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Course in hydrographic surveying offered by the CIDCO

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The Interdisciplinary Center for the Development of Ocean Mapping (CIDCO) is offering a Hydrographic Survey Category B Course. The course has been designed to meet the international standards of competence at Category B, as described in the S-5 publication of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). The course is aimed at an audience of graduates with a technical diploma in land surveying. It comprises two parts: 1- e-learning, within a period of 8 months, and 2- an hydrographic survey project (5 weeks), on the Saint-Lawrence River at Rimouski, Québec, Canada. The e-learning session starts in October. Places are still available.

For more details, please consult the CIDCO course website.

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CAMUSS 2016 – The program is now online!

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You are cordially invited to participate in the Second International Symposium on Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial Systems (CAMUSS 2016) that will be held in a beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Site, Quebec City, Canada from September 21st to 23rd, 2016.

The Symposium will provide you with an excellent opportunity to meet and exchange with researchers and experts in urban dynamics and complex systems from around the world. During this three-day symposium, you will learn and update your knowledge of the state-of-the-art on cellular automata and other advanced geosimulation modelling techniques and their innovative applications ranging from urban dynamics and urban growth to traffic patterns, land use planning, public security and public health.

Come and meet our world class keynote speakers and international experts and exchange with them on their experience on developing and applying innovative geosimulation techniques to better model, predict and understand complex urban systems and their dynamics through space and time.

The Symposium is organized by the Convergence Network and the Centre for Research in Geomatics of Université Laval in Canada, in close collaboration with the Centre for Urban Policy Studies of the University of Manchester in UK.

For more information and to register: http://www.camuss2016.ulaval.ca/.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Quebec City!

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MinEyes: Development and optimization of mobile LiDAR technologies for the precise 3D modeling and monitoring of mining tunnels convergence

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A team of researchers, composed of Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi (director of the Convergence Network), Josée Dallaire (Director of the Centre de géomatique du Québec and member of the Convergence Network), Christian Larouche, Martin Grenon, Jacek Paraszczak and Kamran Esmaeili, just obtained a grant for the project “MinEyes: Development and optimization of mobile LiDAR technologies for the precise 3D modeling and monitoring of mining tunnels convergence”.

This 300 000$ grant is offered by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies and the Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles du Québec, under the program “Programme de recherche en partenariat sur le développement durable du secteur minier – 3e concours”. The MinEyes project will allow for significantly improving the monitoring of mining tunnels convergence and will contribute to improve mine safety, to increase the productivity of mining companies and to promote a sustainable exploitation of mineral resources.

For more information, please contact Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi.

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INRS develops a new flood risk analysis and management tool

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Professors Karem Chokmani and Monique Bernier of INRS’s Eau Terre Environment Centre (and members of the Coonvergence Network) is developing GARI, a new flood risk analysis and management tool. The tool, a geographical information system (GIS) application, will consist of operational cartography and characterization modules for visualizing and analyzing flood risk in preparatory and operational mode.

Carried out in collaboration with Quebec and Canadian government partners, the project comes with nearly $1 million in funding over three years — $900,000 from the Canadian Safety and Security Program led by Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Security Science, in partnership with Public Safety Canada. GARI will have significant implications for civil security by enabling more effective intervention before and during flooding.

For more information: INRS News.

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Sylvie Daniel mentioned in a Contact Université Laval file about games

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The Université Laval’s Communications Direction presents a file about games in general and video games in particular. Among the proposed articles, “L’art du jeu vidéo” talks about the work of Sylvie Daniel, member of the Convergence Network, where she explains how geomatics can contribute to the realism of video games.

See the complete file Incursion dans l’univers du jeu (in French).
Read the article L’art du jeu vidéo (in French).

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Open Source Geospatial Research & Education 2016 – Call for short papers

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The OGRS’16 organizing committee is pleased to announce the opening of the Call for short papers for inclusion in the program of the next edition of the Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium (12-14 October 2016, Perugia, Italy).

