Canada
The past 5 years have seen a revolution in both the availability and processing of remote sensing data to inform on environmental impacts. These advances are due to innovations in remote sensing platforms and technology such as drones and LIDAR, as well as processing advances such as digital photogrammetry. In this talk, Nicholas Coops and PhD candidate Rik Nuijten will discuss the background to these advances, and some examples of how they can be used to monitor forest regeneration, restoration, biodiversity assessment and trends and changes in environmental conditions.
By attending this webinar, you will learn about:
- How imagery acquired from drones can be processed to provide analysis-ready data
- Recent advancements in camera and processing techniques enabling (near) plant-level monitoring
- The availability of new satellite-based remote sensing datasets, like Cubesat
- The power of data fusion to exploit key benefits of different datasets and sensors.
A panel discussion with other remote sensing experts/professionals will follow.
Featured speakers:
Nicholas Coops is a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Canada Research Chair in remote sensing. He is the head of the Integrated Remote Sensing Studio (IRSS) within the Faculty of Forestry at UBC, a research lab investigating and demonstrating applications of remote sensing data to environmental and forest production issues with 30 PhD, MSc and Postdocs. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed journal papers and was the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing for a decade. In 2020 Nicholas was a joint winner of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his research into satellite analysis and numerical modelling of tree and forest growth.
Rik Nuijten is a PhD candidate working with Nicholas Coops, investigating the potential of drone-based imaging for applications relevant to monitoring ecological restoration projects. He is demonstrating the operationality of current technology. Ongoing research is focused on developing tools and techniques for mapping vegetation structure, community composition, plant richness, as well as invading species. Future work will demonstrate how mapping products of ecosites can be compared, enabling the use of ecological references based on drone data. Rik obtained a degree in human geography (BSc.) and geographical information management (MSc.) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Note* This presentation will be in English.