Mobile Multi-Sensor Systems Research Team

Geomatics is an emerging, innovative, key information technology for the twenty-first century that deals with the acquisition, modeling, analysis and management of spatially referenced data and its real-time applications. Geomatics includes applications such as positioning by satellites, monitoring and control through remote sensing, land information management through Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), as well as real-time time applications such as forest fire fighting and wildlife tracking.  Geomatics has a significant impact on our society and quality of life and is becoming an integral component of complex engineering and management systems that are aimed at creating a sustainable environment.  The primary product of all Geomatics systems is geospatial information provided through multi-sensor data acquisition systems.

The MMSS Research group has been successfully involved in the research and development of vanguard M²G systems (see our research). Our research work  focuses on advancing the theory and applications of M²G systems through the deployment of cost-effective sensing technologies made possible through the development of a) specialized, intelligent processing and sensors integration algorithms, b) feature extraction for data management and c) real-time geo-computing.  Our research is guided by two key factors, cost-effectiveness while maintaining performance and overall accuracy.

"Mobile Multi-Sensor Geomatics (M²G) systems will have a significant economic impact on Geomatics sectors in industry, government and academia. The new systems/technologies developed by our research group will open up new applications, new industries and new job opportunities resulting from a great improvement of data flow efficiency, on-line data processing and management, and measurable savings of operation costs ... " Dr. Naser El-Sheimy

The creation of long-term collaboration and partnerships with industry and other research communities is one of the major objectives of our research group. The goal of these partnerships is to develop innovative concepts, methodologies and algorithms as well as facilitate technology transfer and commercialization.

The MMSS research group work is sponsored by a variety of Canadian and foreign groups including NSERC, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Alberta Government IIPP Infrastructure Grant, the Geomatics for Informed Decisions Network (GEOIDE) Network of Centres of Excellence, the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI), the Alberta Innovation and Science Research Excellence Envelope (REE), Alberta Sustainable Development, Alberta Centre for Transportation Engineering & Planning (C-TEP), Batelle (US), the US Topographic Engineering Center, TECTERRA Centre for commercialization and Research. The groups’ research has also been sponsored by industrial groups such as Intermap (Canada), Applanix Corporation (Canada), Terramatics Inc. (Canada), NovAtel Inc. (Canada), KVH (USA), SiRF (USA), The British American Racing (UK), iMAR (Germany), AutoFlog (Germany), DOSSAN (Korea).