The deadline for the submission of short papers (1000-1500 words) is June 15th, 2016.

All the details can be found at 2016.ogrs-community.org.

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CAMUSS 2016 – Call for Papers

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The Convergence Network is organizing CAMUSS 2016 (Second International Symposium on Cellular Automata Modeling for Urban and Spatial Systems), in collaboration with the Center for Research in Geomatics and the Centre for Urban Policy Studies of the Université of Manchester. You are invited to submit a paper to this international event that will be held at the Université Laval, September 21st to 23rd, 2016. Due date for full papers is February 15th, 2016.

A Call for Sponsorship has also been launched for organizations interested in supporting the event and gaining an international visibility.

For more information, please visit the CAMUSS 2016 Website.

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K2 Geospatial contributes to the Smart Cities Readiness Guide

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K2 Geospatial, member of the Convergence Network and Associate Partner of the Smart Cities Council, helps cities to become more “intelligent” with its contribution to the Smart Cities Readiness Guide. This guide is a framework of utmost importance for city managers and planners who want to improve the quality of life of their citizens and ensure economic growth in a sustainable development context. The guide is currently used by thousands of cities around the world within their smart city initiatives.

See the News.

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Workshop on airborne LiDAR technology in forestry: operationalization and future orientations – May 4-5

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A workshop on airborne LiDAR in forestry will be held at Université Laval, May 4th and 5th, 2016. The workshop is coorganized by Martin Béland (U. Laval) and Antoine Leboeuf (MFFP), and is funded by NSERC and the Forest Inventory Division of the Quebec Department of Forests, Wildlife and Parks (MFFP).

For more information and to register: Workshop on airborne LiDAR in forestry.

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CIDCO Seminar / Webinar – March 18th 12pm

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The Convergence Network, in collaboration with the Center for research in geomatics of Université Laval is pleased to invite you to the next seminar/webinar featuring Mr. Mathieu Rondeau, marine geomatics specialist at the Centre interdisciplinaire de Développement en Cartographie des Océans (CIDCO), Friday March 18th, 12pm, room 1516 Louis-Jacques-Casault Building.

Mr. Rondeau will present 3 recent marine geomatics projects:

Project 1: Wreck hunter

Project 2: Inspection of underwater infrastructures

Project 3: Towed Hydrographic Survey Platform

We hope you can join us! Free, welcome to all!

What: CIDCO seminar/webinar

When: Friday, March 18th, 12 pm – 12:45 pm

Where: room 1516, Louis-Jacques-Casault Building, Université Laval

[Download the CIDCO presentation - Research Axes (.PDF)]

[Download the CIDCO presentation - Deformation Analysis (.PDF)]

[Download the CIDCO presentation - Towed Hydrographic Platform (.PDF)]

You missed the presentation? You can listen to it here.

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Workshop of the UAS Center of Excellence – June 2016

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Following the success of last year, the UAS CE and its members invite the UAV community to an important meeting regarding the development of commercial and civil UAV industry in Quebec and Canada. Our partner, the Centre de géomatique du Québec, is proud to participate in the organization of this event. This event will be held in Alma, Québec, June 1st and 2nd, 2016.

For more information: See the invitation. (.PDF)
To register: Eventbrite Site
To sponsor the event: See the Sponsorship program. (.PDF)

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Montreal XYZ Challenge – April 1st

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The Montreal XYZ Challenge is on an entire community of creators, developers and users interested in the ever improving techniques of acquisition, digitalization and exploitation of LiDAR (Light detection and ranging) data. Generating very dense point clouds of extreme precision, the LiDAR surveys lead to the creation of 3D urban environments. The challenge is all about using this enormous set of data to explore new application potentials or usages for digital arts, geomatics, engineering, artificial or immersive intelligence, urbanism and more… The ultimate goal of the challenge is to favor collaboration amongst various communities and explore new technological limits. Students and researchers can partipate and also act as mentors.