A Geomatics based integrated resource management model for watersheds

Integrated management of land and water resources is critical to best addressing increasing resource
demands of society while maintaining a healthy environment. Combining computer mapping and
satellite data at the watershed scale with integrated resource management models will provide
governments, industry and nongovernmental agencies with a new generation of resource planning
and management capabilities. Watersheds are a natural management unit – defined by interactions of
geologic and atmospheric processes.
Our integrated modelling platform provides high resolution real-time capability to assess
changing resource issues in mountains – the water towers of the world. Such capabilities are critical
to short, medium and long-term management. Short and medium term issues can be challenging:
examples include flood protection, optimizing hydroelectric generation and water allocation in times of
drought. Longer-term adaptation to inter-annual and inter-decadal environment change requires highlevel
resource management tools. Our modeling capacity is critical to address all these management
issues in watersheds around the world.

Faculty Supervisor:

James Byrne

Student:

Partner:

NOVUS Environmental;TECTERRA Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program: