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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing |
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| 3:00pm - 7:30pm |
Registration Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor) |
| 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
Ice Breaker Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor) |
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| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Keynote 1: Photogrammetry with Historical Photography Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Speaker: Dr. Ewelina Rupnik |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Panel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 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. |
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| 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 Tree Seedling Detection from Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Imagery using Convolutional Neural Networks in a Boreal Forest 1:20pm - 1:40pm Estimating Fusarium Head Blight Severity in Winter Wheat using Deep Learning and a Spectral Index 1:40pm - 2:00pm Automated caribou Detection from aerial imagery: A Transfer Learning Approach 2:00pm - 2:20pm Vertical Temperature Gradients in Polar Snow from Passive Microwave Satellite Measurements using Artificial Neural Networks 2:20pm - 2:40pm Mapping vegetation height and identifying the northern forest limit across Canada using ICESat-2 and Landsat time series data |
Invited Session 1: Historical Aerial and Satellite Image Records - Methods and Applications Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis Chair: Roksana Sheikholmolouki A Web Map for Visualizing the Historical Aerial Photography of Indian Residential Schools 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. 1:40pm - 2:00pm Learning-Based versus Traditional Algorithms for Cross-Temporal Image Matching 2:00pm - 2:20pm Methods to Assess Glacier Change in Western Canada 2:20pm - 2:40pm Historical Air Photo Analysis of old Stone Walls as vanishing cultural Landscape Elements at Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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 Techniques for extending sparse training Data and reducing false Positives for mapping Fens in Western US alpine nationally managed Lands 1:20pm - 1:40pm Mapping Linear Features in the Boreal Forest with LiDAR and Convolutional Neural Networks 1:40pm - 2:00pm Characterizing Effects of Repeated Seismic Activity in Boreal Peatlands Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) 2:00pm - 2:20pm Storage and Emissions of Carbon in Boreal Peatlands Affected by Extreme Drought and Wildfire 2:20pm - 2:40pm Modelling Ecosystem Atmospheric Carbon Fluxes Using Random Forests in the Hudson Bay Lowlands |
Scientific Session 01: Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing Location: SUB 270 Chair: Dr. Heather McNairn Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn Generating a Global Deep Learning Dataset of Agricultural Soil Surface Dielectric Constants from Optical Remote Sensing 1:20pm - 1:40pm Sensitivity of Vegetation Indices to Measured Crop Evapotranspiration 1:40pm - 2:00pm Detecting Tillage Events using a Time Series of Sentinel-1 SAR Data 2:00pm - 2:20pm A Texture Information-guided Method of Generating Pseudo Samples for Cropland Extraction 2:20pm - 2:40pm Forecasting Spring Wheat Yields and Climate Influences for Enhancing Future Food Security in Western Canada |
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Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 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 Enhancing Aerial Camera-LiDAR Registration through Synthetic Images and Graph Neural Networks 3:20pm - 3:40pm Multimodal Multitask Semantic Segmentation for 3D Wireframe Moleling of Buildings 3:40pm - 4:00pm A Cost-Effective Method for Collecting Geometric Data on Flood-Relevant Building Attributes for Model Training. 4:00pm - 4:20pm Detecting urban agriculture changes using deep learning approaches, a case study in Huế City, Vietnam 4:20pm - 4:40pm Comparing the Performance of Different Classifiers for Urban Change Detection: A Case Study in Kingston, Ontario |
