{"id":1911,"date":"2015-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-744\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:10","slug":"innovation-anthology-744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2015\/12\/29\/innovation-anthology-744\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #744:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 744.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute employs a variety of technologies and activities to help determine changes in biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>Along with observations in the field, there&#8217;s also surveillance through geospatial means. <\/p>\n<p>And all of this information is used to create maps which track how humans are changing the landscape over time.<\/p>\n<p>Jahan Kariyeva manages the ABMI&#8217;s Geospatial Centre. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">JAHAN  KARIYEVA:<\/span> &nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">There are various means that we use within the Geospatial  Centre. &nbsp;One of them is, &nbsp;for instance, aerial photos or high resolution  photographs. &nbsp;There is also satellite imagery. &nbsp;Then there are also  some specific &nbsp;images and products that would be obtained when we flew  drones. &nbsp;For our land cover product, we use aerial photographs as our  base layer which we use to interpret the land cover and the vegetation. &nbsp;  And for the human footprint we use satellite imagery. &nbsp;So we collect  information on biophysical features which will include terrain  characteristics or vegetation or wetland boundaries. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jahan Kariyeva says geospatial information is gathered on several scales, from province wide to site specific. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ALBERTA BIODIVERSITY MONITORING INSTITUTE.<br \/><\/span><br \/>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abmi.ca\">Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/LOGO ABMI small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02015-12-29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jahan Kariyeva introduces the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute&#8217;s Geospatial Centre <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,13,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-biodiversity-monitoring-institute","category-natural-sciences","category-wildlife","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/15Jahan_Kariyeva_sm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}