Ian Olthof
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Geography, 2004, Carleton University
Contact Information: Ian Olthof
AWARDS
2006 ESS Team Merit Award (Arctic Land Use Change for Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Accounting)
2006 ESS Team Merit Award (Mapping Canada’s North for Climate Studies and Carbon Accounting)
2008 ESS Team Merit Award (Developing Earth Observation Methods for Monitoring Ecological Integrity of Canada’s National Parks)
2009 ESS Team Merit Award (Base Land Cover Mapping of Northern Canada)
2009 ESS Team Merit Award (North American Land Cover Monitoring System)
CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH
My current research interests include satellite remote sensing of natural resources and ecosystem trends with a focus on northern environments, including:
- Processing medium to coarse resolution satellite data for consistent land cover retrieval
- Land cover continuous fields
- Land cover change detection and updating
- Land cover trend assessment
- Vegetation physiology and composition
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Olthof, I and Pouliot, D. (2010) Treeline vegetation composition and change in Canada’s western Subarctic from AVHRR and canopy reflectance modeling. Remote Sensing of Environment (in press).
Olthof, I., Latifovic, R. and Pouliot, D. (2009) Development of a circa 2000 land cover map of northern Canada at 30 m resolution from Landsat. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 35: 152-165.
Fraser, R., Olthof, I., Pouliot, D. (2009) Monitoring land cover change and ecological integrity in Canada's National Parks. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 1397-1409.
Pouliot, D., Latifovic, R. and Olthof, I. (2008) Trends in vegetation NDVI from 1 km AVHRR data over Canada for the period 1985-2006. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30: 149-168.
Olthof, I., Pouliot, D. Fernandes, R. and Latifovic, R. (2005) Landsat-7 ETM+ radiometric normalization comparison for northern mapping applications. Remote Sensing of Environment, 95: 388-398.
List of publications for Ian Olthof in GEOSCAN