Geoff Ghitter

• PhD
• University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta is a culturally diverse urban metropolis. Sprawling and car-dependent, fast-growing, affluent, and dominated by the fossil fuel industry, For 30 years Calgary has struggled to turn sustainability rhetoric into reality. Sustainability Matters is the story of Calgary’s setbacks and successes on the path toward sustainability. Chroni...

History matters. Inspired by evolutionary approaches in economics and, more recently, economic geography, the authors present, through the lens of a slaughterhouse development on the city's fringe, a historical model of urban development in the metropolitan region of Calgary, Canada. Their analysis shows how an unanticipated system shock conditione...

In this study, we examine Landsat TM satellite multispectral imagery and several image processing strategies to determine the most accurate method to detect and map white spruce understories in deciduous and mixed-wood stands in Alberta. These stands may be considered as part of the conifer land base that is defined as stands which contain or are p...

Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CAS1) multi-spectral and panchromatic images were acquired in July 1992 over two forest plots infested by the balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae) in western Newfoundland. A panchromatic image (pixel size approximately 25cm) was used as a georeference for the coarser resolution multi-spectral data which wer...

A supervised classification methodology was proposed for use with Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) data in the creation of a fire fuel type map of the forest and land cover types in Wood Buffalo National Park in Northern Canada. Four Landsat MSS images (three acquired in July 1991, one acquired in August 1990) were coregistered, mosaiced and rad...