Calgary, Alberta is once again one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. With a constantly evolving city skyline, and growing community boundaries, our team at Caslys thought it would be interesting to apply our landscape change tools to see what’s been happening. We utilized Landsat satellite imagery and our new Caslys Analysis Ready Data (CARD) Stack processes, to explore the change in landscape across Calgary over the past 20+ years. The results are included in the article below, highlighting the overall expansion that the city is experiencing. With a strong job market and diverse amenities, Calgary is an attractive place to be and is recently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Canada. Between 2022 and 2023, Calgary experienced the largest population increase in the country, surpassing 1.6 million people. We applied a few analysis methods to see what the growth distribution looks like on the landscape. There have been some significant growth spurts over the last couple decades. While suburban growth into the agricultural outskirts remains a common theme as you can see in the animation below, there are also new communal green spaces within the city. Development Milestones In 2013, Calgary moved forward with highway construction in two areas, developing the “Ring Road”. It’s part of a larger east-west/north-south trade corridor, and enhances the city’s accessibility. Improved transportation infrastructure helps connect the four quadrants of the city and links the new communities that are developing on the outskirts of Calgary. A projected 17 new neighbourhoods surrounding the city within the 2024 Area Structure Plans and Citywide Growth Strategy were announced. Within the downtown area of Calgary, further transportation development continues to push forward with additional light rail transit lines (LRT) being added to help commuters throughout the city. Olympic Plaza and the Eau Claire Market area […]
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Caslys Releases New Geospatial Service
After years of technical development and internal pilot testing, Caslys Consulting is proud to officially announce our new geospatial service to the remote sensing and GIS world, the Caslys Analysis Ready Data (CARD) Stack! Assembling terrain data, spatial data, or satellite imagery at the beginning of a project is often a complicated and cost inefficient process. There is a large amount of geoprocessing needed to obtain high-quality data, satellite imagery, and build a suite of useful derivative map layers that meet project requirements. This can be a very time-consuming task, using up more project budget than necessary. What is CARD Stack? CARD Stack is a technical resource focused on allowing our customers the ability to easily generate comprehensive spatial datasets. These datasets kick-start both spatial and spectral analyses while also enhancing the visualization of a project site through a simple request submission. Caslys Consulting has created multiple scripts, tools, and geospatial resources with the goal of making this task easier for our customers. CARD Stack services efficiently streamline data package assembly and delivery for a client in a timely manner. Based on the request, a wide range of raster and vector products are consolidated by our team into a single, user-friendly data package. These packages can include: Learn more about CARD Stack today! The Caslys CARD Stack team is excited to help our customers accomplish their geospatial tasks in a fast and efficient manner. For pricing inquiries, product details, and more info on how CARD Stack can help fulfill your project needs, click here or follow the link below. CARD Stack website: https://www.caslys.ca/cardstack/ About Caslys For over 20 years, Caslys Consulting Ltd. has taken pride in offering a wide range of high-quality geospatial services for both environmental and natural resource management industries. Our focus is on interpreting and analyzing data […]
Continue readingNational Indigenous Peoples Day 2024
Each year, June 21st marks National Indigenous Peoples Day. A time for settler reflection, acknowledgement, and appreciation for the Indigenous Peoples across Canada as we all work towards reconciliation. National Indigeouns Peoples day is one that should be used to embrace First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples by learning, unlearning, engaging and reflecting. Our Caslys team has the privilege and honour to work and live across the Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw and Moh’kinsstis Regions. Specifically, the Nations of: Caslys recognizes these Nations’ stewardship on these lands since time immemorial. We respect the on-going and historical role these Nations have in political, social, environmental and other activities across these jurisdictions. In the spirit of National Indigenous Peoples Day, our team at Caslys would like to share some resources provided by the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations leadership council whose traditional territory the Caslys office is located on. Settlers and others who are interested in allyship with W̱SÁNEĆ people will find these resources below as a great place to support the journey to reconciliation. The listed steps are in a suggested order for those at the beginning of this journey: Below are some online resources that can act as continuing steps towards allyship and reconciliation. Cultural stories, traditional maps, and local council sites are all listed here: Mapping resources https://www.bcafn.ca/first-nations-bc/interactive-map https://www.whose.land/en/ https://native-land.ca/ Podcasts https://www.denetalk.ca/about https://indigenouspodcast.trubox.ca https://forvi.ca/project/indigenous-voices-vancouver-island-podcast/ Local Councils https://wsanec.com/ https://songheesnation.ca/ https://cowichantribes.com/ https://wewaikai.com/ https://tsuutina.com/ About Caslys For over 20 years, Caslys Consulting Ltd. has taken pride in offering a wide range of high-quality geospatial services for both environmental and natural resource management industries. Our focus is on interpreting and analyzing data to deliver cost-effective solutions and help our clients make better informed decisions. We specialize in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, information management and application development to meet the needs of both public and private sector clients […]
Continue readingCaribou Research Awarded Canadian Journal of Zoology Editor’s Choice
A recent article by Caslys team members published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology has been highlighted as the Editor’s Choice! These publications are a part of Canada’s largest independent leader in mobilizing science-based knowledge. Canadian scientists are faced with many hurdles to overcome in wildlife management, one of which is maintaining the connectivity of species population through the conservation of their migration corridors. This article explores the effects of roads on barren-ground caribou in Northern Canadian regions using spatial and temporal models. To read the full article and to learn more about the impacts of road networks on caribou migration, please visit: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjz-2023-0121 About Caslys For over 20 years, Caslys Consulting Ltd. has taken pride in offering a wide range of high-quality geospatial services for both environmental and natural resource management industries. Our focus is on interpreting and analyzing data to deliver cost-effective solutions and help our clients make better informed decisions. We specialize in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, information management and application development to meet the needs of both public and private sector clients within Canada and abroad. As a company, Caslys Consulting combines strong technical skills in our specialized fields with the ability to effectively communicate technical results and complex products to help show our clients how it can be used for meaningful decision making. We also understand the importance of sustainability and take pride in promoting sustainable initiatives and practices to help improve the communities we are working in. Caslys Consulting Ltd. acknowledges and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations on whose traditional territory the Caslys office is located. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example. Barren-ground Caribou image source: John Nagy/GNWT https://www.nwtspeciesatrisk.ca/en/our-species-risk/barren-ground-caribou
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