Monday, 19th June

Monday
09:00 - 10:05
SS1
Summer School 1
Venue
SH-3620
09:00
»
Dr. Brigitte Leblon & Dr. Armand LaRocque
University of New Brunswick
Monday
10:05 - 10:15
Break - Pause
Monday
10:15 - 11:15
SS2
Summer School 2
Venue
SH-3620
10:15
»
Prof. Karem Chokmani
INRS-ETE
Monday
11:15 - 12:15
SS3
Summer School 3
Venue
SH-3620
11:15
»
Dr. François Cavayas
University of Montreal
Monday
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch - Repas
Monday
13:15 - 14:15
SS4
Summer School 4
Venue
SH-3620
13:15
»
Prof. Christiane Schmullius
Friedrich-Schiller-University
Monday
14:15 - 15:15
SS5
Summer School 5
Venue
SH-3620
14:15
»
Prof. Angela Kross
Concordia University
Monday
15:15 - 15:30
Break - Pause
Monday
15:30 - 16:30
SS6
Summer School 6
Venue
SH-3620
15:30
»
Prof. Margaret Kalacska (1) & Dr. Pablo Arroyo (2)
McGill University(1), NRC(2)
Monday
16:30 - 17:00
Summer School Wrap-up, Degree presentation, Picture - Conclusion, Diplôme, Photo de groupe
Venue
SH-3620

Tuesday, 20th June

Tuesday
08:00 - 10:30
Registration - Inscription
Venue
Hall
Tuesday
09:00 - 09:30
EO Summit 2017 Welcome address
Venue
Amphitheatre
Tuesday
09:30 - 10:00
KN-1
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
09:30
TBD
»
Michael Rast
(ESA)
Tuesday
10:00 - 10:30
KN-2
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
10:00
TBD
»
David Grimes
(ECCC / WMO)
Tuesday
10:30 - 11:00
Break - Pause
Tuesday
10:30 - 15:45
Kiosks - Kiosques
Venue
Salle polyvalente
Tuesday
10:30 - 15:30
Comparison of UAV-based RGB Camera Data to multispectral imagery for determining structural Characteristics of a coniferous Forest
» Griffin Williams (Trent University), Steven Franklin (Trent University)
A Combined Method for Vegetation Classification Based on Visible Bands from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Images: A Case Study for Wild Parsnip Plants
» Jingyi Liu (Queen's University), Dongmei Chen (Queen's University)
Alignment of Spectrometer and multispectral Camera Data in low-cost UAV Remote Sensing for precision farming
» Chui Zeng (Carleton University), Douglas King (Carleton University), Murray Richardson (Carleton University)
Unmanned aerial photographic Mapping of intertidal Eelgrass
» Natasha Nahirnick (University of Victoria), Paul Hunter (High Angle UAV), Maycira Costa (University of Victoria), Sarah Schroeder (University of Victoria), Tara Sharma (Parks Canada)
Assessing Soil Organic Carbon Levels at the Sub-Field Scale in southwestern Ontario using UAVs with hyperspectral, multispectral and thermal Sensors
» Ahmed Laamrani (Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph), Ralph Martin (Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph), Aaron Berg (Department of Geography, University of Guelph), Graham Taylor (School of Engineering, University of Guelph), Paul Voroney (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph), Alan Ker (Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Guelph)
CloudUAV: A new CANARIE Network-enabled Cloud-based Open Source Software Platform for UAV Researchers
» Jordan Eamer (University of Calgary), Greg McDermid (University of Calgary), Steve Liang (SensorUp)
UAV-Based Photogrammetry Provides an Accurate and Cost-Effective Means of Mapping Northern Landscape Changes
» Robert Fraser (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Jurjen Van Der Sluijs (Centre for Geomatics, Government of the Northwest Territories), Ian Olthof (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Steve Kokelj (Northwest Territories Geological Survey, Government of the Northwest Territories), Carla Schmitt (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada), Trevor Lantz (School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria), Ronald Hall (Canadian Forest Service), Jon Tunnicliffe (School of Environment, The University of Auckland), Christian Prevost (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada)
Estimation of Wheat Canopy Height Using UAV Derived 3D Point Cloud Data
» Yang Song (The University of Western Ontario), Jinfei Wang (University of Western Ontario)
Off-the-shelf Unmanned Aerial Vehicle at the Mer Bleue Bog
» Sylvain Leblanc (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada Natural Resources Canada), H.Peter White (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Christian Prevost (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
Spatial Analysis of A Mountain Profile using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery – A Case Study for Ski Resort Development and Planning
» Isabella Beharrell (Selkirk College)
Multispectral LiDAR Data Clustering Using Gaussian Decomposition
» Salem Morsy (Ryerson University), Ahmed Shaker (Ryerson University), Ahmed El-Rabbany (Ryerson University)
Automated Road Objects Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Data
» Salem Morsy (Ryerson University), Wai Yeung Yan (Ryerson University), Ahmed Shaker (Ryerson University), Ahmed El-Rabbany (Ryerson University)
Assessing the capacity of UAV-based LiDAR to support Operational-level Forest Inventory in different Forest Environments
» Bastien Vandendaele (Université de Sherbrooke), Richard Fournier (Université de Sherbrooke), Udaya Vepakomma (FPInnovations), Gaetan Pelletier (Northern Hardwoods Research Institute), Philippe Lejeune (Université de Liège)
A Low-Cost LiDAR scanning Scheme integrating Multi-Beam LEDDAR, Servo, and Video
» Zhouxin Xi (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Tristan Goulden (National Ecological Observatory Network)
An Overview of the Canadian Federal Airborne LIDAR Data Acquistion Guidelines
» Steven McArdle (4DM), Glenn Farrington (IcePalm Research), Jian Yang (4DM), Aleksey Naumov (4DM), Etienne Bonhomme (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), David Bélanger (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Nouri Sabo (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Paula McLeod (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation)
SkyForestTM to compare multi-resolution stereo-image point clouds with ALS data for estimation of Great Lakes St. Lawrence forest inventory attributes
» yaser sadeghi (First Resource Management Group Inc.)
A comparison of random Forest and kNN for FRI mapping in northern Canada
» Craig Mahoney (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Ronald Hall (Canadian Forest Service), Michelle Filiatrault (Canadian Forest Service)
Analysis of radiometric attenuation of airborne multi-spectral LiDAR at different ranges
» Maxim Okhrimenko (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
The use of UAV collected Imagery in a semi-automated Workflow to generate Geologic Structure Information; a Master's Research Project
» Tyler Pubben (Vancouver Island University)
Using Kullback–Leibler Distance for Object-Based Change Detection in High Spatial Resolution Images
» Mohammad Rezaee (University of New Brunswick), Shabnam Jabari (University of New Brunswick), Fatemeh Fathollahi (University of New Brunswick), Yun Zhang (University of New Brunswick)
GeoSegment: a Tool for segmenting Image and evaluating its Quality through automated Shape Comparison
» Dongmei Chen (Queen's University)
Reconstruction of Landsat Time Series using an AVHRR based imputation Approach
» Darren Pouliot (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Rasim Latifovic (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
Use of Landsat 8 to Produce a Cloud-Free, Medium-Resolution, Global Mosaic, NATURALVUE® 2.0
» Chris Peterson (MDA Information Systems, LLC)
Mapping potential Maya Sites in the Petén Campechano Area (State of Campeche, Mexico) using optical and radar Remote Sensing
» Armand LaRocque (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), William Gadoury (Académie Antoine-Manseau)
Detection of Mayan Sacbeob in the Dense Tropical Forest of Yucatan Using Optical and SAR Imagery
» Armand LaRocque (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Brigitte Leblon (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), William Folan (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Campeche)
Detection of Tropical Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Communities across the Peruvian Amazon using Landsat 8 Imagery and Google Earth Engine
» Lesley Johnson (McGill University), Oliver Coomes (McGill University), Margaret Kalacska (McGill University)
Super-Resolution of Hyperspectral Imagery: Use of Unmixed Components and Deep-Learning
» Jignesh Bhatt (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara), Manjunath Joshi (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology)
Coal Mine Reclamation Performance Assessment using Time-Series Landsat Data
» Subir Chowdhury (Alberta Geological Survey, Alberta Energy Regulator), todd shipman (Alberta Geological Survey, Alberta Energy Regulator), Dennis Chao (Alberta Geological Survey, Alberta Energy Regulator)
Detection and Classification of Forest Disturbances in the Alberta Oil Sands Region using Landsat Time Series Data
» Rachel Wasson (Trent University), Steven Franklin (Trent University), Michael Wulder (Canadian Forest Service), Joanne White (Canadian Forest Service)
Mining Activity and Caribou Habitat: Seeking Where Mining Disturbances Impact the Bathurst Caribou Range
» Wenjun Chen (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), H.Peter White (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Sylvain Leblanc (Natural), Christian Prevost (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada)
Recognition of Alterations in Porphyry Copper Deposits Zones Using Remote Sensing and Airborne Geophysics Data
» Ali Esmaeily (Graduate University of Advanced Technology), seyed vahid miri (Graduate University of Advanced Technology), M. Honarmand (Graduate University of Advanced Technology)
Tuesday
11:00 - 11:30
AS-1
ASAR Keynote/ASAR présentateur principal
Venue
Amphi.
