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Habitat Improvements
THIS-GIS project
Tyne Habitat Inventory Strategy - Geographical Information System is a survey and monitoring tool based on high resolution aerial photography and electrofishing to give a strategic understanding of where habitat enhancement should be targeted. A combination of aerial photography, ecological and geomorphological surveying and Geographical Information System (G.I.S.) software gives an overall picture of the catchment and can pin point areas that need restoration and conservation work.
Summer 2010 has seen good weather conditions for the aerial photography stage of the project. Indeed the plane could be spotted flying low over the catchment and below it in the river channel our Rivers Officer, Paul Atkinson has been criss-crossing the Tyne and its main tributaries carrying a pole with a saucer on top!
This highly technical equipment enables detailed river depth measurements to be taken and compared to the colour of the water in the aerial photographs. Depths elsewhere can then be calculated using only the colour of the water in the ultra fine resolution aerial photographs.
Once the whole Tyne catchment has been photographed and our consultants APEM have interpreted the images, the Trust will use 'THIS-GIS' to guide our habitat improvement strategy.
Thank you to all those land owners, agents, farmers, fishing clubs and businesses who have allowed us access to the river and helped us to gather this cutting edge data.
