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May 20, 2011

Geomatics engineering PhD student places second at GEOIDE poster competition

Geomatics Engineering PhD student Wai Yeung Yan earned second place in the Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE) student poster competition held May 16-17 at Le Royal Meridien King Edward hotel in Toronto.

Yan competed against students from more than 15 universities, including the University of Waterloo, Queens University, the University of Toronto, McGill University, and Laval University. As part of GEOIDE's Annual Scientific Conference, the peer-reviewed poster competition was highly competitive. Yan's poster entitled "Radiometric Correction of Airborne LiDAR Intensity Data for Improving the Land Cover Classification Accuracy" beat out 49 posters to earn the second place spot. Yan's research was supervised by Dr. Ahmed Shaker in the Department of Civil Engineering.  

In April of this year, Yan also earned second place in the Canadian Instititue of Transportation Engineers' regional student presentation competition.