Symposium Program

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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Date: Monday, 10/June/2024
3:00pm - 7:30pmRegistration
Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)
5:30pm - 7:30pmIce Breaker
Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)
Date: Tuesday, 11/June/2024
8:30am - 9:30amSymposium Welcome and Opening Remarks
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
9:30am - 10:30amKeynote 1: Photogrammetry with Historical Photography
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Dr. Ewelina Rupnik
10:30am - 11:00amHealth Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
11:00am - 12:00pmPanel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
12:00pm - 1:00pmLunch 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.
1:00pm - 2:40pmStudent Competition 1: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Session Chair: Prof. Yuhong He
Session Chair: Tom Lukowski
1:00pm - 2:40pmInvited Session 1: Historical Aerial and Satellite Image Records - Methods and Applications
Location: SUB 303
Session Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis
Session Chair: Roksana Sheikholmolouki
1:00pm - 2:40pmInvited Session 2: Novel Remote Sensing Technologies and Techniques for Understanding Peatland Condition, Disturbance, and Change - Part 1
Location: SUB 307
Session Chair: Dr. Koreen Millard
Session Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
1:00pm - 2:40pmScientific Session 01: Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing
Location: SUB 270
Session Chair: Dr. Heather McNairn
Session Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
2:40pm - 3:00pmHealth Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm - 4:40pmStudent Competition 2: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Session Chair: Prof. Yuhong He
Session Chair: Tom Lukowski
3:00pm - 4:40pmInvited Session 3: Satellite Gravimetric / GNSS for Water Resources
Location: SUB 303
Session Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta
Session Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh
3:00pm - 4:40pmInvited Session 4: Novel Remote Sensing Technologies and Techniques for Understanding Peatland Condition, Disturbance, and Change - Part 2
Location: SUB 307
Session Chair: Dr. Koreen Millard
Session Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
3:00pm - 4:40pmScientific Session 02: Remote Sensing for Mapping
Location: SUB 270
Session Chair: Prof. Songnian Li
Session Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 1: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 1
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 01-09
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 2: Advanced Solutions for Agricultural Remote Sensing
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 10-15
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 3: LiDAR Sensing, Data and Applications
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 16-22
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 4: Observations and Monitoring of the Cryosphere
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 23-29
Date: Wednesday, 12/June/2024
8:30am - 9:30amKeynote 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 - 10:30amPanel 2: A New CRSS-SCT Model for Remote Sensing Certification
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
10:30am - 10:50amHealth Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
10:50am - 11:50amKeynote 3: Satellite Earth Observation and the Government of Canada: Past Successes, Current Projects, and Future Priorities
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Guennadi Kroupnik
11:50am - 1:20pmLunch 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.
1:20pm - 2:40pmIndustry Session 1: Applied Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Session Chair: Gordon Staples
Session Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari
1:20pm - 2:40pmInvited Session 5: Digital Imaging Technology in Smart Farming and Sustainable Agriculture
Location: SUB 303
Session Chair: Dr. Derek Peddle
Session Chair: Dr. Keshav Singh
1:20pm - 2:40pmScientific Session 03: Synthetic Aperture RADAR
Location: SUB 307
Session Chair: Kevin Murnaghan
Session Chair: Desmond Power
1:20pm - 2:40pmScientific Session 04: Remote Sensing for Climate Change
Location: SUB 270
Session Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen
Session Chair: Dr. Bing Lu
2:40pm - 3:00pmHealth Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm - 4:40pmIndustry Session 2: Applied Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Session Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari
Session Chair: Dr. Robert Andrew Ryerson
3:00pm - 4:40pmScientific Session 05: Earth Observation Programs
Location: SUB 303
Session Chair: Dr. Ahmed Shaker
Session Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh
3:00pm - 4:40pmScientific Session 06: Remote Sensing for Coastal Monitoring
Location: SUB 307
Session Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen
Session Chair: Gordon Staples
3:00pm - 4:40pmScientific Session 07: Land Use and Land Cover Classification
Location: SUB 270
Session Chair: Desmond Power
Session Chair: Dr. H Peter White
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 5: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 2
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 01-07
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 6: Water and Wetlands Remote Sensing
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 08-16
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 7: Environmental and Climate-Change Monitoring
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 17-23
4:40pm - 5:40pmPoster Session 8: Mapping and Monitoring Urban Areas
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 24-30
6:30pm - 10:00pmCRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Stand-up Reception - Canadian Museum of Immigration
Location: Pier 21
Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024
8:00am - 9:00am3-Minute Thesis Competition
Location: SUB McInnes Room
9:00am - 10:00amKeynote 4: Two Paths Becoming One: An Indigenous Perspective on Earth Observation
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Nikki Tulley
10:00am - 10:20amHealth Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
10:20am - 12:00pmInvited Session 6: AI4EO - Artificial intelligence for Earth observation analytics
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Session Chair: Dr. Masoud Mahdianpari
Session Chair: Dirk Werle
10:20am - 12:00pmScientific Session 08: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 1
Location: SUB 303
Session Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
Session Chair: Dr. Sylvain G Leblanc
10:20am - 12:00pmScientific Session 09: Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards
Location: SUB 307
Session Chair: Ashlin Richardson
Session Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis
10:20am - 12:00pmScientific Session 10: Monitoring Cryosphere and Water Resources
Location: SUB 270
Session Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson
Session Chair: Dr. Celeste Charmaine Barnes
12:00pm - 1:00pmLunch
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.
1:00pm - 2:40pmInvited Session 7: Aquatic Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Session Chair: Dr. Maycira Costa
Session Chair: Kristen Lynn Wilson
1:00pm - 2:40pmScientific Session 11: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 2
Location: SUB 303
Session Chair: Prof. Aaron Andrew Berg
Session Chair: Prof. Brigitte Leblon
1:00pm - 2:40pmScientific Session 12: Application of Remote Sensing in Forestry
Location: SUB 307
Session Chair: Prof. Richard Fournier
Session Chair: Dr. Karin Yvonne van Ewijk
1:00pm - 2:40pmScientific Session 13: Satellite Data, Mapping, and Machine Learning
Location: SUB 270
Session Chair: Tom Lukowski
Session Chair: Daniel Alan Jewell
2:40pm - 3:00pmHealth Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm - 4:00pmClosing Session and Symposium Awards
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
4:00pm - 4:15pmSymposium Survey
Location: Online Survey
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