NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Grosse, Guido
Licensed Year(s): 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5656. The objective is to conduct airborne surveys at 3300ft (1000m) altitude to collect high-resolution aerial images and LiDAR elevation data that can be used to describe and quantify rates of permafrost thaw, coastal erosion, thaw slumping, lake change, and vegetation change. Daily survey flights (depending on cloud-fre...

Principal Investigator: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5304. The extended ABoVE Study Area includes most of northwestern North America west of Hudson Bay and north and east of the coastal mountain ranges. It encompasses the variability in the key types of ecosystems that are both unique to arctic and boreal regions in North America as well as being representative of the larger ...

Principal Investigator: Gall, Patrick N.
Licensed Year(s): 2022 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5158. The goal of this project is to verify that wind LiDaR technology has reached a suitable maturity that it can be used in place of a meteorological tower to perform wind resource assessment in subarctic and arctic conditions. The study will use an existing NRG 60m Meteorological tower located in Norman Wells, and a ...

Principal Investigator: Chasmer, Laura E
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4527. The objectives are to: 1) Compare the distribution of tree and shrub biomass within accessible areas in the Taiga Shield and Taiga Plains landscapes using lidar remote sensing, and by developing tree and shrub vegetation biomass models from field data; 2) Characterize and compare non fire-disturbed patterns of veget...

Principal Investigator: Palucis, Marisa C.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The research team are proposing to conduct a detailed characterization of one alluvial fan located near Aklavik. The team want to assess how the alluvial fan is developing, determine the role of melted ground ice and snow in transporting sediment from the Aklavik Range to the alluvial fan, and sort out whether these alluvial fans have characteristics that can be identified on Mars. Once on the ...

Principal Investigator: MacDonald, Alan R
Licensed Year(s): 2018
Summary: The primary objective of the research is to gather environmental and geotechnical baseline information as part of a feasibility study for a future development. The field studies include 4 environmental studies; an archaeology/heritage study; and 2 engineering studies as follows: fisheries studies to identify fish/habitats in a local creek; hydrology studies to determine stream size, flow and basic...

Principal Investigator: Miller, Charles E
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018 2017
Summary: Preliminary flight lines have been planned with the goal of collecting data across a wide variety of ecosystems in both the US and Canada, with flights occurring from May – October 2017. The ultimate timing and flight paths would be dictated by weather and operational limitations at the time of flight, though deviations are expected to be minimal. A variety of aircraft and sensor suites will b...

Principal Investigator: Kim, Jae
Licensed Year(s): 2007 2006
Summary: The objective of the proposed survey is to obtain a high resolution, highly accurate, three-dimensional topographic image of the study area. The data collected from the survey will be used to assist in planning for construction of winter and all-season roads and airstrip for the proposed Parsons Lake natural gas field development program. Terra Remote Sensing Inc. has been contracted to perform th...