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On April 24, 2025 at 7:50:29 AM MDT, Gravatar ahmed_shalaby:
  • Changed value of field summary to Wilfrid Laurier University researchers created and tested a new method to map land cover types in the headwaters of the Scotty Creek basin, located in the southern Taiga Plains ecozone approximately 55 kilometres south of Fort Simpson (Łı́ı́dlı̨ Kų́ę́), Northwest Territories (NWT). To generate an accurate snapshot of current land cover, remote sensing tools were used such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and World View multispectral image data. The remote sensing data was used to identify different landforms in headwaters areas, including treed permafrost plateaus, bogs, fens, uplands and open water (ponds, lakes). in Remote Sensing of the Scotty Creek Basin