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Olivier van Lier
Remote Sensing Specialist
Canadian Wood Fibre Centre
26 University Drive, P.O. Box 960
Corner Brook,
Newfoundland and Labrador,
A2H 6J3
Tel.: (709) 637-4944
Profile
Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 2009
Research interests
- Remote sensing applications for characterizing land cover, forest structure and quality in support of management (strategic, operational and tactical inventories), change monitoring, habitat assessment; and more broadly forest fuels, bio-economy, climate change and carbon accounting.
Data
- Remotely sensed data acquired from terrestrial, aerial (both drone and aircraft), and spaceborne platforms:
- Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)
- Optical, hyperspectral and radar
Tools
- Image analysis, geographical information systems, spatial statistics, multi-level modelling and error propagation
Education
- B.A. (Major in Environmental Studies with a focus on Science and the Environment, Minor in Computer Science) 2005, Bishop’s University
- M.Sc. (Geography with specialization in Geomatics), 2009, Université de Sherbrooke