Webinar: A Lens into Past Landscapes and Fire Regimes

In this webinar from March 2020, Eric Higgs and Mary Sanseverino of the LIM Oblique Photo Team provide an overview of the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) and describe MLP’s role in Landscapes in Motion. They demonstrate cutting edge software being developed to allow researchers to extract information from the vast trove of historical and modern-day images MLP has collected, and provide case studies of three different applications.

You can learn more about the Mountain Legacy Project at http://mountainlegacy.ca/about/.

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A Lens into Past Landscapes and Fire Regimes

Eric Higgs and Mary Sanseverino

Recorded on Mar. 6, 2020

In this presentation as part of the fRI Research Webinar Wednesdays series, Eric Higgs and Mary Sanseverino (LIM Oblique Photo Team) provide an overview of the Mountain Legacy Project and case studies..

Topics covered include:

• Introduction to the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP)

• Role in the Landscapes in Motion Project

• Software to unlock secrets of MLP images

• Three applications

  • Fire regime study, collaboration with Fire Regime Team’s Cameron Naficy

  • Biodiversity changes in Willmore Wilderness Park (Julie Fortin)

  • Historic Indigenous fire patterns in the LIM study area (Maya Frederickson)