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outputs · May 14, 2025

Open Building Population Layer for Canada: A Game-Changer in High-Resolution Population Data

The Open Building Population Layer for Canada has emerged as a transformative resource in the geospatial community, providing access to population estimates at the building level across the country. Since its release, the dataset has garnered significant...

  • Building Footprints
  • Building Population
  • Population Layer
  • Python
  • AI
  • Geospatial

posts · Feb 1, 2025

2024 Research: Year in Review

Overview of peer-reviewed publications related to flood modelling and climate change in 2024

  • Flood Mapping
  • Resources
  • Hydrology
  • Hydraulics
  • GIS
  • Canada

outputs · Dec 1, 2024

Large-scale flood modelling based on LiDAR data: a case study in the Southwest Miramichi watershed, New Brunswick, Canada

With Canada’s river basins extending over almost 10 million km2, producing flood maps sufficiently accurate to be used for planning purposes at a reasonable cost is a challenge. Bathymetric data, in particular, are difficult and expensive to obtain and...

  • NRCan
  • Canada
  • Flood Mapping
  • Bathymetry
  • LiDAR
  • River Flooding

projects · Mar 3, 2024

Books for Development

Self-published books on Epanet and Google Earth

  • Hydraulic Modeling
  • EPANET
  • Google Earth
  • GIS

outputs · Jul 15, 2014

Leveraging GIS tools to improve water and sanitation infrastructure programming in Haiti

Lack of adequate water and sanitation remains a key challenge in Haiti, with rural coverage estimated at 49 and 17% respectively. The Government of Haiti is working to improve the situation with the help of donor and development organizations, but a lack of...

  • GIS

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