ASL Environmental Sciences Inc
Automated Land Cover Toolbox (ALTbox):
This project will create software tools that will automate and expedite the processing and analysis of multi-sensor datasets, acquired from RADARSAT-2 and several optical Earth Observation sensors, for land cover mapping and change detection. The need for broad scale mapping and monitoring has been recognized by Canadian government departments such as Fisheries & Oceans for coastal areas, and Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada for the Arctic. These needs can be well met in a cost-effective manner using earth observation (EO) and can be best achieved using a combination of Synthetic Aperture RADAR and optical EO.