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International Journal of Earth & Environmental Sciences Volume 4 (2019), Article ID 4:IJEES-164, 16 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2019/164
Research Article
Mapping Surficial Materials insouth of Wager Bay area (Nunavut) using RADARSAT-2 C-HH and C-HV, Landsat-8 OLI, DEM and Slope Data

Justin Byatt1, Armand La Rocque1, Brigitte Leblon1*, Jeff Harris2 and Isabelle McMartin3

1Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
2Private Consultant 6 Sixth St., Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada
3Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Brigitte Leblon, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada; E-mail: bleblon@unb.ca
23 December 2018; 27 March 2019; 29 March 2019
Byatt J, La Rocque A, Leblon B, Harris J, McMartin I, et al. (2019) Mapping Surficial Materials insouth of Wager Bay area (Nunavut) using RADARSAT-2 C-HH and C-HV, Landsat-8 OLI, DEM and Slope Data. Int J Earth Environ Sci 4: 164. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2019/164
J. Byatt was funded by a scholarship from NSERC, NBIF, and ACUNS (with the help from the W Garfield Weston Foundation) and by a NSERC Discovery Grant awarded to Dr. Brigitte Leblon. The fieldwork was funded by the Natural Resources Canada's Geomapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM-2) program, as part of the Tehery-Wager Activity within the Rae Project area. The RADARSAT-2 images were provided to the UNB team by the Canadian Space Agency via the Geological Survey of Canada.
© 2019 Byatt et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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