Borstad Associates Ltd. - Research and Development

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Research and Development

Leading from our early involvement in satellite oceanography and high-resolution spectroscopy, we have been centrally involved in the development of several airborne instruments, particularly of high spectral resolution 'imaging spectrometers'. We are proud to say that we are among the most experienced hyperspectral organizations anywhere. Since 1983, we have worked with five generations of airborne hyperspectral sensors. These include the IOS spectrometer, the Fluorescence Line Imager (FLI), the Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI), which the company helped design, the Short Wave Length Infrared Full Spectrum Imager (SFSI) built by Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and the AISA Hyperspectral Imager from SPECIM in Finland. As well, we have developed the means to directly detect and count whales and seals using high spatial resolution digital cameras carried in aircraft and helicopters.

We have developed methods to use satellite image-maps of sea surface temperature, sediment concentration, sea-ice, oceanographic fronts and other features to describe the ocean environment. These maps can then be used, for example, to help explain distribution of salmon fishing vessels off the BC coast, and bowhead whales in the Beaufort, the Chuckchi, and the Bering Seas, and for ‘real-time’ distribution to research vessels.

Also, we have developed interpretation of satellite-based measurements of water colour to provide a climatology of ocean productivity on the BC and Newfoundland coasts. In studies with Synthetic Aperture Radar from aircraft and satellites, we developed explanations for SAR ocean feature returns, including slicks, internal waves, navigational structures, vessels and their wakes.

We are using the MODIS and MERIS imagers on the TERRA, AQUA and ENVISAT satellites to study solar stimulated chlorophyll fluorescence and develop methods of estimating chlorophyll concentration in turbid coastal and inland waters. We are also developing pre-processing, analysis methods and applications of the hyperspectral imagery from the recently launched HYPERION imager.