11:00
»
Thuy Le Toan
Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:20
CW-1
Changing Roles of Government and Private Sector/Évolution des rôles du gouvernement et du secteur privé
Venue
Chaufferie
11:00
»
Shane Patterson, Stewart Bain, Stephane Germain, David Haight
Government of Alberta, Northstar Space Data, NRCAN, GHGSat, CSA
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Brigitte Leblon
Venue
SH-2620
11:00
Integration of multispectral and ancillary Data for mapping Seriphium Plumosum in a Mountainous Terrain using Ensemble Algorithms
» Samuel Adewale Adelabu (University of The Free State), Cynthia Mokunbung (University of The Free State), Kabir Peerbhay (3. Institute of Commercial Forestry Research, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), Elhadi Adam (University of the Witwatersrand)
11:20
Fuel load mapping in Savannah Ecosystems in support of integrated Fire management within protected Areas
» Jonas Franke (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH), Anja A. Hoffmann (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH), Sandra Lohberger (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH), Florian Siegert (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH)
11:40
An Overview of Twenty Years of Research on Fuel Moisture Estimation Using Remote Sensing over Boreal Forests at the University of New Brunswick, Canada
» Brigitte Leblon (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Lisa Gallant (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Guy Strickland (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Steven Oldford (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Keith Abbott (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Laura Chavez (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Joseph Buckley (Royal Military College of Canada), Gordon Staples (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd.), Marty Alexander (Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service), Mike Flannigan (Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta)
12:00
Developing approaches for monitoring boreal and arctic Soil Moisture from active and passive Microwave Data for Fire danger Assessment
» Laura Bourgeau-Chavez (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Michael Billmire (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Kyle Mcdonald (The City College of New York, City University of New York), Brigitte Leblon (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick)
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Anne Smith
Venue
SH-R810
11:00
Deep learning for a better use of UAV Imagery in Agriculture
» Yacine Bouroubi (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Pierre Bugnet (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Thuy Nguyen-xuan (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Claire Gosselin (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Mathieu Benoit (Effigis Geo-Solutions)
11:20
Suivi temporel et spatial de la biomasse du maïs à partir des images RGB acquises par drone
» Kosal Khun (University of Montreal), Philippe Vigneault (AAFC), Nicolas Tremblay (AAFC), Edith Fallon (AAFC), Claude Codjia (UQAM), François CAVAYAS (Université de Montréal)
11:40
Étude du potentiel de l'imagerie infrarouge thermique acquise par drone pour la détection du stress hydrique dans la culture de pommes de terre
» Hachem Agili (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)), Patrick Chatelle (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)), Karem Chokmani (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)), Daniel Bergeron (Ministère de l’agriculture, des pêcheries et de l’alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ)), Carl Boivin (Institut de recherche et de développement en agroenvironnement (IRDA))
12:00
Exploring the Potential of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems for Mapping Leafy Spurge
» Anne Smith (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Xiaohui Yang (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Robert Bourchier (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Kim Hodge (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
André Beaudoin (TBC)
Venue
SH-2420
11:00
Sensitivity Analysis dedicated to the Impacts of Forest Disturbances on C-band Backscatter with simulated PolSAR data
» Ludovic VILLARD (CESBIO), Stephane Mermoz (CESBIO), Alexandre Bouvet (CESBIO), Lucas Chamon (CESBIO), Thuy Le Toan (CESBIO)
11:20
Estimating Forest attribute changes across Canada through bi-temporal kNN mapping based on MODIS Imagery
» André Beaudoin (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Pierre Bernier (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Philippe Villemaire (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Luc Guindon (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Xiao Jing Guo (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre)
11:40
A Post-Classification Time Series Change Detection Technique for Forest Disturbance Mapping Using Multi-Source Data
» Ilia Parshakov (Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC), University of Lethbridge), Derek Peddle (Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC), University of Lethbridge), Karl Staenz (Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC), University of Lethbridge), Jinkai Zhang (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry)
12:00
High Frequency Multi-temporal Vegetation Canopy Model Extraction from Optical Satellite Data
» James Klassen (Sharegeo)
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Vern Singhroy (TBC)
Venue
SH-3620
11:00
Automated InSAR Processing and Temporal Analysis for the Monitoring of Oil Field Subsidence caused by Steam Injection
» John Wessels (PCI Geomatics), Gordon Staples (MDA Systems Ltd.), Kevin Jones (PCI Geomatics)
11:20
Optical Water Mapping Algorithm Review for Ponds in the Oil Sands Region
» H.Peter White (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Zoé Kuntz (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
11:40
Monitoring Biomass Change within reclaimed Wetland and Forest Sites in the Oil Sands Region using high Resolution multi-temporal Optical Imagery, Field Data and Eddy Covariance Methods
» Laura Chasmer (University of Lethbridge), Trevor Baker (IEG Consulting), Sean Carey (McMaster University), Richard Petrone (University of Waterloo), Justin Straker (IEG Consulting)
Tuesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Richard Fournier
Venue
SH-3420
11:00
Coupling terrestrial LiDAR and AmapSim modeling to evaluate for juvenile Performance and predict productivity of 16 Hybrid Poplar Clones
» Sylvain Delagrange (UQO), Jean-françois Barczi (CIRAD), Olivier Taugourdeau (CIRAD), Pascal Rochon (UQO-ISFORT)
11:20
The use of terrestrial LiDAR for enhance Forest Inventory
» Richard Fournier (Université de Sherbrooke), Jean-Francois Cote (Natural Resources Canada,), Joris Ravaglia (Université de Sherbrooke / Univ. Aix-Marseille), Ulysse Rémillard (Université de Sherbrooke), Olivier Martin-ducup (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Florentin Bourge (Université de Sherbrooke), Abdelmounaime Safia (Université de Sherbrooke), Robert Schneider (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Alexandra Bac (Université Aix-Marseille), Alexandre Piboule (Office National des Forêts), Sylvie Durrieu (IRSTEA), Tony Franceschini (Université du Québec à Rimouski)
11:40
Preliminary testing of mobile terrestrial LiDAR for forest inventory and harvesting decision support
» Jili Li (FPInnovations), Matthew Thiel (FPInnovations)
12:00
Improving Forest Inventory with Multi-Scale LiDAR Data and Tree Architecture modeling
» Jean-Francois Cote (Canadian Forest Service), Richard Fournier (Université de Sherbrooke), Joan E. Luther (Canadian Forest Service)
Tuesday
11:30 - 11:55
AS-2
ASAR Keynote/ASAR conférencier principal
Venue
Amphi.
Tuesday
11:55 - 12:20
AS-3
ASAR Keynote/ASAR conférencier principal
Venue
Amphi.
Tuesday
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch - Repas
Tuesday
12:30 - 13:00
KN-3
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
12:30
TBD
»
Awaiting confirmation
TBC
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
CW-2
Creating Sustainable Business/Création d'un environnement favorable à la croissance durable des entreprises
Venue
Chaufferie
13:30
»
Desmond Power, Jacques Giroux, Marco van der Kooij
C-CORE, ABB Canada, MDA
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Rob Skakun
Venue
SH-2620
13:30
The National Burned Area Composite of Forest Fires in Canada
» Rob Skakun (Canadian Forest Service), Ronald Hall (Canadian Forest Service), Robert Landry (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Michael Gartrell (Canadian Forest Service), Robert Fraser (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation)
13:50
Estimating Burn Severity Using the Combination of Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data over the Horse River Wildfire
» Jinkai Zhang (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Daniel Thompson (Natural Resources Canada,), Amber Unger (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Bogoljub Stankovic (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Cordy Tymstra (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Ellen Whitman (University of Alberta)
14:10
Spatial Variability of Peat consumption following Wildfire at Fort McMurray using Field Measurements and temporal LiDAR Remote Sensing Data
» Laura Chasmer (University of Lethbridge), Joshua Montgomery (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Ravinder Virk (University of Lethbridge), Maxim Okhrimenko (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Daniel Thompson (Natural Resources Canada,), Richard Petrone (University of Waterloo)
14:30
Natural Resources Canada's Response to the Fort McMurray Wildfire: Rapid Damage Assessment for Near-Real-Time Situational Awareness
» Brad Lehrbass (Natural Resources Canada,), Vincent Decker (Natural Resources Canada,)
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Guy Séguin, Dirk Geudtner
Venue
Amphi.
13:30
Tandem-L: A Highly Innovative Bistatic SAR Mission for Monitoring Earth's Dynamic Processes
» Patrick Klenk (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Alberto Moreira (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Gerhard Krieger (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Daniela Borla Tridon (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Michael Eineder (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Sigurd Huber (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Kostas Papathanassiou (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Alessandro Parizzi (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Jens Reimann (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Michelangelo Villano (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Marwan Younis (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Francesco De Zan (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Manfred Zink (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Mariantonietta Zonno (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
13:50
Sentinel-1 Constellation SAR Interferometry Performance
» Dirk Geudtner (European Space Agency)
14:10
WorldSAR and the High Resolution Wide Swath Mission
» Juergen Janoth (Airbus Defence and Space), Alexander Kaptein (Airbus), Markus Jochum (Airbus Defence and Space)
14:30
ICEYE Microsatellite SAR
» Pekka Laurila (ICEYE)
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Greg McDermid
Venue
SH-R810
13:30
Peatland Microtopography Mapping from UAV aerial Photography – Camera System and flight Parameter Considerations
» Oliver Lucanus (Below Water Pictures), Margaret Kalacska (McGill University), J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora (National Research Council of Canada)
13:50
Mapping Micro-Topography of Peatlands within Alberta: Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Technology
» Julie Lovitt (University of Calgary), Mir Mustafizur Rahman (University of Calgary), Greg McDermid (University of Calgary), Maria Strack (University of Waterloo), Bin Xu (NAIT Boreal Research Institute)
14:10
Mapping Peat Groundwater Table Dynamics using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Photogrammetric Techniques
» Mir Mustafizur Rahman (University of Calgary), Greg McDermid (University of Calgary), Julie Lovitt (University of Calgary), Maria Strack (University of Waterloo), Bin Xu (NAIT Boreal Research Institute)
14:30
Estimating Vegetation Parameters on Seismic Lines with UAV-based Point Clouds
» Shijuan Chen (University of Calgary), Greg McDermid (University of Calgary), Guillermo Castilla (Northern Forestry Centre), Julia Linke (University of Alberta)
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Serge Olivier Kotchi
Venue
SH-2420
13:30
Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
» Stephane Germain (GHGSat Inc.), Berke Durak (GHGSat Inc.), Jason Mckeever (GHGSat Inc.), James Sloan (S&A Research)
13:50
Changes of Air Quality in China: a spatiotemporal Analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth based on Satellite Observation during 2001-2015
» Dongmei Chen (Queen's University), Yao Feng (Queen's University)
14:10
Estimation and Uncertainty Assessment of the Near-Surface Air Temperature at regional Scale using the modified Temperature/Vegetation Index derived from AVHRR Satellite Images
» Serge Olivier Kotchi (Public Health Agency of Canada), Nathalie Barrette (Université Laval), Alain A. Viau (Université Laval)
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Danielle De Sève
Venue
SH-3620
13:30
Monitoring Snow Cover Extent over Eastern Canada Combining Fuzzy Logic and Remote Sensing Data
» Sophie Roberge (INRS-ETE), Karem Chokmani (INRS-ETE), Danielle De Sève (IREQ), Jean-pierre Fortin (INRS-ETE)
13:50
Shipping Trends in Arctic Waters using six Years of SAT-AIS Data
» Torkild Eriksen (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI))
14:10
Regional Sea Ice Monitoring Using A Model And Microwave Satellite Data
» Siva Prasad (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Igor Zakharov (C-CORE), Peter McGuire (C-CORE), Sherry Warren (C-CORE), Mark Howell (C-CORE)
14:30
RADARSAT-2 dual-polarimetric SAR Data to observe Terra Nova Bay Polynya
» ferdinando nunziata (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Dipartimento di Ingegneria), Andrea Buono (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Dipartimento di Ingegneria), Maurizio Migliaccio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Dipartimento di Ingegneria)
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Benoît St-Onge
Venue
SH-3420
13:30
Prediction of FRI Attributes in different Forest Types in Ontario using a Core Set of ALS Metrics
» Karin van Ewijk (Queen's University), Paul Treitz (Queen's University), John Caspersen (University of Toronto), Trevor Jones (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry), Murray Woods (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry), Douglas Pitt (Natural Resources Canada,)
13:50
Using LiDAR and WorldView-3 imagery to map individual tree species
» Mathieu Varin (CERFO), Philippe Bournival (CERFO), Gilles Joanisse (CERFO)
14:10
Identifying individual Tree Species of Canadian Forests using mono- or multi-spectral airborne LIDAR
» Benoît St-Onge (Université du Québec à Montréa), Jean Francois Prieur (Université du Québec à Montréal / Université de Sherbrooke), Brindusa Cristina Budei (Université du Québec à Montréal), Rachel Perron (Université du Québec à Montréal), Richard Fournier (Université de Sherbrooke)
14:30
Using airborne LIDAR Data to calculate lateral and vertical growth in Canopy Gaps and how it varies in natural versus managed temperate deciduous Forests
» Jean-Francois Senecal (UQAM), Frederik Doyon (UQO-ISFORT), Christian Messier (UQO-ISFORT)
Tuesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Mathieu Benoit
Venue
SH-3140
13:30
A Synergy of InSAR and PolSAR Techniques on Urban Development Detection over Greater Vancouver
» Xiaodong Huang (University of Western Ontario), Jinfei Wang (University of Western Ontario), Zhaohua Chen (The University of Western Ontario)
13:50
Rooftop characterization by applying deep learning to WorldView-3 Images: application to technical solar Photovoltaic Assessment
» Yacine Bouroubi (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Pierre Bugnet (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Thuy Nguyen-xuan (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Claire Gosselin (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Mathieu Benoit (Effigis Geo-Solutions)
14:10
InSAR monitoring of Urban Land Subsidence in Canadian coastal Cities
» Zhaohua Chen (University of Western Ontario), Jinfei Wang (University of W), Xiaodong Huang (University of wes)
14:30
Impact de l'urbanisation sur la dynamique forestière par télédétection dans le périurbain de Lubumbashi entre 2007 et 2015
» Nsiami Mabiala Catherine (Université de Lubumbashi)
Tuesday
14:50 - 15:30
Break - Pause
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
CW-3
Building and Supporting New Enterprises/Création et développement de nouvelles entreprises
Venue
Chaufferie
15:30
»
Pekka Laurila, Chris Robson, Michelle Mendes
Iceye, Promethean Labs, , Canadian Space Commerce Association / Space Advisory Board
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
André Beaudoin
Venue
SH-2620
15:30
Mapping Canadian Forest Fires using Proba-V time Series
» Ruben Van De Kerchove (VITO), Sander Veraverbeke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Marcel Buchhorn (VITO), Bart Deronde (VITO), Jan Dries (VITO), Bruno Smets (VITO), Tanja Van Achteren (VITO)
15:50
Mapping and Up-Scaling UAV-Based Indicators of Boreal Forest Burn Severity
» Robert Fraser (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Jurjen Van Der Sluijs (Centre for Geomatics, Government of the Northwest Territories), Ronald Hall (Canadian Forest Service)
16:10
Estimating burn severity in northern boreal Forests from L-band dual-pol PALSAR Imagery: preliminary Results
» André Beaudoin (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Tahiana Ratsimbazafy (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Ellen Whitman (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre), Ronald Hall (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre), Marc-André Parisien (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre), Daniel Thompson (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre), Luc Guindon (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre)
16:30
Burn Scar extraction using multi-temporal, multi-polarisation SAR Data
» Jeanine Engelbrecht (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), Philip Frost (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), Brigitte Leblon (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick)
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Guy Séguin, Dirk Geudtner
Venue
Amphi.
