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Colin Robertson
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Latest papers
Quantifying flood-pulse dynamics and associated wetland habitats for juvenile salmon in a large free-flowing river.
The Science of the total environment · 2025 · senior author
Estimating Snow-Related Daily Change Events in the Canadian Winter Season: A Deep Learning-Based Approach.
Journal of imaging · 2025 · senior author
A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s.
Population and environment · 2022 · senior author
Latest funding
- $237,970
Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN) for Equitable and Inclusive Post-pandemic Futures
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $125,730
Epigraphic and petroglyphic complexes of the Upper Indus: Digital preservation and promotion of written and visual cultures
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $206,577
Citizen-generated geographic information and contested places: enhancing citizen participation in community planning
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
9 publications.
Quantifying flood-pulse dynamics and associated wetland habitats for juvenile salmon in a large free-flowing river.
Chaudhuri C, Braun D, Hodgson E, Robertson C
Estimating Snow-Related Daily Change Events in the Canadian Winter Season: A Deep Learning-Based Approach.
Malik K, Isteyak I, Robertson C
A machine learning analysis of drought and rural population change on the North American Great Plains since the 1970s.
McLeman R, Grieg C, Heath G, Robertson C
A unified ecological framework for studying effects of digital places on well-being.
Shankardass K, Robertson C, Shaughnessy K, Sykora M, Feick R
Towards a geocomputational landscape epidemiology: surveillance, modelling, and interventions.
Robertson C
Avian Influenza Risk Surveillance in North America with Online Media.
Robertson C, Yee L
Japanese Encephalitis: Estimating Future Trends in Asia.
Metelka J, Robertson C, Stephen C
Comparative spatial dynamics of Japanese encephalitis and acute encephalitis syndrome in Nepal.
Robertson C, Pant DK, Joshi DD, Sharma M, Dahal M, Stephen C
A hidden Markov model for analysis of frontline veterinary data for emerging zoonotic disease surveillance.
Robertson C, Sawford K, Gunawardana WS, Nelson TA, Nathoo F, Stephen C
Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN) for Equitable and Inclusive Post-pandemic Futures
Principal investigators: Shankardass, Ketan
Keywords: resilience planning social media analysis equity chronic stress citizen science information science participatory mapping
Epigraphic and petroglyphic complexes of the Upper Indus: Digital preservation and promotion of written and visual cultures
Principal investigators: Neelis, Jason E.
Keywords: inscriptions; petroglyphs rock art; digital imaging; 3D documentation; text image integration; digital humanities; cultural heritage preservation and promotion; cultural tourism
Citizen-generated geographic information and contested places: enhancing citizen participation in community planning
Principal investigators: Feick, Rob D.
Keywords: GIS; public participation; volunteered geographic information; community planning; multicriteria analysis
Drought, community adaptation, and migration on the Great Plains
Principal investigators: McLeman, Robert A.
Keywords: drought; adaptation; migration; population change; climate change; modelling; qualitative research
Spatial pattern comparison metrics for detecting environmental change
Principal investigators: Robertson, Colin
Integrating social media, geospatial information, and sentiment analysis for the analysis of emotional stress in urban environments
Principal investigators: Robertson, Colin
Keywords: stress; social media; place; urban sensing; place-space; computational linguistics; geographical analysis
Enhancing maritime domain awareness and threat detection through space-time knowledge extraction of novel geographic information sources
Principal investigators: Robertson, Colin
Geovisualization and uncertainty analysis of volunteered geographic information
Principal investigators: Robertson, Colin
Keywords: geovisualization; data uncertainty; analytics; public participation; novel data sources
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ketan Shankardass and Rob Feick: 3 shared papers
- Ketan Shankardass and Colin Robertson: 1 shared paper
- Colin Robertson and Robert McLeman: 1 shared paper
- Colin Robertson and Rob Feick: 1 shared paper
- Geog and Env Studies
- Health Sciences
- Other Geography
- Other
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