Dr. Ahmed Shaker AbdElrahman

Dr. Shaker was elected as the Vice President of ISPRS Commission III, Remote Sensing, for the period of year 2016 to 2020. (July 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Wai Yeung Yan, recieved the ISPRS Otto von Gruber Award in the ISPRS 2016 Congress, Prague, Czech Republic. [Photo] (July 2016)
Ph.D. student Salem Morsy won the 1st prize of the best CRSS student poster award in the 37th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. (June 2016)
Dr. Shaker is chairing a session about "Geomatics application for natural disaster mitigation " within the Natural Disaster Mitigation Specialty Conference, CSCE 2016. (June 2016)
Dr. Shaker appears in a TV interview "Egypt Can" under the channel of AlNahar AlYoum. [Youtube] (Nov. 2015)
Dr. Shaker presents in theATELIER LIDAR 2016 with title " Utilisations potentielles de la technologie LiDAR en foresterie". [Youtube]. (May 2016)
Dr. Shaker recieves a two-year NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grant "Development of classification tools for multi-spectral LiDAR data" supported by the industrial partner, Teledyne Optech. (February, 2016)
Ph.D. student Kamil Fasial won the 3rd place in the 10th Annual Graduate Student Geomatics Poster Competition organized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) in the 124th Annual General Meeting. (February 2016)
Dr. Shaker awards a 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant with title "Development of innovative techniques for optical and LiDAR sensor data processing". (April, 2015)
Dr. Shaker recieves the 2014-2105 Dean's Teaching Award. [Link] [Award Night]. (February, 2015)
Ph.D. student Salem Morsy (co-supervised with Prof. Ahmed El-Rabbany) won the 2nd and 4th places in the 9th Annual Graduate Student Geomatics Poster Competition organized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) in the 123rd Annual General Meeting [Link]. (February 2015)
Dr. Shaker serves as the chair of Working Group 1 "Member Services" of Canadian Remote Sensing Society. (December 2013)
Dr. Shaker served as a guest editor for a special issue on " Advanced Geomatics for Global Studies" for Geomatica journal. [Link] (November 2013)
Dr. Shaker was elected as an executive member of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society during the Annual General Meeting held in the 34th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing in Victoria, August 27-29, 2013. [Website] (September 2013)
Dr. Shaker was selected as a co-chair of Working Group 4 (Methods for Image Classification), Commission VII of International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) for 2012 to 2016 [Website]. (February 2013)
Dr. Shaker was invited to be a co-chair of the local organizing committee of the 2013 International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC'2013) and the 2013 Canadian Institute of Geomatics Annual Conference [Link]. (October 2012)
Former high school (ROPES) student Prathees Mahendrarajah won the best student paper prize (undergraduate research paper category) in the Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (CAGONT) 2012 Annual Meeting based on his research conudcted during the last two summers. [Ryerson News] (October 2012)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan received the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal in the 2012 Fall Convocation. [Profile] [AOLS Magazine] (October 2012)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the 2nd prize of the best CRSS student poster award in the 33rd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Ottawa. [Ryerson News] (June 2012)
Ph.D. students Nagwa El-Ashmawy and Wai Yeung Yan won two GEOIDE student poster awards in the 14th GEOIDE Annual Scentific Conference held May 14-17, 2012 at the Convention Centre in Quebec City. (May 2012)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan recieved the Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award. [Ryerson News] (April 2012)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the 3rd place in the 6th Annual Graduate Student Geomatics Poster Competition organized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) in the 120th Annual General Meeting. (February 2012)
Dr. Shaker uses satellite images to help saves lives and prevent environmental destruction around the world. [Ryerson News] (January 2012)
Dr. Shaker is invited to be a member in the technical program committee in the 33rd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing [Link].
