Exploitation of optical/SAR imagery for Earth observation monitoring applications

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This project will introduce UrtheCast to student's capabilities that will provide initial research into the combined use of optical and a variety Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to produce Earth Observation analytics. UrtheCast is a BC-based company with offices in Vancouver (HQ), San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington and Moscow. They are developing multiple spaceborne imaging sensors to supply a web-based cloud-hosted processing system, with imagery covering each square kilometer of the globe. To be successful, they need to deliver specific applications to a large and varied customer base at a commercially justified price. This NSERC Engage will provide initial studies with potential long-term research partners in global remote sensing employing sophisticated data fusion and cross training techniques with a variety of remote sensors to provide analytics for specific applications to be delivered in an Web-accessible cloud-computing environment. This initial project will review current literature, investigate remote sensing modelling and simulation tools and provide recommendations for a larger, ongoing applied remote sensing and data fusion research and development of analytics and applications to build on Canada's leadership in applied earth observation.