46th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

June 16 - 19, 2025 - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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Symposium Program

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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025
8:30am - 9:30am	Keynote 4: Dr. Alain Pietroniro Location: Birch and Cedar Ballrooms
9:30am - 10:30am	ISPRS Panel: Panel 3: ISPRS Discussion Location: Birch and Cedar Ballrooms Chair: Dr. Derek Lichti
10:30am - 10:50am	Health Break Location: Aspen Ballroom
10:50am - 12:30pm	EO Water: Earth observation and mapping of lakes, wetlands, and aquatic ecosystems Location: Birch Ballroom Chair: Dr. Mina Nasr Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson 10:50am - 11:10am Toward Province-Wide Information on Lentic Open Surface Water Spatio-Temporal Dynamics with Open-Access Sentinel Imagery T. M. T. Doan, M. Merchant, J. Hird, Dr. C. N. McClain 11:10am - 11:30am An Adaptive Remote Sensing-Based Regional and Temporal Assessment of Alberta’s Lake Water Resources F. Aslami, C. Hopkinson, I. Rodrigues, M. Nasr, B. Newton, C. Emmerton, D. Cobbaert 11:30am - 11:50am Reconstructing whole-lake harmful algal bloom trends on selected Alberta lakes: Leveraging the Landsat archive to answer important questions about historical dynamics F. Gregory, T. M. T. Doan, R. Layugan, R. Vinebrooke, B. Peter, J. N. Hird, C. McClain 11:50am - 12:10pm Deep Learning for Surface Water Mapping in the Canadian Arctic with Very-High Resolution SAR M. A. Merchant, M. Mahdianpari, L. Bourgeau-Chavez, B. DeVries, A. Berg 12:10pm - 12:30pm Aquatic and riparian land cover trends across mountainous headwater basins in Alberta, Canada I. Rodrigues, Dr. C. Hopkinson, Dr. L. Chasmer, Dr. R. MacDonald, Dr. S. Bayley	Applications: Applications Location: Cedar Ballroom Chair: Prof. Derek R. Peddle 10:50am - 11:10am Drone-Based Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Water-Surface Microplastic Pollution Dr. D. Chabot, Dr. J. P. Arroyo-Mora, R. J. Soffer, Dr. M. Kalacska, O. Lucanus, Dr. S. Zou, Dr. S. C. Marteinson 11:10am - 11:30am Enhancing Seal Detection in Arctic Regions through Fine-Tuning of FasterRCNN: A Case Study Using NOAA and DFO Datasets K. J. Hu, Dr. D. Clausi, Dr. L. Xu 11:30am - 11:50am Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Caribou Monitoring: A Novel Approach to Wildlife Monitoring Without Extensive Labeling G. Serati, J. Théau, S. Foucher 11:50am - 12:10pm Remote Sensing as a Tool for Defining Seasons in the Semiarid Under Caatinga Biome Conditions N. S. Soares, C. A. Gomes Costa, J. B. C. de Lima, J. C. de Araújo	Large Area: Large Area Mapping Location: Antons Ballroom Chair: Dr. Brigitte B. Leblon 10:50am - 11:10am Reconstructing Historical Landsat Time Series Using a Transformer-Based Deep Learning Approach in the Canadian Prairies Region M. Babadi Ataabadi, D. Pouliot, D. Chen, T. S. Oluwadare 11:10am - 11:30am Integrating Earth Observation Data into Impact Assessment Frameworks D. T Janzen 11:30am - 11:50am Multi-Headed Late Fusion Networks for Land Cover Classification Using Multi-Temporal and Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Data T. Ham, Dr. B. Hu 11:50am - 12:10pm Detecting Crested Wheatgrass Using Remote Sensing M. Mohammed, Dr. X. Guo 12:10pm - 12:30pm Investigating GNSS-Based Terrestrial Water Storage Changes Across North America M. Nasiri, Dr. F. Fatolazadeh, Dr. K. Goïta	RS-Engineering/Sensors: RS-Engineering/Sensors Location: Poplar III Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn 10:50am - 11:10am Advancing Earth Observation with Wyvern’s Dragonette Hyperspectral Satellite Constellation Dr. C. Bryant, E. Jones, K. Rilling 11:10am - 11:30am Understanding Terrestrial Water Storage Changes derived from GRACE/GRACE-FO and GLDAS model in the Inner Niger Delta in West Africa Dr. F. Fatolazadeh, Dr. K. Goïta 11:30am - 11:50am Enhancing Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation for Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation Across Smartphone Cameras A. Mohamed, Dr. M. Elhabiby, Dr. N. El-Sheimy 11:50am - 12:10pm State Covariance based Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Alignment for VIO Systems Z. Zhou, Dr. H. Yang 12:10pm - 12:30pm Multi-Object Tracking in UAV Videos: A YOLOv11 Fusion Method for Detection and Segmentation Optimization M. Ahmed, Dr. N. El sheimy