15:30
NovaSAR and NIASAR Payload Development and Performance
» Geoff Burbidge (Airbus Defence and Space), Martin Cohen (Airbus Defence and Space), Pedro Lau Semedo (Airbus Defence and Space), Andrew Larkins (Airbus Defence and Space)
15:50
Nearly 10 Years of RADARSAT-2 Flight Operations
» Marielle Chabot (MDA GSI)
16:10
Bistatic SAR Missions: An Overview of European Space Agency Activities
» Malcolm Davidson (European Space Agency), Bernardo Carnicero (European Space Agency)
16:30
Novel Global Monitoring and Imagery Exploitation Concepts of the UrtheCast Constellations
» Keith Beckett (UrtheCast Corp.)
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Bahram Salehi
Venue
SH-R810
15:30
Use of UAV Aerial Images in the Study of Coastline Change, New Brunswick, Canada
» André Robichaud (Université de Moncton-Campus de Shippagan), Inuk Simard (Groupe RégeNord Inc.)
15:50
A New Spectral Index for Terrestrial Oil Spill Detection based on UAV Imagery
» Masoud Mahdianpari (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Bahram Salehi (C-CORE), Saied Homayouni (University of Ottawa), Fariba Mohammadimanesh (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland)
16:10
Coastal Change Monitoring of Prince Edward Island's Dynamic Coastlines using small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)
» Andrew Clark (University of Prince Edward Island), Adam Fenech (University of Prince Edward Island)
16:30
Surface Water reflectance and Water quality retrieval using a lightweight Spectrometer and UAV Platform
» Chui Zeng (Carleton University), Murray Richardson (Carleton University), Douglas King (Carleton University)
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
François Cavayas
Venue
SH-2420
15:30
Per-pixel accuracy Estimation of classified Remote Sensing Images
» Giorgos Mountrakis (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry), Reza Khatami (SUNY ESF), Steve Stehman (SUNY ESF)
15:50
Using SAR polarimetry to improve the mapping and monitoring of Canada's natural environments
» Yacine Bouroubi (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Thuy Nguyen-xuan (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Pierre Bugnet (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Claire Gosselin (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Mathieu Benoit (Effigis Geo-Solutions), Ridha Touzi (Cana)
16:10
Prairie Pothole Region, Temporal Wetland Classification at Shepard Slough Alberta, Canada
» Joshua Montgomery (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
16:30
Using Machine learning and GEOBIA for the Automation of Land Cover Classification with a Time Series of LANDSAT AND SENTINEL 2 Data
» Wolfgang Lueck (PCI Geomatics), Masroor Hussain (PCI Geomatics)
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Derek Peddle
Venue
SH-3620
15:30
NORTHSTAR: "Changing the way we see the world"
» Daniel O'Connell (NSDI), Derek Peddle (Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Centre (ATIC), University of Lethbridge), Stewart Bain (NSDI), Doug Bancroft (NSDI), Kjell Stakkestad (KinetX)
15:50
Data, Data everywhere, but how does Everyone drink?
» Graham Stickler (SkyWatch)
16:10
: National Elevation Data Strategy for Canada / Stratégie nationale de données d'élévation pour le Canada
» David Bélanger (Ressource naturelles Canada), Paula McLeod (Ressource naturelles Canada), Nouri Sabo (Ressource naturelles Canada)
16:30
Multi-Cloud Earth Observation Data Processing with Commercial and Institutional Clouds
» Alastair Pidgeon (RHEA Group), Martin Lange (EOProc), Marc-Elian Begin (SixSq), Lukasz Dutka (Cyfronet), Michal Orzechowski (Cyfronet), Matthew Viljoen (EGI Foundation), Yannick Legre (EGI Foundation), Roberta Piscitelli (EGI Foundation), Emmanuel Mondon (AdviceGEO), Cedric Seynat (RHEA Group)
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Jean-Francois Côté (TBC)
Venue
SH-3420
15:30
Updating Forest Inventories using LiDAR and multi-temporal Landsat Data
» Douglas Bolton (University of British Columbia), Nicholas Coops (University of British Columbia), Michael Wulder (Canadian Forest Service), Joanne White (Canadian Forest Service), Xiaoping Yuan (British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations)
15:50
L'effet de la densité de points et angle de visée des données lidar aéroportées sur les métriques utilisées en foresterie
» Martin Béland (Laval University), Jean-romain Roussel (Laval University), John Caspersen (University of Toronto), Alexis Achim (Laval University)
16:10
Uncertainties associated with Forest Resource Inventory Predictions over large Geographies in northern Canada
» Craig Mahoney (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Ronald Hall (Canadian Forest Service), Michelle Filiatrault (Canadian Forest Service)
Tuesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Armand LaRocque
Venue
SH-3140
15:30
Wetland Mapping in Southern New Brunswick (Canada) with Landsat-8 OLI and Alos-1 PALSAR L-HH and HV Images
» Armand LaRocque (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Brigitte Leblon (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Angela Douglas (Southern Gulf of Saint-Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability), Kevin Connor (Fish and Wildlife Branch, Department of Natural Resources, Government of New Brunswick), Alan Hanson (Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada)
15:50
Automated Surface Water Thresholding Techniques Based on SAR Texture and db Backscatter Using Multi-Temporal Radarsat-2 Imagery
» REIHANEH PEIMAN (University of Lethbridge), Husam Ali (University of Lethbridge), Brian Brisco (2Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
16:10
Toward the Use of Topographic, Radar, and Optical Inputs for a Probabilistic Wetland Classification Model in Northeastern Alberta, Canada
» Jennifer Hird (University of Calgary), Evan DeLancey (Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute), Greg McDermid (University of Calgary), Jahan Kariyeva (Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute)
16:30
A Comparison of SAR compact Polarimetry with dual and quad Polarimetry for Wetland Classification using an Object-based Random Forest Algorithm
» Bahram Salehi (C-CORE), Masoud Mahdianpari (MUN), Fariba Mohammadimanesh (MUN), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Desmond Power (C-CORE)
Tuesday
17:00 - 17:30
KN-4
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
Tuesday
17:30 - 17:50
Commercialization Workshop Report
Venue
Amphitheatre
Tuesday
17:50 - 18:00
Conclusion - Day 1
Venue
Amphitheatre
Tuesday
18:00 - 20:00
Cocktail
Venue
Agora

Wednesday, 21st June

Wednesday
08:00 - 10:30
Registration - Inscription
Venue
Hall
Wednesday
08:00 - 15:45
Kiosks - Kiosques
Venue
Salle Polyvalente
Wednesday
08:45 - 09:00
Welcome - Day 2
Venue
Amphitheatre
Wednesday
09:00 - 09:10
HW-1
One Earth One Health Workshop: Opening/Atelier Une planète une santé: mot de bienvenue
Venue
Chaufferie
09:00
»
Eric Laliberté
Canadian Space Agency
Wednesday
09:00 - 10:30
KP
Keynotes Panel
Venue
Amphitheatre
09:00
Societal benefits of Earth Observation
»
Steven Ramage (GEO Secretariat), Rached Boussema (National Engineering School of Tunis), Others TBC.
Wednesday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Guy Aubé, Stéphanie Brazeau
Venue
Chaufferie
09:10
Tele-Epidemiology : which Contribution for Earth Observation Satellite Data?
