New ARSL paper in Remote Sensing published today!

Land Cover, Land Use, and Climate Change Impacts on Endemic Cichlid Habitats in Northern Tanzania

 

 

Fish + Forest at 2017 ESRI UC

The Fish + Forest project will be presenting our new landmark study "30 yr global surface water change, implications for aquatic diversity" at the 2017 ESRI User Conference!

Congratulations to Dr. Hedjam on his appointment as Assistant Professor!

Congratulations to Dr. Rachid Hedjam on his new appointment as Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman!  Dr. Hedjam is a postdoctoral fellow at ARSL working on applications of machine learning to remotely sensed data.  He is also part of the Indian Ocean World Centre MCRI Project through the IOW  Human -Environment Interaction Database.  He developed novel methods that can applied to historical document and map analysis as well as change detection algorithms for satellite imagery. We wish him all the best in Oman in his new career!

Aerial 360 panorama of Mer Bleue

Check out our new interactive 360 degree panorama created from photographs acquired with a DJI Inspire 1 over Mer Bleue in June, 2016.

Xingu Expedition Overview Video

Overview of our 2016 Xingu Expedition - Videos show aerial, underwater and terrestrial views of this unique and diverse ecosystem!  Thanks to DJI and the Digtal Globe Foundation for their support.

Imagery Grant to H. Singh from the Digital Globe Foundation

Congratulations to Harangad Singh who received an imagery grant from the Digital Globe Foundation for his honour's thesis work on satellite imagery and UAV photography for agricultural applications!

 

http://www.digitalglobefoundation.org/

Mapping the Xingu River with DJI!

Check out our Collaboration with DJI to map the diverse ecosystems of the Xingu River in Brazil.  Videos from the expedition and recording from the live broadcasts can be seen at http://sciencelive.geog.mcgill.ca

Winter in Mer Bleue

Aerial photo of the beaver pond at Mer Bleue from December. (Photo: O. Lucanus)

MBASSS S2/L8 Story Map

Mer Bleue Arctic Surrogate Simulation Site - Sentinel 2 / Landsat 8 Validation Project Story Map is now live!

Click Here View Story Map

First interactive 3D model from the Xingu 2016 Fish + Forest Expedition posted online!

From: http://arls3d.geog.mcgill.ca/potree/examples/xinguforest.html

A compilation of the Fish + Forest Project aerial, terrestrial and underwater videos from our Xingu 2016 Expedition can now be found at: http://sciencelive.geog.mcgill.ca/

Second trailer for the Live broadcast from the Fish + Forest 2016 Xingu Expedition Released! Follow the link below to watch or join us on Facebook for updates.

Rio Xingu Expedition 2016

Join us in August for a live look at the aquatic diversity of the Xingu River, Brazil 

National Research Council of Canada and European Space Agency press release about MBASSS project

Press release about the Mer Bleue Arctic Surrogate Simulation Site (MBASSS) project led by the National Research Council of Canada and partnerships with Natural Resources Canada - Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, LOOKNorth and the Applied Remote Sensing Lab at McGill

Mobile survey and aerial mapping workshop

Flashback to the 2015 mobile survey and aerial mapping workshop given to the Canadian Field Studies in Africa course- Terat Tanzania. Thanks to Pablo and Oliver for making the workshop a success!

Fine scale 3D UAV reconstruction of Mer Bleue

First fine scale (0.5 cm) 3D reconstruction of the Mer Bleue peatland from UAV imagery.

New method for calculating distances in fluvial networks!

New method for calculating distances along fluvial networks published!

Webster K., Arroyo-Mora J.P., Coomes O.T., Takasaki, Y., Abizaid C. 2016 A cost path and network analysis methodology to calculate distances along a complex river network in the Peruvian Amazon Applied Geography 73:13-25

New 3D UAV model of the beaver lodge at Mer Bleue

Explore the beaver pond and beaver lodge at Mer Bleue

Quality Control Assessment of the Mission Airborne Carbon 13 (MAC-13) Hyperspectral Imagery from Costa Rica - Published!

Check out our new paper about the first Canadian airborne hyperspectral mission to Costa Rica (Mission Airborne Carbon 13) supported by the Canadian Space Agency, just published in the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (doi:10.1080/07038992.2016.1160771)

Spectral Reflectance of Polar Bear and Other Large Arctic Mammal Pelts; Potential Applications to Remote Sensing Surveys - Published!

Check out our new paper on the spectral properties of polar bears and other Arctic mammals recently published in Remote Sensing  (doi:10.3390/rs8040273 )