Scientists at CCRS are part of national and international teams working to improve our understanding about climate change by developing remote sensing techniques to monitor and model environmental and climate change processes.

Fact sheets

• Flooding on the Po River, Italy, as imaged by RADARSAT.
• North Carolina Flooding in 1999 - as analyzed on RADARSAT imagery
• Honduras Flooding resulting from Hurricane Mitch, 1998
• RADARSAT Tracks Yangtze River Flooding in China
• RADARSAT Tracks the Red River Flood - Manitoba Flood of 1997
• Flooding on the Red River, Manitoba, 2001
• RADARSAT - Applications in Action! Flood Monitoring: Red River, Manitoba, Canada, 1996
• Multi-spectral Video Image of the Flooding of the Riviere aux Sables, Jonquiere, Quebec
• The Assiniboine River Bursts Its Banks, Spring 1995

• The Boreal Ecosystem - Atmosphere Study
• Monitoring Canadian Vegetation from Satellites
• Remote Sensing Datasets for Global Climate Modelling
• Boreal Ecosystems Productivity Simulator (BEPS)
  A remote sensing approach to quantifying the terrestrial carbon cycle
• Seasonal changes of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) over the Southern Great Plains (U.S.)

• RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Mission

• Calving of Iceberg A-38
  Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 1998
• Calving of Icebergs A-43 and A-44
  Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2000
• Measuring Glacial Ice Movement with RADARSAT
• Satellite remote sensing to map the dynamics of the Canadian Beaufort Sea coastline

• Land Cover
• Leaf Area Index
• Evapotranspiration
• Net Primary Productivity in Canada 1994
• Net Primary Productivity in Quebec 1993
• Earth Radiation Budget
• Albedo
  
  

• Projects & Activities of the CCRS Environmental Monitoring Section
• Complete CCRS scientific publications database
• Understanding the Science of Climate Change (NRCan)