Biography
Andrew has worked in the field of geospatial data analysis since 2012, gaining early experience as a land surveyor before moving on to GIS, remote sensing, and web development.
The area he's most passionate about is geospatial artificial intelligence. His graduate research was on supervised classification of lidar and hyperspectral data, which laid the foundation for over a decade of applying geospatial AI to environmental monitoring, urban planning, forestry, wildfire mitigation, and flood management.
He is also an illustrator and graphic designer, with a focus on visual design and GIS. He enjoys creating animated maps and visualizations that communicate geographic information clearly and effectively.
In addition to his consulting work, he works as a senior geomatics officer at the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation.
Andrew resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Skills
- Languages: Python, R, Javascript, SQL, CSS, HTML
- Python: PyTorch, scikit-learn, GeoPandas, Shapely, Rasterio
- R: sf, terra, raster, tidyverse
- Web: Django, Bootstrap, Leaflet, OpenLayers, Mapbox
- Databases: PostgreSQL, PostGIS
- AI: Supervised classification, object detection, semantic segmentation
Education
- University of British Columbia: M.Sc. Remote Sensing, 2014-2016
- University of Ottawa: B.A. Geomatics and Spatial Analysis, 2011-2014
