L’Alberta Veterinary Surveillance Network (AVSN) est une initiative albertaine originale qui aide les vétérinaires, en leur offrant des outils de diagnostic des pathologies et d’analyse des maladies, à dépister les problèmes de santé animale susceptibles d’avoir des répercussions sur la santé humaine, la sécurité alimentaire ou l’accès au marché, et à intervenir pour le bénéfice […]

Animal heath surveillance is concerned with not only the disease in animal populations, but also with animal pathogens and diseases that affect humans. The objective of this project is to develop a system which can model the livestock production activity data, flow, weather pattern and disease history appropriately so that events can be more easily […]

Alberta Veterinary Surveillance Network (AVSN) is a unique effort in Alberta which provides diagnostic pathology and disease investigation support to veterinary practitioners to detect and respond to animal health issues that may affect public health, food safety, or market access that serves the mutual benefits of veterinarians, industry and government. Latest research reveals that Infrared […]

Various waves of immigration have altered the profiles of Muslim communities in Alberta demanding a need for better data and information for both short and long term planning of services and infrastructure.  This need poses challenges not only to individual civil society organizations, but also to cross-organization coalitions seeking to build common ground upon which […]

  Well water test results for the presence of total coliform and E. coli. were obtained from the Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (ProvLab) and analyzed to gain a better understanding of spatial water quality and the role of temporal environmental features in the well contamination process. Phase 1 of this research investigated (i) […]

  Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is disease of importance to Alberta's cervid industry. Access to markets for Alberta cervids and cervid products has been denied because of CWD. Losing access to markets has severely affected the economic viability of the cervid industry, and continues to depress it today. Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) has […]

The City of Edmonton is currently in need of an automatic passenger counting (APC) system for its Light Rail Transit (LRT). An APC will help the City with various decisions making. In this proposal we focus on automatic video processing to count passengers boarding and alighting from LRT. The proposed system is simple – it […]