Symposium Program

Session
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. Doan1, M. Merchant1,2, J. Hird1, Dr. C. N. McClain1

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



11:10am - 11:30am

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



11:30am - 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. Hird1, C. McClain1

1Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Canada; 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada; 3Alberta 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. Merchant1,2, M. Mahdianpari3,4, L. Bourgeau-Chavez5, B. DeVries2, A. Berg2

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



12:10pm - 12:30pm

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