• Cancellation Policy

Seminar Description

A hands-on, interactive two-day course on the use of airphotos and satellite images, high resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) and other remote sensing tools for 3-D terrain analysis, including data integration and analysis using geographic information systems (GIS). Emphasis given to identification and interpretation of Canada’s landforms, landscapes, surface and subsurface materials along with their characteristics, properties, suitability and behaviour for specific uses and applications. Participants will interpret a selection of 2-D and 3-D airphotos appearing in an introductory DOWN TO EARTH textbook, a stereoscopic airphoto manual containing 680 images of diverse terrains from across Canada, and high-resolution 3-D DEM imagery. A main course objective will be to describe identifying characteristics of a wide variety of Canadian landscapes, their recognition features and associated geoscience, geoengineering and geoenvironmental significance/behaviour/use/application. Instructors will make extensive use of practical case history examples to illustrate remote sensing techniques and objectives along with multidisciplinary data integration, including the use of GIS technology in engineering, geoscience and geoenvironmental applications. A highlight of the course will be application of remote sensing techniques and earth science knowledge to interpret and discuss landscape features appearing in high-resolution images of Mars.  

Course Highlights

• A hands-on, interactive course tailored to the interests of the participants.
• Identification and interpretation of Canada’s landforms, landscapes, surface and subsurface materials from airphotos, satellite images, DEMs and multidisciplinary maps. We will select and analyze, along with course attendees, an appropriate number of 3-D airphoto stereograms appearing in the 680-stereogram course manual: bedrock, glacial (includes glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine), fluvial (running water), eolian (wind), shorezone, groundwater, peatland (wetland), permafrost and colluvial (e.g ., ravine slope and ground movements).
• Case history examples include a wide range of ‘geo’ subdisciplines selected from over 5,000 remote sensing consulting assignments:
  • Geological (mineral and petroleum exploration)
  • Geohazards (e.g., unstable ground, shore erosion, others)
  • Geohydrological (groundwater and surface water)
  • Geocryological (ice and permafrost)
  • Geotechnical (site characterization and evaluation)
  • Geoengineering (route and site selection)
  • Geoenvironmental (terrain sensitivity, shore erosion and environmental assessment)
  • Geotectonics (geologic structures / tectonic inheritance/ lineament mapping/ subsurface data integration)
• Application of digital remote sensing (satellite imagery and DEMs) and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies that assist the interpretation and integration of multidisciplinary geospatial datasets for analysis, presentation and assessment.
• Course materials include:
  1. J. D. Mollard’s 3-D airphoto atlas titled Landforms and Surface Materials of Canada: A Stereoscopic Airphoto Atlas and Glossary;
  2. An 80-page introductory manual (DOWN TO EARTH) with 2-D airphotos and figures and tables, used to describe and illustrate applied multidisciplinary remote sensing;
  3. metal pocket stereoscope; and slides describing case history remote sensing applications.

Who Should Attend

The course will be particularly useful to geotechnical engineers, geoenvironmental scientists and technologists, terrain scientists, geologists and hydrogeologists, municipal and regional planners, GIS specialists and others dealing with terrain analysis for engineering, environmental and resource development applications.

The ability to view stereoscopic airphotos in 3-D is an asset but not essential to benefit from the course.

Instructors

Lynden Penner, M.Sc., P.Eng., P.Geo., has specialized in airphoto and satellite remote sensing with J. D. Mollard and Associates Limited since 1986, and is a sessional lecturer in terrain analysis for the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Regina. Lynden has carried out a wide range of consulting projects for engineering, environmental, geological, and resource exploration and development applications. These study projects include applied terrain mapping and evaluation, construction material mapping and field testing, electrical conductivity surveys, soil gas geochemical sampling and interpretation, mining and petroleum exploration and development studies, evaluation of terrain sensitivity and shore erosion modelling. His published works appear in both technical and scientific papers and journals.

Jason Cosford, M.Sc., P.Geo., has been with J.D. Mollard and Associates Limited since 2001, working as a geoscientist in a variety of fields including geology, hydrogeology, geomorphology, geohazards, and climate change studies. Jason holds a graduate degree in geology, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying isotopic records of speleothems in southeastern China to reconstruct the history and evolution of the East Asian monsoon. His past research projects have included airphoto interpretation and field mapping of glacial landforms and sediments in southern Patagonia, Argentina, dating and characterizing Holocene slope failures in the West Block of the Cypress Hills, and field mapping in the Proterozoic La Ronge Domain of the Trans-Hudson Orogen in northern Saskatchewan. Among more recent projects, as part of the Weyburn CO2 sequestration project Jason conducted detailed mapping of surficial and shallow deposits to characterize the shallow hydrogeology of the injection area, and in northern Manitoba he has undertaken a reservoir sediment coring program to characterize and quantify sedimentation rates and processes. Jason has a particular interest in astronomy and has applied his knowledge of physical geography and terrain analysis to the interpretation of high-resolution images of Mars.

Cancellation Policy

Registered attendees unable to attend the event may designate a substitute, provided APEGBC receives written notification at least one business day prior to the event. Registration information for the substitute attendee should accompany the notice. If notice of cancellation of registration is received:

•  5 business days or more prior to the event, a refund will be processed
•  Less than 5 business days prior to the event, no refunds apply

Substitute registrants are permitted up to the day of the seminar and member/non-member fees will be applied. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the event if less than the minimum required participants have registered. Liability limited to registration fee.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 13 Core Learning Units.

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