Frequent and some severe flooding of Winnipeg, MB and surrounding areas involving the Red and Assiniboine Rivers and their tributaries has occurred in the last fifteen years. The U of Manitoba has teamed with the Provincial government and PCI Geomatics to study the persistence and frequency of flooding due to diverted flood waters and snow melt events in a region of the La Salle Basin. Change detection and wetland characterizations using recent and historical WorldView-2 imagery and LiDAR and RADARSAT-2 products will be used to study and analyze the changes over time involving small drains and ponds in frequently inundated agricultural areas.
