Mar 10, 2025 | MLP research
March 10th, 2025 MLP researcher James Tricker recently published an article in Regional Environmental Change titled “A tale of two disturbances: Can mountain pine beetle restore landcover composition and pattern altered by fire suppression in Jasper National...
Dec 11, 2024 | MLP News, MLP research, Uncategorized
Katelyn Fryer, December 11th, 2024 This year for International Mountain Day we decided to blog something a little different! Let me introduce the MLP’s new data repository, Borealis. ***** The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) has a foundation deeply rooted in history. We...
Apr 1, 2024 | MLP research
Ben Wright, April 1st 2024 In part 1 of this series, I discussed the motivation for using machine learning to classify land cover types in Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) images and described convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the technology we use to implement...
Mar 21, 2024 | MLP research
Ben Wright, March 21st 2024 This is the first of a two-part series describing the work Aniket Mahindrakar and I have been conducting as research assistants for the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP). For several years now the MLP has been utilizing machine-learning to...
Jan 14, 2024 | MLP research
We are thrilled to announce the latest Mountain Legacy Project research article led by James Tricker: Assessing the accuracy of georeferenced landcover data derived from oblique imagery using machine learning. Published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation,...
Nov 29, 2023 | MLP research, Notes from the Field
By Katherine Hanly, James Tricker, Graham McDowell, Nov 29th 2023 Introduction In Canada, the largest and oldest mountain guiding operations originated in the Rockies. The region remains a guiding hot spot due to its unmatched breadth of spectacular terrain, scenic...
