Mapping a Greener Calgary: Urban Landscape and Tree Canopy through Open Data

Join Data for Good YYC for two talks exploring how open data and satellite imagery are helping us understand — and improve — Calgary's urban environment.

Satellite Remote Sensing & Open Data: From Earth Observation to Measurable Public Impact in Calgary
Yevhen Vasylenko

Yevhen shares independent research on Calgary's urban landscape and microclimate, using satellite imagery and open data to reveal neighborhood-scale environmental risks. He'll walk through the full pipeline — from raw imagery to public impact — covering:

• Google Earth Engine/R pipelines for Sentinel and Landsat imagery, land cover classification, and heat modeling
• How this open-data work led to media coverage and formal City of Calgary recognition

Yevhen is a Geoscientist-in-Training (APEGA); his work has been featured in the Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, LiveWire Calgary, and QR Calgary.

Mapping Tree Canopy and Tree Equity in Calgary: Visualization and Analysis using Open Data
Saadiq Mohiuddin

Calgary's average tree canopy is just 9% — as low as 2% in some lower-income neighborhoods. Saadiq shows how the Calgary Climate Hub combined open data, satellite imagery, and Census data to map tree equity and advocate for a greener, fairer city.
Saadiq is a Calgary Climate Hub volunteer with a civil engineering and computer science background; he now works in geospatial data at NASA's Office of Data Science and Informatics.

🗨️ Q&A to follow both talks.