» Cécile VIGNOLLES (CNES)
09:30
Satellite Earth Observation Data in Advancing Health-Related SDG 3 Targets: A Conceptual Framework
» Ramesh Krishnamurthy (World Health Organization)
09:50
Getting Ahead of the Curve: Using Earth Observations to Predict Health Risks
» Juli Trtanj (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
10:10
Earth Observations for Health and Air Quality
» JOHN HAYNES (NASA)
Wednesday
10:30 - 11:00
Break - Pause
Wednesday
10:30 - 15:30
InSAR in cold Region Hydrology: a Case Study in monitoring River Ice Cover deflection
» Zhaoqin Li (University of Saskatchewan), Thuan Chu (Lakeland College), Howard Wheater (University of Saskatchewan), Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt (University of Saskatchewan)
Integration of GNSS, EO and SatCom for Snow monitoring in Canada - First Results of ESA IAP SnowSense Demo Project
» Florian Appel (VISTA Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH), Franziska Koch (LMU Munich, Department of Geography), Patrick Henkel (ANAVS GmbH)
Using RADARSAT-2 to Identify Ice Growth and Decay in Central Ontario: 2008-2016
» Justin Murfitt (University of Toronto Mississauga), Laura Brown (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Community Search and Rescue Ice Information Project
» Thomas Zagon (Canadian Ice Service), Katherine Wilson (Canadian Ice Service)
Evaluation of Random Forest Snow Depth Modeling Using Airborne LiDAR
» Kelsey Cartwright (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
Lake Erie Ice Classification using Dual Polarization RADARSAT-2 Imagery
» Junqian Wang (University of Waterloo), Claude Duguay (University of Waterloo), David Clausi (University of Waterloo)
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED: Monitoring ELA of Durung drung glacier of Greater Himalaya using RISAT-1 (SAR) data
» Rupal Brahmbhatt (City of Mississauga (CO-Op student))
Assimilation des observations spatiales micro-ondes passives dans le schéma de surface du modèle météorologique canadien pour l'amélioration de la prévision des analyses de champs de neige
» Melody Poncin (Université de Sherbrooke), Alain Royer (Université de Sherbrooke), Stephane Belair (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Alexandre Langlois (Université de Sherbrooke)
Sea Ice SAR backscattering analysis in Antarctic Navigation Zones
» hector salgado (Servicio de Hidrografia Naval), Federico Carballo (Servicio de Hidrografia Naval), Constanza Salvó (Servicio de Hidrografia Naval), BEATRIZ LORENZO (Servicio de Hidrografia Naval), Monique Bernier (INRS-Eau Terre Environnement)
Sensibilité du signal PALSAR bande L à la texture du sol et à la végétation au Nunavik
» chaima touati (INRS-ETE), Monique Bernier (Centre Eau Terre Environnement), Ralf Ludwig (Université Ludwig Maximilians de Munich (LMU))
Analyse et évaluation des données de Grille Neige du Québec issues des micro-ondes passives pour La Grande et Manicouagan de 2006 à 2010
» SAIDA FARAH BADREDDINE (Université de Sherbrooke), Kalifa Goita (, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke), Francois Vachon (Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (IREQ))
Evaluation of RADARSAT-2 based Digital Elevation Models derived from InSAR for a Flat Inland Delta in the High Latitudes of Northern Canada
» Apurba Das (University of Saskatchewan), Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt (University of Sas), Thuan Chu (Lakeland College)
Methodology for Producing Landsat Time Series Analysis ready Datasets: an Example from the Canadian Arctic Migratory Bird Sanctuaries
» Darren Pouliot (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Rasim Latifovic (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Sun Lixin (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Jon Pasher (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED: Application of Drone in Coastal Flood Event Monitoring in the Volta delta, Ghana
» Kwasi Appeaning Addo (University of Ghana), Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah (University of Ghana)
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Connecting Lethbridge: Using Topo-Bathymetric Lidar and HEC RAS to Assess the Effects of Bridge Development on the Oldman River Floodplain
» Melissa Beaujot (lethb), Seamus Daly (University of Lethbridge), Sarah Mccrady (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
Evaluating the Statistical Characteristics of the Difference among Sub-daily GPM Satellite-based Precipitation Estimates over the Middle East
» Mohamed Shawky (University of Calgary), Omar Charif (University of Calgary), Ghazi Al-Rawas (Sultan Qaboos University), Quazi Hassan (University of Calgary), Naser El-sheimy (University of Calgary)
Development of Rating Curves Estimates for River Discharge Using RADARSAT imagery
» Karem Chokmani (INRS-ETE)
Variation in Distribution and Size Structure of Prairie Pothole Wetlands
» Ning Qiao (University of Saskatchewan), Lawrence Martz (University of Saskatchewan), John Pomeroy (University of Saskatchewan), Xulin Guo (University of Saskatchewan)
Forest Height Estimation Using Multi-Baseline Polarimetric SAR Interferometry and Machine Learning
» Michael Denbina (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Marc Simard (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
River Ice Breakup Monitoring With The RADARSAT Constellation Mission: Preliminary Results
» yask shelat (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation)
Contribution des satellites Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) et Radarsat-2 pour la modélisation hydraulique de la région du delta des rivières de la Paix et Athabasca
» Sébastien Langlois (Université de Sherbrooke), Nicolas Desrochers (Université de Sherbrooke), Mélanie Trudel (Université de Sherbrooke), Robert Leconte (Université de Sherbrooke)
Ground Subsidence and Infrastructure monitoring with the highest Resolution and Accuracy currently available from Space-based SAR Systems
» Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc)
Une nouvelle méthode de déroulement de phase interférométrique basée sur une minimisation de l'énergie à partir d'une modélisation contextuelle
» Ayoub Tlili (Université de Montréal)
Using RADARSAT-2 to Target Areas at Risk of Corrosion of Hydro-Québec's Pylon's Foundations
» Guy Aubé (Canadian Space Agency), Michel Ladouceur (IREQ), Suzanne Brunke (MDA Corporation), Gordon Staples (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd.), Frederic Guay (IREQ), Paul Briand (Canadian Space Agency), Michel Vienneau (IREQ), Wendy Branson (MDA)
K-SAR – A Ground-based SAR System for vertical Infrastructure stability monitoring and SAR tomography developed by Kepler Space
» Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc), Cristian Trofinenco (Kepler Space Inc)
SARSIM-3: a Tool for estimating the Performance of Multi-Aperture Synthetic Radar Systems
» Ron Saper (Astrocom), Mike Stott (Astrocom)
Développement d'un module d'introduction à la télédétection - Projet NorthSense
» Audrey Moffett (INRS-Eau Terre Environnement), Charles Gignac (INRS-Eau Terre Environnement), Monique Bernier (INRS-Eau Terre Environnement)
SAR-EDU: Teaching Earth Observation in an online Environment
» Robert Eckardt (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena), Jonas Eberle (Friedrich-Schiller-University), Mikhail Urbazaev (Friedrich-Schiller-University), Carsten Pathe (Earth Observation Services GmbH), Christiane Schmullius (Friedrich-Schiller-University)
Fusing Lidar and Runoff Time Series Data to Model Flood Scenarios in the Headwaters of the Oldman River Basin, Alberta
» Bradley Smith (University of Lethbridge), Travis Houston (University of Lethbridge), Tyrell Nielsen (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Tim Lynham
Venue
SH-2620
11:00
The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System: the online Hub of Wildfire-related Information in Canada
» John Little (Natural Resources Canada, Government of Canada)
11:20
Operational Implementation of the Advanced Fire Information System
» Philip Frost (CSIR)
11:40
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Latest developments involving Landsat-Class, S-NPP/VIIRS and GOES-R/ABI active Fire detection Products
» Wilfrid Schroeder (University of Maryland)
12:00
Earth Observation Satellite Data to Support Wildfire Response: A Case Study of the Fort McMurray Horse River Fire
» Jinkai Zhang (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Jean-Simon Michaud (Hatfield Consultants), Andy Dean (Hatfield Consultants), Jamie Gairns (Hatfield Consultants), Bob Sleep (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry), Bogoljub Stankovic (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Antoinette Ludwig, Cécile Vignolles
Venue
Chaufferie
11:00
SDG Interactions, Focus on Health and Opportunities for Ecosystem/Land Cover Analysis Using Earth Observations
» William A. Sonntag (Group on Earth Observations)
11:20
Climate change and Mosquito-borne diseases in Americas: Toward dynamical modelling and prediction at local scale using Earth observation
» Thibault Catry (IRD UMR Espace-Dev), Serge Olivier Kotchi (Public Health Agency of Canada), Nadine Dessay (IRD UMR Espace-Dev), Antoinette Ludwig (Public Health Agency of Canada), Emmanuel Roux (IRD UMR Espace-Dev), Zhichao Li (IRD UMR Espace-Dev), Stéphanie Brazeau (Public Health Agency of Canada)
11:40
Integrating EO-based Data into vulnerability Assessments, Case Study and Reflection on Urban Health Research
» Marion Borderon (University of Vienna)
12:00
Healthy Societies and Healthy Ecosystems: An Integrated Monitoring Approach for Biodiversity and Human Health
» Mike Gill (Polar Knowledge Canada), Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio (EcoHealth Alliance), Catherine Machalaba (EcoHealth Alliance)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Michel Gamache, Alan Thompson
Venue
Amphi.
11:00
RADARSAT Constellation Mission
» Steve Iris (Canadian Space Agency)
11:20
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission: Program Progress Update
» Michel Gamache (Canadian Space Agency), Alan Thompson (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd.), Geoffrey Goldman (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd.)
11:40
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission Data Policy: Establishing a Framework for Data Management and Use
» Jill Smyth (Canadian Space Agency), Steve Iris (Canadian Space Agency), Guennadi Kroupnik (Canadian Space Agency)
12:00
RADARSAT Constellation Mission – Launch Segment
» Siamak Tafazoli (Canadian Space Agency)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Ridha Touzi, Tom Ainsworth
Venue
SH-R810
11:00
On the Unicity of polarimetric Target scattering Decomposition
» Ridha Touzi (CCRS)
11:20
Effects of Slanted Double Bounce and Tilted Single Bounce Scattering on Model-based Polarimetric Decomposition
» Tom Ainsworth (Naval Research Laboratory), Yanting Wang (Naval Research Laboratory), Jong-sen Lee (Naval Research Laboratory)
11:40
Wavelet and Polarimetric SAR Image Time Series Decompositions
» ABDOURRAHMANE ATTO (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), EMMANUEL TROUVE (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), ALUISIO PINHEIRO (University of Campinas)
12:00
L Band Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar onboard Microsatellite : Research Model
» Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo (Chiba University)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Chris Derksen, Mélanie Lapointe
Venue
SH-2420
11:00
Estimating Snow Mass and Peak River flows using GRACE Satellite Observations
» Shsuen Wang (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
11:20
New Satellite Concepts for measuring Snow Mass
» Juha Lemmetyinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute), Chris Derksen (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Giuseppe Parrella (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Giovanni Macelloni (Institute of Applied Physics « Nello Carrara «), Helmut Rott (ENVEO IT GmbH), Andreas Wiesmann (GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG), Kimmo Rautiainen (Finnish Meteorological Institute), Kari Luojus (Finnish Meteorological Institute), Irena Hajnsek (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH), Marco Brogioni (Institute of Applied Physics « Nello Carrara «), Christian Mätzler (GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG), Michael Kern (European Space Research and Technology Centre)
11:40
Saline Snow covers on First-Year Sea Ice (FYI) – Friend or Foe for CryoSat-2 derived FYI Thickness Estimates?
» Vishnu Nandan (University of Calgary), Torsten Geldsetzer (University of Calgary), Mallik Mahmud (University of Calgary), John Yackel (University of Calgary), Randy Scharien (University of Victoria), Saroat Ramjan (University of Calgary)
12:00
Backscatter and Land Surface Modeling Studies in Support of a Radar Mission Concept Study for Terrestrial Snow Water Equivalent
» Chris Derksen (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Joshua King (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Camille Garnaud (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Stephane Belair (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Mélanie Lapointe (Canadian Space Agency), Yves Crevier (Canadian Space Agency), Ralph Girard (Canadian Space Agency), Geoff Burbidge (Airbus Defence and Space)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Vern Singhroy
Venue
SH-3620
11:00
High frequency InSAR processing for continuously updated Ground Deformation Measurements
» Giacomo Falorni (TRE Altamira Inc), Jean Pascal Iannacone (TRE Altamira Inc), Geidy Baldeon (TRE Altamira Inc), Bruce Macdonald (TRE Altamira Inc), Corey Froese (Alberta Energy Regulator), Guy Aubé (Canadian Space Agency)
11:20
Observation of Surface Deformation caused by Fluid injection and seismicity in the western Canada sedimentary Basin
» Julia Kubanek (McGill University), Yajing Liu (McGill University), Rebecca M. Harrington (Ruhr-University Bochum)
11:40
InSAR Big Data: Monitoring all British Columbia for Geohazards
» Adrian McCardle (3vGeomatics), Jeff Taylor (3vGeomatics), Parwant Ghuman (3vGeomatics)
12:00
Ground Deformation produced by natural and anthropogenic Activates measured with the advanced RADARSAT-2 INSAR
» Sergey Samsonov (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Wanpeng Feng (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Paris Vachon
Venue
SH-3420
11:00
Arctic maritime Surveillance with SENTINEL-1 Data using a Norwegian collaborative Ground Segment
» Tonje Nanette Arnesen Hannevik (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment)
11:20
A Comparison of compact Polarimetry, dual polarization and single Polarization Modes within RADARSAT Constellation Mission for Detection and Discrimination of Ships and Icebergs
» Desmond Power (C-CORE), Peter McGuire (C-CORE), Carl Howell (C-CORE), Kelley Dodge (C-CORE), Paris W. Vachon (DRDC Ottawa), Chen Liu (DRDC Ottawa), John Wolfe (DRDC Ottawa), Nicholas Sandirasegaram (DRDC Ottawa)
11:40
Improved Vessel Detection and Characterization for RADARSAT-2
» Evgeniy Lebed (MDA Systems Ltd.), Scott Wood (MDA Systems Ltd.), Ron Caves (MDA Systems Ltd.)
