
Leveraging New Geospatial Tools and Technology for Mapping Wetland across Alberta’s Boreal Forests
Wetlands are a valuable part of our environment. They help clean our water by filtering out pollutants and trapping sediments, they mitigate floods by slowing down and storing fast-moving run-off, and they are biodiversity hotspots for all sorts of plant and animal species. If we don’t know where these wetlands are, however, it makes it very hard to manage, conserve, and protect them. This is why mapping wetlands is important. It is also important to keep mapping them, so tha