Membership Category
- Regular
Institution
- Université Laval
Discipline(s)
- Civil Engineering
- Earth Science
Expertises
- Spatio-temporal databases
- Spatial and social dynamics
- Geosimulation and geovisualization
- 2D and 3D spatial modeling
- Geosensor networks
- Spatial information systems and analysis
Scientific activities and affiliations
- Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Department of Geomatic Sciences
Biography
Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi is a professor in the Department of Geomatics at Université Laval and holds the Canada Research Chair in Smart and Inclusive Cities and Mobility (CRC-CRSNG, Level 1). He is also a researcher at the Centre de recherche en données et intelligence géospatiales (CRDIG) and a member of the Circular Economy Research Network. His expertise lies more specifically in geospatial data acquisition, structuring, analysis and visualization. His research interests include the design and development of new geospatial methods and solutions to meet the complex challenges of developing smart, inclusive and sustainable cities and mobility using an ecosystem approach. He works on the contribution of geospatial information sciences and technologies such as GIS, GPS, sensor networks, IoT, digital twin and AI to inclusive and sustainable mobility and the circular economy in the era of smart and connected cities and territories.
Affiliated research axes
Change and Transition Management
Planning Optimization
Resource and Product Maximization
Policy levers
Projects funded by the RRECQ
Towards a geospatial digital twin for the circular economy: recovering organic materials
Description
The overarching objective of the project is to establish an interdisciplinary collaboration to lay the groundwork for the design and development of a geospatial digital twin to support the recovery chain for organic materials at the provincial scale (Québec). More specifically, the proposed platform will focus on the analysis and definition of environmental, social and economic indicators for residual organic material recovery in Québec. The research aims to:
- Develop a prototype of the proposed platform for a specific scenario in the Québec area.
- Establish innovative scientific and methodological bases to extend the proposed system to the province of Québec.
- Draft a funding request for a structuring project in the context of the organic matter recovery chain based on the principles of circular economy.
The project will be carried out as part of a close collaboration between researchers and stakeholders based on a co-construction approach.
Themes
- Comparative methods
- Data
- Digital twin
- Optimization
- Performance indicators
- Recovery
