Leveraging Remote Sensing and GIS to Inform Decision Making
Alice Colville
Freese and Nichols
Houston, Texas
Phillip Todd
Freese and Nichols
Raleigh, NC
Field assessments are essential for understanding a project site and meeting the project goals/ requirements. Assessing current conditions and identifying potential limitations are example variables that influence and may potentially inhibit a project's execution.
However, fieldwork can be time-consuming and challenging, especially for those organizations faced with large-scale delivery and limited resources.
A valuable and less taxing opportunity for practitioners to enhance their understanding and guide project efforts is through the utilization of remotely sensed data. Decades of archived historical imagery collected across seasons provide aerial insight into the actively evolving landscape, allowing for the examination of current conditions and the comparison to those of the past. Numerous organizations employ and leverage remote sensing data and GIS
technologies to efficiently pre-process compositional information related to their project, assist with developing field collection strategies, and identify areas of interest. Such an approach streamlines the analysis of complex data, making practitioners more productive and effectively enhancing the communication of previously unknown insights and the translation of information across disciplines.
As a powerful source of existing and relatively accessible information, we will discuss how to incorporate remote sensing data into the project workflow, illuminating its value and power as a precursory tool, and demonstrate how practitioners may utilize this information to guide decision-making and strategically direct efforts.
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