Symposium Program
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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing |
| Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024 | ||||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
3-Minute Thesis Competition Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote 4: Two Paths Becoming One: An Indigenous Perspective on Earth Observation Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Nikki Tulley |
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| 10:00am - 10:20am |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 10:20am - 12:00pm |
Invited Session 6: AI4EO - Artificial intelligence for Earth observation analytics Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Dr. Masoud Mahdianpari Chair: Dirk Werle Enhancing Crop Cover Estimation and Mapping using Machine Learning Approaches in Google Earth Engine 10:40am - 11:00am High-resolution Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Mapping from Sentinel-1 SAR Images using a Novel Deep Transformer Model 11:00am - 11:20am Coastal Wetland Carbon Mapping: Integrating Multi-Sensor Observations with Machine Learning 11:20am - 11:40am Daily wildfire hotspot prediction using convolutional neural network and long short-term memory 11:40am - 12:00pm A Semi-Automatic Multitemporal Approach for Landslide Detection in Remote Regions of Quebec |
Scientific Session 08: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 1 Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer Chair: Dr. Sylvain G Leblanc Using Optical Remote Sensing to Monitor and Manage Woody Plant Expansion in Grasslands 10:40am - 11:00am Tracking Cyanobacterial Blooms in Alberta Lakes with Remote Sensing 11:00am - 11:20am Segmentation of C Losses from Uplands, Peatlands and Permafrost Plateaus During the Scotty Creek NWT Wildland Fire using Landsat and Lidar 11:20am - 11:40am Modeling Forest Plot Decay Levels from Airborne LiDAR Metrics 11:40am - 12:00pm Grassland Mapping in Manitoba Prairie Ecozone Using Satellite Data and Supervised Machine Learning Approaches on Google Earth Engine |
Scientific Session 09: Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards Location: SUB 307 Chair: Ashlin Richardson Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis Remote Sensing-based Near Real-Time Forecasting of Forest Fire Danger Conditions 10:40am - 11:00am Operational Near-real-time Pixel-based Image Compositing for Large-area Fire and Burned Severity Mapping in British Columbia 11:00am - 11:20am Assessment of ALOS-2 L-Band Polarimetric SAR for Fire Danger Monitoring in Mountainous Forests of British Columbia 11:20am - 11:40am Landslide inventories for two coastal watersheds in British Columbia using semi-automated detection from satellite imagery. 11:40am - 12:00pm RADARSAT Constellation Mission SAR Data and Deep Learning for Wildfire Monitoring |
Scientific Session 10: Monitoring Cryosphere and Water Resources Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson Chair: Dr. Celeste Charmaine Barnes Comparing Spatialised Precipitation Estimates with Lidar-based Snow Water Equivalent in a Mountainous Watershed 10:40am - 11:00am Testing a Remote Sensing-based Sampling and Imputation Framework to Model Regional-scale Mountain Snow Water Equivalent for Drought Mitigation 11:00am - 11:20am Polarimetric L-Band ALOS for Permafrost Characterization in the Hudson Bay Lowlands 11:20am - 11:40am Snow water equivalent from Ku-band radar: An update on the Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission concept 11:40am - 12:00pm Bayesian Fusion of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 Imagery for Lake Ice Monitoring |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch Location: SUB Lobby (2nd floor) Delegates may pick up lunch from SUB 2nd Floor Lobby and may choose to have lunch in Cafeteria on the first floor of SUB.
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| 1:00pm - 2:40pm |
Invited Session 7: Aquatic Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Dr. Maycira Costa Chair: Kristen Lynn Wilson Vicarious Calibration and Validation of the WaterSat Imaging Spectrometer Experiment in Québec Coastal Waters 1:20pm - 1:40pm Using SAR Imagery to Detect Seasonal Variability of Kelp Forests in British Columbia 1:40pm - 2:00pm Spectral Herring Spawning Index: a novel method for the detection of Pacific Herring spawning in British Columbia 2:00pm - 2:20pm Adjacency Effect Modelling and Correction for Optical Remote Sensing of Inland and Coastal Waters 2:20pm - 2:40pm Using Optical Remote Sensing to characterize the Spatio-Temporal Resilience of Floating Kelp Beds in the Broughton Archipelago, BC, Canada |
Scientific Session 11: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 2 Location: SUB 303 Chair: Prof. Aaron Andrew Berg Chair: Prof. Brigitte Leblon Severe droughts are putting Canadian peatland carbon stocks at risk: a remote sensing analysis of fire selectivity and behavior in peatlands over the extreme 2023 fire season 1:20pm - 1:40pm Monitoring Post-Wildland Fire Vegetation Regeneration using Lidar and Spectral Indices in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta 1:40pm - 2:00pm Distribution of Combustible Fuels in Canada’s Iconic Montane National Parks under Variable Management and Disturbance Conditions using Airborne Lidar and the arboSense Fuels Tool 2:00pm - 2:20pm In Situ Modeling of Freezing/Melting Point Depression Across Diverse Canadian Ecosystems: An Analysis of Soil Freezing Characteristics Using Permittivity and Temperature Measurements 2:20pm - 2:40pm Remote sensing of vegetation with small drones over a bog and its surrounding land |
Scientific Session 12: Application of Remote Sensing in Forestry Location: SUB 307 Chair: Prof. Richard Fournier Chair: Dr. Karin Yvonne van Ewijk Integrating Spaceborne LiDAR GEDI and Multitemporal Optical and SAR Data with a Deep Learning Model to Map Forest Canopy Height in Ontario, Canada 1:20pm - 1:40pm Individual Tree Crown Delineation for Coniferous Trees Using StarDist Model 1:40pm - 2:00pm Tree Species Classification on Hyperspectral Imagery Using Fewer Training Samples 2:00pm - 2:20pm Direct Estimation of Forest Aboveground Biomass from UAV LiDAR Observations for a Red Pine Plantation in Southern Ontario 2:20pm - 2:40pm Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation Using Mask R-CNN with LiDAR Data in a Mixed-Wood Forest |
Scientific Session 13: Satellite Data, Mapping, and Machine Learning Location: SUB 270 Chair: Tom Lukowski Chair: Daniel Alan Jewell Estimating Tailings Storage Facility Bathymetry Using Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imagery and Machine Learning 1:20pm - 1:40pm Automated detection of Mine Tailings via Object-Based classification of Sentinel-2 Images 1:40pm - 2:00pm Mapping Burn Severity across Canada 2:00pm - 2:20pm Development of high resolution Vegetation Index Data from JPSS 2:20pm - 2:40pm Using Satellite Products to Estimate Wetland Parameters of a Semi-Distributed Hydrological Model |
| 2:40pm - 3:00pm |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Closing Session and Symposium Awards Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 4:00pm - 4:15pm |
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