Tim Webster - MSAG Talk - How Geomatics can aid in GeoScience Applications -4PM Huggins 324
How Geomatics can aid in GeoScience Applications
By
Tim Webster, PhD
Applied Geomatics Research Group, NSCC, Annapolis Valley Campus - Middleton
Earth surface processes shape our physical environment and are constantly in motion. Geomatics is the science that deals with the collection, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial data. The Applied Geomatics Research Group was spun off of COGS (Centre of Geographic Sciences – Geomatics training facility – AVC Lawrencetown) in 2000 and has conducted hundreds of research projects where new data have been collected. This talk will discuss the different technologies used to collect the data including an airborne topo-bathymetric lidar that can collect seamless land-seabed elevation data, drones equipped with topographic lidar and multispectral imagery along with applications that include hydrodynamic modelling and general GIS tools. Applications that will be presented include enhanced bedrock and surficial mapping, fate of near shore pollution, river mapping for fish habitat and passage among others.