Symposium Program
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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing |
| Date: Tuesday, 11/June/2024 | ||||
| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Keynote 1: Photogrammetry with Historical Photography Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Dr. Ewelina Rupnik |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Panel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch and CRSS-SCT Initiatives & Future Direction Location: SUB Lobby (2nd floor) Delegates may pick up lunch from SUB 2nd Floor Lobby and may choose to either have lunch in Cafeteria on the first floor of SUB or take their lunch to the Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) for the CRSS-SCT meeting. |
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| 1:00pm - 2:40pm |
Student Competition 1: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Prof. Yuhong He Chair: Tom Lukowski Tree Seedling Detection from Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Imagery using Convolutional Neural Networks in a Boreal Forest 1:20pm - 1:40pm Estimating Fusarium Head Blight Severity in Winter Wheat using Deep Learning and a Spectral Index 1:40pm - 2:00pm Automated caribou Detection from aerial imagery: A Transfer Learning Approach 2:00pm - 2:20pm Vertical Temperature Gradients in Polar Snow from Passive Microwave Satellite Measurements using Artificial Neural Networks 2:20pm - 2:40pm Mapping vegetation height and identifying the northern forest limit across Canada using ICESat-2 and Landsat time series data |
Invited Session 1: Historical Aerial and Satellite Image Records - Methods and Applications Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis Chair: Roksana Sheikholmolouki A Web Map for Visualizing the Historical Aerial Photography of Indian Residential Schools 1:20pm - 1:40pm Using a consistent time-series of land cover products to produce an Urban Region Boundary (URB) to measure urban expansion in Canada. 1:40pm - 2:00pm Learning-Based versus Traditional Algorithms for Cross-Temporal Image Matching 2:00pm - 2:20pm Methods to Assess Glacier Change in Western Canada 2:20pm - 2:40pm Historical Air Photo Analysis of old Stone Walls as vanishing cultural Landscape Elements at Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Invited Session 2: Novel Remote Sensing Technologies and Techniques for Understanding Peatland Condition, Disturbance, and Change - Part 1 Location: SUB 307 Chair: Dr. Koreen Millard Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer Techniques for extending sparse training Data and reducing false Positives for mapping Fens in Western US alpine nationally managed Lands 1:20pm - 1:40pm Mapping Linear Features in the Boreal Forest with LiDAR and Convolutional Neural Networks 1:40pm - 2:00pm Characterizing Effects of Repeated Seismic Activity in Boreal Peatlands Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) 2:00pm - 2:20pm Storage and Emissions of Carbon in Boreal Peatlands Affected by Extreme Drought and Wildfire 2:20pm - 2:40pm Modelling Ecosystem Atmospheric Carbon Fluxes Using Random Forests in the Hudson Bay Lowlands |
Scientific Session 01: Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing Location: SUB 270 Chair: Dr. Heather McNairn Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn Generating a Global Deep Learning Dataset of Agricultural Soil Surface Dielectric Constants from Optical Remote Sensing 1:20pm - 1:40pm Sensitivity of Vegetation Indices to Measured Crop Evapotranspiration 1:40pm - 2:00pm Detecting Tillage Events using a Time Series of Sentinel-1 SAR Data 2:00pm - 2:20pm A Texture Information-guided Method of Generating Pseudo Samples for Cropland Extraction 2:20pm - 2:40pm Forecasting Spring Wheat Yields and Climate Influences for Enhancing Future Food Security in Western Canada |
| 2:40pm - 3:00pm |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 3:00pm - 4:40pm |
Student Competition 2: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Prof. Yuhong He Chair: Tom Lukowski Enhancing Aerial Camera-LiDAR Registration through Synthetic Images and Graph Neural Networks 3:20pm - 3:40pm Multimodal Multitask Semantic Segmentation for 3D Wireframe Moleling of Buildings 3:40pm - 4:00pm A Cost-Effective Method for Collecting Geometric Data on Flood-Relevant Building Attributes for Model Training. 4:00pm - 4:20pm Detecting urban agriculture changes using deep learning approaches, a case study in Huế City, Vietnam 4:20pm - 4:40pm Comparing the Performance of Different Classifiers for Urban Change Detection: A Case Study in Kingston, Ontario |
Invited Session 3: Satellite Gravimetric / GNSS for Water Resources Location: SUB 303 Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh Separation of Snow Water Equivalent from GRACE/GRACE-FO Terrestrial Water Storages Changes 3:20pm - 3:40pm Comparison of in-situ and model-based Precipitation Datasets over Canada using GRACE/GRACE-FO 3:40pm - 4:00pm Combination of Satellite Gravimetry and GNSS Data for Improved Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Estimation 4:00pm - 4:20pm Spectral Combination Approach For Spatiotemporal Downscaling of Groundwater Storage Variations Derived By GRACE and GRACE-FO Observations 4:20pm - 4:40pm Hybrid Compact Polarimetric GNSS-R Analysis Of Lake Ice Physical Properties |
