Symposium Program

Session
Wildland Fire: Remote Sensing Tools, Technologies, and Applications in Wildland Fire
Time:
Thursday, 19/June/2025:
1:30pm - 3:10pm

Session Chair: Dr. Laura Chasmer
Session Chair: Dr. Linda Flade
 Location: Birch Ballroom

Presentations
1:30pm - 1:50pm

Assessing post-fire tree regeneration in short interval reburns using airborne lidar

J. Silva1, Dr. L. Chasmer1, Dr. C. Hopkinson1, Dr. J. McCune2, Dr. E. Whitman3, Dr. M.-A. Parisien3, C. Dallyn4

1Department of Geography and Environment, University of Lethbridge; 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge; 3Natural Resources Canada; 4Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency


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

University of Lethbridge, Canada


2:10pm - 2:30pm

Leveraging Remote Sensing for High-Resolution Fuel Mapping: Advancing Wildfire Risk and Behaviour Analysis

J. Wand, J. Rakofsky

Forsite Consultants Ltd., Canada


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

University of Victoria, Canada


2:50pm - 3:10pm

Using in situ NG-CFFDRS plots and airborne lidar to model fire fuels in the Northwest Territories

E. A. Jones1, L. Chasmer1, G. Castilla2, C. Hopkinson1

1University Of Lethbridge, Canada; 2Canadian Forestry Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada