health threats to the population as the smoke lingers over populous areas throughout the province. For our British Columbia Institute of […]
A challenge worth tackling: Looking back at this year’s ECCE App Challenge Experience
Posted 3 years ago
Being open to new challenges is something to embrace. Despite the learning curve that may come with a new challenge, the opportunity to apply what you know and adapt to the circumstance is an excellent learning opportunity. This is one of the many aspects that drew my team members and I to this year’s Esri […]
Pavement Marking Inventory using GIS and Computer Vision – Part I
Posted 3 years ago
In this series of blog posts we will explore and detail the ways in which we combine the powers of GIS and computer vision to automate extraction of pavement markings from aerial orthophotos using ArcGIS Image Analyst.