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Location: Aspen Ballroom
1:30pm - 3:10pm	Wildland Fire: Remote Sensing Tools, Technologies, and Applications in Wildland Fire Location: Birch Ballroom Chair: Dr. Laura Chasmer Chair: Dr. Linda Flade 1:30pm - 1:50pm Assessing post-fire tree regeneration in short interval reburns using airborne lidar J. Silva, Dr. L. Chasmer, Dr. C. Hopkinson, Dr. J. McCune, Dr. E. Whitman, Dr. M.-A. Parisien, C. Dallyn 1:50pm - 2:10pm Monitoring Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery Rates and Patterns in a Mountain Park Environment using Field, RPAS, and Airborne Multispectral Lidar J. Van Gaalen, Dr. C. Hopkinson, J. Aspinall, Dr. L. Chasmer 2:10pm - 2:30pm Leveraging Remote Sensing for High-Resolution Fuel Mapping: Advancing Wildfire Risk and Behaviour Analysis J. Wand, J. Rakofsky 2:30pm - 2:50pm New Open-source Software and Automated Classifier for Analysing Historical and Modern Oblique Images for Landcover Assessment and Fire Management C. Wright, A. Mahindrakar, B. Wright, S. Rose 2:50pm - 3:10pm Using in situ NG-CFFDRS plots and airborne lidar to model fire fuels in the Northwest Territories E. A. Jones, L. Chasmer, G. Castilla, C. Hopkinson	AG-2: Agriculture-2 Location: Cedar Ballroom Chair: Dr. Bing Lu 1:30pm - 1:50pm Mapping Blueberry Traits using High-Spatial Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images Dr. B. Lu, P. Zhang, L. Yang, Dr. A. Jamali, Dr. M. Schmidt 1:50pm - 2:10pm Crop Identification Using High-resolution SAR Image Time Series Q. Zhang, M. Wollersheim, A. Papadimitriou, A. Johnsy, V. Tolpekin, M. Rankl, A. Berg 2:10pm - 2:30pm Spectral Variability in Potato Tubers: Implications for Sugar Content and Processing Quality Prediction K. Gill, Dr. D. Peddle, Dr. J. Neilson, Dr. K. Singh, S. Herridge-Berry 2:30pm - 2:50pm The Analysis of the Agricultural Crop Water Productivity Behaviour in Humid climate Region for Irrigated and Rainfed Areas, Case Study Rwanda I. Ndikubwimana, Dr. B. Maathuis	Arctic: Arctic Location: Antons Ballroom Chair: Dr. HPeter White 1:30pm - 1:50pm Pan-Arctic Wetland Mapping: A New Tool for Monitoring Natural Methane Emissions and Enhancing Global Methane Budget Estimates Dr. M. Mahdianpari 1:50pm - 2:10pm Regional Fugitive Dust Monitoring, preliminary snow melt characterization on Northern Baffin Island Dr. H. White, Dr. M. T. Bonney, G. Choma 2:10pm - 2:30pm Remote Sensing Reveals Complex Water Colour Dynamics in Arctic Lakes Q. Chang, Dr. S. Zwieback, Dr. A. Berg 2:30pm - 2:50pm Lakes as Sentinels of Permafrost Thaw: Investigating Thermokarst Evolution near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut L. Pascaud, F. Bouchard, M. Rautio, S. Coulombe	Urban: Urban Location: Poplar III Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari 1:30pm - 1:50pm Urban Vegetation Cover Mapping via a Semantic Adaptive Model Across Multiple Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery Dr. Y. Zhang, Dr. Y. He, Dr. J. Ruppert, Dr. L. Cartwright, Dr. G. Chen 1:50pm - 2:10pm Urban Flood Detection Using Spaceborne SAR Imagery Q. Zhang, M. Wollersheim, A. Johnsy, V. Tolpekin, M. Rankl, P. Poutanen, B. Wright 2:10pm - 2:30pm UAV-Based LiDAR System for Urban Mapping and Modelling Applications Dr. M. El-Diasty, Dr. A. Al-Hashim, Dr. R. Abdalla 2:30pm - 2:50pm Space-Time Pattern Mining for Urban Microclimate Analysis in Compact Cities: A Remote Sensing Approach Dr. V. Jayasooriya, Dr. M. Adams 2:50pm - 3:10pm UAV-Based Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Urban Feature Segmentation M. Shahraki, Dr. A. Elamin, Dr. A. El-Rabbany
3:10pm - 3:30pm	Health Break Location: Aspen Ballroom
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Closing Session, Society Members Meeting and Symposium Awards Location: Birch and Cedar Ballrooms

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