ABSTRACT
Peatlands comprise 3% of Earth’s land surface (Harris and Bryant 2009) and 12% of Canada’s (Tarnocai 2006), with most peatlands situated in remote, hard-to-access locations. In Canada, peatlands are frequently found in mineral-rich regions of the country and often present unique management challenges for the extractive resource industries. The shallow water table of peatlands often makes their exploration for mapping and landscape classication purposes very difcult. Remote sensing enables the synoptic scale, passive and active data collection in peatlands, and is being used increasingly in Canada for mapping and classifying land cover in remote lowland regions of the country (e.g., Toyra and Pietroniro 2005; Grenier et al. 2008).
