Land Management Search Results
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Resource Date:
March
2012
This presentation discusses how Alberta Parks uses LiDAR data to inform decision-making in their land management activities.
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This presentation discusses managing soil carbon in temperate and boreal ecosystems.
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This presentation covers work done on identifying factors that influence forest regeneration on seismic lines, and using that information to model optimizing revegetation.
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Resource Date:
March
2012
Chris Hopkinson gives an overview of how airborne laser scanning works, what type of data is collected, and how it can be used.
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Gerald Ontkean provides a history of the science of assessing soils for irrigation suitability from 1915 with the enactment of Alberta's Irrigation Act.
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This presentation discusses research about using Wet Areas Mapping to predict how productive a forest could be.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
Lorne Fitch takes us on a tour through the natural regions of Alberta.
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This presentation discusses the prairie hydrological cycle and explains the influence of temperature, soil composition and significant evapotranspiration.
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This presentation discusses soil moisture estimation using polarimetric Radarsat-2 data and remote sensing as a fast, cost-effective method for mapping wide areas.
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Resource Date:
February
2012
This presentation describes the ways that LiDAR has helped some of the challenges previously encountered in data collection for the surficial geology mapping program.
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This presentation discusses the keys to successful natural regeneration of serotinous pine, including adaptations, the value of fire and cone droppage, and current research being undertaken.
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This presentation describes the role of trembling aspen in Alberta's boreal forests, and lays out the process of reclamation when aiming for ecosystem resiliency.
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This presentation discusses research done through EMEND regarding biodiversity, and how wet areas mapping and lidar have been used in that research.
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Jason House described the inverse relationship of soil carbon in peat-mineral soil mix and water stress on lodgepole pine growth on reclaimed oilsands tailing sands.
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This presentation provides some basic methods for identifying grasses, forbs and wetland species in Alberta.
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Authors
Axel Anderson
Richard Mccleary
Sheena Spencer
Michael Wagner
Resource Date:
January
2018
This poster outlines the development of a watershed assessment procedure for the eastern slopes of Alberta. The process was developed with the Oldman Watershed Council, using the Oldman River Basin as a study site.