Symposium Program

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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Date: Monday, 10/June/2024
3:00pm
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7:30pm
Registration
Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)
5:30pm
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7:30pm
Ice Breaker
Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)

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
10:30am
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11:00am
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
11:00am
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12:00pm
Panel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
12:00pm
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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
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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

Invited Session 1: Historical Aerial and Satellite Image Records - Methods and Applications
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis
Chair: Roksana Sheikholmolouki
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

A Web Map for Visualizing the Historical Aerial Photography of Indian Residential Schools

M. Maloley, P. Wong, M. Shahbazi, P. Gravel, S. Westley



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Using a consistent time-series of land cover products to produce an Urban Region Boundary (URB) to measure urban expansion in Canada.

C. Samson, D. Robinson, J. D. MacDonald



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Learning-Based versus Traditional Algorithms for Cross-Temporal Image Matching

Dr. E. Bousias Alexakis, Dr. M. Shahbazi, P. Gravel



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Methods to Assess Glacier Change in Western Canada

Dr. B. Menounos



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Historical Air Photo Analysis of old Stone Walls as vanishing cultural Landscape Elements at Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

D. Werle

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
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Techniques for extending sparse training Data and reducing false Positives for mapping Fens in Western US alpine nationally managed Lands

J. A. Graham, L. Bourgeau-Chavez, R. Chimner



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Mapping Linear Features in the Boreal Forest with LiDAR and Convolutional Neural Networks

Dr. G. McDermid, Dr. I. Terentieva



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Characterizing Effects of Repeated Seismic Activity in Boreal Peatlands Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)

X. Y. Chan, Dr. A. Dabros, Dr. I. E. Terentieva, Dr. G. J. McDermid



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Storage and Emissions of Carbon in Boreal Peatlands Affected by Extreme Drought and Wildfire

D. J. Vander Bilt, Dr. L. L. Bourgeau Chavez, M. Billmire



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Modelling Ecosystem Atmospheric Carbon Fluxes Using Random Forests in the Hudson Bay Lowlands

J. G. Beaver, Dr. E. R. Humphreys

Scientific Session 01: Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Dr. Heather McNairn
Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Generating a Global Deep Learning Dataset of Agricultural Soil Surface Dielectric Constants from Optical Remote Sensing

M. Khazaei, R. Magagi, K. Goïta



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Sensitivity of Vegetation Indices to Measured Crop Evapotranspiration

A. A. Berg, B. Miller, T. Wint, K. Wicks, B. DeVries, A. McLaren, J. Thomas, S. Brown, Z. DeBruyn, S. Jordan, C. Wagner-Riddle



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Detecting Tillage Events using a Time Series of Sentinel-1 SAR Data

Dr. H. McNairn, O. Gaweesh, S. Schultz, Dr. X. Jiao, M. Rahimzad, Dr. A. Davidson, Dr. P. Joosse



2:00pm - 2:20pm

A Texture Information-guided Method of Generating Pseudo Samples for Cropland Extraction

H. Xing, Dr. J. Xiang, S. Li



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Forecasting Spring Wheat Yields and Climate Influences for Enhancing Future Food Security in Western Canada

S. F. Van Steenbergen, Dr. T. Ha, Dr. K. Nketia, H. Fernando, Dr. S. Shirtliffe

2:40pm
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3:00pm
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
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

Invited Session 3: Satellite Gravimetric / GNSS for Water Resources
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta
Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Separation of Snow Water Equivalent from GRACE/GRACE-FO Terrestrial Water Storages Changes

Dr. F. Fatolazadeh, Dr. S. Wang, K. Goïta, Dr. M. Eshagh



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Comparison of in-situ and model-based Precipitation Datasets over Canada using GRACE/GRACE-FO

S. Bringeland, Dr. G. Fotopoulos



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Combination of Satellite Gravimetry and GNSS Data for Improved Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Estimation

