Webinar: A Lens into Past Landscapes and Fire Regimes
/Learn the final research findings and next steps of the Visual Applications Team in this presentation from the Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop.
A Lens into Past Landscapes and Fire Regimes
Eric Higgs and Mary Sanseverino
Recorded on Oct. 22, 2020 at the Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop
In this presentation for the Landscapes in Motion Online Workshop, Eric Higgs and Mary Sanseverino describe the Mountain Legacy Project’s deep archive of historical survey photos of the Rocky Mountains and the incredible potential of these photos for understanding how these landscapes have changed over the past century or more. They describe their team’s role within Landscapes in Motion and how they have been able to develop a powerful end-to-end tool for analysing past and present landscapes using oblique photographs.
Topics covered include:
The mission and methods of the Mountain Legacy Project
LIM objectives: monoplotting/image rectification; Visualization Suite; and research, management and decision support
Advances in the Image Analysis Toolkit, allowing for more direct land classification and thus analysis of landscape change using image pairs
Application of the new process in collaboration with Cameron Naficy of the Fire Regime Team: analysis of viewsheds at Missinglink Mountain where images from 1916 and 1940 overlapped with on-the-ground dendroecological plots
Future work to analyse historic Indigenous fire patterns within the LIM study area
