Watershed Sciences, Inc. specializes in airborne remote sensing, LiDAR, geographic information systems, image analysis, and water quality modeling. Our team of engineers and scientists employs the latest sensor technologies and data collection techniques for water quality analysis, habitat mapping, and vegetation characterization over broad landscapes.
Main Office
257B SW Madison Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97333
phone: (541) 752-1204
fax: (541) 752-3770
Portland Office
215 SE 9th
Suite 106
Portland, OR 97214
phone: (971) 223-5152
fax: (503) 546-6801
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
Watershed Sciences operates the most advanced terrestrial LiDAR system on the market offering high pulse repetition frequencies and multiple returns per pulse. We focus on acquiring high point density data with exceptional internal consistency and spatial accuracies and have acquired LiDAR data on some of the most demanding terrain in the Western United States.
Digital Image Acquisition,
Processing & Analysis
Watershed Sciences uses multi-spectral, hyper-spectral, and thermal infrared imagery for a variety of natural resource applications. We have the expertise and resources to produce high resolution, seamless imagery that is ortho-rectified to LiDAR-derived terrain models. Multi-spectral imagery is often co-acquired with LiDAR taking advantage of the natural synergy between these two data sources.
Airborne Thermal Infrared Radiometry
Watershed Sciences pioneered the use of high resolution thermal infrared (TIR) imagery for stream temperature monitoring and analysis. Applications include mapping of thermal refugia, detection and characterization of point source mixing zones, identification of areas of groundwater upwelling, and delineation of wetted channels.
Analysis and Analytical Modeling
Our experience with water quality and hydrodynamic modeling is focused on pollutant transformations over the watershed scale, and involves processes that create cumulative effects. Remotely sensed data offer spatially continuous inputs for analysis and modeling and are used extensively in our modeling efforts. LiDAR and hydroacoustics offer high-resolution, spatially continuous inputs for analysis and modeling. Thermal infrared imagery provides baseline calibration data for reach and basin scale stream temperature models such as Heat Source.
