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The Skeena Maps Portal, developed by the Skeena Knowledge Trust, provides an online, publicly accessible platform for basic mapping, spatial data management, and collaboration for organizations operating within the Skeena Watershed.
We use the twice daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow cover product to understand the
regional influence of the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on snow cover in British Columbia
(BC).
In 2013 Prince George Fire Rescue completed a Fire Underwriters Survey. Fire pre-plans were determined to be a relatively low cost, low impact item that would result in a high likelihood of the Fire Underwriters keeping Prince George at its current grading level. The fire department approached the City of Prince Georges GIS Department for help with creation and distribution of these Pre-Incident Plans. This resulted in the creation of a secure, self-service mapping platform for use by the City of Prince Georges Fire Department.
With BC Wildfire Service (BCWS), on-site geomatics support presents a challenging and rewarding experience for deployed Geomatics staff. As a technical specialist in the Plans section of the ICS system, GIS specialists typically work alone, providing support for all geomatics needs.
The Analysing Internal Migration project identifies a sample of individuals and families who researchers were able to link between the 1861 and 1871 Canadian Census records. Simplification techniques such as regionalization analysis to group together migration source areas by similar attributes, and edge bundling techniques to simplify the visualization of origindestination flows are some of the methods explored.
History of Cartography at the Geological Survey of Canada, from ink, to scribe coats, to relational databases, science language and complex symbology …
Originally a First Nations route for hunting and trade, the HBC adopted the trade route during the 1850s. The Heritage Trail Map design focused on the historical awareness of the area, the character of the landscape and providing visual clarity.
The Northwest Infrastructure Mapping Project was initially completed in 2014 for a partnership of conservation groups based in the Skeena River watershed at a time when multiple proponents were vying to construct pipelines to supply the buzzing liquified natural gas (LNG) export industry on the northwest coast of BC.
Five years later, the map is being updated with current constructed and proposed developments within the energy, mining, forestry, communication, and transportation sectors.
The Canadian forestry sector is undergoing a period of rapid change due to the advancement and increasing affordability of modern geospatial technologies.
To support field operations, and to anticipate changing legislation within British Columbia regarding the measurement of waste residue as a product of logging operations, the presentation describes a case study performed by the Scaling and Remote Sensing departments at TDB Consultants comparing traditional field survey methods to both airborne LiDAR and photogrammetrically derived point clouds.
Old-growth forests provide a variety of services to human populations such as water, carbon storage and ecotourism. Despite the value of old-growth forests, this resource is constantly under anthropogenic pressure. Airborne LiDAR Metrics were applied to estimate attributes of old-growth forests (ex. height, canopy cover, vertical complexity, understory density) and develop an index for old-growth forests.
This research brings light to OGMAs’ definition and their evaluation through the use of a relatively new technique, LiDAR. More importantly, the identification of the amount and location of old-growth forests over the landscape can aid to the conservation of this rare resource and its services .