https://asil.gge.unb.ca/authors/colin-richardson/Colin RichardsonHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-ushttps://asil.gge.unb.ca/authors/colin-richardson/avatar_hu_606291a7d901703a.pnghttps://asil.gge.unb.ca/authors/colin-richardson/https://asil.gge.unb.ca/projects/urban-digital-twin-platform/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://asil.gge.unb.ca/projects/urban-digital-twin-platform/<p>This project develops scalable workflows for generating and updating urban digital twins from mobile mapping, airborne LiDAR, and optical imagery.</p> <h2 id="objectives">Objectives</h2> <ul> <li>Build LoD2-ready city models for planning and engineering use</li> <li>Improve camera-LiDAR registration and quality control</li> <li>Support downstream climate, hazard, and infrastructure analytics</li> </ul> <h2 id="methods">Methods</h2> <ul> <li>Multimodal segmentation and feature extraction</li> <li>Geometry-aware registration pipelines</li> <li>Quality assessment using field and reference datasets</li> </ul> <h2 id="impact">Impact</h2> <p>Outputs support municipal planning, emergency preparation, and data-driven infrastructure management.</p>https://asil.gge.unb.ca/featured-research/urban-heat-flood-projection-analytics/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://asil.gge.unb.ca/featured-research/urban-heat-flood-projection-analytics/<p>This research combines geospatial modeling, remote sensing, and AI to project urban heat and flood behavior under development and climate-change scenarios.</p> <h2 id="focus">Focus</h2> <ul> <li>Project urban heat island patterns and identify high-risk hotspots</li> <li>Map flood susceptibility and assess potential impacts on built environments</li> <li>Support scenario-based planning for municipalities and public agencies</li> </ul> <h2 id="application">Application</h2> <p>The framework supports resilience planning, emergency preparedness, and data-driven infrastructure upgrades.</p>