The Joint Remote Sensing Research Program is a collective hub of expertise that investigates scientific questions, pure and applied, about how to best map and monitor the environment and our natural resources.

The majority of our work is driven by the priorities of our government partners. The JRSRP categorises these priorities into four main applications, allowing management needs and responsibilities to report on the state of the environment.

Overview of current research and mapping product applications:

Our projects focus on:

• studying changes and trends in landcover and other biophysical properties

• building new mapping algorithms

• developing methods for automating geo, radiometric, and topographic image correction

• integrating ground-based LiDAR with airborne and satellite mapping

• calibrating and validating satellite sensors and algorithms

• developing reflectance image correction routines.