Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre

ATIC looks at the Earth - from up-close, and from afar…

ATIC’s world-class expertise in Earth Observation Research & Development is focused on:

Solutions to environmental and natural resource management issues
- agriculture
- forestry
- energy / oil sands
- wetlands
- water resources
- disasters / disturbance
  - e.g. fires, floods, storms, crop/forest damage
- northern ecosystems
- mountains
- rangeland
New developments in:
- software
- hardware
- sensors
- methodologies and workflows
State-of-the-art imaging technologies, e.g.:
- satellites
- airplanes
- drones [a.k.a. Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), UAV ]
- field / laboratory / ground-based sensors
- emphasis on: hyperspectral, lidar (ALS / TLS), multispectral, BRDF
Training of Highly-Qualified Personnel (HQP) as the next generation of geospatial experts
- PDF, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc. programs
- Remote Sensing Degree Programs
- GIS, Computer Science

Purpose