Light Aircraft Remote Sensing for Small Scale Environmental Applications

长期以来，激光雷达、多光谱图像和红外技术等遥感技术 已用于并将继续用于林分鉴定、生物量估算、大范围水华 监测、土地利用评估、农业调查、地形测绘和湿地定性。 这些产品历来价格高昂，适用于大型、资金雄厚的项目，以及 因此，在环境和林业部门工作的小企业利用不足。这样的工具 将对中小企业进行更多本地合规报告和调查有很大帮助 解决当地的环境问题。 安大略省资源管理集团首席执行官布鲁斯·惠顿致力于推动远程 遥感和地理信息系统技术，在当地范围内负担得起的使用。惠顿先生拥有两架轻型飞机，先进的 机载相机系统、陀螺仪、高精度GPS设备，以及与以下组织的合作伙伴 接受过或愿意接受此类工具应用方面的培训。阿尔冈昆大学的教授们、同学们 渥太华河谷大学希望与ORMG合作，将这些工具应用于环境监测 和地方环境问题的评估和解决，特别是在以下领域： *对威胁人类健康的蓝藻水华进行量化和测绘 *使用当地收购的3D模型对集料坑的集料体积清除量进行量化 想象。

Remote sensing technologies such as LiDAR, Multispectral imagery, and Infrared technologies have long been employed and continue to be applied for forest stand characterization, biomass estimation, broad scale bloom detection, land use assessment, agricultural inventories, topography mapping and wetland characterization. These products have historically been high-priced and applied to large scale, heavily funded projects, and consequently underutilized by small businesses working in the environmental and forestry sectors. Such tools would be immensely helpful to SME's for more local compliance reporting and for the investigation and resolution of local environmental issues. Ontario Resource Management Group Inc CEO Bruce Wheaton is committed to the advancement of remote sensing and GIS technologies for affordable use at a local scale. Mr. Wheaton owns 2 light aircraft, advanced on board camera systems, gyroscopes, high precision GPS equipment, and partners with organizations that are trained, or willing to be trained, in the application of such tools. Professors and students from Algonquin College, Ottawa Valley anticipate working with ORMG to apply these same tools for environment monitoring and local environmental issue assessment and resolution, specifically in the areas of: *Quantification and mapping of cyanobacterial algal blooms which are a human health threat *Quantification of aggregate volume removals from aggregate pits using 3D modelling of locally acquired imagery.