Multi-scale spatio-temporal monitoring of landscape energetics and environmental change

应用地理信息学研究小组（AGRG）从上到下（使用机载传感器系统）和从下到上（使用景观中的仪器网络）观察世界。这两种表示法相结合，在地理信息系统（GIS）的分析和决策。自2000年以来，AGRG已收到来自联邦机构的大量资金，使我们能够操作机载和地面激光雷达系统，以及维护整个安纳波利斯山谷的气象网络。这项阿尔蒂的建议寻求资金，以增加一个热成像传感器到我们的机载系统，扩大和升级我们的气象网络，并完善我们的仪器监测沿海进程。AGRG与加拿大大西洋地区的地理信息行业密切合作。新增的设备扩大了我们与这些技术合作伙伴以及从事研究成果应用的企业（如农业、能源和环境咨询部门）的合作能力。今天，AGRG拥有30名员工，包括研究生。我们通过与行业签订合同来支持这一业务，例如新斯科舍省电力公司。（NSPI）;成功的非设备赠款，如大西洋加拿大机会机构（ACOA）、农村秘书处、加拿大卫生研究所（CIHR）;以及新斯科舍省社区学院（NSCC）的基础资金。位于米德尔顿的AGRG靠近新斯科舍省社区学院（NSCC）地理科学中心（COGS），该中心提供地理信息学高级文凭课程。我们有机会通过我们的教学和基于项目的学习超过50名研究生水平的学生。这些学生中的许多人继续报名参加联合硕士学位在南卡罗来纳大学和南加州大学之间的应用地理信息学，或者他们进入一个研究生课程在大西洋大学与AGRG科学家在他们的论文委员会。随着NSERC CCIPE最近授予NSCC达特茅斯应用能源集团，该提案增加了机会，

The Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) views the world from the top-down (using airborne sensor systems) and from the bottom-up (using instrumentation networks in the landscape). These two representations are combined for analysis and decision making in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Since 2000, AGRG has received significant funding from the federal agencies which has allowed us to operate airborne and ground based LiDAR systems as well as to maintain a meteorological network throughout the Annapolis Valley. This ARTI proposal seeks funds to add a thermal imaging sensor to our airborne systems; to expand and upgrade our meteorological network; and to refine our instrumentation for monitoring coastal processes. AGRG has worked closely with the Geomatics industry in Atlantic Canada. The additional equipment expands our capacity for collaboration with these technology partners as well as the businesses engaged in the application of the research results e.g. the agriculture, energy and environmental consulting sectors. Today AGRG has a staff of thirty, including graduate students. We support this operation by contracts with industry, e.g. Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI); successful non-equipment grants, e.g. Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Rural Secretariat, Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR); and base funding from the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC). AGRG in Middleton is close to the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) which offers Advanced Diploma programs in Geomatics. We have access to over fifty graduate level students through our teaching and project-based learning. Many of these students go on to enroll in the joint M.Sc. in Applied Geomatics between Acadia University and the NSCC, or they enter a graduate program at an Atlantic university with AGRG scientist on their thesis committee. With the recent award of the NSERC CCIPE to the Applied Energy group at NSCC Dartmouth, this proposal enhances the opportunity for