Innovation Anthology #590:
Thanks to a recent grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, hydrology and imaging expert Dr. Chris Hopkinson can establish the ARTEMIS Lab at the University of Lethbridge.
ARTEMIS stands for Advanced Resolution Terra Dynamics Monitoring System.
With this high resolution technology, Chris and his students will monitor changes on the landscape over time.
DR CHRIS HOPKINSON: One is for forestry environments, particularly looking at carbon balance, looking at biometric inventory, so changes in the three dimensional attributes of the forest landscape and the canopy. Another general theme of research is alpine landscape changes. This kind of relates to the whole climate change monitoring area of research. Alpine glaciers in the Rockies tend to be receding. Beyond that, we’d like to get a handle on some of the less perceptible changes such as in the peri-glacial environment, vegetation succession and other things that happen on a much more slow and less obvious rate. So this technology can effectively fingerprint these landscapes at very, very high resolution. And that’s above ground and below ground.
Dr. Hopkinson says ARTEMIS will also have an application in assessing the effectiveness of reclamation efforts in the oil sands.
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University of Lethbridge
In 2007 The University of Lethbridge celebrated its 40th anniversary. The U of L campus is home to the world renowned Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience. The University is also a centre of expertise on water and remote sensing.
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Program Date: 2014-01-30