HR: 08:15h
AN: GC11A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Canada's Landscape Response To Climate Change From Satellite Records
AU: * Latifovic, R
EM: rasim.latifovic@nrcan.gc.ca
AF: Natural Resources Canada /ESS/CCRS, 588 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Y7 Canada
AU: Trishchenko, A
EM: alexander.trishchenko@nrcan.gc.ca
AF: Natural Resources Canada /ESS/CCRS, 588 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Y7 Canada
AU: Pouliot, D
EM: darren.pouliot@nrcan.gc.ca
AF: Noetix, 588 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Y7 Canada
AB: Progress towards sustainability, including adaptation to climate change relies on our ability to monitor and predict impacts on the environment resulting from combined human and natural causes. The synthesis of current knowledge and quantitative impact assessments used by stakeholders and decision makers regarding climate change are founded on observations sustained over decades. Such long-term observations of the earth's surface and atmospheric properties can be provided to a large degree by earth observation systems. Satellite data contain valuable measurements of sufficient length and continuity to generate geophysical time series of land cover, leaf area index, cloud fraction, albedo, radiation, lake temperature and other land, atmosphere and water properties. In addition to studying climate change the information provided by such data, can be used in wide range of applications related to natural resource development, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and ocean surveillance. In response to this recognized need, under the project National Action on Climate Change in the framework of the Climate Change Program of Natural Resources Canada the generation of a comprehensive satellite data record has been initiated. The new archive includes AVHRR data at 1-km spatial resolution over Canada for 1985-2004 (20 years), SPOT/VGT 1&2 (1998-2004) and MODIS (2000-2005). The first evaluation of landscape response to global climate change at regional level using the new archive will be presented through examples related to land cover change, landscape productivity, and lake and sea ice variability.
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE
DE: 1632 Land cover change
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
SC: Global Climate Change [GC]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005