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the best student paper prize (doctoral research paper category) in the Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (CAGONT) 2011 Annual Meeting [CAGONT Website] and the 1st place of conference poster in the student poster challenge organized by the Ontario Association for Impact Assessment (OAIA) 2011 Annual Conference. [OAIA Website] [Ryerson News] (October 2011)
Dr. Shaker received the Bronze Medal Award from the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) in the 32nd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing held on the June 15th in Sherbrooke, Quebec. [Ryerson News] [Photo with CRSS President, Dr. Monique Bernier] [Photo with CRSS Vice President, Dr. Anne Smith] (June 2011)
Dr. Shaker visited Kuwait in late May for the consultancy project "Environmental Monitoring Information System of Kuwait (eMISK) [Photo1][Photo2]. Dr. Shaker also made a public presentation [Photo3] and met with Dr. Salah Almodhi, the director of the Environment Public Authority [Photo4]. Dr. Shaker visited the head office of the Integrated International for Environmental Services (IIES) and met with Dr.Thamer Alrashidi [Photo5]. (June 2011)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the 2nd place in the Best Student Poster Competition organized by the 13th GEOmatics for Informed DEcisions (GEOIDE) Network Annual Scientific Conference. [GEOIDE Newsletter] [Ryerson News] (May 2011)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the 2nd Place (Graduate Category) in the 3rd Annual Joint Canadian Institute Transportation Engineers (ITE) Section (Hamilton, Southwestern Ontario, and Toronto Sections) Student Presentation Competition. [ITE Newsletter] (March 2011)
Dr. Shaker received the Faculty Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity (SRC) Award by Ryerson University for academic year 2010-2011. [Photo1] [Photo2] [Link] (February 2011)
Ph.D. students Wai Yeung Yan and Nagwa El-Ashmawy won the 2nd and the 3rd places in the 5th Annual Graduate Student Geomatics Poster Competition organized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) in the 119th Annual General Meeting. (February 2011)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan's poster has been selected as top student poster in the Student Research Poster Challenge organized by the Ontario Association for Impact Assessment 2010 Annual General Meeting and Conference. [Website] (October 2010)
Dr. Shaker is invited to be a member in the scientific committee of the ISPRS Workshop Laser Scanning 2011 to be held in University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada from August 29-31, 2011. [Website] (October 2010)
Dr. Shaker is invited to be a member in the scientific committee of the International Workshop on Multi-Platform/Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing and Mapping to be held in Xiamen, China from January 10-12, 2011. [Website] (September 2010)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the 1st and the 4th place in the 4th Annual Graduate Student Geomatics Poster Competition organized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) in the 118th Annual General Meeting. (February 2010)
Dr. Shaker is invited to be an international consultant for the development of the Environmental Monitoring Information System of Kuwait (eMISK) in the Environment Public Authority (EPA) of Kuwait [Website]; see personal interview of "Good morning Kuwait" in [Youtube] [Snap1] [Snap2] [Snap3] and several newspaper journals [Alqabas] [Kuna News]. (January 2010)
A joint university proposal with Department of Geomatics Engineering of University of Calgary is recently accepted by GEOIDE with project title "Development of Innovative Tools for Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Object Recognition for LiDAR Mapping". (December 2009)
Dr. Shaker is looking for M.A.Sc. candidate for the academic year 2010-2011 to work in the research group. For those who are interested, please contact Dr. Shaker at ahmed.shaker@ryerson.ca. (October 2009)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan received 2009 Canadian Remote Sensing Doctoral Scholarship in the 30th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing held in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. (June 2009)
B.Eng. students Jonathan Kwon and Hilbert Wong won the 1st Place (Undergraduate Category) in the 1st Annual Joint Canadian Institute Transportation Engineers (ITE) Section (Hamilton, Southwestern Ontario, and Toronto Sections) Student Presentation Competition [ITE Newsletter]. (March 2009)
Ph.D. student Wai Yeung Yan won the 1st place in the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Geomatics Poster Competition organized by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (AOLS) in the 117th Annual General Meeting. (February 2009)