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INTELLI3 partners with the City of Québec to develop an innovative technology for the analysis of vehicle counting data at street intersections

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Today the City of Québec announces 206 250$ of financial support for INTELLI3. The opportunity to develop new, innovative practices, based on a powerful and integrated solution in line with the intelligent transportation systems vision, was made possible by the Technology Showcase Program of the City of Québec’s Economic Development Strategy.

For more information: www.intelli3.com

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GIScience 2016 – Second Call for Papers

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The Convergence Network invites you to submit a paper to the GIScience 2016 conference, which will be held in Montreal, from September 28th to September 30th, 2016. GIScience 2016 is co-organized by McGill University, Université Laval and University of Saskatchewan. For more details, please visit the GIScience 2016 website.

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Meeting with Geovoxel

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A meeting with Geovoxel was held during the Fall. Geovoxel is a company founded in 2011 in Brazil by Louis-Martin Losier (who holds a master degree in geomatics sciences from Université Laval). Geovoxel is a company operating in the fields of engineering and systems, with emphasis on geomatics. The mission of the company is to develop solutions for the integration and processing of georeferenced data, aiming to organize the information in a structured, centralized and safe way, utilizing geomatics as the main tool, to the benefits of their clients, their team and the society.

Geovoxel will move its Systems Division to Quebec City in 2016 and is looking for partners. For information, please contact Louis-Martin Losier.

 
[Download the Geovoxel presentation (.PDF)]
 
[Download the meeting minutes (in French) (.PDF)]
 

GEOTHINK SUMMER INSTITUTE 2015

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The Geothink Summer Institute will focus on providing knowledge and training in theoretical and practical aspects of crowdsourcing. You will be working together with other students from different disciplines to solve a crowdsourcing problem, with expert instruction from a team of leading academics. You will use the knowledge gained at the workshops as well as leverage expertise from individuals in your team to come up with a solution. Expect a strong problem-solving aspect to your experience.

Geothink has a number of research partners in municipal government. This year, we have had the pleasure of working with the City of Ottawa in creating the problem scenario which you will be solving. Your solutions at this workshop will be submitted to representatives from the City of Ottawa.

Only a handful of places are  available to students from undergraduate to graduate level studies.

Students with and without technical backgrounds are welcome.

Dates: 15-17 June

Location: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Registration deadline: 30 May

For more details and registration, please visit:

http://summerinstitute.geothink.ca/

Celebrate the partnership 2015

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You have participated in a research partnership project that has achieved concrete results in the last 5 years? Apply on the “Celebrate the Partnership 2015″ competition.

This tribute evening is presented by ADRIQ in collaboration with NSERC, and will be held on May 14th , in Quebec City.  More than 300 people are expected to attend. A great start for your work!

 

See the promotional brochure for all details:  http://www.adriq.com/sites/default/files/brochure_promo_celebrons_2015_aj110215.pdf

or visit the website: http://adriq.com/fr/celebrons-partenariat-2015

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Webinar with Dr. James Elder

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You missed the webinar ?  Watch it now ! 

The Convergence Network is presenting a webinar with Dr. James Elder , York University, on February 24  at 11:00 ( eastern time)

Title: Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility

About James Elder

James Elder received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1996. He is a member of the Centre for Vision Research and a Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Psychology at York University. Dr. Elder’s research has won a number of awards and honours, including the Premier’s Research Excellence Award and the Young Investigator Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. His research interests include developing novel and useful computer vision algorithms and machine vision systems through a better understanding of visual processing in biological systems.

Register now ! (free)

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The Network welcomes two new industrial partners

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We are happy to announce the arrival of two new industrial partners in the Convergence Network: Chaac Technologies and Thales- Research and Technology Canada.
Through this partnership, both companies hope to work with Network members on various R & D projects and benefit from our researchers expertise.

About Chaac Technologies
Chaac Technologies Inc. is a dynamic and innovative company that provides worldwide, software and mobile applications to support the decision process and information management during an environmental crisis. Chaac’s mission is to ensure that its customers are better prepared and intervene with optimal efficiency during response operations following emergencies.

About Thales Research and Technology Canada
Thales role is to assist customers in making decisions by providing the tools and technologies needed to gather, process and distribute information, helping them to understand complex situations so they can decide and act in a timely fashion and obtain the best outcomes. This understanding of the critical decision chain underpins their innovation and technological developments in areas such as large-scale software-driven systems, secure communications, sensors (radar, sonar, optical), supervision, onboard electronics, satellites and systems integration.

Click here for more information about our industrial partners

Webinar: The Role and Impact of Geospatial Information in the Big Data Arena

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GeoConnections invites you to learn about how geospatial information technologies contribute to the Big Data phenomenon and inversely, how Big Data technology contributes to geomatics.

You will learn more about:

  • Fundamentals of Big Data
  • Contributions of geomatics to Big Data
  • Contribution of Big Data to geomatics
  • Challenges and opportunities of Big Data in geomatics

 

English Webinar: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 – 1:30-3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight time)

French Webinar: Thursday, October 30, 2014 – 1:30-3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight time)

To register for this webinar, please contact Angélie Huchette by e-mail at Angelie.Huchette@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca, or by telephone at 819-564-5600, ext. 297.Registered participants will receive a follow-up e-mail with information about how to access and participate in the webinar.

SKI Best Presentation Award 2014

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The Convergence Network is proud to announce the winners of  the Best Presentation Awards during the Spatial Knowledge and Information CANADA (SKI) Conference.

  • Mathieu Bourbonnais,  PhD student at University of Victoria
  • Michael Allchin,  PhD student at University of Northern British Columbia

The Network offered both winners a 500$ award. Congratulations!

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Don’t miss our first webinar on January 28th

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Don’t miss our first Webinar on Tuesday, January 28th, 13h30 (EST). This webinar will be presented by Rodolphe Devillers, associate professor at the Department of geography and director of the Marine Geomatics Research Lab at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Its research interests include the quality of spatial data and geovisualisation as well as the use of geographic information by non-expert users and how it is possible to limit the cases of geographic information misuses.

For more information about Rodolphe Devillers : www.marinegis.com

The webinar will be presented in French but the slides will be in English. It will be a 30-minute presentation followed by a Q&A period.

The technical details about the webinar will  follow shortly. Please note that the webinar will be recorded and be available on demand afterward.

About the Convergence Network Webinars

This webinar is the first of a series that will highlight our researchers. The purpose is to promote the expertise and research activities in order to facilitate the partnership among the Network.

 

To be highlighted in our second webinar :

Karem Chokmani (INRS – ETE) (February, 18th )

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February 24th – Save the date !

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The first CONVERGENCE Network workshop will take place on Monday, February 24 at Université Laval.

The objectives of this Workshop are the following:

  • demystify the role of the Network, the benefits of being a member, what the Network can do for you, why and how;
  • learn more about the members (researchers expertise and business partners);
  • identify common needs;
  • prioritize research themes -> in order to organize three other targeted workshops in the coming year (gathering targeted participants to define concrete project partnerships).

Presentations and group discussions are planned.

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Register now!
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IGARSS 2014 and the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

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Don’t miss IGARSS 2014, to be held in beautiful and historic Québec City from July 13th – July 18th, 2014. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing.

Abstracts can be submitted on-line at www.igarss2014.org between November 14th, 2013 and January 13th, 2014. Results of the review process will be available on-line by April 4th, 2014.

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