46th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
June 16 - 19, 2025 - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Symposium Program
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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | ||||
| 8:30am - 9:30am |
Keynote 3: Dr. Catherine Champagne Location: Birch and Cedar Ballrooms |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Panel 2: Agriculture Technology Location: Birch and Cedar Ballrooms Chair: Dr. Késhav Singh Chair: Prof. Derek R. Peddle |
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| 10:30am - 10:50am |
Health Break |
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| 10:50am - 11:50am |
Industry Discussion Session: Location: Birch and Cedar Ballrooms Chair: Prof. Derek R. Peddle Industry Discussion Session |
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| 11:50am - 1:00pm |
Lunch Location: Aspen Ballroom |
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| 1:00pm - 2:40pm |
Agriculture: Crop growth and soil moisture monitoring using microwave and optical remote sensing. Location: Birch Ballroom Chair: Dr. Hongquan Wang Chair: Dr. Amir Chegoonian Aerial Insights: Advancing Nitrogen Estimation in Field Crops using Multispectral Imaging 1:20pm - 1:40pm Evaluation of a High-resolution L-band RPAS-mounted Sensor for Soil Moisture Estimation 1:40pm - 2:00pm Potential of RADARSAT Constellation Mission Compact Polarimetric Data for Soil Moisture Estimation in Agriculture 2:00pm - 2:20pm A Deep Learning-Based Approach for High-Resolution Surface Soil Moisture Estimation: Feature Selection Using SAR and Optical Satellite Data 2:20pm - 2:40pm High-Throughput Imaging System for Early Detection of Root Rot Disease in Field Peas (Pisum sativum L.) |
Natural Resources: Natural Resources Location: Cedar Ballroom Chair: Subir Chowdhury Thermal Remote Sensing for Urban Energy Efficiency: A Pilot Project in the City of Medicine Hat, Canada 1:20pm - 1:40pm Integrating Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning for Oil and Gas Well Pad Reclamation Assessments in Alberta’s Forested Ecosystems 1:40pm - 2:00pm Development of Analytical Tools for Lunar Mineralogy Using Multi-Source In Situ Remote Sensing Data 2:00pm - 2:20pm Multispectral and field-spectroscopy-based Mapping of metamorphic and Alteration Minerals in the Andrew Lake Region, northeastern Alberta |
Wildfire: Wildfire Location: Antons Ballroom Chair: Dr. Laura Chasmer Chair: Dr. Linda Flade Remote Sensing Model to Forecast Wildfire Danger in the Northwest Territories 1:20pm - 1:40pm Quantifying Belowground Carbon Loss in Managed Peatlands: Burn Depth, Drivers, and Climate Implications 1:40pm - 2:00pm A Remote Sensing Approach to Detecting Forest to Heathland State Shifts in Post Fire Boreal Forest, Newfoundland 2:00pm - 2:20pm The Chetamon Fire in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada: Burn Severity in Relation to Fire History |
Digital Twins - Urban: Advancing Digital Twins for Urban Environments: Approaches to Mapping, Monitoring, and Management Location: Poplar III Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari Digital Twin for Road Surface Condition Monitoring and Assessment using Multi-Sensor Data 1:20pm - 1:40pm Indoor Digital Twins: Evaluating Smartphone Models Oriented with Ultrasonic Positioning Against TLS 1:40pm - 2:00pm Improving DMSA-SLAM accuracy through GNSS integration for geospatial mapping 2:00pm - 2:20pm A comprehensive framework for 3D building model generation with different Levels-of-Detail using multi-source LiDAR point cloud data for Digital Twins development 2:20pm - 2:40pm Advancing Urban Heat Loss Mitigation with Smart Digital Twin Technology |
| 2:40pm - 3:00pm |
Health Break Location: Aspen Ballroom |
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| 3:00pm - 4:40pm |
RS Human - Beyond Maps: Learnings and practical applications of remote sensing in human disturbance mapping: going beyond map product development Location: Birch Ballroom Chair: Jennifer Nicole Hird Chair: Dr. Mir Mustafizur Rahman The BERA Framework: An Accurate and Efficient Workflow for Performing Reconnaissance Establishment Surveys of Legacy Seismic Lines 3:20pm - 3:40pm Operationalizing Seismic Line Delineation at Scale: A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches 3:40pm - 4:00pm Human Footprint of Alberta: Integrating Optical Interpretation, High Value Reference Datasets and Composite Rasters to Create Provincial Scale Geospatial Products 4:00pm - 4:20pm Geospatial Tools for Seismic Line Restoration: Deep Learning-based Seedling Detection 4:20pm - 4:40pm Multitemporal mapping of groundwater ecosystem services: Impacts of land use and climate change |
