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Federal funding provided for U of L, Piikani First Nation projects
LETHBRIDGE, AB – The federal government is providing $1.6 million to the University of Lethbridge.
The two grants will go towards two projects that will support ‘sustainable and culturally respectable resource development’. The funding comes from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD).
The first grant is worth $1,195,805 and will go towards the purchase of the Titan multi-spectral LIDAR (MSL) imaging system, an airborne 3D data collection sensor for the school’s Territorial Eco-system Remote Sensing program.