ANNUAL REPORT   20–21

A major milestone under our Oil Sands Monitoring program The ABMI’s monitoring activities are made possible by the was the collaborative development of the Before-After Dose- support and partnership of many organizations, gratefully Response (BADR) design technical report, which outlines acknowledged above, as well as through the expertise and the different elements of the BADR design. [...] A L PH A -S/A L PH A -S G N E W W E T L A N D I N V EN TO RY FO R A L B ER TA The ABMI, working with Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP), continues to respond to the need for a consistent, New for 2020, the ABMI publicly released v1 of the Alberta- comprehensive, and up-to-date landcover inventory for all wide Wetland Inventory. [...] The ABMI Alberta-wide Wetland of Alberta with the ongoing development of the Advanced Inventory uses open-access Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data A L B E R TA B I O D I V E R S I T Y M O N I T O R I N G I N S T I T U T E   |   20–21 Annual Report 9 “One of the ABMI’s flagship geospatial products is the comprehensive wall-to-wall Human Footprint Inventory (HFI) for all of Alberta. [...] The project was planned and initiated and analyzed to model vegetation heights and densities at in 2019, and field work by our collaborators occured in the the resolution of individual trees. [...] The results were released in a technical report and point to 1) the high accuracy of existing human footprint datasets, 2) the evidence of varying states of vegetation recovery across soft footprint types in the region, and 3) the potential of this technology for monitoring the state of vegetation and footprint to support Caribou recovery 13 ABMI Autonomous Recording Unit (ARU) efforts.