Invited Session 3: Satellite Gravimetric / GNSS for Water Resources Location: SUB 303 Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh Separation of Snow Water Equivalent from GRACE/GRACE-FO Terrestrial Water Storages Changes 3:20pm - 3:40pm Comparison of in-situ and model-based Precipitation Datasets over Canada using GRACE/GRACE-FO 3:40pm - 4:00pm Combination of Satellite Gravimetry and GNSS Data for Improved Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Estimation 4:00pm - 4:20pm Spectral Combination Approach For Spatiotemporal Downscaling of Groundwater Storage Variations Derived By GRACE and GRACE-FO Observations 4:20pm - 4:40pm Hybrid Compact Polarimetric GNSS-R Analysis Of Lake Ice Physical Properties |
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 New Insights Into Distinguishing Temperate Deciduous Swamps from Upland Forests and Shrublands with SAR 3:20pm - 3:40pm Using Remote Sensing to determine the Role of Peatlands in Fire Refugia Creation in Boreal Forests of Western Canada 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 4:00pm - 4:20pm Arctic and sub-Arctic wildfires in Canada’s permafrost peatlands 1986–2022 4:20pm - 4:40pm The Sensitivity of SMAP Brightness Temperature Retrievals to Open Water Dynamics and Peatland/Wetland Areas |
Scientific Session 02: Remote Sensing for Mapping Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Songnian Li Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn Introducing WetSAT: A Canadian Large-Scale Deep Learning Benchmark Dataset for Wetland Classification 3:20pm - 3:40pm Aerial Thermography and Photogrammetry for the Detection of Archaeological Sites 3:40pm - 4:00pm Mapping Fractional Lichen Cover in Northern Quebec and Labrador Using UAV, Sentinel, and Landsat Imagery 4:00pm - 4:20pm Locating Missing Grave Sites using Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems. 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 |
| 4:40pm - 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 Spatially Informed Tabular Deep Learning for Accurate Building Extraction from UAV Imagery: A GEOBIA Approach An Automated Method for Pavement Surface Distress Evaluation Discrete Wavelet Transformation for De-noising of AI Classified Ground Data Estimating Biases in TROPOMI concentration methane product using a machine learning algorithm Evaluation of Hybrid Satellite On-Board Computer Architectures for Edge-Compute and Machine-Learning Focussed Applications Non-Cooperative Vessel Detection using Multispectral Satellite Imaging and Machine Learning Applied towards Onboard Satellite Dark Vessel Detection Conifer Tree Classification using Detectron2 and ConvNext from UAV Imagery Data |
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 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) Real-time Detection of Currant-lettuce Aphid (Nasonovia Ribisnigri) in Lettuce with the YOLOv8-n Model using an Edge Computing System Enhancing Surface Soil Moisture Estimation from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Observations via Integrating Trapezoidal Models and Random Forest Algorithm Evaluating the Potential of Temperature/Vegetation Index Space in Crop Evapotranspiration Estimation at Farm Scale Estimation of Canopy Height using Unmanned Ground Vehicle with LiDAR for Wheat Phenotyping |
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 Predicting Conifer Fraction with Intensity Metrics of Multi-Spectral Lidar in the Taiga Plains Lidar based vegetation regeneration mapping on anthropogenic disturbances in caribou range in boreal Alberta, Canada LiDAR change detection along linear disturbances in the boreal forest – a comparison of pixel and point cloud-based approaches Development of Understory Vegetation Characterization Methods from Mobile Laser Scanning Integrating Airborne LiDAR and, Indigenous knowledge in an archaeo- landscape mapping framework for use in a digital community cultural and environmental stewardship archive Topobathymetric Lidar Helps Quebec Prepare for Climate-Change Impacts |
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 Identifying Glacial Pulsing Characteristics in the Canadian Arctic Sea ice mapping in the Resolute Passage: A RADARSAT-2 PolSAR-Based approach Impacts of Permafrost Degradation on the Limnological Properties of a Series of Lakes in the Canadian High Arctic Satellite-Based Method For Mapping Indicators of Dust-On-Snow Around a Mine in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Mapping of the geomorphological expressions of freeze thaw cycles at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut Feature Importance Analysis for Automatic Sea Ice Mapping from Multi-Sensor Satellite Data |
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| 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 |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Panel 2: A New CRSS-SCT Model for Remote Sensing Certification Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 10:30am - 10:50am |
Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 1:20pm - 2:40pm |
Industry Session 1: Applied Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Gordon Staples Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari A Hybrid Approach for Automatic Missing Road Detection 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 2:00pm - 2:20pm Applications of Drone Technology for Heritage Property Monitoring and Conservation 2:20pm - 2:40pm Photogrammetric Inspections of Underground Infrastructure with a Single Axis Robotic Head |
Invited Session 5: Digital Imaging Technology in Smart Farming and Sustainable Agriculture Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Derek Peddle Chair: Dr. Keshav Singh Hyperspectral Prediction of Potato Plant Nutrient Deprivation using High-resolution Spectroradiometry for Minimal Input Agricultural Systems 1:40pm - 2:00pm Leveraging UAV LiDAR and Deep Learning for Monitoring and Auditing Vegetation Growth on Wellsites 2:00pm - 2:20pm Accurate and Fast Crop Residue Estimation from Smartphone Imagery using Residual Attention UNet 2:20pm - 2:40pm Alfalfa Stem Count and Winter Mortality Assessment Using Proximal Imagery and Artificial Intelligence |
Scientific Session 03: Synthetic Aperture RADAR Location: SUB 307 Chair: Kevin Murnaghan Chair: Desmond Power Evaluation of Polarimetric SAR Despeckling Methods on Crop Classification using RCM Compact Polarimetry Data 1:40pm - 2:00pm Coherent Change Detection for Agricultural Activities Monitoring Using New Space SAR 2:00pm - 2:20pm RADARSAT Missions Analysis Ready Data 2:20pm - 2:40pm Sensitivity analysis of full-polarization L-band SAR to soil moisture at different depths |
Scientific Session 04: Remote Sensing for Climate Change Location: SUB 270 Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen Chair: Dr. Bing Lu Detection on Landsat Imagery of the Effect of Climatic Changes in a Taiga Region of Québec 1:40pm - 2:00pm Mapping permafrost vulnerability in the western canadian arctic based on geospatial modelling 2:00pm - 2:20pm Empowering Tomorrow's Climate Science: The University Consortium for the Canadian Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM) 2:20pm - 2:40pm Validating Rates of Change of Canada’s Marine Shoreline Mapped Using Landsat |
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Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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| 3:00pm - 4:40pm |
Industry Session 2: Applied Remote Sensing Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari Chair: Dr. Robert Andrew Ryerson ArboSense Fuels: an End-to-End Software Solution for Forest Fuel Mapping using Airborne Laser Scanning Data 3:20pm - 3:40pm Hierarchical Classification of WAM-Predicted Streams for Forest Operations using Machine Learning and LiDAR Data 3:40pm - 4:00pm Suivi des Coupes Progressives Irrégulières à l’Aide de l’Imagerie par Drones et l’Apprentissage Profond 4:00pm - 4:20pm Satellite-Derived Morphological Change Detection of Rivers for Hydrotechnical Risk Assessment – the Case of the Skeena River, BC 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 |
Scientific Session 05: Earth Observation Programs Location: SUB 303 Chair: Dr. Ahmed Shaker Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh Alouette and ISIS Satellites: Old Data for New Insights 3:20pm - 3:40pm SmartEarth initiative: Stimulating and Accelerating Uptake Of Satellite Earth Observation Capabilities, Solutions, Science and Research Through and For Canadian Stakeholders 3:40pm - 4:00pm Capacity Building through the smartEarth Initiative 4:00pm - 4:20pm CSA Research Opportunities in Space Science 2022-2027 Program – Cycle 2 in Atmospheric and Earth System disciplines 4:20pm - 4:40pm Dialogue and Learning with Joint Earth Observations in Support of Environmental Justice and Reconciliation: NASA, CSA and Indigenous Practitioners |
Scientific Session 06: Remote Sensing for Coastal Monitoring Location: SUB 307 Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen Chair: Gordon Staples Detection of the origin of river water turbidity along the coast of James Bay (Québec), from Landsat imagery 3:20pm - 3:40pm A Global Deep Learning Model for Classification of Optically Shallow and Optically Deep Water for Sentinel-2 Imagery 3:40pm - 4:00pm Addressing Non-Stationary Statistics in SAR Sea Ice Imagery 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 4:20pm - 4:40pm RCM Compact Polarimetry for Oil Spill Characterization |
Scientific Session 07: Land Use and Land Cover Classification Location: SUB 270 Chair: Desmond Power Chair: Dr. H Peter White Super-Resolution Domain Adaptation Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Linear Disturbances in Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery 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 3:40pm - 4:00pm Changes in Nova Scotia Forests: Assessing Forest Gain and Loss from 1986 to 2022 4:00pm - 4:20pm Reconstructing snow-free Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery: A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) approach. 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 |
| 4:40pm - 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 Rapid Urban Flood Mapping with Low-Cost Annotations Based on Weakly Supervised Learning Method Improving AI Change and Damage Detection in Off-Nadir Imagery through Radiometric Enhancement 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) Peat Depth and Carbon Storage of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada Aerobiological and Microclimatic Monitoring Platform for the Preservation of Tangible Values in Museums and Archives Applying Machine Learning and Sentinel-2 Imagery to assessing Woody Plant Encroachment in southern Alberta Rangelands |
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 Comparing Satellite NDVI and Bi-Temporal Airborne Lidar Canopy Height to Examine Boreal Wetland Vegetation Changes Within the Peace Athabasca Delta Understanding the Contribution of Wetland Types in Atmospheric Methane Concentration using TROPOMI data: A Newfoundland Case Study Long-Term Monitoring of Chlorophyll-a in Small Inland Waters Using Landsat Heritage and Machine Learning Models Evaluation of Sentinel-6A SAR and Low-Resolution Altimetry Models for deriving Water Surface Elevation of Canadian Lakes Assessment of phytoplankton assemblages from ocean color in the St. Lawrence Lower Estuary and Gulf Mapping aquatic vegetation in shallow clear water of Nova Scotia: Is seagrass identification possible? Multitemporal mapping of groundwater ecosystem services in the context of land use and climate changes. Canadian SWOT Lakes Activities: An Initial Examination of SWOT Data for Lake Athabasca and Mamawi Lake - Implications for Water Resources Monitoring |
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 Remote Sensing of Vegetation Changes in the Peary Caribou Habitat Monitoring Vegetation Regeneration: Exploring Multiple Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Sensors and Methodologies Design and Construction of a Goniometer for Laboratory Measurement of the Bidirectional Reflectance of Geological Material Characterizing Spectra of Lunar Minerals by Using Regolith Simulant and Mineral Mixtures to Prepare for Upcoming Lunar Missions. NDVI Trends Across the Peace Athabasca Delta Indicate Vegetation Threshold Response to Hydroclimatic Drivers A Peatland Sub-class, Vegetation Height and Phenology Map for the Canadian Boreal Forest |
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 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. Spatiotemporal sprawl of urban land use in a Brazilian city in the Atlantic Forest Biome UAS and TLS 3D Data Fusion for Built Cultural Heritage Assessment and the Application for St. Catherine Monastery in Ferrara, Italy Spatio-temporal Assessment of NO2 Concentration Across Edmonton City Employing Satellite Remote Sensing Data AOD Changes in the Greater Toronto Area under the Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns Identification and Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants Using Satellite Imagery Reconstructing existing underground service networks through BIM methodology: A case study |
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CRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Stand-up Reception - Canadian Museum of Immigration Location: Pier 21 |
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| 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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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 |
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Health Break Location: SUB McInnes Room |
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Closing Session and Symposium Awards Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) |
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| 4:00pm - 4:15pm |
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