M. Nasiri, Dr. K. Goïta, Dr. F. Fatolazadeh



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Spectral Combination Approach For Spatiotemporal Downscaling of Groundwater Storage Variations Derived By GRACE and GRACE-FO Observations

Dr. F. Fatolazadeh, Dr. M. Eshagh, K. Goïta, Dr. S. Wang



4:20pm - 4:40pm

Hybrid Compact Polarimetric GNSS-R Analysis Of Lake Ice Physical Properties

Y. Ghiasi, Dr. C. R. Duguay

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
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

New Insights Into Distinguishing Temperate Deciduous Swamps from Upland Forests and Shrublands with SAR

S. Banks, Dr. K. Millard, Dr. L. Dingle-Robertson, L. White, Dr. A. Behnamian, J. Duffe



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Using Remote Sensing to determine the Role of Peatlands in Fire Refugia Creation in Boreal Forests of Western Canada

C. Kuntzemann, Dr. E. Whitman, Dr. D. Stralberg, Dr. M.-A. Parisien, Dr. D. K. Thompson, Z. Xi, D. Lewis, Dr. S. Nielsen



3:40pm - 4:00pm

VIIRS and MODIS Observations of Peatland Fire Spread During the 2023 Fire Season – an Analysis using the Canadian Fire Spread Database

Q. Barber, P. Jain, E. Whitman, M.-A. Parisien



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Arctic and sub-Arctic wildfires in Canada’s permafrost peatlands 1986–2022

M. Hethcoat, P. Jain, M.-A. Parisien, R. Skakun, E. Whitman



4:20pm - 4:40pm

The Sensitivity of SMAP Brightness Temperature Retrievals to Open Water Dynamics and Peatland/Wetland Areas

Y. Amini, K. Millard, A. Berg, M. Richardson

Scientific Session 02: Remote Sensing for Mapping
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Prof. Songnian Li
Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Introducing WetSAT: A Canadian Large-Scale Deep Learning Benchmark Dataset for Wetland Classification

H. Jafarzadeh, Dr. M. Mahdianpari, E. Gill



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Aerial Thermography and Photogrammetry for the Detection of Archaeological Sites

T. L. Mills, C. A. Coburn



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Mapping Fractional Lichen Cover in Northern Quebec and Labrador Using UAV, Sentinel, and Landsat Imagery

L. Yousefizadeh Naeni, J. Théau, S. Homayouni, Dr. W. Chen, A. Langlois



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Locating Missing Grave Sites using Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems.

C. Coburn, T. Mills, P. Novoseltsev



4:20pm - 4:40pm

A Framework of TLS 3D Point Cloud Use in Digital Twins Development for a Realization of Indoor Environments: A Case Study of an Educational Facility in Toronto, Canada

M. Ismail, A. Shaker, S. Li

4:40pm
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5:40pm
Poster Session 1: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 1
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 01-09
 

Improving the resolution of multispectral satellite imagery using Deep Learning-based Pansharpening

K. Roy, S. Homayouni, Dr. Y. Zhang



Spatially Informed Tabular Deep Learning for Accurate Building Extraction from UAV Imagery: A GEOBIA Approach

M. Hossain, Dr. D. Chen



An Automated Method for Pavement Surface Distress Evaluation

D. Satheesan, M. Talib, Dr. S. Li, Dr. A. X. Yuan



Discrete Wavelet Transformation for De-noising of AI Classified Ground Data

H. Steiner, M. L. Ethier, O. Brown, O. Pylypenko



Estimating Biases in TROPOMI concentration methane product using a machine learning algorithm

M. Marjani, M. Mahdianpari, E. W Gill, F. Mohammadimanesh



Evaluation of Hybrid Satellite On-Board Computer Architectures for Edge-Compute and Machine-Learning Focussed Applications

A. Amellal, J. Langille, M. Seto



Non-Cooperative Vessel Detection using Multispectral Satellite Imaging and Machine Learning Applied towards Onboard Satellite Dark Vessel Detection

K. J. M. Earle, Dr. M. L. Seto



Conifer Tree Classification using Detectron2 and ConvNext from UAV Imagery Data

R. Sharma, K. F. Zhang

Poster Session 2: Advanced Solutions for Agricultural Remote Sensing
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 10-15
 

Comparison of YOLOv7 and YOLOv8n for Tree Detection on UAV RGB Imagery

M. Kaviani, T. Akilan, B. Leblon, D. Amishev, Dr. A. Haddadi, Dr. A. LaRocque



Evaluation of 1DCNN- LSTM deep learning model for Crop Classification using time series Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 in Google Earth Engine (A case study in Quebec, Canada)

S. Ojaghi, A. Zannou, Dr. Y. Bouroubi, Dr. S. Foucher



Real-time Detection of Currant-lettuce Aphid (Nasonovia Ribisnigri) in Lettuce with the YOLOv8-n Model using an Edge Computing System

E. Dubrûle, M. Germain, M. Bélisle, Y. Bouroubi



Enhancing Surface Soil Moisture Estimation from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Observations via Integrating Trapezoidal Models and Random Forest Algorithm

A. Nouraki, M. Golabi, M. Albaji, A. A. Naseri, S. Homayouni



Evaluating the Potential of Temperature/Vegetation Index Space in Crop Evapotranspiration Estimation at Farm Scale

M. Alavi, M. Albaji, M. Golabi, A. A. Naseri, S. Homayouni



Estimation of Canopy Height using Unmanned Ground Vehicle with LiDAR for Wheat Phenotyping

P. Ravichandran, Dr. K. D. Singh, Dr. S. D. Noble, K. Halcro, Dr. R. Soolanayakanahally, Dr. K. Nilsen, Dr. O. Molina, Dr. H. Randhawa, C. Workman, S. Pahari

Poster Session 3: LiDAR Sensing, Data and Applications
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 16-22
 

Mapping Animal and Human Trails in Peatlands with LiDAR and Convolutional Neural Networks

Dr. I. Terentieva, X. Y. Chan, Dr. G. J. McDermid



Predicting Conifer Fraction with Intensity Metrics of Multi-Spectral Lidar in the Taiga Plains

M. Okhrimenko, C. Hopkinson, C. Coburn, Dr. G. Castilla



Lidar based vegetation regeneration mapping on anthropogenic disturbances in caribou range in boreal Alberta, Canada

Dr. B. Hricko, M. Dickie, V. Tran, J. F. Simms, Dr. C. N. McClain



LiDAR change detection along linear disturbances in the boreal forest – a comparison of pixel and point cloud-based approaches

Y. S. Abdullai, Dr. G. McDermid, Dr. J. Linke, C. Shellian, T. Yeomans



Development of Understory Vegetation Characterization Methods from Mobile Laser Scanning

A. Juckler, R. A Fournier, P. Lejeune, O. Valeria



Integrating Airborne LiDAR and, Indigenous knowledge in an archaeo- landscape mapping framework for use in a digital community cultural and environmental stewardship archive

D. King, C. Hopkinson, M. Hogue, N. Plain Eagle



Topobathymetric Lidar Helps Quebec Prepare for Climate-Change Impacts

S. Cowan

Poster Session 4: Observations and Monitoring of the Cryosphere
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 23-29
 

SAR glacier zones mapping of Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut

D. Halle, Dr. W. Van Wychen, Dr. R. Kelly, Dr. D. Burgess, Dr. B. Danielson



Identifying Glacial Pulsing Characteristics in the Canadian Arctic

O. Nowitsky, W. Van Wychen



Sea ice mapping in the Resolute Passage: A RADARSAT-2 PolSAR-Based approach

C. Chaabani, C. S. Salvo, S. Homayouni, K. Chokmani, M. Dabboor



Impacts of Permafrost Degradation on the Limnological Properties of a Series of Lakes in the Canadian High Arctic

L. Pascaud, F. Bouchard, M. Rautio



Satellite-Based Method For Mapping Indicators of Dust-On-Snow Around a Mine in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Dr. W. Chen, Dr. H P. White, Dr. S. G. Leblanc



Mapping of the geomorphological expressions of freeze thaw cycles at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

A. Joyeux, F. Bouchard, A. Langlois



Feature Importance Analysis for Automatic Sea Ice Mapping from Multi-Sensor Satellite Data

F. J. Pena Cantu, J. Park, G. Chen, D. Clausi, A. Scott


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)
10:30am
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10:50am
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
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
11:50am
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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
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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

Invited Session 5: Digital Imaging Technology in Smart Farming and Sustainable Agriculture
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Derek Peddle
Chair: Dr. Keshav Singh
 
1:20pm - 1:40pm

Hyperspectral Prediction of Potato Plant Nutrient Deprivation using High-resolution Spectroradiometry for Minimal Input Agricultural Systems

Dr. D. Peddle, Dr. K. Singh, Dr. J. Neilson, B. Curtis, A. Haller, D. Kipkoech, S. Herridge-Berry



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Leveraging UAV LiDAR and Deep Learning for Monitoring and Auditing Vegetation Growth on Wellsites

Dr. Z. Xi, D. Movchan, A. Van Dongen, D. Degenhardt



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Accurate and Fast Crop Residue Estimation from Smartphone Imagery using Residual Attention UNet

M. Rahimzad, S. Homayouni



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Alfalfa Stem Count and Winter Mortality Assessment Using Proximal Imagery and Artificial Intelligence

H. Bahrami, Dr. K. Chokmani, Dr. S. Homayouni

Scientific Session 03: Synthetic Aperture RADAR
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Kevin Murnaghan
Chair: Desmond Power
 
1:20pm - 1:40pm

Evaluation of Polarimetric SAR Despeckling Methods on Crop Classification using RCM Compact Polarimetry Data

R. Farhadiani, Dr. S. Homayouni



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Coherent Change Detection for Agricultural Activities Monitoring Using New Space SAR

Dr. Q. Zhang, S. Sarjakoski, Dr. A. Johnsy, M. Wollersheim, Dr. V. Tolpekin, J. Hiekkasaari



2:00pm - 2:20pm

RADARSAT Missions Analysis Ready Data

K. Murnaghan, J. Dudley, H. Drouin, F. Charbonneau



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Sensitivity analysis of full-polarization L-band SAR to soil moisture at different depths

X. Zhou, J. Wang

Scientific Session 04: Remote Sensing for Climate Change
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen
Chair: Dr. Bing Lu
 
1:20pm - 1:40pm

Detection on Landsat Imagery of the Effect of Climatic Changes in a Taiga Region of Québec

Dr A. LaRocque, Dr M. Sorais, A. Oluwatomiwa Olatunji, Dr B. Leblon, Dr J.-F. Giroux



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Mapping permafrost vulnerability in the western canadian arctic based on geospatial modelling

G. Machemin, F. Bouchard, D. Didier



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Empowering Tomorrow's Climate Science: The University Consortium for the Canadian Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM)

Dr. N. Marchand, Dr. A. Langlois



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Validating Rates of Change of Canada’s Marine Shoreline Mapped Using Landsat

Dr. G. Manson, Dr. I. Olthof, C. Doughty, Dr. T. James, N. Hastings, R. MacLeod

2:40pm
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3:00pm
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
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

Scientific Session 05: Earth Observation Programs
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Ahmed Shaker
Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Alouette and ISIS Satellites: Old Data for New Insights

R. Sheikholmolouki, N. L. Fee



3:20pm - 3:40pm

SmartEarth initiative: Stimulating and Accelerating Uptake Of Satellite Earth Observation Capabilities, Solutions, Science and Research Through and For Canadian Stakeholders

L. Viciano, R. Dubé, Y. Crevier, L. Giugni, M. Kirby



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Capacity Building through the smartEarth Initiative

J. Claveau, G. Aube, J. Lajoie, M. Rochon, P. Nadeau, C. Colon, J. Beauregard, Y. Crevier, L. Giugni, L. Viciano, R. Dube, M. Kirby



4:00pm - 4:20pm

CSA Research Opportunities in Space Science 2022-2027 Program – Cycle 2 in Atmospheric and Earth System disciplines

M. Adamovic, C. Bolduc, J. Bergeron, H. van Mierlo



4:20pm - 4:40pm

Dialogue and Learning with Joint Earth Observations in Support of Environmental Justice and Reconciliation: NASA, CSA and Indigenous Practitioners

G. Aube, A. McCullum, N. Tulley, S. Cruz, V. Ly, C. Schmidt, D. Werle

Scientific Session 06: Remote Sensing for Coastal Monitoring
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen
Chair: Gordon Staples
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Detection of the origin of river water turbidity along the coast of James Bay (Québec), from Landsat imagery

Dr B. Leblon, Dr A. LaRocque, K. Clyne, Dr M. Costa



3:20pm - 3:40pm

A Global Deep Learning Model for Classification of Optically Shallow and Optically Deep Water for Sentinel-2 Imagery

G. Richardson, N. S. Foreman, Dr. A. Knudby, Y. Wu, Y. Lin



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Addressing Non-Stationary Statistics in SAR Sea Ice Imagery

J. Noa Turnes, L. Xu, N. C. Brubacher, F. J. Pena Cantu, M. Patel, D. A. Clausi



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

N. Brubacher, D. Clausi, Dr. A. Scott, Dr. L. Xu, R. Segal



4:20pm - 4:40pm

RCM Compact Polarimetry for Oil Spill Characterization

G. Staples, J. Chen

Scientific Session 07: Land Use and Land Cover Classification
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Desmond Power
Chair: Dr. H Peter White
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

Super-Resolution Domain Adaptation Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Linear Disturbances in Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Dr. A. M. Nagel, A. Webster, C. J. Henry, C. Storie, O. Tsui, Dr. A. Dean



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

M. F. Bilodeau, C. Toombs, Dr. T. J. Esau, Dr. L. Calderwood



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Changes in Nova Scotia Forests: Assessing Forest Gain and Loss from 1986 to 2022

M. Moniruzzaman, G. Islam, M. M. Hasan, Dr. P. S. S. Matsumoto, Dr. M. Novak, Dr. P. Bush, Dr. K. R. Rahaman



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Reconstructing snow-free Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery: A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) approach.

Dr. T. S. Oluwadare, Dr. D. Chen, O. Oluwafemi, M. Babadi



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

M. Ghobakhloo, M. Ghobakhloo, Y. Zhang, S. Mullaly

4:40pm
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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

Dr. Z. Zhong, C. Ottah, Dr. J. Bermúdez, Dr. C. Rogers, S. Qin, Dr. D. Han, R. B. Lourenço, K. So, Dr. A. Gonsamo



Rapid Urban Flood Mapping with Low-Cost Annotations Based on Weakly Supervised Learning Method

Dr. Y. He, Dr. J. Wang, Dr. Y. Zhang, Dr. C. Liao



Improving AI Change and Damage Detection in Off-Nadir Imagery through Radiometric Enhancement

S. J. McNally, A. Nielsen, A. Barrieau, Dr. S. Jabari



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)

U. I. Senanayake, D. K Weerakoon, K. Millard, S. Mitchell



Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Y. Li, Dr. D. Han, Dr. C. Rogers, Dr. S. Finkelstein, Dr. M. Packalen, Dr. X. Geng, Dr. J. McLaughlin, Dr. J. Snider, Dr. A. Gonsamo



Aerobiological and Microclimatic Monitoring Platform for the Preservation of Tangible Values in Museums and Archives

Dr. M. Montuori



Applying Machine Learning and Sentinel-2 Imagery to assessing Woody Plant Encroachment in southern Alberta Rangelands

