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Alberta's Wet Areas Mapping Initiative: Innovation Supporting Continuous Improvement in Environmental Performance. 2013 Workshop

On February 11, 2013, Alberta Environment & Sustainable Reseource Development along with the Univeristy of New Brunswick and the Foothills Research Institute hosted a one-day workshop on Wet Areas Mapping. Presentations from the workshop looked at how the dataset is being used in Alberta, and where the technology is heading.

The Alberta Land-use Knowledge Network recorded many of the day's presentations, available here:

  1. Barry White, AESRD - Opening remarks. Wet Areas Mapping: Where have we been and where are we going?   View video
  2. Dr. Nicholas Coops - Introduction to LiDAR Technology  View video
  3. Jae Ogilvie, UNB - Revisiting the 2011 Rainbow pipeline spill using Wet Areas Mapping  View video
  4. Gordon Whitmore, DMI -  Wet Areas Mapping: Merging strategic and operational  View video
  5. Jae Ogilvie, UNB - Wet Areas Mapping: Modeling approach and technical issues related to product development  View video
  6. Barry White, AESRD - Alberta's Wet Areas Mapping: Building on our success & future mapping priorities  View video
  7. Ron Sparrow, Trace Associates - Wet Areas Mapping: A powerful tool to effectively remediate & reclaim oil & gas sites  View video 
  8. Dr. Joyce Gould, ATPR - Wet Areas Mapping: Conservation Applications  View video
  9. Chris Walsh, Devon Energy - WAM: A Premeditative Tool in Land Planning  View video


If you are interested in seeing more videos on related topics, try these from a recent fRI Water Program workshop: