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EO Water: Earth observation and mapping of lakes, wetlands, and aquatic ecosystems
Time:
Thursday, 19/June/2025:
10:50am - 12:30pm
Session Chair: Dr. Mina Nasr Session Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson
Location: Birch Ballroom
Presentations
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 1 , M. Merchant1,2 , J. Hird1 , Dr. C. N. McClain1
1 Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Edmonton, Alberta; 2 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
11:10am - 11:30am An Adaptive Remote Sensing-Based Regional and Temporal Assessment of Alberta’s Lake Water Resources
F. Aslami 1 , C. Hopkinson1 , I. Rodrigues1 , M. Nasr2 , B. Newton2 , C. Emmerton2 , D. Cobbaert2
1 University of Lethbridge, Canada; 2 Alberta Environment and Protected Areas
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. Gregory1 , T. M. T. Doan1 , R. Layugan2 , R. Vinebrooke2 , B. Peter3 , J. N. Hird 1 , C. McClain1
1 Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada; 3 Alberta Lake Management Society, Canada
11:50am - 12:10pm Deep Learning for Surface Water Mapping in the Canadian Arctic with Very-High Resolution SAR
M. A. Merchant 1,2 , M. Mahdianpari3,4 , L. Bourgeau-Chavez5 , B. DeVries2 , A. Berg2
1 Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute; 2 University of Guelph; 3 C-Core; 4 Memorial University of Newfoundland; 5 Michigan Tech Research Institute
12:10pm - 12:30pm Aquatic and riparian land cover trends across mountainous headwater basins in Alberta, Canada
I. Rodrigues 1 , Dr. C. Hopkinson1 , Dr. L. Chasmer1 , Dr. R. MacDonald1 , Dr. S. Bayley2
1 University of Lethbridge, Canada; 2 University of Alberta