E. N. Denning, Dr. E. G. Lamb, Dr. X. Guo

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

I. Rodrigues, C. Hopkinson, L. Chasmer, Dr. R. MacDonald, S. Bayley



Comparing Satellite NDVI and Bi-Temporal Airborne Lidar Canopy Height to Examine Boreal Wetland Vegetation Changes Within the Peace Athabasca Delta

F. Aslami, Dr. C. Hopkinson, Dr. L. Chasmer, Dr. C. Mahoney, Dr. D. L Peters



Understanding the Contribution of Wetland Types in Atmospheric Methane Concentration using TROPOMI data: A Newfoundland Case Study

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



Long-Term Monitoring of Chlorophyll-a in Small Inland Waters Using Landsat Heritage and Machine Learning Models

Dr. A. Chegoonian, C. Duguay, P. Leavitt



Evaluation of Sentinel-6A SAR and Low-Resolution Altimetry Models for deriving Water Surface Elevation of Canadian Lakes

C. Fitzpatrick, J. Leach, M. Garner, D. Stiff



Assessment of phytoplankton assemblages from ocean color in the St. Lawrence Lower Estuary and Gulf

A. Boismenu, C. Nozais, M. Gosselin, S. Bélanger



Mapping aquatic vegetation in shallow clear water of Nova Scotia: Is seagrass identification possible?

K. L. Wilson, E. Devred



Multitemporal mapping of groundwater ecosystem services in the context of land use and climate changes.

S. Randrianiaina, R. Fournier, J. Théau, C. Talec



Canadian SWOT Lakes Activities: An Initial Examination of SWOT Data for Lake Athabasca and Mamawi Lake - Implications for Water Resources Monitoring

D. L Peters, P. Matte, M. Dabboor, C. Spence, M. Russell, N. Van Nieuwenhuizen, Y. Secretan, F. Anctils, M. A. Bessar, D. Purnell, M. Trudel, G. Siles, S. Biancamaria

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

K. M. Wicks, Dr. J. Thomas Ambadan, A. Berg



Remote Sensing of Vegetation Changes in the Peary Caribou Habitat

E. Hamel Jomphe, Dr C. A. Johnson, E. Lévesque, A. Langlois, A. Roy



Monitoring Vegetation Regeneration: Exploring Multiple Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Sensors and Methodologies

B. Pearse, Dr. C. Hopkinson, Dr. L. Chasmer, Dr. C. Coburn, J. Anderson



Design and Construction of a Goniometer for Laboratory Measurement of the Bidirectional Reflectance of Geological Material

A. Camon, G. Couët, A. Mandeville, P. Ménard, M. Lemelin



Characterizing Spectra of Lunar Minerals by Using Regolith Simulant and Mineral Mixtures to Prepare for Upcoming Lunar Missions.

A. Camon, M. Lemelin



NDVI Trends Across the Peace Athabasca Delta Indicate Vegetation Threshold Response to Hydroclimatic Drivers

F. Aslami, Dr. C. Hopkinson, Dr. L. Chasmer, Dr. D. L Peters, Dr. C. Coburn



A Peatland Sub-class, Vegetation Height and Phenology Map for the Canadian Boreal Forest

N. Pontone, Dr. K. Millard

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

M. Mohsenifard, R. Magagi, K. Goita



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.

A. Mbengue, M. Aube, Dr H. Linares, O. Brière, E. So, Y. Bouroubi



Spatiotemporal sprawl of urban land use in a Brazilian city in the Atlantic Forest Biome

M. P. Ribeiro, V. S. Viégas, Dr. K. de Mello, Dr. R. A. Valente, Dr. D. Chen



UAS and TLS 3D Data Fusion for Built Cultural Heritage Assessment and the Application for St. Catherine Monastery in Ferrara, Italy

M. Balestrieri, I. Valmori, Dr. M. Montuori



Spatio-temporal Assessment of NO2 Concentration Across Edmonton City Employing Satellite Remote Sensing Data

