Collecting and Calculating Land Data – Preparing for Analysis of Remote Sensing Microscale Urban Heat
Posted 2 years ago
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post introducing my MSc Thesis. Since then, I finished my summer fieldwork which consisted of cycling over 560 kilometres of cycling and road infrastructure measuring air temperature every 1-second in Mississauga, Ontario. I also had the opportunity to present my preliminary thoughts on this project at the […]
Exploring Cycle-Level Heat – Preparing for Analysis of Remote Sensing Microscale Urban Heat
Posted 2 years ago
This blog post will present my current MSc Thesis project. As human population increases, we are seeing a trend towards more people living in cities than in rural areas (Hiemstra et al., 2017). In 1861, 16% of Canadians lived in urban regions; whereas, in 2011, 81.5% lives in urban regions (Statistics Canada, 2018). Urban areas […]
Temperature and vegetation variation within a rapidly growing town
Posted 3 years ago
As a first-year MSc student at the University of Toronto Mississauga, I wrote a paper for a planning course where I integrated remote sensing data with planning documents to understand environmental change in the rapidly growing Town of Milton, Ontario. In this blog post, I will summarize the paper including my methods and findings. However, […]
A Spatial Literature Review of the Human Impacts on Betula utilis and Betula papyrifera
Posted 3 years ago
Independent Research In my second year at UTM, I did a spatial literature review of the human impacts on two birch species, Betula utilis and Betula papyrifera. More specifically, I analyzed the existing scholarly literature focusing on the effects of climate and environmental changes (2017 to 2022) and the human use (1982 to 2022) of […]
Watershed Analysis Over the Don Valley River: The Potential Pathways of Aqueous Pollutants
Posted 3 years ago
Water is a crucial catalyst in propelling an inexhaustible list of anthropogenic activities such as agricultural practices, daily household commodities, and industrial/mining pursuits. Despite being limited to such a finite supply of freshwater resources, future generations will find themselves in a troubling situation as this fundamental resource is being exploited to an irreparable extent by […]
Analyzing the Best Tourism Spots
Posted 3 years ago
This blog post is about part of my GIS assignment from last term. The objective of this part was to teach us how to use viewshed analysis and least cost path analysis to find the best tourism spot (out of three candidate spots) based on how much of the city/urban-areas are visible from that particular […]
Analyzing the Distribution of Houses and Condominiums of Vancouver Airbnb
Posted 3 years ago
This blog post is about my first spatial data science assignment. The purpose of this assignment was to map out the location the Vancouver Airbnb and analyze the various trends of the properties, specifically the House and Condominiums. I was given a non-spatial csv file that contained the ID, Property Type (House or Condominium), Room Type, Bedroom Numbers, Price, and Review Scores of 5,618 properties. The very first thing I […]
Analyzing the Change in Toronto Crime Data from COVID-19
Posted 3 years ago
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post analyzing Toronto Crime Data using Kernel Density from the 2019 data of major crime indicators. After the COVID-19 restrictions were put in place in March 2020 for the city of Toronto, I was curious to see the changes in crime in Toronto from 2019 to 2020. […]
Analyzing the Changes in the Atlantic Ocean’s Sea Surface Temperature from 1900 to 2014 using ArcGIS
Posted 3 years ago
This blog post showcases part of my analysis for a school assignment. I was given a CSV file that modeled the sea surface temperature of the Atlantic Ocean for every three years from 1900 to 2014 in degrees Celsius. The data were collected from the COBE SST dataset from the Japanese Meteorological Agency. Using the data file, I […]
Utilizing GIS in other disciplines: Implementing photos in webmap pop-ups
Posted 4 years ago
As an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), I am double majoring in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (CCIT). I am currently taking a CCIT course that involves inclusive design and social responsibility. For one of the assignments, we had to walk around our neighbourhood and take […]
