Agreement between Pulse Seismic and the ABMI benefits research on seismic line r… – Press Release

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CALGARY, Alberta, April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pulse Seismic Inc. PSD PLSDF (“Pulse”) and the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (“the ABMI”) have signed a data sharing agreement to enhance public information on seismic lines in Alberta. Both organizations are motivated by providing credible, high-quality data in support of land-use decisions. The incorporation of the line geometry and age attribution of Pulse’s seismic data into the ABMI’s publicly available human footprint dataset will provide significant value to planners and researchers in Alberta.

Pulse owns and operates the largest licensable seismic data library in Western Canada, including data for the province of Alberta on the type and width of seismic lines and their date of creation. The ABMI produces an annual human footprint inventory for Alberta, a publicly available inventory of every human footprint feature in Alberta used by multiple parties for land-use planning purposes.

“The ABMI’s open access, province-wide human footprint inventory is one of our most popular products because it accurately delineates 112 types of human disturbances using satellite imagery and supporting information,” says Dr. Cynthia McClain, Director of ABMI’s Geospatial Centre. “These data support regional and sub-regional planning and cumulative effects assessment for multiple levels of government in Alberta, the joint federal/provincial Oil Sands Monitoring Program, academic researchers, and industry stakeholders—among many other applications.”

Crucially, the ABMI’s human footprint inventory has included information on the type and location of seismic lines, but not their age—until now. Knowing a seismic line’s age helps us understand how restoration treatments and natural regeneration progress over time. The provincial government has committed to restoring historic seismic lines in Alberta’s caribou ranges as part of caribou recovery planning. Since the age of seismic lines was previously publicly…

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