Invited Session 4: Novel Remote Sensing Technologies and Techniques for Understanding Peatland Condition, Disturbance, and Change - Part 2 Location: SUB 307 Chair: Dr. Koreen Millard Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer New Insights Into Distinguishing Temperate Deciduous Swamps from Upland Forests and Shrublands with SAR 3:20pm - 3:40pm Using Remote Sensing to determine the Role of Peatlands in Fire Refugia Creation in Boreal Forests of Western Canada 3:40pm - 4:00pm VIIRS and MODIS Observations of Peatland Fire Spread During the 2023 Fire Season – an Analysis using the Canadian Fire Spread Database 4:00pm - 4:20pm Arctic and sub-Arctic wildfires in Canada’s permafrost peatlands 1986–2022 4:20pm - 4:40pm The Sensitivity of SMAP Brightness Temperature Retrievals to Open Water Dynamics and Peatland/Wetland Areas |
Scientific Session 02: Remote Sensing for Mapping Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Songnian Li Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn Introducing WetSAT: A Canadian Large-Scale Deep Learning Benchmark Dataset for Wetland Classification 3:20pm - 3:40pm Aerial Thermography and Photogrammetry for the Detection of Archaeological Sites 3:40pm - 4:00pm Mapping Fractional Lichen Cover in Northern Quebec and Labrador Using UAV, Sentinel, and Landsat Imagery 4:00pm - 4:20pm Locating Missing Grave Sites using Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems. 4:20pm - 4:40pm A Framework of TLS 3D Point Cloud Use in Digital Twins Development for a Realization of Indoor Environments: A Case Study of an Educational Facility in Toronto, Canada |
| 4:40pm - 5:40pm |
Poster Session 1: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 1 Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 01-09
Improving the resolution of multispectral satellite imagery using Deep Learning-based Pansharpening Spatially Informed Tabular Deep Learning for Accurate Building Extraction from UAV Imagery: A GEOBIA Approach An Automated Method for Pavement Surface Distress Evaluation Discrete Wavelet Transformation for De-noising of AI Classified Ground Data Estimating Biases in TROPOMI concentration methane product using a machine learning algorithm Evaluation of Hybrid Satellite On-Board Computer Architectures for Edge-Compute and Machine-Learning Focussed Applications Non-Cooperative Vessel Detection using Multispectral Satellite Imaging and Machine Learning Applied towards Onboard Satellite Dark Vessel Detection Conifer Tree Classification using Detectron2 and ConvNext from UAV Imagery Data |
Poster Session 2: Advanced Solutions for Agricultural Remote Sensing Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 10-15
Comparison of YOLOv7 and YOLOv8n for Tree Detection on UAV RGB Imagery Evaluation of 1DCNN- LSTM deep learning model for Crop Classification using time series Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 in Google Earth Engine (A case study in Quebec, Canada) Real-time Detection of Currant-lettuce Aphid (Nasonovia Ribisnigri) in Lettuce with the YOLOv8-n Model using an Edge Computing System Enhancing Surface Soil Moisture Estimation from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Observations via Integrating Trapezoidal Models and Random Forest Algorithm Evaluating the Potential of Temperature/Vegetation Index Space in Crop Evapotranspiration Estimation at Farm Scale Estimation of Canopy Height using Unmanned Ground Vehicle with LiDAR for Wheat Phenotyping |
Poster Session 3: LiDAR Sensing, Data and Applications Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 16-22
Mapping Animal and Human Trails in Peatlands with LiDAR and Convolutional Neural Networks Predicting Conifer Fraction with Intensity Metrics of Multi-Spectral Lidar in the Taiga Plains Lidar based vegetation regeneration mapping on anthropogenic disturbances in caribou range in boreal Alberta, Canada LiDAR change detection along linear disturbances in the boreal forest – a comparison of pixel and point cloud-based approaches Development of Understory Vegetation Characterization Methods from Mobile Laser Scanning Integrating Airborne LiDAR and, Indigenous knowledge in an archaeo- landscape mapping framework for use in a digital community cultural and environmental stewardship archive Topobathymetric Lidar Helps Quebec Prepare for Climate-Change Impacts |
Poster Session 4: Observations and Monitoring of the Cryosphere Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 23-29
SAR glacier zones mapping of Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut Identifying Glacial Pulsing Characteristics in the Canadian Arctic Sea ice mapping in the Resolute Passage: A RADARSAT-2 PolSAR-Based approach Impacts of Permafrost Degradation on the Limnological Properties of a Series of Lakes in the Canadian High Arctic Satellite-Based Method For Mapping Indicators of Dust-On-Snow Around a Mine in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Mapping of the geomorphological expressions of freeze thaw cycles at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut Feature Importance Analysis for Automatic Sea Ice Mapping from Multi-Sensor Satellite Data |
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