Symposium Program
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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing |
| Date: Wednesday, 12/June/2024 | ||||
| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote 2: Fifty Years of GIS and Remote Sensing at COGS, the Centre of Geographic Sciences (1974-2024) Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Dr. Robert Maher |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Panel 2: A New CRSS-SCT Model for Remote Sensing Certification Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 10:30am - 10:50am |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 10:50am - 11:50am |
Keynote 3: Satellite Earth Observation and the Government of Canada: Past Successes, Current Projects, and Future Priorities Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Guennadi Kroupnik |
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| 11:50am - 1:20pm |
Lunch and Student/Industry Career Connect 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 McInnes Room for the Student/Industry Career Connect meeting. |
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| 1:20pm - 2:40pm |
Industry Session 1: Applied Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Gordon Staples Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari A Hybrid Approach for Automatic Missing Road Detection 1:40pm - 2:00pm A Deep Learning System for Automated Detection of Whales in Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery in North Atlantic Right Whale Habitats 2:00pm - 2:20pm Applications of Drone Technology for Heritage Property Monitoring and Conservation 2:20pm - 2:40pm Photogrammetric Inspections of Underground Infrastructure with a Single Axis Robotic Head |
Invited Session 5: Digital Imaging Technology in Smart Farming and Sustainable Agriculture Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Derek Peddle Chair: Dr. Keshav Singh Hyperspectral Prediction of Potato Plant Nutrient Deprivation using High-resolution Spectroradiometry for Minimal Input Agricultural Systems 1:40pm - 2:00pm Leveraging UAV LiDAR and Deep Learning for Monitoring and Auditing Vegetation Growth on Wellsites 2:00pm - 2:20pm Accurate and Fast Crop Residue Estimation from Smartphone Imagery using Residual Attention UNet 2:20pm - 2:40pm Alfalfa Stem Count and Winter Mortality Assessment Using Proximal Imagery and Artificial Intelligence |
Scientific Session 03: Synthetic Aperture RADAR Location: SUB 307 Chair: Kevin Murnaghan Chair: Desmond Power Evaluation of Polarimetric SAR Despeckling Methods on Crop Classification using RCM Compact Polarimetry Data 1:40pm - 2:00pm Coherent Change Detection for Agricultural Activities Monitoring Using New Space SAR 2:00pm - 2:20pm RADARSAT Missions Analysis Ready Data 2:20pm - 2:40pm Sensitivity analysis of full-polarization L-band SAR to soil moisture at different depths |
Scientific Session 04: Remote Sensing for Climate Change Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen Chair: Dr. Bing Lu Detection on Landsat Imagery of the Effect of Climatic Changes in a Taiga Region of Québec 1:40pm - 2:00pm Mapping permafrost vulnerability in the western canadian arctic based on geospatial modelling 2:00pm - 2:20pm Empowering Tomorrow's Climate Science: The University Consortium for the Canadian Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM) 2:20pm - 2:40pm Validating Rates of Change of Canada’s Marine Shoreline Mapped Using Landsat |
| 2:40pm - 3:00pm |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 3:00pm - 4:40pm |
Industry Session 2: Applied Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari Chair: Dr. Robert Andrew Ryerson ArboSense Fuels: an End-to-End Software Solution for Forest Fuel Mapping using Airborne Laser Scanning Data 3:20pm - 3:40pm Hierarchical Classification of WAM-Predicted Streams for Forest Operations using Machine Learning and LiDAR Data 3:40pm - 4:00pm Suivi des Coupes Progressives Irrégulières à l’Aide de l’Imagerie par Drones et l’Apprentissage Profond 4:00pm - 4:20pm Satellite-Derived Morphological Change Detection of Rivers for Hydrotechnical Risk Assessment – the Case of the Skeena River, BC 4:20pm - 4:40pm Identifying and Mapping Rice Crops in Flooding Area in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta based on Temporal Pattern using Sentinel-1 Time Series Data |
Scientific Session 05: Earth Observation Programs Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Ahmed Shaker Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh Alouette and ISIS Satellites: Old Data for New Insights 3:20pm - 3:40pm SmartEarth initiative: Stimulating and Accelerating Uptake Of Satellite Earth Observation Capabilities, Solutions, Science and Research Through and For Canadian Stakeholders 3:40pm - 4:00pm Capacity Building through the smartEarth Initiative 4:00pm - 4:20pm CSA Research Opportunities in Space Science 2022-2027 Program – Cycle 2 in Atmospheric and Earth System disciplines 4:20pm - 4:40pm Dialogue and Learning with Joint Earth Observations in Support of Environmental Justice and Reconciliation: NASA, CSA and Indigenous Practitioners |