Forestry: Forestry Location: Cedar Ballroom Chair: Prof. Richard Fournier Mapping Vancouver Island’s Big Trees Using Lidar, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, and Deep Learning 3:20pm - 3:40pm Unveiling Forest Vertical Structure Using Mobile LiDAR 3:40pm - 4:00pm Variation in the Estimation of Above Ground Biomass from Empirical Models in the Brazilian Caatinga Biome 4:00pm - 4:20pm Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Individual Tree Crown Detection and Delineation in Mixed-Wood Forests Using High-Resolution LiDAR Data 4:20pm - 4:40pm Using Bitemporal RPAS Point Clouds to Evaluate Changes in Standing Tree Stem Count, Canopy Height and Coverage due to the Jasper Wildland Fire |
Water: Water Location: Antons Ballroom Chair: Dr. Ben DeVries Tracking complex surface water dynamics in Arctic and Boreal regions using multi-source satellite imagery and time series decomposition 3:20pm - 3:40pm Identifying Dynamic Water/Wetland Using Seasonal SAR Time Series in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada: Application of Functional Data Analysis 3:40pm - 4:00pm Comparative Analysis of UAVSAR Polarimetric Decompositions for Wetland Aboveground Biomass Mapping Using Machine Learning Models 4:00pm - 4:20pm Climate and human impact shape long-term phytoplankton dynamics in the Lake Winnipeg watershed |
Radar: Radar Location: Poplar III Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta Uncertainty Quantification of Deep Learning based Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Concentration Estimation from Sentinel-1, RCM and AMSR2 Data 3:20pm - 3:40pm Generating a Deep Learning Dataset From 2D Simulations of C-Band Soil Dielectric Constants under Different Soil Surface Parameter Conditions 3:40pm - 4:00pm Comparing Continuous and Yearly PSInSAR Monitoring of Ground Deformation Using SRTM and LiDAR DEMs 4:00pm - 4:20pm A Semi-Supervised Teacher-Student Framework for Soil Moisture Estimation by Combining L-Band Radar and Optical Data Over Forests |
| 4:40pm - 5:40pm |
Poster Session 2: Location: Aspen Ballroom Wetland Modelling in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River Basins: Leveraging Multi-Frequency SAR, Geomorphometry, and National Inventory Datasets Assessing Urban Plant Biodiversity Using RGB Drone Remote Sensing: The Trade-Offs of Spatial Resolution Assessing the Potential of Large Language Models for Complex Time-Series Change Detection: A Reasoning-Based Approach Mapping the formation and drainage of Thermokarst Lakes in North America using Landsat time series Analysis of the Attractiveness of Cycling Infrastructures in Sherbrooke using Image Segmentation The National Burned Area Composite (NBAC) of Canada’s Wildfires Spectral Diversity as a Predictor of Tree Diversity: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities Across Forest Ecosystems Optimizing Vegetation Indices to Estimate Grasslands Productivity Using Principal Component Analysis Based on Hyperspectral Imaging 3D Reconstruction of GHG Emissions using Infrared Depth Sensors for Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) Monitoring Water Levels in Canadian Lakes and Reservoirs using the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission Spatial Assessment of Population Vulnerability to Urban Heat in 14 Major French Cities Advancing Weed Management: Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning for Herbicide-resistant Weed Detection Real-time estimation of tree stem volume in a harvester Analysis of surface water bodies using Sentinel-2 images and water indices Monitoring and Forecasting Dam Deformation using InSAR: A Case Study of Oldman River Dam, Alberta Comparison of Mask R-CNN Performance for Tree Detection on UAV Imagery Deep Learning Subpixel Change Detection from MODIS 250m Imagery in Canada with Geographically Dependent Transition Matrices Evaluating Optimal Pixel Size for Accurate Tree Height Estimation from LiDAR-Derived Canopy Height Models Integrating satellite and LiDAR data to model landscape forest productivity in uneven-aged and managed forests in central B.C. Modelling Vegetation Regeneration of Seismic Lines in Boreal Caribou Ranges Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Mensuration of Range Landscape Foliar, Root and Soil Carbon Storage Monitoring Post-wildfire Vegetation Regeneration in Waterton Lakes National Park using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems |
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| 6:30pm - 10:00pm |
CRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Banquet Location: Aspen, Birch, Cedar |
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