Dr. Olaf Niemman Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria-UVic retired in January 2020 after 38 years. Olaf and his Hyperspectral-LiDAR Research Group along with Terra Remote Sensing collected approximately 40Tb of data of hyper & multi spectral and LiDAR data from 25cm to 20m spatial resolution from various locations on Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver, BC, AB, and other parts of the world.

The data were transferred to UVic’s Enterprise Data Centre-EDC when he retired. Because of COVID, there was a lapse in describing the data and uploading it to a national repository so that it could be used by others. With persistence, the data was re-located in 2025 and the process of the creation of thorough metadata, ReadMe(s) and upload to Federated Research Data Repository-FRDR has begun. This presentation will share some of the highlights of the data and struggles thus far and ask audience members for their advice, knowledge and opinions.

Gabrielle Wade, YCW Geospatial Intern

Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, Geospatial & Social Sciences Data Librarian, UVic Library