Scientific Session 06: Remote Sensing for Coastal Monitoring Location: SUB 307 Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen Chair: Gordon Staples Detection of the origin of river water turbidity along the coast of James Bay (Québec), from Landsat imagery 3:20pm - 3:40pm A Global Deep Learning Model for Classification of Optically Shallow and Optically Deep Water for Sentinel-2 Imagery 3:40pm - 4:00pm Addressing Non-Stationary Statistics in SAR Sea Ice Imagery 4:00pm - 4:20pm Detecting Community-Relevant Landfast Ice Polynyas in Dual-Polarized SAR Imagery with Convolutional Object Detection Networks: An Analysis of Key Design Elements 4:20pm - 4:40pm RCM Compact Polarimetry for Oil Spill Characterization |
Scientific Session 07: Land Use and Land Cover Classification Location: SUB 270 Chair: Desmond Power Chair: Dr. H Peter White Super-Resolution Domain Adaptation Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Linear Disturbances in Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery 3:20pm - 3:40pm Towards Precision Weed Management with Drone Technology: Evaluating the Efficiency of Aerial Imaging and Image Classifier in Detecting Spreading Dogbane in Lowbush Blueberry Fields 3:40pm - 4:00pm Changes in Nova Scotia Forests: Assessing Forest Gain and Loss from 1986 to 2022 4:00pm - 4:20pm Reconstructing snow-free Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery: A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) approach. 4:20pm - 4:40pm Exploring the Past and Informing the Future: Historical Urban Land-Use Classification and Change Detection in Fredericton Using U-Net Model |
| 4:40pm - 5:40pm |
Poster Session 5: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 2 Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 01-07
Machine Learning-Based Detection of Burned Areas and Preliminary Estimation of Carbon Emission in the 2023 Canadian Wildfires Rapid Urban Flood Mapping with Low-Cost Annotations Based on Weakly Supervised Learning Method Improving AI Change and Damage Detection in Off-Nadir Imagery through Radiometric Enhancement Spatio-temporal Change Detection of Wetlands in Ramsar Wetland Cities using Remote Sensing and GIS: A Case Study from Colombo Ramsar Wetland City, Sri Lanka (1988-2023) Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada Aerobiological and Microclimatic Monitoring Platform for the Preservation of Tangible Values in Museums and Archives Applying Machine Learning and Sentinel-2 Imagery to assessing Woody Plant Encroachment in southern Alberta Rangelands |
Poster Session 6: Water and Wetlands Remote Sensing Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 08-16
Using the Landsat Archive to Evaluate Wetland Extent Trends in the Eastern Slopes of Alberta, Canada Comparing Satellite NDVI and Bi-Temporal Airborne Lidar Canopy Height to Examine Boreal Wetland Vegetation Changes Within the Peace Athabasca Delta Understanding the Contribution of Wetland Types in Atmospheric Methane Concentration using TROPOMI data: A Newfoundland Case Study Long-Term Monitoring of Chlorophyll-a in Small Inland Waters Using Landsat Heritage and Machine Learning Models Evaluation of Sentinel-6A SAR and Low-Resolution Altimetry Models for deriving Water Surface Elevation of Canadian Lakes Assessment of phytoplankton assemblages from ocean color in the St. Lawrence Lower Estuary and Gulf Mapping aquatic vegetation in shallow clear water of Nova Scotia: Is seagrass identification possible? Multitemporal mapping of groundwater ecosystem services in the context of land use and climate changes. Canadian SWOT Lakes Activities: An Initial Examination of SWOT Data for Lake Athabasca and Mamawi Lake - Implications for Water Resources Monitoring |
Poster Session 7: Environmental and Climate-Change Monitoring Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 17-23
Assessment of L-Band Radar Estimates of LAI and Biomass in Boreal Forests Remote Sensing of Vegetation Changes in the Peary Caribou Habitat Monitoring Vegetation Regeneration: Exploring Multiple Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Sensors and Methodologies Design and Construction of a Goniometer for Laboratory Measurement of the Bidirectional Reflectance of Geological Material Characterizing Spectra of Lunar Minerals by Using Regolith Simulant and Mineral Mixtures to Prepare for Upcoming Lunar Missions. NDVI Trends Across the Peace Athabasca Delta Indicate Vegetation Threshold Response to Hydroclimatic Drivers A Peatland Sub-class, Vegetation Height and Phenology Map for the Canadian Boreal Forest |
Poster Session 8: Mapping and Monitoring Urban Areas Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 24-30
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Saguenay Area: Integrating PSInSAR to Improve Risk Assessment Validation d’un Modèle de Simulation de la Propagation de la Lumière Artificielle Nocturne pour Accompagner les Municipalités à Réaliser une Transition d’Éclairage Respectueuse de l’Environnement et de la Santé Humaine. Spatiotemporal sprawl of urban land use in a Brazilian city in the Atlantic Forest Biome UAS and TLS 3D Data Fusion for Built Cultural Heritage Assessment and the Application for St. Catherine Monastery in Ferrara, Italy Spatio-temporal Assessment of NO2 Concentration Across Edmonton City Employing Satellite Remote Sensing Data AOD Changes in the Greater Toronto Area under the Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns Identification and Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Satellite Imagery Reconstructing existing underground service networks through BIM methodology: A case study |
| 6:30pm - 10:00pm |
CRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Stand-up Reception - Canadian Museum of Immigration Location: Pier 21 |
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