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