EcoInformatics International

Wood Buffalo National Park - Amazing winter satellite images

Google Earth shows some exceptional high resoliution winter images for part of the park with surprising details

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Finding World's longest beaver dam

While monitoring the melting of permafrost in wetlands of Canada's Boreal Ecoregion, we discovered impressive beaver habitat!

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Permafrost melting like glaciers

Over a 60 year period these permafrost landslides regress like glaciers!

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Fascinating Peat Plateaus

The sensitive most southern fringe of permafrost - where you would not expect it!

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Tierra del Fuego: Monitoring Beaver Invasion since 1946

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Canada Land Inventory

Changed the way Canada managed its natural resources and developed the World's first Geographic Information System- the CGIS

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EcoInformatics International

... consulting services linking spatial science, policy, and practice in pursuit of better understanding of ecosystems and a sustainable world....

• Strategy Mapping

  Strategy mapping; Future dialogues; strategic architecture

• Policy Cycle

  Influencing the policy cycle, Science-policy cartography, Issue and policy maps; National Atlas Maps;

• Monitoring Ecosystem Change

  Forest fires, Land use, wetlands, permafrost melting; habitat; flooding and flood risk

• Rapid Satellite Image Analysis

  Permafrost, beaver habitat, forest fires, exploring glacial lake Agassiz; Wood Buffalo National Park etc.

• Beaver Habitat

  Highest densities, longest beaver dams, largest beaver landscapes in Canada and around the world

• Permafrost Studies

  Measuring a hundred years of change in permafrost(peat plateaus and plasa's) in Canada's wetlands

• National Atlas Mapping

  Concepts, strategies, business models; societal and policy application of national atlas and issue maps

• The Canada Land Inventory (CLI)

  Application, impact, innovation and history of one of the World's largest multi-disciplinary resource inventories; Canada's critical lands

• The Canada Land Use Monitoring Program

  Monitors land use change following the completion of the CLI program, with special focus on urbanization, agriculture and wetlands.

• Ecological Land Surveys

  And the Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification (CCELC; Its history, and impact on ecosystem classification, ecological surveys, national environmental policies and maps.

• Northern Land Use Information - North of 60 degrees

  Integrated regional overview of environmental and social aspects of present land use in Northern Canada

• Geo- and Eco-Informatics

  From Spatial Data (SDI) to Spatial Knowledge Infrastructure (SKI); Future of Geomatics; Canadian Institute of Geomatics and Geomatica- The Canadian Journal of Geospatial Science, Technology and Practice

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Issue-driven Integrated Landscape Management and Innovation in Canada

Contribution to the Policy Research Initiative - at that time part of Canada's Privy Council Office projects to explore the future- published in Horizon's Special Issue on Sustainable Places

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Amazing Wildland Fire Information

Based on the analysis of high resolution satellite images, environmental change as result of wildland fires and logging are mapped since 1980

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Ecoclimatic Regions of Canada

shows climate - ecosystem relationships and provides the baseline to visualize and project climate change...

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Alberta Beaver Landscapes

where beavers manage stream flows, waterways...

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Yukon Permafrost slides

an integral part of northern landscapes, ecosystems.....

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Monitoring Permafrost Melting

90 years history of collapsing peat plateaus and palsas North of Lake Winnipeg...

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Wildland fires

Wildland fires are an important and integral part of Canada's boreal and sub-arctic ecosystems....

 

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