Symposium Program

Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

Date: Monday, 10/June/2024
3:00pm - 7:30pm	Registration Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)
5:30pm - 7:30pm	Ice Breaker Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)

Date: Tuesday, 11/June/2024
8:30am - 9:30am	Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
9:30am - 10:30am	Keynote 1: Photogrammetry with Historical Photography Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Dr. Ewelina Rupnik
10:30am - 11:00am	Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room
11:00am - 12:00pm	Panel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
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.
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	Invited Session 1: Historical Aerial and Satellite Image Records - Methods and Applications Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis Chair: Roksana Sheikholmolouki	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	Scientific Session 01: Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing Location: SUB 270 Chair: Dr. Heather McNairn Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
2:40pm - 3:00pm	Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room
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	Invited Session 3: Satellite Gravimetric / GNSS for Water Resources Location: SUB 303 Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh	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	Scientific Session 02: Remote Sensing for Mapping Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Songnian Li Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
4:40pm - 5:40pm	Poster Session 1: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 1 Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 01-09	Poster Session 2: Advanced Solutions for Agricultural Remote Sensing Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 10-15	Poster Session 3: LiDAR Sensing, Data and Applications Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 16-22	Poster Session 4: Observations and Monitoring of the Cryosphere Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 23-29

Date: Wednesday, 12/June/2024
8:30am - 9:30am	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 - 10:30am	Panel 2: A New CRSS-SCT Model for Remote Sensing Certification Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
10:30am - 10:50am	Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room
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
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.
1:20pm - 2:40pm	Industry Session 1: Applied Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Gordon Staples Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari	Invited Session 5: Digital Imaging Technology in Smart Farming and Sustainable Agriculture Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Derek Peddle Chair: Dr. Keshav Singh	Scientific Session 03: Synthetic Aperture RADAR Location: SUB 307 Chair: Kevin Murnaghan Chair: Desmond Power	Scientific Session 04: Remote Sensing for Climate Change Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen Chair: Dr. Bing Lu
2:40pm - 3:00pm	Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm - 4:40pm	Industry Session 2: Applied Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari Chair: Dr. Robert Andrew Ryerson	Scientific Session 05: Earth Observation Programs Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Ahmed Shaker Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh	Scientific Session 06: Remote Sensing for Coastal Monitoring Location: SUB 307 Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen Chair: Gordon Staples	Scientific Session 07: Land Use and Land Cover Classification Location: SUB 270 Chair: Desmond Power Chair: Dr. H Peter White
4:40pm - 5:40pm	Poster Session 5: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 2 Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 01-07	Poster Session 6: Water and Wetlands Remote Sensing Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 08-16	Poster Session 7: Environmental and Climate-Change Monitoring Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 17-23	Poster Session 8: Mapping and Monitoring Urban Areas Location: SUB McInnes Room Poster stand numbers: 24-30
6:30pm - 10:00pm	CRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Stand-up Reception - Canadian Museum of Immigration Location: Pier 21

Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024
8:00am - 9:00am	3-Minute Thesis Competition Location: SUB McInnes Room
9:00am - 10:00am	Keynote 4: Two Paths Becoming One: An Indigenous Perspective on Earth Observation Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Nikki Tulley
10:00am - 10:20am	Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room
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	Scientific Session 08: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 1 Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer Chair: Dr. Sylvain G Leblanc	Scientific Session 09: Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards Location: SUB 307 Chair: Ashlin Richardson Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis	Scientific Session 10: Monitoring Cryosphere and Water Resources Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson Chair: Dr. Celeste Charmaine Barnes
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.
1:00pm - 2:40pm	Invited Session 7: Aquatic Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Dr. Maycira Costa Chair: Kristen Lynn Wilson	Scientific Session 11: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 2 Location: SUB 303 Chair: Prof. Aaron Andrew Berg Chair: Prof. Brigitte Leblon	Scientific Session 12: Application of Remote Sensing in Forestry Location: SUB 307 Chair: Prof. Richard Fournier Chair: Dr. Karin Yvonne van Ewijk	Scientific Session 13: Satellite Data, Mapping, and Machine Learning Location: SUB 270 Chair: Tom Lukowski Chair: Daniel Alan Jewell
2:40pm - 3:00pm	Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Closing Session and Symposium Awards Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
4:00pm - 4:15pm	Symposium Survey Location: Online Survey Please kindly take a minute to share your thoughts with us by completing a brief survey (the link is provided below). Your feedback is immensely valuable to us.