The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite
The pace of technological change in forest inventory and monitoring over the past 50 years has been remarkable, largely asa result of the increased availability of various forms of remotely sensed data. Benchmarking sites, with the requisite refer-ence and baseline data for evaluating the capacities...
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| author | Joanne C. White Hao Chen Murray E. Woods Brian Low Sasha Nasonova |
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| description | The pace of technological change in forest inventory and monitoring over the past 50 years has been remarkable, largely asa result of the increased availability of various forms of remotely sensed data. Benchmarking sites, with the requisite refer-ence and baseline data for evaluating the capacities of new technologies, algorithms, and approaches, can be extremely valu-able for sparking innovation, as well as for enabling transparent and scientifically sound assessments of technologies, newdata streams, and associated information outcomes. Herein we describe the establishment of a remote sensing supersite atthe Petawawa Research Forest (PRF) in southern Ontario, Canada, and summarize the open access datasets that have beencompiled and made available to the public. The PRF is approximately 10 000 ha in size and represents a complex assemblageof tree species and forest structures. More than 1900 data records, including multiple airborne laser scanning datasets andassociated derivatives (i.e., digital terrain model, canopy height model), airborne imagery, satellite remote sensing timeseries, and ground plot data, among others, have been made openly available for download from Canada’s National ForestInformation System. We identify issues and present opportunities associated with the establishment of a remote sensingsupersite at the PRF, as well as share some of the lessons learned to foster the establishment and open data sharing for othernational and international remote sensing supersites. The PRF supersite can be accessed from the following link:https://opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/PRF.html. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cc97d0c075bc4d85986c2ed431e98a0e2025-08-20T03:00:23ZengCanadian Institute of ForestryThe Forestry Chronicle0015-75461499-93152019-12-01950314915610.5558/tfc2019-024The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersiteJoanne C. White0Hao Chen1Murray E. Woods2Brian Low3Sasha Nasonova4Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 Burnside Road West, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Z 1M5Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 Burnside Road West, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Z 1M5Canadian Forest Service, Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, 1219 Queen Street East, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada P6A 2E5Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 Burnside Road West, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Z 1M5Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 Burnside Road West, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Z 1M5The pace of technological change in forest inventory and monitoring over the past 50 years has been remarkable, largely asa result of the increased availability of various forms of remotely sensed data. Benchmarking sites, with the requisite refer-ence and baseline data for evaluating the capacities of new technologies, algorithms, and approaches, can be extremely valu-able for sparking innovation, as well as for enabling transparent and scientifically sound assessments of technologies, newdata streams, and associated information outcomes. Herein we describe the establishment of a remote sensing supersite atthe Petawawa Research Forest (PRF) in southern Ontario, Canada, and summarize the open access datasets that have beencompiled and made available to the public. The PRF is approximately 10 000 ha in size and represents a complex assemblageof tree species and forest structures. More than 1900 data records, including multiple airborne laser scanning datasets andassociated derivatives (i.e., digital terrain model, canopy height model), airborne imagery, satellite remote sensing timeseries, and ground plot data, among others, have been made openly available for download from Canada’s National ForestInformation System. We identify issues and present opportunities associated with the establishment of a remote sensingsupersite at the PRF, as well as share some of the lessons learned to foster the establishment and open data sharing for othernational and international remote sensing supersites. The PRF supersite can be accessed from the following link:https://opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/PRF.html.https://pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/10.5558/tfc2019-024forestinventoryopen dataLiDARLandsattime series |
| spellingShingle | Joanne C. White Hao Chen Murray E. Woods Brian Low Sasha Nasonova The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite The Forestry Chronicle forest inventory open data LiDAR Landsat time series |
| title | The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite |
| title_full | The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite |
| title_fullStr | The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite |
| title_short | The Petawawa Research Forest: Establishment of a remote sensing supersite |
| title_sort | petawawa research forest establishment of a remote sensing supersite |
| topic | forest inventory open data LiDAR Landsat time series |
| url | https://pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/10.5558/tfc2019-024 |
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