Symposium Program

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Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Location: Birch Ballroom
Date: Monday, 16/June/2025
9:00am
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4:30pm
Full Day Workshops - Google Earth Engine
Location: Birch Ballroom
Google Earth Engine
Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025
1:00pm
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2:20pm
Active Snow & WR: Active remote sensing of the snowpack for water resources
Location: Birch Ballroom
Chair: Dr. Brandi Newton
Chair: Dr. Celeste Barnes
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

A Lidar-based assessment of the representativeness of in-situ snow monitoring stations in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta

Dr. B. Newton, M. Guan, Dr. A. Thiombiano, Dr. F. Bearzot, Dr. C. Barnes, Dr. C. Hopkinson



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Evaluating Remote Sensing Lidar-based Snow Water Equivalent with Raven-based Snow Water Equivalent hydrologic modelled outputs in a Mountainous Watershed

Dr. C. Barnes, Dr. B. Newton, Dr. R. MacDonald, Dr. C. Hopkinson



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Quantifying Changes in Hypsometric Snowpack Distribution in a Recovering Post-Fire Mountain Headwater Environment using Airborne Lidar

J. Van Gaalen, Dr. C. Hopkinson



2:00pm - 2:20pm

Understanding errors in lidar- based snow water equivalent modelling for snowpack monitoring in the Eastern Slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains

C. Hopkinson, C. Barnes, J. Van Gaalen, N. Newton, I. Rodrigues, J. Craig, H. Burdette, M. Singer

2:40pm
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4:20pm
3-Minute Thesis Competition Organized by IEEE GRSS IDEA
Location: Birch Ballroom
Chair: Hamid Jafarzadeh
 

3D Building Model Generation with Different Levels-of-Detail using Multi-Source LiDAR Point Cloud Data for Digital Twins Development

M. H. M. S. Ismail



Semantic Modelling of an Indoor Parking Garage Using Hand-held GeoSLAM LiDAR Point Clouds

K. Hu



From Factory Floors to Vanishing Caribou: How Industrial AI Guards an Arctic Icon

G. Serati



Laser Beamin’ the Burns: How the Past Informs the Future of Forest Fire

N. M. Krizan



Event-Based Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

M. Shahraki



Application of Remote Sensing for Wetland Monitoring and Climate Change Mitigation

M. Hemati



Advancing Urban Heat Loss Mitigation with Smart Digital Twin Technology

C. M. Richardson



Monitoring Tailings Dams Through the Eyes of Satellites and AI

R. Farhadiani



Can Big Brother Save the Climate?

D. E. Almuina Pica

Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
1:00pm
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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
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

Aerial Insights: Advancing Nitrogen Estimation in Field Crops using Multispectral Imaging

A. Chegoonian, K. Singh, C. Geddes, C. Hansen, H. Wang



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Evaluation of a High-resolution L-band RPAS-mounted Sensor for Soil Moisture Estimation

H. K. J. Rusk, Dr. A. Berg, J. T. Ambadan, A. McLaren



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Potential of RADARSAT Constellation Mission Compact Polarimetric Data for Soil Moisture Estimation in Agriculture

B. P. Mookkuthala Erkaramana, Dr. K. Goïta, Dr. R. Magagi, A. Fluhrer, F. Hellwig, Dr. T. Jagdhuber



2:00pm - 2:20pm

A Deep Learning-Based Approach for High-Resolution Surface Soil Moisture Estimation: Feature Selection Using SAR and Optical Satellite Data

E. Jahan Nejadi, Dr. R. Magagi, Dr. K. Goïta



2:20pm - 2:40pm

High-Throughput Imaging System for Early Detection of Root Rot Disease in Field Peas (Pisum sativum L.)

Dr. H. Wang, Dr. K. D. Singh, Dr. S. Chatterton, M. Natarajan

3:00pm
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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
 
3:00pm - 3:20pm

The BERA Framework: An Accurate and Efficient Workflow for Performing Reconnaissance Establishment Surveys of Legacy Seismic Lines

Dr. I. Terentieva, N. Byford, X. Y. Chan, Dr. J. Linke, M. Cody, Dr. G. J McDermid



3:20pm - 3:40pm

Operationalizing Seismic Line Delineation at Scale: A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches

Dr. M. J. Pour, Dr. M. M. Rahman, J. Simms, Dr. Q. Y. Zeng, Dr. J. Linke, Dr. G. McDermid



3:40pm - 4:00pm

Human Footprint of Alberta: Integrating Optical Interpretation, High Value Reference Datasets and Composite Rasters to Create Provincial Scale Geospatial Products

S. Vegter, J. Geiger, M. Jones, C.-H. Lo, E. Jerome, C. N. McClain



4:00pm - 4:20pm

Geospatial Tools for Seismic Line Restoration: Deep Learning-based Seedling Detection

Dr. I. Terentieva, N. Byford, Dr. G. J. McDermid



4:20pm - 4:40pm

Multitemporal mapping of groundwater ecosystem services: Impacts of land use and climate change

S. Randrianiaina, R. Fournier, J. Théau, E. Gandouzi, O. Rhazza, C. Talec

Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025
10:50am
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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

1:30pm
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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


 
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