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

应用地理信息学研究小组（agg）从自上而下（使用机载传感器系统）和自下而上（使用景观仪器网络）的角度来观察世界。在地理信息系统（GIS）中，将这两种表示结合起来进行分析和决策。自2000年以来，agg从联邦机构获得了大量资金，这使我们能够运行机载和地面激光雷达系统，并维持整个安纳波利斯山谷的气象网络。该ARTI提案寻求资金为我们的机载系统增加热成像传感器；扩大和提升我们的气象网络；并改进我们监测海岸过程的仪器。agg与加拿大大西洋地区的信息产业密切合作。这些额外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。如今，agg拥有30名员工，其中包括研究生。我们通过与行业签订合同来支持这项业务，例如新斯科舍省电力公司（NSPI）；成功的非设备赠款，例如加拿大大西洋机会局、农村秘书处、加拿大卫生研究所；以及新斯科舍省社区学院（NSCC）的基础资金。米德尔顿的agg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。通过我们的教学和基于项目的学习，我们有50多名研究生。这些学生中的许多人继续参加阿卡迪亚大学和北卡罗来纳大学联合举办的应用地理信息学硕士课程，或者进入大西洋大学的研究生课程，他们的论文委员会中有agg的科学家。随着NSERC CCIPE最近授予北卡罗来纳大学达特茅斯分校应用能源小组，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