For Professionals

Professional Engagement

The Wheatland Lab provides professionals with opportunities for research & development, training, and application of cutting-edge geospatial technologies and tools to solve real-world problems

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Partner-focused Projects

EFI Best Practices for Maine

Recommendations for lidar-based Enhanced Forest Inventories in Maine

NEFF Conservation Easement Monitoring

Currently under development

High-resolution Orthophotography & Terrain Modeling

Currently under development

Stockpile Volume Estimation

Currently under development

Acadia Intertidal Monitoring

Currently under development

GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Current Status & Future Trends

LiDAR

Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) is an active remote sensing technology that is commonly used for mapping 3D terrain, human infrastructure, and forest vegetation structure with high accuracy and precision.

Multispectral​

Multispectral remote sensing technology uses passive airborne and satellite-based sensors to collect optical and thermal image data of the earth for numerous monitoring and mapping applications.

Hyperspectral

Hyperspectral remote sensing technology uses passive airborne and satellite-based sensors to collect optical and thermal image data of the earth for numerous monitoring and mapping applications.  Hyperspectral image data contain hundreds of spectral bands, commonly referred to as image data cubes, and are especially good at discriminating and mapping highly specific vegetation, soil, and mineral features of interest.

sUAS

small Unoccupied Aircraft Systems are fixed-wing and rotor-based platforms used for collecting a variety of remote sensing data for near real-time monitoring and mapping applications.

AI & Emerging Technology

Artifical Intelligence and other emerging technologies will continue to revolutionize geospatial science.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Wheatland Workshops

Upcoming workshops

LiDAR Enhanced Forest Inventory – Demystified | March 25th, 2022 | NESAF Winter Meeting | Portland, ME

 

Previous workshops

DateWorkshop Title
1/13/2022Maine GIS Partnership Summit
10/27/2021Getting Started with QGIS – Fogler Workshop Series
12/2/2020Getting Started with QGIS – Fogler Workshop Series
1/9/2020Maine GIS Partnership Symposium
1/8/20203D Vegetation Classification
8/14/2019Mapping Maine’s Land Cover – A New Approach
7/23/2019Introduction to LiDAR Enhanced Forest Inventory & High-resolution Wet Areas Mapping in Maine (jointly w/ CFRU)
6/12/2019High-resolution Wet Areas Mapping in Maine (jointly w/ CFRU)
6/11/2019High-resolution Wet Areas Mapping in Maine (jointly w/ CFRU)
6/1/2019Mapping Forest Change from Space – 4-H@UMaine
3/19/2019Terrain & Hydrologic Modeling with LiDAR
3/5/2019Intro to Forest Change Detection – Maine Forest Collaborative
9/8/2018sUAS demo for the 64th Maine Woodland Owners/Maine Tree Farm Forestry Field Day
7/10/2018Intro to Avenza Maps
6/1/2018Intro to Avenza Maps
5/30/20183D Point Clouds for Beginners
5/1/2018Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Data in R
4/24/2018Intro to Avenza Maps
8/18/2017QGIS for Forestry
3/21/2017TimeSync & Google Earth Engine for Monitoring Landscape Change with Landsat Time Series
3/14/2017Intro to Avenza Maps
10/13/2016 – 10/14/2016Modeling 3D Forest Canopy Structure Using LiDAR

 

What professionals say ...

"The Wheatland Lab has been an instrumental partner of the New England Forestry Foundation in our monitoring of large, landscape-scale conservation easements in Maine. Without their technical expertise, the task would be nearly impossible and exponentially more expensive."
Chris Pryor
Chris PryorDirector of Forest Stewardship, New England Forestry Foundation
"I have worked with students, researchers, and professors at the Wheatland Lab throughout my career as a mapping specialist where I've represented the private sector, a small business owner, and a state agency. The Wheatland Lab and the Maine Geospatial Institute provide excellent research and innovative solutions; I have partnered with them on R&D projects as well as hired them for custom professional services. It is a pleasure to collaborate with individuals as passionate about the geospatial disciplines as I am.”
Claire Kiedrowski
Claire KiedrowskiExecutive Director, Maine GeoLibrary
"The Wheatland Lab is a tremendous resource for the State of Maine. It provides state of the art analysis and research into Maine's resources with powerful digital technology to communicate complex information in a geographic format that is easily understood."
Joe Young
Joe YoungPublic Member, Maine Library of Geographic Information
“The Wheatland Lab has been a valuable resource for Prentiss & Carlisle to learn about emerging geospatial technology and data. Their workshops have given us the opportunity to work with new datasets and workflows and assess how they can be applied by our operations foresters.”
Scott Robinson
Scott RobinsonInventory/GIS Forester, Prentiss & Carlisle
"Where LiDAR derived DEMs have allowed us to “see” the terrain under forests and plan harvest operations accordingly, the Wheatland Geospatial Lab has been instrumental in helping us extract forest stand metrics from the “vegetation layer” within the 3D LiDAR point cloud directly. Their workshops and technical assistance have enabled our company to refine our silvicultural management with greater precision. The Wheatland Geospatial Lab is an asset to forest land management in Maine."
Lance Case
Lance CaseGIS Specialist, Huber Resources
"The Wheatland Lab has offered an opportunity for the forest industry to participate in the development of techniques and technologies that are improving forest management decisions we make every day. With a customized and dynamic approach, the lab team has helped us get the answers we need for our specific projects. And with the Wheatland Lab being affiliated with the School of Forest Resources, we feel working with them is supporting the next generation of land stewards and industry professionals."
Kyle Burdick
Kyle BurdickWoodlands Manager, Baskahegan Company