Symposium Program

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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Date: Tuesday, 11/June/2024
8:30am
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9:30am
Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
9:30am
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10:30am
Keynote 1: Photogrammetry with Historical Photography
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Dr. Ewelina Rupnik
11:00am
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12:00pm
Panel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
1:00pm
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2:40pm
Student Competition 1: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Prof. Yuhong He
Chair: Tom Lukowski
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Tree Seedling Detection from Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Imagery using Convolutional Neural Networks in a Boreal Forest

N. Byford, Dr. I. Terentieva, Dr. G. McDermid, Dr. J. Linke



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Estimating Fusarium Head Blight Severity in Winter Wheat using Deep Learning and a Spectral Index

R. McConachie, C. Belot, Dr. M. Serajazari, Dr. H. Booker, Dr. J. Sulik



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Automated caribou Detection from aerial imagery: A Transfer Learning Approach

G. Serati, J. Théau, S. Foucher



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Vertical Temperature Gradients in Polar Snow from Passive Microwave Satellite Measurements using Artificial Neural Networks

C. Henschel, D. Spearns, T. J Duck



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Mapping vegetation height and identifying the northern forest limit across Canada using ICESat-2 and Landsat time series data

H. Z Travers-Smith, Dr. N. Coops, Dr. C. Mulverhill, Dr. M. Wulder, Dr. D. Ignace, Dr. T. Lantz

3:00pm
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4:40pm
Student Competition 2: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Prof. Yuhong He
Chair: Tom Lukowski
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Enhancing Aerial Camera-LiDAR Registration through Synthetic Images and Graph Neural Networks

J. D. Leahy, Dr. S. Jabari



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Multimodal Multitask Semantic Segmentation for 3D Wireframe Moleling of Buildings

F. Soleimani, Dr. S. Jabari



3:40pm - 4:00pm

A Cost-Effective Method for Collecting Geometric Data on Flood-Relevant Building Attributes for Model Training.

A. Reid, Dr. S. Jabari, Dr. H. McGrath



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Detecting urban agriculture changes using deep learning approaches, a case study in Huế City, Vietnam

T. D. Dinh, J. Théau, T. T. H. Pham, M. Varin, Dr. J. Marchal, M.-A. Genest



4:20pm - 4:40pm

Comparing the Performance of Different Classifiers for Urban Change Detection: A Case Study in Kingston, Ontario

M. Babadi, D. Chen, D. Pouliot, T. S. Oluwadare

Date: Wednesday, 12/June/2024
8:30am
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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
9:30am
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10:30am
Panel 2: A New CRSS-SCT Model for Remote Sensing Certification
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
10:50am
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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
1:20pm
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2:40pm
Industry Session 1: Applied Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Gordon Staples
Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari
 
1:20pm - 1:40pm

A Hybrid Approach for Automatic Missing Road Detection

Dr. M. Ahmed, Dr. A. Smith, Dr. S. Sattar, Dr. J. Salter, S. Long



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

A. Webster, Dr. K. T. Davies, H. Sharma, V. Babu, Dr. S. Brillant, C. G. Carlyle, R. Edgell, Dr. D. Johnston, G. L. Lonati, O. Tsui



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Applications of Drone Technology for Heritage Property Monitoring and Conservation

H. Ge, K. De Mille



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Photogrammetric Inspections of Underground Infrastructure with a Single Axis Robotic Head

R. Keizer, C. Bradley

3:00pm
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4:40pm
Industry Session 2: Applied Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari
Chair: Dr. Robert Andrew Ryerson
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

ArboSense Fuels: an End-to-End Software Solution for Forest Fuel Mapping using Airborne Laser Scanning Data

C. Shang, L. Chasmer, C. Hopkinson, O. Tsui, A. Bakalarczyk, A. Dean



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Hierarchical Classification of WAM-Predicted Streams for Forest Operations using Machine Learning and LiDAR Data

Dr. K. Y. van Ewijk, Dr. S. Jozdani, Dr. K. Lim, T. Lafreniere, N. Beaudry



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Suivi des Coupes Progressives Irrégulières à l’Aide de l’Imagerie par Drones et l’Apprentissage Profond

R. Saadouni, Dr. Y. Duguay, J.-S. Bilodeau, J. Gagné



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Satellite-Derived Morphological Change Detection of Rivers for Hydrotechnical Risk Assessment – the Case of the Skeena River, BC

Dr. J. Engelbrecht, E. Shih, S. Brazda, S. R. van Huyssteen



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

Dr. W. Tang, Dr. A. Dean, T. P. Nguyen, J. Brunner

Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024
9:00am
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10:00am
Keynote 4: Two Paths Becoming One: An Indigenous Perspective on Earth Observation
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Nikki Tulley
10:20am
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12:00pm
Invited Session 6: AI4EO - Artificial intelligence for Earth observation analytics
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Dr. Masoud Mahdianpari
Chair: Dirk Werle
 
10:20am - 10:40am

Enhancing Crop Cover Estimation and Mapping using Machine Learning Approaches in Google Earth Engine

M. Rahimzad, S. Homayouni



10:40am - 11:00am

High-resolution Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Mapping from Sentinel-1 SAR Images using a Novel Deep Transformer Model

Dr. L. Xu, Dr. D. Clausi



11:00am - 11:20am

Coastal Wetland Carbon Mapping: Integrating Multi-Sensor Observations with Machine Learning

M. Hemati, Dr. M. Mahdianpari, Dr. H. Shiri, Dr. F. Mohammadimanesh



11:20am - 11:40am

Daily wildfire hotspot prediction using convolutional neural network and long short-term memory

M. Marjani, Dr. M. Mahdianpari, Dr. F. Mohammadimanesh



11:40am - 12:00pm

A Semi-Automatic Multitemporal Approach for Landslide Detection in Remote Regions of Quebec

H. Shahabi, S. Homayouni, B. Giroux, Dr. D. Perret

1:00pm
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2:40pm
Invited Session 7: Aquatic Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Dr. Maycira Costa
Chair: Kristen Lynn Wilson
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Vicarious Calibration and Validation of the WaterSat Imaging Spectrometer Experiment in Québec Coastal Waters

R. Mabit, G. Ifimov, R. Soffer, Y. Pan, S. Mukherjee, S. Bélanger



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Using SAR Imagery to Detect Seasonal Variability of Kelp Forests in British Columbia

M. Konik, E. Loos, A. Mora-Soto, S. Schroeder, L. Gendall, L. Man, V. Caron, M. Henley, P. Rezania, M. Costa



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Spectral Herring Spawning Index: a novel method for the detection of Pacific Herring spawning in British Columbia

L. T. Dallaire, M. Costa



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Adjacency Effect Modelling and Correction for Optical Remote Sensing of Inland and Coastal Waters

Y. Wu, A. Knudby



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Using Optical Remote Sensing to characterize the Spatio-Temporal Resilience of Floating Kelp Beds in the Broughton Archipelago, BC, Canada

L. Man, Dr. R. V. Barbosa, L. Gendall, L. Y. Reshytnik, A. Wachmann, A. Gray, Dr. C. Neufeld, N. Dedeluk, E. Wisden-Seaweed, U. Kim, A. Wadhams, J. Johnson, J. Alfred, J. Webber, D. Wadhams, T. Alfred, D. Johnson, Dr. M. Costa

3:00pm
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4:00pm
Closing Session and Symposium Awards
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)

 
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