Symposium Program

10:20am - 10:40am

Toward Province-Wide Information on Lentic Open Surface Water Spatio-Temporal Dynamics with Open-Access Sentinel Imagery

T. M. T. Doan¹, M. Merchant^1,2, J. Hird¹, Dr. C. N. McClain¹

¹Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Edmonton, Alberta; ²University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

10:40am - 11:00am

An Adaptive Remote Sensing-Based Regional and Temporal Assessment of Alberta’s Lake Water Resources

F. Aslami¹, C. Hopkinson¹, I. Rodrigues¹, M. Nasr², B. Newton², C. Emmerton², D. Cobbaert²

¹University of Lethbridge, Canada; ²Alberta Environment and Protected Areas

11:00am - 11:20am

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. Hird¹, C. McClain¹

¹Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; ²Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada; ³Alberta Lake Management Society, Canada

11:20am - 11:40am

Deep Learning for Surface Water Mapping in the Canadian Arctic with Very-High Resolution SAR

M. A. Merchant^1,2, M. Mahdianpari^3,4, L. Bourgeau-Chavez⁵, B. DeVries², A. Berg²

¹Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute; ²University of Guelph; ³C-Core; ⁴Memorial University of Newfoundland; ⁵Michigan Tech Research Institute

11:40am - 12:00pm

Aquatic and riparian land cover trends across mountainous headwater basins in Alberta, Canada

I. Rodrigues¹, Dr. C. Hopkinson¹, Dr. L. Chasmer¹, Dr. R. MacDonald¹, Dr. S. Bayley²

¹University of Lethbridge, Canada; ²University of Alberta