RESEARCH
& DEVELOPMENT
SpatialSmart conducts research through collaboration with
universities, government and international institutions. A common goal for
many of our projects is to develop new solutions which can be applied
operationally for
natural
resources management and
environmental monitoring. Some current projects
representative of our work include:
Prediction of harmful
algal
blooms,
forecasting of tuna favorite zones, digital city platform and digital ocean
platform.
Prediction
of Harmful Algal Blooms
Harmful
Algal
Blooms (HABs), or red tides, are
a major concern globally, as they may:
-
damage to the fish farming industry
-
cause human illness and death from contaminated shellfish or fish
-
result in mass mortalities of wild and farmed fish and shellfish
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affect submerged aquatic vegetation
-
cause ocean pollution.
Our staff had studied the utility of various types of remote sensing data for HABs
prediction and monitoring in Canada and US coastal waters.
This investigation is the further development of
the studies.
The aim
is
to develop a method to predict the timing and transport
pathways of HAB outbreaks using parameters and patterns derived from satellite,
airborne images and in situ data collected from ships.
Tuna Fishing Ground
Forecasting
This part is under
construction