High-Resolution Imagery for Analysis of Environmental Change in Northern Alaska

Friday, 17 October, 2008

   AGENDA

Morning Session: Invited Talks & Discussion -- 8:30 AM to Noon, Conference Room
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:40 Overview and Goals
9:00 Torre Jorgenson (ABR, Inc.): Using High-Resolution Airphotos for Assessing Landscape Change
9:20 Tom Heinrichs (UAF, GINA): UAF Geographic Information Network of Alaska and Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative Web Mapping Services
9:40 Don Atwood (UAF, ASF): Monitoring Environmental Change Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
10:00 Break
10:20 Bill Manley (Univ. of CO, INSTAAR): Repeat High-Resolution Orthoimagery & Coastal Change
10:40 Guido Grosse (UAF, GI): Monitoring thaw lake dynamics using high-resolution remote sensing: Examples from the Cape Espenberg area, Seward Peninsula, and the Kolyma lowland, Siberia
11:00 Andrew Balser (UAF, IAB): High-resolution Data in a Low-resolution Landscape: Squeezing More Value from Digital Airphotos when Ancillary Data are Lacking
11:20 Summary Remarks
11:30 Discussion: Brainstorming the Potential

morning session ends at noon; box lunches provided to partipants in the afternoon session.

Afternoon Session: Hands-On Activities -- 1:00 to 4:30 PM, Biotech Lab

Welcome and Overview
Forming Teams of Two
Getting Started -Files, Map Layers, etc.
Navigation
Detecting Change: On/Off, Swipe, Flicker
Discussion: Has the environment changed?
Photo Hot Links
View Metadata
Measure Distance and Area
Detecting Coastal Erosion
Discussion: Errors
Additional Demos
Discussion: Brainstorming the Obstacles and Potential