12:00
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Benefits and Limitations of Active-Wide-Area-Surveillance for Maritime Domain Awareness
» Chad Kabatoff (Department of National Defence), Paris W. Vachon (DRDC Ottawa)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Brian Brisco
Venue
SH-3140
11:00
Expert Systems for Floodplain Characterization
» Terry Pultz (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Steve Mcardle (4DM), Marek Zaremba (Université du Québec en Outaouais), Anna Sztyber (Warsaw University of Technology), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
11:20
Snow Pack characterization with UAV's for Flood Plain mapping
» Richard Fernandes (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Christian Prevost (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada), Francis Canisius (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Sylvain Leblanc (Natural)
11:40
Land Cover Attribute Mapping of the Greater Toronto Area in Support of Flood Risk Assessments
» Ying Zhang (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation)
12:00
SAR Techniques for Dynamic Surface Water and Flooded Vegetation Mapping for Flood Plain Characterization
» Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Francis Canisius (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
Wednesday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Jerome Theau
Venue
SH-3220
11:00
CHIEM: A new compact Camera for hyperspectral Imaging
» Joris Blommaert (VITO), Bavo Delaure (VITO), Stefan Livens (VITO), Dirk Nuyts (VITO), Tanja Van Achteren (VITO), Klaas Tack (IMEC), Andy Lambrechts (IMEC), Vincent Moreau (AMOS), Eric Callut (Deltatec), Gerard Habay (Deltatec), Koen Van Hoof (Deltatec), Michel Caubo (Deltatec), Jan Vandenbussche (CMOSIS), Kyriaki Minoglou (ESA), Atul Deep (ESA)
11:20
UAVs for environmental Research: innovating new Methods vs transposition of established Remote Sensing Tools
» Jérôme Théau (Université de Sherbrooke), Patrick Menard (Centre de géomatique du Québec)
11:40
Evaluating RPAS Flight Parameters on Individual Plant Mapping Accuracy
» Derek Robinson (University of Waterloo), Jennifer Ridge (University of Waterloo), Kevin Nishikawa (University of Waterloo)
12:00
Assessing Pine Processionary Moth defoliation using unmanned aerial Systems
» Adrián Cardil (CEMFOR – CTFC, InForest Joint Research Unit, CSIC-CTFC-CREAF), Lluís Brotons (CEMFOR – CTFC, InForest Joint Research Unit, CSIC-CTFC-CREAF), Udaya Vepakomma (FPInnovations)
Wednesday
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch - Repas
Wednesday
12:30 - 13:30
AS-4
Panel Discussion: Challenges for next generation SAR/Table ronde: Défis pour la prochaine génération de satellites RSO
Venue
SH-3620
12:30
»
Alan Thompson, Keith Beckett, Markus Jochum, Dirk Geutdner, Guy Séguin
MDA, UrTheCast, Airbus, ESA, INSARSAT
Wednesday
12:30 - 13:00
KN-5
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Agora
12:30
TBD
»
Melanie Goodchild
(Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience)
Wednesday
13:00 - 13:40
FW-5
Fire Workshop Keynote
Venue
SH-2620
13:00
Deriving Fire Emitted Carbon & Smoke Emissions from Satellite Fire Radiative Power Observations
»
Martin Wooster
King's College London
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Student Program - Q&A
Venue
SH-3140
Wednesday
13:30 - 15:15
HW-4
One Earth One Health Workshop: Problem solving/Atelier Une planète une santé: Résolution de problèmes au moyen de scénarios
Venue
Chaufferie
13:30
»
Animator: Richard Fournier
Université de Sherbroooke
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Michel Gamache, Alan Thompson
Venue
Amphi.
13:30
RCM SAR Payload – An Overview of Performance
» Aurélien FOURMAULT (MDA Space Missions), Ivor Barnard (MDA Space Missions), Peter Allan (MDA Space Missions)
13:50
The Stepped-Receive Capability in the RADARSAT Constellation Mission
» Alan Thompson (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd.), Pok Lee (MDA), Patrick Plourde (Canadian Space Agency)
14:10
RCM Data Utilization & Application Plan (DUAP)
» Daniel De Lisle (Canadian Space Agency)
14:30
Comparison between Image Products from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission and RADARSAT-2
» Alan Thompson (MDA), Pok Lee (MDA)
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Shane Coude, Marc Simard
Venue
SH-R810
13:30
Zap Functions: Phase Information in Quad and Compact Polarimetry
» Shane Cloude (AEL Consultants)
13:50
Frequency Variation of the polarimetric Scattering Mechanisms of Forests and its Consequences on Interferometric Height
» Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre (SONDRA/CentraleSupelec), Régis Guinvarc'h (SONDRA/CentraleSupelec)
14:10
3D Characterization of Ecosystems with repeat-Pass polarimetric and interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
» Marc Simard (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Michael Denbina (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
David Small, Bernd Scheuchl
Venue
SH-2420
13:30
A First Approach for an Approximate Calculation of Surface Heights for Ice Caps from TanDEM-X InSAR Measurements for Devon Island
» Birgit Wessel (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Achim Roth (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
13:50
SAR Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Glaciers, and Ice Caps
» Bernd Scheuchl (University of California, Irvine), Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH), Jeremie Mouginot (University of California, Irvine), Romain Millan (University of California, Irvine), Eric Rignot (University of California, Irvine), Markus Hetzenecker (ENVEO IT GmbH), Jan Wuite (ENVEO IT GmbH), Helmut Rott (ENVEO IT GmbH), Ian Joughin (university of washington), Anders Kusk (Technical University of Denmark)
14:10
Hybrid Wide-area Backscatter Maps combining Sentinel-1 and Radarsat-2 Observations
» David Small (University of Zurich), Christoph Rohner (University of Zurich), Adrian Schubert (University of Zurich), Stephen Howell (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada), Yves Crevier (Canadian Space Agency), Nuno Miranda (European Space Agency)
14:30
Interpreting DinSAR seasonal Surface Displacement in a continuous Permafrost high arctic Environment
» Ashley Rudy (Queen's University), Scott Lamoureux (Queen's University), Paul Treitz (Queen's University), Naomi Short (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada Natural Resources Canada), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Daniel DeLisle, Akiko Noda
Venue
SH-3620
13:30
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 L-band SAR Applications
» shinichi sobue (JAXA), Akiko Noda (JAXA)
13:50
Detection of small Surface Displacement by InSAR using RADARSAT-2, ALOS and ALOS-2 Data
» Yu Morishita (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)
14:10
InSAR Deformation monitoring from RADARSAT 2 and ALOS Images
» Vern Singhroy (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Junhua Li (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
14:30
Comparison of Landslides' Recognition Capacity of L- and C-band RADAR Polarimetry
» Ryoichi Furuta (Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan), keita miyazaki (JAXA), Akiko Noda (JAXA), Saori Nemoto (JAXA)
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Gordon Staples
Venue
SH-3420
13:30
Multi-polarization SAR Ship Detection: a fair Comparison using the TanDEM-X Pursuit monostatic Mode
» ferdinando nunziata (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Dipartimento di Ingegneria), Domenico Velotto (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Maurizio Migliaccio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Dipartimento di Ingegneria)
13:50
Icebergs in Sea Ice: Detection and Iceberg-Ship Discrimination With RADARSAT-2 Full Polarimetric Data
» Igor Zakharov (C-CORE), Desmond Power (C-CORE), Mark Howell (C-CORE), Sherry Warren (C-CORE)
14:10
Maritime Pollution Monitoring Using Simulated RADARSAT Constellation Mission Compact Polarimetric SAR Data
» Mohammed Dabboor (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Suman Singha (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Konstantinos Topouzelis (University of the Aegean), Benoit Montpetit (Canadian Ice Service), Dean Flett (Canadian Ice Service)
14:30
Waterline Detection and Topography in the Wadden Sea using Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
» Stefan Wiehle (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Anja Frost (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Suman Singha (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Chris Hopkinson
Venue
SH-3140
13:30
Validating EO derived Products during Natural Disasters with Crowdsourced Geographic Information (CGI)
» Vincent Decker (Natural Resources Canada,), Genevieve Marquis (Natural Resources Canada,)
13:50
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED: Optical and Radar Multi-Sensor Integration for Historical and Near-Real Time Surface Flood Water Mapping
» Ian Olthof (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
14:10
Improvements and validation of Earth observation based flood extent and depth Products for Emergency decision-support
» Simon Tolszczuk-Leclerc (Natural Resources Canada,), Jean-samuel Proulx-bourque (Natural Resources Canada,), Sherry Warren (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL), Steven McArdle (4DM), John Bennett (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL), Guy Aubé (Canadian Space Agency), Serge Légaré (Ministère de la sécurité publique du Québec), Nicolas Gignac (Ministère de la sécurité publique du Québec), François Poulet (Ministère de la sécurité publique du Canada)
14:30
A mountain water resources monitoring framework using a temporal fusion of optical, lidar and radar image data sources at century to season scales
» Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Kelsey Cartwright (University of Leth), David McCaffrey (University of Lethbridge), Stefan Kienzle (leth), Brian Brisco (2Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
Wednesday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Sonya Banal
Venue
SH-3220
13:30
Shoreline Extraction from RADARSAT-2 Imagery in Support of Canadian Armed Forces Operations
» Greg Barrie (Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC))
13:50
ISTEP - User-Centric Flood Information from Earth Observation Data
» Alan Higginson (ADGA Group Consultants Inc.), Andrew Gagnon (ADGA Group Consultants Inc.), Martin Lihou (ADGA Group Consultants Inc.)
14:10
Enhanced capability for extracting Geospatial Intelligence from RADARSAT-2 Imagery
» Ron Caves (MDA Systems Ltd.), Jayanti Sharma (MDA Systems Ltd.), Mafijul Bhuiyan (MDA Systems Ltd.), Emmanuel Fall (MDA Systems Ltd.)
14:30
Overview of Defence Research & Development Canada's Space-Based Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Program
» Sonya Banal (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)), David Hazen (Defence Research and Development Canada), Paris Vachon (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC))
Wednesday
13:40 - 14:50
FW-6
Fire Workshop Panel
Venue
SH-2620
13:40
Bridging Research and Reality
»
Martin Wooster, Philip Frost, Jonathan Boucher, Alison York, Gregg Ross, Josh Johnston
KCL, CSIR, SOPFEU, Alaska Univ, NOSM, CFS
Wednesday
14:50 - 15:30
Break - Pause
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Joshua Johnston
Venue
SH-2620
15:30
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Earth Observation Imagery in Modelling Fire Regime: Applications and Challenges
» Steve Cumming (Université Laval), Eliot McIntire (Pacific Forestry Centre), Jean Marchal (Université Laval), Thierry Duchesne (Université Laval)
15:50
Designing data-driven Modeling Strategies for real-Time Wildfire spread forecasting
» Mélanie Rochoux (CECI, Cerfacs - CNRS), Cong Zhang (Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland), Michael Gollner (Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland), Arnaud Trouvé (Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland)
16:10
Prescribed Burn, Helicopterborne Infrared Imagery, and 3D Plume Model for Synthetic FRP Product Simulation
» Ronan Paugam (university of washington), Ruddy Mell (USFD), Jean-philppe Gastellu-etchegorry (Paul Sabatier University), Joshua Johnston (CFS), Jean-baptiste Filippi (University of Corte)
16:30
A Canadian Wildland Fire Monitoring System
» Helena van Mierlo (Canadian Space Agency), Linh Ngo Phong (Canadian Space Agency), Paul Briand (Canadian Space Agency), Joshua Johnston (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Tim Lynham (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Didier Davignon (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jean-Francois Hamel (NGC Aerospace Ltd.)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Guy Séguin, Dirk Geudtner
Venue
Amphi.
15:30
Terrestrial Snow Mass SAR Mission for Canada
» Geoff Burbidge (Airbus Defence and Space), José Marquez Martinez (Airbus Defence and Space), Guy Séguin (INSARSAT), Yves Crevier (Canadian Space Agency), Mélanie Lapointe (Canadian Space Agency), Chris Derksen (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Stephane Belair (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Monique Bernier (Centre Eau Terre Environnement)
15:50
Archives and Applications Of Consistent High Resolution Land Coverage Using RADARSAT-2
» Marco van der Kooij (MDA)
16:10
Development of a Compressed TCPED Cycle for RCM follow-on missions
» Andreas Stock (Airbus Defence and Space), Axel Wagner (Airbus Defence and Space)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Samuel Foucher, Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre
Venue
SH-R810
15:30
Mean-Shift Polsar Image Denoising with Position Tensor
» Jean-Marie Beaulieu (Laval University)
15:50
Speckle Filtering in Polarimetric SAR Images based on a Deep Learning Approach
» Samuel Foucher (Computer Research Institute of Montreal), mario beaulieu (CRIM), Mohamed Dahmane (Computer Research Institute of Montreal), François CAVAYAS (Université de Montréal)
16:10
Soil Moisture retrieval over agricultural Fields from Polarimetric decomposition of multi-angular SAR Data
» Hongquan Wang (University of Sherbrooke), Ramata Magagi (University of Sherbrooke), Kalifa Goita (University of Sherbrooke)
16:10
Polarimetric Radar for Remote geological Mapping of Salt Diapirs on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
» Elise Harrington (University of Western Ontario), Catherine Neish (University of Western Ontario), Livio Tornabene (University of Western Ontario), Gordon Osinski (University of Western Ontario)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Chris Derksen, Juha Lemmetyinen
Venue
SH-2420
15:30
Monitoring Sea Ice in Nunavik's Deception Bay with RADARSAT-2 (quad-pol) and TerraSAR-X (dual-pol) data
» Sophie Dufour-Beauséjour (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Monique Bernier (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Anna Wendleder (German Space Center (DLR)), Pierre-Olivier Carreau (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Etienne Lauzier-hudon (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Yves Gauthier (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Jimmy Poulin (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Veronique Gilbert (KRG-ARK), Amélie Rouleau (Glencore)
15:50
Advancing a Great Lakes Satellite SAR Ice Type Classification Algorithm and Its Relation to the Operational ICECON Risk Assessment Tool
» George Leshkevich (NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory), Son Nghiem (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
16:10
Ice-Water Classification on Large Northern Lakes Using RADARSAT-2 SAR Imagery
» Marie Hoekstra (University of Waterloo), Claude Duguay (University of Waterloo), David Clausi (University of Waterloo)
16:30
Coherence of InSAR for Spatiotemporal Variations of River Ice Cover Monitoring
» Zhaoqin Li (University of Saskatchewan), Howard Wheater (University of Saskatchewan), Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt (University of Saskatchewan)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Daniel DeLisle, Akiko Noda
Venue
SH-3620
15:30
Fire Extent Monitoring using Polarimetric SAR Data for the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire
» Masato Ohki (JAXA), Akiko Noda (JAXA)
15:50
Potential of L-band dual-polarized PALSAR Imagery for mapping burned Areas in northern boreal Forests
» André Beaudoin (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Tahiana Ratsimbazafy (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre), Rob Skakun (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre), Ronald Hall (Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre)
16:10
Monitoring of sea ice distribution using L- and C-band SAR data at Bering Strait
» Tsutomu Yamanokuchi (Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan), Akiko Noda (JAXA)
16:30
Evaluation on Visibility of Different Acquisitioned Conditions of SAR Data for Water Monitoring
» keita miyazaki (JAXA), yoshiteru akiyama (PASCO Corporation), Yutaka Horaku (PASCO Corporation), Akiko Noda (JAXA), Saori Nemoto (JAXA)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
William Perrie
Venue
SH-3420
15:30
A Hurricane Wind Speed Retrieval Model for C-band Radarsat-2 Cross-polarization ScanSAR Images: C-3PO
» Will Perrie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), Guosheng Zhang (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
15:50
Detection of potential natural Oil Seeps in the marine Environment of Hudson Bay/Strait and Foxe Channel from RADARSAT‐2 Imagery
» Simon Tolszczuk-Leclerc (Natural Resources Canada,), Mario Beauchemin (Natural Resources Canada,), David Hennessy (Natural Resources Canada,), Vincent Decker (Natural Resources Canada,), Shahid Khurshid (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada)
16:10
Ocean Surface Features derived from Sentinel 1-A/B SAR Images
» Wesley Van Wychen (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)), Paris Vachon (Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC)), John Wolfe (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)), Norm Scantland (Metrology and Oceanography Centre (METOC) Halifax)
16:30
Quality assessment and Rain correction of Hurricane Wind retrieved from SAR
» HUI SHEN (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), Will Perrie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Robert Leconte
Venue
SH-3140
15:30
An Overview of SWOT related hydrologic research in Canada, with a focus on the St. Lawrence and Peace Athabasca Delta projects
» Robert Leconte (Université de Sherbrooke), Jean Bergeron (Université de Sherbrooke), Jean-François Cantin (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jean-Michel Fiset (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Vincent Fortin (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Sébastien Langlois (Université de Sherbrooke), Gabriela Siles (Université de Sherbrooke), Daniel Peters (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Al Pietroniro (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), doug stiff (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Mélanie Trudel (Université de Sherbrooke), Daqing Yang (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada)
15:50
Operational Near-real Time Flood Extent Mapping in Urban Areas Based on C-Band SAR Data and Flood Return Period Data
» Marion Tanguy (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)), Monique Bernier (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)), Karem Chokmani (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)), Jimmy Poulin (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS))
16:10
Development of a Digital Water Surface Model and in situ bathymetric correction of multi-spectral LiDAR; a case-study at the Bow and Elbow rivers
» Maxim Okhrimenko (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
16:30
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED River Erosion Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction using Microwave Remote Sensing Data
» Md Saifuzzaman (McGill University), Mohd Alam (Jahangirnagar University), Maminul Sarker (CEGIS)
Wednesday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Udayalakshmi Vepakomma
Venue
SH-3220
15:30
Development of a High-Accuracy UAV-Photogrammetry Solution for Automated Environmental Modeling
» Mozhdeh Shahbazi (University of Calgary), Gunho Sohn (York University), Jérôme Théau (Université de Sherbrooke), Patrick Menard (Centre de géomatique du Québec)
15:50
Small is the new BIG : Monitoring and future of the Forest Stands with UAS
» Udaya Vepakomma (FPInnovations)
16:10
The Role of UAVs in the Early Detection of Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality
» Greg McDermid (University of Calgary), Brent Else (University of Calgary), Mir Mustafizur Rahman (University of Calgary), Taylor Mckeeman (University of Calgary), Guillermo Castilla (Northern Forestry Centre)
16:30
UAVs applied to wildlife Studies
» Jérôme Théau (Université de Sherbrooke), Patrick Menard (Centre de géomatique du Québec)
Wednesday
15:45 - 16:45
HW-5
One Earth One Health Workshop: Discussion/Atelier Une planète une santé: Discussions
Venue
Chaufferie
15:45
Discussion on the scenarios & upcoming report
»
Animators: Guy Aubé, Dirk Werle, Richard Fournier, Stéphanie Brazeau
CSA and Ærde, Sherbrooke University, PHAC
Wednesday
16:40 - 16:50
HW-6
One Earth One HealthWorkshop: Conclusion/Atelier Une planète une santé: Conclusion
Venue
Chaufferie
16:40
»
Matthew W. Gilmour
Public Health Agency of Canada
Wednesday
17:00 - 17:30
KN-6
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
17:00
»
Nicholas Ogden
(Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, PHAC)
Wednesday
17:30 - 17:50
One Earth - One Health Workshop Report
Venue
Amphitheatre
Wednesday
17:50 - 18:00
Conclusion - Day 2
Venue
Amphitheatre
Wednesday
18:30 - 23:00
Awards banquet
Venue
Hall panoramique - Vieux port de Montréal

Thursday, 22nd June

Thursday
07:30 - 08:30
Student Program - Networking Breakfast
Venue
Hotel 10 Restaurant, 10 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H2X 4C9
Thursday
08:00 - 10:30
Registration - Inscription
Venue
Hall
Thursday
08:00 - 15:45
Kiosks - Kiosques
Venue
Salle polyvalente
Thursday
08:00 - 17:00
Salon des Exposants AGMQ
Venue
Agora
Thursday
08:15 - 08:30
Welcome - Day 3
Venue
Amphitheatre
Thursday
08:30 - 09:00
Assemblée générale des membres de l'AGMQ
Venue
Chaufferie
Thursday
08:30 - 09:00
KN-7
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
08:30
TBD
»
TBD
TBD
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
AGMQ-1A
Conférence d'ouverture
Venue
Agora
09:10
TBC
»
Stéphane Roche
Université Laval
Thursday
09:10 - 09:50
Chaired By:
Mike Ciezadlo
Venue
SH-2620
09:10
Very Large-Scale, High Spatial Resolution Airborne Thermal Mapping of Wildfires in Canada using the TABI-1800
» Jason Howse (ITRES Research)
09:30
Hummingbird Drones' Application of UAVs on the Fireline
» Robert Atwood (Hummingbird Drones Inc.)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Randy Scharien
Venue
Amphi.
09:10
Sea Ice Characterization Using Simulated Compact Polarimetric (RCM) and Compact Polarimetric (RISAT-1) SAR Data
» Suman Singha (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Mohammed Dabboor (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Benoit Montpetit (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada), Sven Jacobsen (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
09:30
Mapping Hazardous Sea Ice Features With Advanced Capabilities of SAR Satellites
» Igor Zakharov (C-CORE), Desmond Power (C-CORE), Sherry Warren (C-CORE), Pradeep Bobby (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Mark Howell (C-CORE)
09:50
Melt Season Sea Ice discrimination in the Northwest Passage with C- and L-band SAR
» Randy Scharien (University of Victoria), Torsten Geldsetzer (Department of Geography, University of Victoria)
10:10
Sea Ice Classification Using C-band Compact Polarimetric SAR during the Advanced Melt Season in Victoria Strait, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
» Sasha Nasonova (University of Victoria), Randy Scharien (University of Victoria), Torsten Geldsetzer (University of Victoria)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Achim Roth, Yann Denis
Venue
SH-R810
09:10
Forest Height and Aboveground Biomass retrieval in Tropical Peat Swamp forests using Multi-Pass X- and C-band PolInSAR Data
» Sandra Lohberger (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH), Anna Berninger (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH), Ting Liu (A.U.G. Signals Ltd.), Yi Zang (A.U.G. Signals Ltd.), Kristina Konecny (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH), Werner Wiedemann (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH), George Lampropoulos (A.U.G. Signals Ltd.), Florian Siegert (RSS – Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH)
09:30
CSA-DLR Collaboration: Forest Height and Aboveground Biomass Retrieval in Tropical Forests using Multi-pass C- and X- band POLInSAR Data
» Yi Zang (A.U.G. Signals Ltd.)