M. Moniruzzaman, Dr. M. Novak, Dr. K. R. Rahaman



AOD Changes in the Greater Toronto Area under the Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns

J. Yan, D. Chen, S. Gong



Identification and Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Satellite Imagery

O. A. M. S. Abdelrahman, D. E. Almuina Pica, Dr. A. Shaker, Dr. E. Elbeshbishy



Reconstructing existing underground service networks through BIM methodology: A case study

L. Inzerillo, Dr. F. Acuto, A. Pisciotta, Dr. K. Mantalovas, G. Di Mino

6:30pm
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10:00pm
CRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Stand-up Reception - Canadian Museum of Immigration
Location: Pier 21

Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024
8:00am
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9:00am
3-Minute Thesis Competition
Location: SUB McInnes Room
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
10:00am
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10:20am
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
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

Scientific Session 08: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 1
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
Chair: Dr. Sylvain G Leblanc
 
10:20am - 10:40am

Using Optical Remote Sensing to Monitor and Manage Woody Plant Expansion in Grasslands

I. Soubry, Dr. X. Guo



10:40am - 11:00am

Tracking Cyanobacterial Blooms in Alberta Lakes with Remote Sensing

F. M. Gregory, T. Doan, J. Guo, Dr. R. Vinebrooke, R. Layugan, B. Peter, J. Hird, Dr. C. McClain



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

Dr. L. E. Chasmer, L. Flade, E. Jones, K. Nelson, W. Quinton, C. Hopkinson



11:20am - 11:40am

Modeling Forest Plot Decay Levels from Airborne LiDAR Metrics

A. Sani-Mohammed, W. Yao, Dr. R. Fekry, T. C. Wong, M. Heurich



11:40am - 12:00pm

Grassland Mapping in Manitoba Prairie Ecozone Using Satellite Data and Supervised Machine Learning Approaches on Google Earth Engine

M. Mousavi Choobeh, Dr. J. Biney, Dr. M. R. Cordeiro, Dr. N. Badreldin

Scientific Session 09: Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Ashlin Richardson
Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis
 
10:20am - 10:40am

Remote Sensing-based Near Real-Time Forecasting of Forest Fire Danger Conditions

Dr. M. R. Ahmed, Dr. Q. K. Hassan, Dr. M. Abdollahi, Dr. A. Gupta



10:40am - 11:00am

Operational Near-real-time Pixel-based Image Compositing for Large-area Fire and Burned Severity Mapping in British Columbia

A. Richardson, S. Siddall, R. Stohmann, Dr. M. Crowley, Dr. M. De Jong, A. Bevington, W. MacKinnon



11:00am - 11:20am

Assessment of ALOS-2 L-Band Polarimetric SAR for Fire Danger Monitoring in Mountainous Forests of British Columbia

M. Loncar, A. Richardson, B. Leblon



11:20am - 11:40am

Landslide inventories for two coastal watersheds in British Columbia using semi-automated detection from satellite imagery.

H. J. Basiuk, D. H. Shugar, S. Kijak



11:40am - 12:00pm

RADARSAT Constellation Mission SAR Data and Deep Learning for Wildfire Monitoring

Y. Ban, Y. Zhao, A. Richardson

Scientific Session 10: Monitoring Cryosphere and Water Resources
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson
Chair: Dr. Celeste Charmaine Barnes
 
10:20am - 10:40am

Comparing Spatialised Precipitation Estimates with Lidar-based Snow Water Equivalent in a Mountainous Watershed

Dr. C. C. Barnes, Dr. R. J MacDonald, Dr. C. Hopkinson



10:40am - 11:00am

Testing a Remote Sensing-based Sampling and Imputation Framework to Model Regional-scale Mountain Snow Water Equivalent for Drought Mitigation

Dr. C. Hopkinson, Dr. C. Barnes, Dr. B. Newton, F. Aslami, Dr. L. Chasmer, M. Okhrimenko, I. Rodrigues, M. Singer, J. Van Gaalen



