The Waterloo Laboratory for GeoSpatial Technology and Remote Sensing (GeoSTARS Lab) is dedicated to
   research, development and improvement of remote sensing and GIS technologies for geospatial applications.
   The following is a list of projects, both past and present, undertaken by the GeoSTARS Lab.

   Ongoing Projects    Completed Projects
   • Satellite data processing and analysis in support of crop inventory mapping in Ontario and Manitoba,
      Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
   • 3D Spatial Modeling of Canada's Critical Infrastructure using Mobile Lidar Technology, NSERC
   • Use of Topographic Derivatives for Digital Soil Mapping and Multi-scale Hydrological Modeling, Agriculture
      and Agri-Food Canada
   • 3D building facade reconstruction from terrestrial mobile lidar point clouds, PhD project
   • Spatial similarity relations for automated map generation, PhD project
   • Lidar-derived DEMs and terrain analysis for digital soil mapping, MSc project
   • Development of automatic algorithms for terrestrial laser scanning point cloud registration, PhD project
   • High-resolution solar energy potential modeling at the building scale, NSFC
   • PolSAR remote sensing of coastal changes and low-lying areas, PhD project
   • Marine oil spill detection using RADARSAT-2 PolSAR images, MSc project
   • Oil spill detection in the marine environment using SAR imagery, MSc project
   • Mapping the solar potential of rooftops for community energy planning, MSc project
   • Rapid urban mapping by a 3D remote sensing approach, NSERC
   • Bridge inspection using a terrestrial mobile lidar mapping system, PhD project
   • Monitoring and simulating urban growth using GIS and agent-based model, PhD project
   • Automated segmentation and classification of satellite SAR images, PhD project
   • Development of a true orthorectification system for remotely sensed images, PhD project
   • Automated extraction of topographic attributes from lidar point clouds, MSc project
   • 3D building rooftop modeling using airborne point clouds integrated with aerial images, PhD project