Kevin Lacaille
Kevin Lacaille works as a senior software engineer at Spexi Geospatial, a crowd-sourced drone imagery company, where he combines the worlds of GIS and computer vision to create an open marketplace for ultra high-resolution Earth imagery. Kevin specializes in building image processing solutions for science and educational teams and communicates his workflows with blog posts and webinars. Kevin has over 8 years of public speaking experience ranging from conferences to academic lecturing. Recently, he presented hands-on tutorials at PyCon 2023 and SciPy 2022. In the past, Kevin has presented at L3Harris Engineers Week 2021, and the Canadian Astronomical Society Conference 2019. Portfolio: www.lacaille.dev
Sessions
Drone imagery is more widely available than ever before, allowing the public to capture ultra high-resolution Earth images with hobbyist drones. In this workshop, we will explore drone imagery with Python tools such as geopandas, OpenCV, rasterio, numpy, and shapely. Afterwards, we will assess urban green spaces, focusing on counting trees and estimating their role in capturing carbon to fight climate change. This practical exercise will not only enhance our understanding of urban ecology, but also highlight the importance of trees in urban planning and environmental sustainability.