11:00am - 11:20am

Polarimetric L-Band ALOS for Permafrost Characterization in the Hudson Bay Lowlands

P. Wilson, R. Touzi, G. Gosselin



11:20am - 11:40am

Snow water equivalent from Ku-band radar: An update on the Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission concept

Dr. J. Bergeron, Dr. C. Derksen, A. Fourmault, Dr. R. Girard, Dr. B. Montpetit, P. Plourde, Dr. V. Vionnet



11:40am - 12:00pm

Bayesian Fusion of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 Imagery for Lake Ice Monitoring

Dr. H. M. Adebanjo, Dr. C. Chabaani, Dr. S. Homayouni, Dr. K. Chokmani, Dr. N. Rochdi

12:00pm
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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
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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

Scientific Session 11: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 2
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Prof. Aaron Andrew Berg
Chair: Prof. Brigitte Leblon
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

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

Dr. N. Pelletier, Dr. D. Thompson, N. Pontone, L. Guindon, Dr. K. Millard



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Monitoring Post-Wildland Fire Vegetation Regeneration using Lidar and Spectral Indices in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

J. F. Van Gaalen, Dr. C. Hopkinson, J. Aspinall, B. Pearse, Dr. L. Chasmer



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

Dr. L. E. Chasmer, T. Skretting, Dr. C. Shang, O. Tsui, S. Parsian, Dr. Z. Xi, E. A. Jones, Dr. A. Dean, Dr. C. Watson, J. Park, Dr. P. James, Dr. J. Boucher, C. Hopkinson



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

H. Salmabadi, A. Berg, A. Roy



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Remote sensing of vegetation with small drones over a bog and its surrounding land

Dr. S. Leblanc, Dr. H. P. White

Scientific Session 12: Application of Remote Sensing in Forestry
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Prof. Richard Fournier
Chair: Dr. Karin Yvonne van Ewijk
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Integrating Spaceborne LiDAR GEDI and Multitemporal Optical and SAR Data with a Deep Learning Model to Map Forest Canopy Height in Ontario, Canada

Dr. J. D. Bermudez Castro, Dr. C. Rogers, Dr. C. Sother, Dr. A. Gonsamo



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Individual Tree Crown Delineation for Coniferous Trees Using StarDist Model

Dr. F. Tong, Prof. Y. Zhang



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Tree Species Classification on Hyperspectral Imagery Using Fewer Training Samples

Dr. F. Tong, Y. Zhang



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Direct Estimation of Forest Aboveground Biomass from UAV LiDAR Observations for a Red Pine Plantation in Southern Ontario

J. Chau, K. So, S. Rudd, D. T. Robinson, A. Gonsamo



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation Using Mask R-CNN with LiDAR Data in a Mixed-Wood Forest

Q. Li, B. Hu

Scientific Session 13: Satellite Data, Mapping, and Machine Learning
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Tom Lukowski
Chair: Daniel Alan Jewell
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Estimating Tailings Storage Facility Bathymetry Using Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imagery and Machine Learning

Dr. C. Stringari, Dr. J. Engelbrecht, Dr. B. Eaton



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Automated detection of Mine Tailings via Object-Based classification of Sentinel-2 Images

D. A. Jewell, Dr. L. M. Campbell, Dr. H. P. White



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Mapping Burn Severity across Canada

S. Rodrigue, Dr. E. Whitman, L. Guindon, Dr. D. Correia, R. Skakun



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Development of high resolution Vegetation Index Data from JPSS

Dr. Y. Yu, Dr. Y. Zhou



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Using Satellite Products to Estimate Wetland Parameters of a Semi-Distributed Hydrological Model

A.-M. Laroche, Y. Duguay, M. Trudel, A. N. Rousseau

2:40pm
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3:00pm
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm
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4:00pm
Closing Session and Symposium Awards
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
4:00pm
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4:15pm
Symposium Survey
Location: Online Survey
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