Innovative Multispectral Remote Sensing for Critical Canadian Environmental Change Assessment

用于加拿大关键环境变化评估的创新多光谱遥感

• 批准号: 41762-2013
• 负责人: Franklin, Steven
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=521576
• 关键词: Innovative; Multispectral; Remote; Sensing; Critical

Environmental change must be quantified and assessed in a rigorous scientific approach. This research responds to the need to increase our knowledge of environmental change, and to accomplish this we will make better use of advances in new technology such as remote sensing and computer modeling. The research team will contribute to resolving questions that arise in practical regulatory processes and environmental impact assessments in areas undergoing, or soon to experience, significant industrial development, such as the Foothills Model Forest region in Alberta and the 'Ring of Fire' region in northern Ontario. This research will improve our knowledge of current environmental conditions and processes, and the ability to predict environmental change in valuable ecosystem components, such as forests and peatlands. Environmental geomorphometry will be developed fully as a point-, profile-, area- and object-based approach to provide a viable quantitative change analysis. And powerful new remote sensing tools will be developed to permit the systematic observation of environmental change over multiple scales and times. Two PhD, four MSc and two Honours students will complete their programs in the five year granting period. The research will have immediate implications for environmental management, planning and practices. Anyone working with landscapes undergoing significant development, anyone with an environmental management or assessment issue or a problem requiring scientific observations of environmental change, will benefit with access to my results and methods. This includes scientists and managers in the field of environment, the forest, oil and gas, and mining sectors, government agencies such as Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada, Parks Canada, Geological Survey, and provincial land management agencies.

必须以严格的科学方法对环境变化进行量化和评估。这项研究响应了增加我们对环境变化的知识的需要，为了实现这一目标，我们将更好地利用遥感和计算机建模等新技术的进步。该研究小组将有助于解决实际监管过程中出现的问题和环境影响评估的地区正在经历，或即将经历，重大的工业发展，如山麓模型森林地区在阿尔伯塔和“火环”地区在北方安大略。这项研究将提高我们对当前环境条件和过程的认识，以及预测森林和泥炭地等有价值的生态系统组成部分的环境变化的能力。环境地貌测量学将作为一种基于点、剖面、区域和物体的方法得到充分发展，以提供可行的数量变化分析。将开发强大的新遥感工具，以便能够系统地观测多尺度和多时间的环境变化。两名博士，四名硕士和两名荣誉学生将在五年的授予期内完成他们的课程。这项研究将对环境管理、规划和实践产生直接影响。任何与正在经历重大发展的景观有关的人，任何有环境管理或评估问题或需要对环境变化进行科学观察的问题的人，都将受益于我的结果和方法。这包括环境、森林、石油和天然气以及采矿部门的科学家和管理人员，以及加拿大自然资源部、加拿大环境部、加拿大公园部、地质调查局和省级土地管理机构等政府机构。