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Welcome to my web site, I am a Geomatics Specialist specializing in LIDAR, Remote Sensing and GIS. I first created this site
back when I was in university so that I could use it as a means to promote my resume in order to help advance my career. Now almost twelve
years later it has developed into a much more complex site then that, offering some of my Geomatics knowledge,
sharing info on my Geomatics related projects, includes publications, photos, images, animations, and my blog.
My web blog is a way to keep track of all the places that I have been fortunate to travel to over the past few years while taking
part in conferences, working on LIDAR surveys or just vacations.
Geomatics is a modern discipline which integrates the tasks of gathering, storing, processing, modeling, analyzing, and delivering spatially referenced geographic information. This broad term applies both to the science and the technology aspect of it, and integrates many more specific disciplines and technologies such as Geodesy, GPS surveying, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), LIDAR, Photogrammetry, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). It is still a rather new term to most people, and originated here in Canada, however it has recently started to become more popular and been adopted by many international organizations.
One of the reasons for the rapid progress of this discipline, and increased visibility of the industry has been made possible by the advances of computer technology, and software engineering. Our world is constantly changing thus the industry also continues to evolve, and will continue to do so, thus why it is essential for us to keep up with the rapid growth of the Geomatics knowledge, technology, practices and various methods. With out Geomatics we wouldn't have any of the many common everyday items that we all take for granted like automotive GPS navigation systems, Google Maps and the 911 safety system.
Web design is a broad term that incorporates aspects of developing and creating web pages, web sites and/or web applications. The term often refers mainly to the graphical aspect of web development using images, cascading style sheets (CSS) and hyper text markup language (HTML) standards. However, as the Internet continues to rapidly involve we tend to see that web design and web development are becoming more of one discipline and often includes graphical web design, backend programming, web server configuration and dealing with security issues.
Applications created for the web are delivered to users from a server computer over a network such as the internet. They tend to be popular due to the popularity and the easy access web browser technology. The ability to update and maintain applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for it.
They are used for various uses such as to implement web e-mail, online sales, auctions, blogs, and many other functions. It has also become a popular method in geomatics for providing spatial information to a large audience without them having to purchase the high technical specialized software that was used to create the spatial data. This relatively new aspect is often been termed Web GIS or Web Mapping and has become so popular that even non geomatics organizations such as Google and Yahoo have recognized its potential.
This web site was designed to help educate others about some of the many evolving aspects of both Geomatics and Web Design and to demonstrate the potential of it through actual examples. This guide was created to be somewhat simple yet be very informative and should benefit all users; both those with knowledge of geomatics and those who no nothing about it. Like the industry this site too will be constantly evolving.
Geographic information systems commonly known as GIS has become a rapidly growing
technological field that allows Geomatics Specialists to solve and model real world
situations by incorporating digital spatial and associated tabular data. It is
often defined as a comprehensive computerized information system made up of hardware,
specialized software, spatial data and people to help ... |
LIDAR is the acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging. The LIDAR sensor produces a series of point
measurements that consists of geographic location (X & Y) and height (Z) of both natural and man-made
features, and can be further processed to produce several different products and integrated into a
Geographic Information System (GIS).
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Remote sensing is merely the science of acquiring information about a surface
without physically being in contact with it. It involves the use of technical instruments or sensors
to record reflected or emitted energy and then processing, analyzing, and applying that information
to determine the spectral and spatial relations of distance objects and materials.
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