Project 4C: Cumulus Cloud Cluster Computing

Forests are one of Canada’s greatest commodities in terms of natural resources—almost two-thirds of British Columbia alone is populated by forests, measuring 60 million hectares. Worldwide, forests continue to impact global infrastructure, economy and environment. Understanding how to monitor and track usage and health of our forests is essential for the management and longevity of this essential resource.
This project is intended to support the research and development of a pilot project for a new Global Forest Monitoring System in B.C. through a joint industry / government initiative. Data collection through use of satellite feeds and other sources will leverage secure cloud computing to layer data on a hectare by hectare basis providing varying authentication and authorization for each layer. The goal of the system is to not only collect data about BC forest in a real-time manner but to perform computation on this data in a way that is both…

Faculty Supervisor:

Yvonne Coady

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Partner:

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc (Richmond, BC)

Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate