Robert Maher

Robert Maher

Bob Maher obtained his Ph.D in Geography from the University of Western Ontario. He subsequently went to teach at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Geography – Quantitative Methods, Computer Mapping and Biogeography. In 1980, he joined the faculty at the Nova Scotia Land Survey Institute and was instrumental in its transformation into the College of Geographic Sciences (COGS). Between 1988 – 1999, he was a GIS consultant in Indonesia, and worked for ESRI in the United States, and across Canada with universities and government agencies. He returned to COGS in 2000 taking up the position of Senior Research Scientist in the Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG). He retired from AGRG in 2011.

Articles by Robert Maher

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Community

Ground Truthing

27 July 2015 Robert Maher | 2015

In the world of Remote Sensing, one of the key concepts is ground truthing. This has both a positional component, as well as a field verification of the land cover. These complementary activities are important […]

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Community

Story Mapping: Haida Gwaii

6 July 2015 Robert Maher | 2012

In my previous blog “Storytelling: Haida Gwaii,” I referenced the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia’s (GANS) mentoring program between myself and Melissa Ristow, COGS graduate 2015. Together, our idea was to explore the Story Mapping […]

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Community

Storytelling: Haida Gwaii

3 June 2015 Robert Maher | 2014

Haida Gwaii is a rich source for stories. There are many perspectives and many different formats. In the Haida culture there is the oral tradition. The first comprehensive versions of these stories were transcribed and […]

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Education & Careers

Island Geography: Haida Gwaii

2 April 2015 Robert Maher | 2012

Canada, with its endless coastline, has thousands of islands. Besides the physical islands with tangible, defined boundaries, there are also cultural islands with intangible, virtual boundaries. As N.J. Turner describes in Plants of Haida Gwaii, […]