Research and Teaching

Research Groups, Partners, Organisations

• Agriculture and AgriFood Canada
• Meteorological Service of Canada (King City)
• Farming Systems Research Group at Guelph
• Ontario Weather Network
• Ontario Pork Project
  

Personal

My Goal

My research interests are to develop means to quantify agroecosystem resources and processes using combined uses of GIS, remote sensing, field data, and modelling. I wish to enhance the sustainability of agricultural resources, to improve farm efficiencies here and internationally, and to assist others in their efforts.

Current Activities

• BarnBase: Ontario Pork funded swine barn GIS database
• Most of my work is now the development of the AGROMA system along with Agriculture and AgriFood Canada and PCIGeomatics. I am using DSSAT within a GIS to model regional crop yields at the subfield level. The GIS within Geomatica is providing the foundation for the processing.
• Development and use of very high spatial resolution digital airborne imaging for biophysical measurements in agriculture (pardon the long description). We use visible and near infrared high-resolution cameras to analyse the spatial variability of crop response to soils and fertility. We also use them for large area surveys.
• Developing a real-time precipitation monitoring system for agriculture using weather radar and GIS.
• Developing an advanced spatial analysis capacity in the Image Analysis, Remote Sensing, and GIS laboratory in the Department of Land Resource Science. I currently maintain ESRI ArcGIS and PCIGeomatics software.
• Assist in teaching and student supervision in Land Resource Science.

2008-05-18