09:50
Snow Mapping for Fire Risk Management through Integration of C- and X-Band SAR and a Spatially-explicit Hydrological Model
» Jean-Simon Michaud (Hatfield Consultants), Andy Dean (Hatfield Consultants), Dan Bewley (Hatfield Consultants), Fabian Niggemann (VISTA Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH), Florian Appel (VISTA Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH), Jamie Gairns (Hatfield Consultants)
10:10
Snow Mapping for Fire Risk Management through Integration of a Spatially-Explicit Hydrological Model and X- and C-Band SAR
» Fabian Niggemann (VISTA)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Stéphane Coté
Venue
SH-2420
09:10
SAR Antenna Pointing Determination: Results from the Sentinel-1B Commissioning Phase and novel approaches
» Patrick Klenk (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Jens Reimann (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Marco Schwerdt (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Manfred Zink (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
09:30
DLR's Innovative Point Targets for SAR System Calibration and their Application to Sentinel-1
» Klaus Weidenhaupt (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Björn Döring (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Matthias Jirousek (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Sebastian Raab (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Daniel Rudolf (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Marco Schwerdt (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
09:50
Sentinel-1B In-Orbit SAR Calibration and Performance Verification
» Dirk Geudtner (European Space Agency)
10:10
Polarimetric PALSAR-2 Calibration
» Ridha Touzi (CCRS), masanobu shimada (Tokyo Denki University)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Jon Pasher
Venue
SH-3620
09:10
Monitoring Habitat Degradation caused by overabundant Geese in Canadian Arctic Migratory Bird Sanctuaries using Trend-Analysis and Landsat Stacks
» Jon Pasher (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Rasim Latifovic (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Darren Pouliot (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Valerie Wynja (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
09:30
Modeling the Impacts of phenological and inter-annual Changes in Landscape Metrics on Local Biodiversity of Agricultural Lands of Eastern Ontario using multi-spatial and multi-temporal Remote Sensing Data
» Niloofar Alavi (Carleton University), Doug King (Carleton University), Dennis Duro (Carleton University), Scott Mitchell (Carleton University)
09:50
Development of a 30 m spatial Resolution 2010 Land Cover of Canada
» Darren Pouliot (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Rasim Latifovic (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Ian Olthof (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Magaret Kalacska
Venue
SH-3420
09:10
30 Year Changes in global Surface Water extent - implications for Conservation and Biodiversity
» Margaret Kalacska (McGill University), Oliver Lucanus (Below Water Pictures), J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora (National Research Council of Canada)
09:30
A New Algorithm for the Operational Retrieval of Water Quality Parameters in the Laurentine Great Lakes from Satellite Data
» George Leshkevich (NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory), Robert Shuchman (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Michael Sayers (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Reid Sawtel (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University)
09:50
Precise Delineation of Small Water Bodies from Sentinel-1 Data
» Evelyn Possa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Philippe Maillard (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
10:10
SAR Intensity and Coherence Images for 2D River Dynamics: A Study of the Amazon River
» Francis Canisius (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Marco van der Kooij (MDA Corporation), Edwin Keizer (Greenpeace Brazil)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Stephen Côté
Venue
SH-3140
09:10
À la recherche depuis l'Espace de la cité maya perdue: KAAK CHI
» William Gadoury (Académie Antoine-Manseau)
09:30
Analyse des séries temporelles d'images radar à très haute résolution pour l'aide à la gestion des inondations : Étude de cas des inondations de la rivière Richelieu et du lac Champlain
» Moslem Ouled Sghaier (École de technologie supérieure), Samuel Foucher (Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal), Richard Lepage (École de technologie supérieure)
09:50
Effets gonioradiométriques sur des images optiques dans le spectre solaire et leur correction
» François CAVAYAS (Université de Montréal)
10:10
L'imagerie satellitaire à très haute résolution au service des ministères et organismes du Gouvernement du Québec
» Stephen Cote (Ministère de l'Énergie et des Ressources naturelles)
Thursday
09:10 - 10:30
Chaired By:
Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Thuy LeToan
Venue
SH-3220
09:10
Advances in PolSAR Remote Sensing of seasonal Snow at C-band. Application in alpine Environment by means of Radarsat-2 Data
» Jean-Pierre Dedieu (CNRS), Claudie Ratté-Fortin (INRS-ETE), Karem Chokmani (INRS-ETE), Sophie Roberge (INRS-ETE), Monique Bernier (INRS-ETE)
09:30
Lava Surface Roughness from Ultra-High Resolution LiDAR Topography Compared to RADARSAT-2 C-Band and AIRSAR L-Band Circular Polarization Ratio
» Michael Zanetti (The University of Western Ontario), Catherine Neish (The University of Western Ontario), Antero Kukko (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute), Gordon Osinski (The University of Western Ontario), Byung-Hun Choe (The University of Western Ontario), Gavin Tolometti (The University of Western Ontario), Rachel Maj (University of British Columbia), Jennifer Heldmann (NASA Ames Research Center)
09:50
Polarimetric Decomposition of dual-Frequency SAR Data for Soil Moisture Retrieval over Agricultural Fields
» Hongquan Wang (University of Sherbrooke), Ramata Magagi (University of Sherbrooke), Kalifa Goita (University of Sherbrooke)
10:10
Detection and Validation of Forest Disturbances using RADARSAT-2
» Gordon Staples (MDA GSI), Graham Green (MDA GSI), Shane Gravelle (MDA GSI), Ji Chen (MDA GSI), David Goodenough (Uvic)
Thursday
09:50 - 11:00
FW-9
Fire Workshop Panel
Venue
SH-2620
09:50
Air, Ground And Space Helping Each Other Out
»
Vince Ambrosia, Mike Ciezadlo, Jennifer Naylor, Milène Beaudoin, George Leblanc, Warren Shaw
NASA Ames, Discovery Air, BC Wildfire, MFFP, NRC, ITRES
Thursday
10:30 - 11:00
Break - Pause
Thursday
10:30 - 15:30
Status of Ducks Unlimited Canada's Enhanced Wetland Classification (EWC) Inventory and Case Study of the Akaitcho Wetland Mapping Project
» Michael Merchant (Ducks Unlimited Canada), Alain Richard (Ducks Unlimited Canada), Kevin Smith (Ducks Unlimited Canada), Rebecca Warren (Ducks Unlimited Canada), Rebecca Edwards (Ducks Unlimited Canada)
An Object-oriented approach for Land Cover Change Detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar Time-Series and open Source Solutions: a Case Study in the Guayas River Delta, Ecuador
» Charlotte Smetanka (Université de Sherbrooke), Marc Simard (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Nathan Thomas (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Hydrodynamics of the Peace-Athabasca Wetlands from High-Resolution space-borne InSAR
» Gabriela Siles (Université de Sherbrooke), Mélanie Trudel (Université de Sherbrooke), Robert Leconte (Université de Sherbrooke)
Analyzing Coastlines extracted from Radarsat-2 Imagery: the Effect of Topographic and Sea-Surface Conditions
» Koreen Millard (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC)), Greg Barrie (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC))
A comparison of WorldView-2, Pleiades and RapidEye Imagery for Remote Sensing of Submerged Eelgrass
» Heather Ward (Stantec Consulting Ltd.), Marc Skinner (Stantec Consulting Ltd.), Fred Short (University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources & the Environment)
Advances in Remote Sensing of Inland Water Quality and Vegetation Dynamics by means of Sentinel-2A and Landsat-8 Data. Application in an Arctic River Basin (Nunavik, Canada)
» Jean-Pierre Dedieu (CNRS), Mathieu Monfette (University of Montreal), Jan Franssen (University of Montreal), Thora Martina Herrmann (University of Montreal), Justine-anne Rowell (University of Montreal), Esther Levesque (University of Quebec-Trois Rivières), José Gerin-lajoie (University of Quebec-Trois Rivières)
Assessment of Laboratory and Sonde-based Measures of Chlorophyll-a, Turbidity, and Organic Carbon in different Watersheds in Canada
» Kiana Zolfaghari (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Stephen Bird (Fluvial Systems Research Inc), Graham Wilkes (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Deanna Ellis (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Katarina Pintar (Centre for Foodborne, Environmental, and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada), Natalie Gottschall (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Ed Topp (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), David R. Lapen (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Heather Mcnairn (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Long-term Spatial-temporal Eelgrass Habitat change (1932-2016) in the Salish Sea
» Natasha Nahirnick (University of Victoria), Sarah Schroeder (University of Victoria), Maycira Costa (University of Victoria), Tara Sharma (Parks Canada)
Gaining Data of Surface Chlorophyll-a in the Salish Sea through Multi-Sensor merging and Cloud-filling interpolation
» Andrea Hilborn (Department of Geography, University of Victoria), Maycira Costa (University of Victoria)
Modeling spatio-temporal Variation of Algal bloom using MODIS inland Waters Data processing
» Claudie Ratté-Fortin (INRS-ETE), Karem Chokmani (INRS-ETE), Anas El Alem (INRS-ETE)
Analyse comparative des modèles bio-optiques d'absorption de la matière organique dissoute colorée dans les eaux tropicales en utilisant les données Landsat 5 TM : cas du réservoir du Funil (Brésil)
» SARAH MARTINS (INRS), Karem Chokmani (INRS-ETE), Enner Alcânara (UNESP), Igor Ogashawara (IUPUI), Anas El Alem (INRS-ETE)
Patterns and Changes of Urban Flash Flood Risks in Two Canadian Urban Centres
» Jinfei Wang (The University of Western Ontario), Ying Zhang (Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada), Chuiqing Zeng (The University of Western Ontario), Boyu Feng (The University of Western Ontario)
Urban Road Detection on High Resolution Satellite Radar Images for Natural Disaster Emergency Response
» Francis Charette Migneault (Laboratoire d'imagerie, de vision et d'intelligence artificielle (LIVIA), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec), Idrissa Coulibaly (Laboratoire d'imagerie, de vision et d'intelligence artificielle (LIVIA), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec)
Extraction des informations sur la morphologie des milieux urbains par analyse des images radars interférométriques
» François CAVAYAS (Université de Montréal), Michelle Aubrun (Département de géographie, Université de Montréal)
ESRI CityEngine Evaluation for Automatic Generation of 3D Models
» Frank Zhang (Selkirk College), Kenichi Sugihara (Gifu-Keizai University), Youry Khmelevsky (Okanagan College), Martin Wallace (Okanagan College)
Travaux d'agrandissement du terminal portuaire de Contrecœur : suivi des écosystèmes côtiers à l'aide des technologies d'observation de la Terre
» Guy Aubé (Canadian Space Agency)
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Évaluation de l'apport des données polarimétriques RADARSAT-2 pour le suivi de l'humidité du sol et la classification des structures internes des tourbières
» Ouail Messari (Institut national de la recherche scientifique)
Evaluating the Drought-induced variation in Land Surface Phenology of the semi-arid Canadian Prairie using AVHRR NDVI Time Series
» TENGFEI CUI (University of Saskatchewan), Lawrence Martz (University of Saskatchewan), Xulin Guo (University of Saskatchewan)
Detecting Vegetation characteristics using Remote Sensing Data and Radiation Transfer Modeling
» Bing Lu (University of Toronto Mississauga), Yuhong He (University of Toronto Mississauga), Cameron Proctor (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Integrating Functional Perspective of Plant Co-Occurrence with Rare Species Distribution Models: An Approach to Maximize Remotely Sensed Prediction Accuracy of Low Prevalence Species
» Anjika Attanayake (University of Saskatchewan), Steven Shirtliffe (University of Saskatchewan), Xulin Guo (University of Saskatchewan), Eric Lamb (University of Saskatchewan)
Sampling Optimization for Soil-Nutrient Mapping
» Hsin-Hui Huang (McGill University), Viacheslav Adamchuk (Mc)
Regional monitoring of Irrigation and Water Uptake in Desert Areas using free Earth Observation Data
» MIMOUNI Mustapha (Sahara and Sahel Observatory)
Apports des données multispectrales Landsat dans une approche de suivi de dynamique des forêts dans les concessions forestières des communautés locales du Haut-Katanga
» Nsiami Mabiala Catherine (Université de Lubumbashi)
Résilience des peuplements d'épinette noire face aux successions rapprochées d'épidémie d'insecte et de feu
» Maude Perrault-Hébert (Université de Montréal)
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED Linking Spaceborne and Ground Observations of Fall Foliage in Southern Quèbec, Canada
» Offer Rozenstein (Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences)
Topography and Canopy Cover Change in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone: Century-Scale Observations
» David McCaffrey (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
Oblique Photography and Canopy Cover Classification in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone
» David McCaffrey (University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge)
Individual Tree Crown Height Estimation using High-Resolution Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery
» Lisa Balkenhol (Selkirk College), Frank Zhang (Selkirk College), George Leblanc (National Research Council Canada)
Volume Predictions for natural Vegetation and Eucalyptus Plantations in Savanna Ecosystems with Field Observations and Landsat multitemporal Imagery in Brazil
» Aliny Aparecida Dos Reis (Federal University of Lavras - UFLA), José Marcio de Mello (Federal University of Lavras - UFLA), Antonio Carlos Ferraz Filho (Federal University of Lavras - UFLA), Fausto Weimar Acerbi Junior (Federal University of Lavras - UFLA), Steven Franklin (Trent University)
Lidar and multispectral Classification of Balsam Fir Tree Status for accurate Predictions of merchantable Volume
» sarah Yoga (Laval University), Jean Bégin (Laval University), Benoît St-Onge (UQAM), Demetrios Gatziolis (USDA Forest Service)
The Effect of Dynamism of Urban Expansions to the Water Resources of Meknès City. Contribution Multi Source spatial Imagery.
