Toronto, August 2004: AUG Signals is pleased to announce that the company was selected by the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), in a competitive bid, as the prime contractor to perform a large hyperspectral survey in the southern region of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The first phase of the program was initiated in July 2004.
AUG Signals, in association with Geotechnical Business Solutions (GBS) and with the support of the University of Alberta, and in consultation with the Geological Survey of Canada (part of ESS) will combine a diverse set of complementary resources in a powerful hyperspectral team. The contractual activities will benefit from AUG Signals’ extensive expertise in developing state-of-the-art proprietary hyperspectral techniques and successful webbased distributed processing systems and GBS’ proven experience in geological/mineralogical applications to be used for survey design and implementation. An end-to-end solution for geological mapping assisted by hyperspectral processing will be provided for improving the rate of discovery of mineral resources in the Arctic region.
This contract extends work performed under previous projects funded by the Canadian Space Agency Earth Observation Application Development Program (EOADP) and the GeoInnovations program of GeoConnections, a national partnership initiative led by Natural Resources Canada to build the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure. In addition, this contract will make use of advanced signal processing tools of AUG Signals that have been developed over the years under several Department of Defence projects sponsored by Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) Valcartier and Ottawa.
For more information, please contact Yifeng Li.