Progress in remote sensing subject of Doug Little Memorial Lecture
Free and open access to data generated by satellite remote sensing technology has made Dr. Michael Wulder’s job a lot easier – so much so that he will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Doug Little Memorial Lecture, set for Thursday evening at UNBC.
The senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service of Natural Resources Canada will deliver a lecture entitled Sometimes a Crazy Plan Comes Together: How Open Data Unlocked Remote Sensing for Forest Monitoring.
Wulder uses remotely sensed and spatial data to study and monitor forests across Canada, over a range of scales, contributing to national and international programs.
“Having access to free and open data in a form ready for analysis means spending more time generating information, rather than on extensive data gathering and preprocessing tasks,” he said.
“We are now able to produce otherwise unavailable forest information products over large areas in a timely, systematic, and transparent fashion.”
The Doug Little Memorial Lecture series was initiated in 1996 by the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at UNBC and named for the late J.D. Little.
A former executive with Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd., Little was a founding supporter of UNBC.
The lecture series is supported with an endowment from Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited (now Canfor).
Wulder’s lecture is free and open to the public.
It will be delivered in the Canfor theatre, 7:30 p.m. start.