Tag Archives: Saskatchewan

Spring Challenge more results

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Margaret Kosmala

Last week I described some initial results from the Spring Challenge. I showed how we used individual classifications to build a dataset for a single site in a a single year. And we discovered that using paired images 7 days … Continue reading →

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Spring Challenge first results

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Margaret Kosmala

Having all the pairs of spring images classified means I can now analyze them! In particular, I’m using these images to get a best estimate for the “start of spring” and the “end of spring”. These are metrics that are … Continue reading →

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Friday favorites: Ghost trees

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Margaret Kosmala

Frost covers the tops of tamaracks, making them appear ghostly against the smaller black spruce trees in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Friday favorites: Yellow on green

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Margaret Kosmala

In Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, tamaracks (Larix laricina) tower over their black spruce (Picea mariana) neighbors. Tamaracks and their sister larch species are one of the few groups of conifers that change color and drop their needles every … Continue reading →