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Intermontane lakes are often enclosed by complex topography that creates difficulty in resolving the local and regional wind fields. Quesnel Lake, nestled into the western flank of the Cariboo Mountains in central British Columbia, is one such lake…
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Snow plays an important role on the hydrological cycle of watersheds in cold regions. Predicting timing and magnitude of snow accumulation and ablation is necessary for water management in different sectors. A spatially distributed snow model (…
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This thesis study analyzed the land use and land cover (LULC) changes in Stoney Creek Watershed, BC, Canada using the combination of remote sensing, GIS and modeling approaches. The Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) tool in PCI Geomatica 2017…
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Due to an exponential increase in number of electronic documents and easy access to information on the Internet, the need for text summarization has become obvious. An ideal summary contains important parts of the original document, eliminates…
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Deep Learning has become increasingly popular since 2006. It has an outstanding capability to extract and represent the features of raw data and it has been applied to many domains, such as image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision,…
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This project examines precipitation patterns across the Continental Divide in the southern Canadian Rockies with a focus on precipitation gradients. This thesis is part of the Storms and Precipitation Across the continental Divide Experiment (SPADE…
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Oily wastewater caused by marine oil spills brings great harm to the environment. In this work, the application of gas flotation with microbubbles and nanobubbles in separating crude oil droplets from oily wastewater is reported. The experiments…
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Ascaphus truei, an ancient species of frog, migrated into British Columbia, Canada, following the last ice age. A. truei is of conservation interest because forestry practices, and the associated infrastructure, may reduce habitat quality. There is…
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Many companies use information systems to support their operations, but to properly utilize IS, organizations must go through a Digital Transformation (DT) process. One of the strategic assets needed to begin or accelerate the DT journey is Dynamic…
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