What is the Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis (LASA)?
LASA is a research lab that focuses on spatial analysis, including GIS, remote sensing and other geospatial technologies. Spatial analysis is inherently interdisciplinary, so research focuses on both physical and human geography. Researchers in the lab currently work towards understanding and insights in many key areas, including • geospatial technologies (remote sensing and elephant studies, spatial data mining), • biogeography and conservation biology (exploring the decline of yellow-cedar in BC, predictive mapping of rare species), • biodiversity informatics and biodiversity atlassing (E-Flora BC, E-Fauna BC), • medical biogeography of human pathogens (predicting outbreaks of West Nile virus, and determinants of tick-borne zoonosis), • social geography (data mining and Mexican election results, public participation and the GeoWeb, volunteer geographic information). In E-Flora BC, we bring together the power of the GeoWeb and substantial data gathering and research by many individual