» Soufyane NASRI (University Hassan II Csablanca), Mustapha Hakdaoui (University Hassan II Csablanca)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:00
Chaired By:
N/A
Venue
Agora
11:00
Le Lidar et ses dérivés pour une utilisation métropolitaine
» Bruno Labonte (Communauté métropolitaine de Québec)
11:30
Roof Damage Assessment from Automated 3D Building Models
» Kenichi Sugihara (Gifu-Keizai University), Martin Wallace (Okanagan College), Frank Zhang (Selkirk College), Youry Khmelevsky (Okanagan College)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:00
Chaired By:
TBD
Venue
Chaufferie
11:00
Plateforme mobile de SIGim Web pour consultation et interrogation des données sur le terrain
» Maxime Grimard (Geomap GIS Amérique)
11:30
Améliorer les processus d'aide à la décision en utilisant les données Lidar et l'imagerie par drone
» Martin Couture (Esri Canada)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:30
Chaired By:
Monique Bernier
Venue
Amphi.
11:00
The development of Canadian Remote sensing SAR Systems
» Chuck Livingstone (DRDC Ottawa)
11:30
Making Government Science Work: The History of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)
» Bob Ryerson (Kim Geomatics Corporation)
12:00
Hyperspectral remote sensing in Canada - the early years (1975-1990)
» Gary Borstad (ASL Environmental Sciences(emeritus)), Howard Edel (ASL Environmental Sciences), Jim Gower (DFO)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Achim Roth, Yann Denis
Venue
SH-R810
11:00
Using C-and X-band SAR Data to characterize and remove the Soil Moisture contribution to InSAR Measurements
» Giacomo Falorni (TRE Altamira Inc), Jean Pascal Iannacone (TRE Altamira Inc), Geidy Baldeon (TRE Altamira Inc), Bruce Macdonald (TRE Altamira Inc)
11:20
Determination of Soil Moisture in agricultural Fields using X- and C- band SAR Data from TerraSAR-X and RADARSAT-2
» Layth Sahib (Spatial Business Integration GmbH), Katrin Born (Spatial Business Integration GmbH)
11:40
Wetland Vegetation Mapping Using X- and C- Band SAR Time Series Data
» Achim Roth (German Space Center (DLR)), Tanja Riedel (Friedrich-Schiller-University), Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc), Kathrin Weise (Jena-Optronik GmbH)
12:00
C and X-band integration for mapping Water Extent and Dynamics under Vegetation, using SAR Amplitude and Interferometric Phase
» Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc), Achim Roth (German Space Center (DLR)), Andreas Schmitt (University of Applied Sciences Munich), Kathrin Weise (Jena-Optronik GmbH), Tanja Riedel (Friedrich-Schiller-University)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Stéphane Coté
Venue
SH-2420
11:00
A Novel Approach to the external Calibration of Multi-Channel SAR Sensors based on Range compressed Data
» Marc Jäger (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Rolf Scheiber (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
11:20
RADARSAT-2 Image Quality and Calibration Update
» Dan Williams (MDA), Yiman Wang (MDA), Gordon Fitzgerald (MDA), Marielle Chabot (MDA), neil gibb (MDA), Ron Caves (MDA Systems Ltd.), Yan Wu (MDA), Peter Allan (MDA Space Missions), Cathy Vigneron (MDA), Alan Thompson (MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd.)
11:40
SAR Terrain-Geocoding Relative Geometric Comparison between Range-Doppler and Rational-Function methods
» Stefan Nedelcu (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
12:00
Correction des effets cardinaux sur les images SAR quad-pol portant sur le milieu urbain : comparaison des méthodes basées sur les décompositions polarimétriques et des fonctions de compensation relatives à l'angle azimutal des objets
» Claude Codjia (UQAM)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Brian Brisco
Venue
SH-3620
11:00
Fundamental Physics of Wood to correct Errors in polarimetric Decompositions
» Frank Ahern (TerreVista Earth Imaging)
11:20
An online Portal for automated SAR and LiDAR Integration for Surface Water monitoring
» Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Husam Ali (University of Lethbridge), Brian Brisco (2Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), David McCaffrey (University of Lethbridge), Joshua Montgomery (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Shane Patterson (Government of Alberta), REIHANEH PEIMAN (University of Lethbridge)
11:40
Coherence Normalization for Wetland Mapping using Multiple SAR Systems
» Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc), Andreas Schmitt (University of Applied Sciences Munich), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
12:00
Newfoundland and Labrador Wetland Classification and Water Level monitoring using Optical, PolSAR, and InSAR Earth Observation Data
» Bahram Salehi (C-CORE), Meisam Amani (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Sahel Mahdavi (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Fariba Mohammadimanesh (C), Masoud Mahdianpari (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jean Granger (C-CORE, and Memorial University of Newfoundland), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Martin Bergeron
Venue
SH-3420
11:00
A Canadian Coastal Ocean Color Imager Feasibility Study
» Martin Bergeron (Canadian Space Agency), Shen-En Qian (Canadian Space Agency), Paul Briand (Canadian Space Agency), Jamie Sevigny (Canadian Space Agency), Bernard Griffith (Canadian Space Agency), Mike Furlong (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Georges Fournier (Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC)), Jean-pierre Ardouin (DRDC)
11:20
The Coastal Ocean Color Imager Mission Concept
» Jennifer Busler (MDA), Gary Buttner (MDA), Darren Thomson (MDA), Thomas Logan (MDA), Louis Moreau (ABB Inc.), Julie Mandar (ABB Inc.), Martin Bergeron (Canadian Space Agency), Shen-En Qian (Canadian Space Agency), Mélanie Lapointe (Canadian Space Agency), Guy Aubé (Canadian Space Agency)
11:40
The Coastal Ocean Color Imager Payload Concept
» Louis Moreau (ABB Inc.), Etienne Gauthier (ABB Inc.), Jean-François Lavigne (ABB Inc.), Julie Mandar (ABB Inc.), Jennifer Busler (MDA Systems Ltd.), Gary Buttner (MDA Systems Ltd.), Martin Bergeron (Canadian Space Agency), Shen-En Qian (Canadian Space Agency), Oleg Djazovski (Canadian Space Agency), Michael Maszkiewicz (Canadian Space Agency)
12:00
Airborne Campaign Preparations of a Prototype Water Color Imaging Spectrometer in Support of the Coastal Ocean Color Imager
» Raymond Soffer (National Research Council Canada), Shen-En Qian (Canadian Space Agency), Stephen Achal (ITRES Research Ltd.), Martin Bergeron (Canadian Space Agency), Susanne Craig (Canadian Space Agency)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Mahta Moghaddam
Venue
SH-3140
11:00
NWT CCAdapt InSAR Community Monitoring Program
» Colin Avey (GNWT Centre for Geomatics), Brian Sieben (GNWT ENR Enviroment, Climate Change Unit), Jon Leighton (3vGeomatics), Adrian McCardle (3vGeomatics)
11:20
Using InSAR to Study Permafrost Dynamics
» Kevin Schaefer (National Snow and Ice Data Center), Howard Zebker (Department of Geophysics, Stanford University), Roger Michaelides (Department of Geophysics, Stanford University), Jingyi (Ann) Chen (Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin), Albert Chen (Jet), Andrew Parsekian (Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming), Lin Liu (Earth System Science Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Mahta Moghaddam (University of Southern California), Elchin Jafarov (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jeff Thompson (National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado), Alireza Tabatabaeenejad (University of Southern California), Richard Chen (University of Southern California)
11:40
Investigation of polarimetric ALOS-2 for discontinuous Parmafrost mapping in nothern Alberta Peatlands
» Ridha Touzi (CCRS), Steven Pawley (AGS), Mehdi Hosseini (CCRS), Xianfeng Jiao (CCRS)
12:00
Retrieval of Root-Zone Soil Moisture and Permafrost Properties Using Long-Wavelength Polarimetric Radar
» Alireza Tabatabaeenejad (University of Southern California), Richard Chen (University of Southern California), Kevin Schaefer (National Snow and Ice Data Center), Mahta Moghaddam (University of Southern California)
Thursday
11:00 - 12:20
Chaired By:
Daniel DeLisle, Shannon Kaya
Venue
SH-3220
11:00
Evaluation of Simulated Dual and Compact Polarimetric RADARSAT Constellation Mission Data for Shoreline Sensitivity Mapping
» Sarah Banks (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Koreen Millard (Carleton University), Lori White (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jon Pasher (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jason Duffe (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
11:20
The Development and Delivery of On-Demand RADARSAT Constellation Mission Ground Deformation Products based on advanced INSAR Technology
» Sergey Samsonov (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation), Wanpeng Feng (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation)
11:40
A Status Update on Operational Readiness Preparations at the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM)
» Dean Flett (Canadian Ice Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Marilee Pregitzer (Canadian Ice Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada)
12:00
Estimation of First-Year Sea Ice Melt Pond Fraction from Compact Polarization SAR
» Will Perrie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
Thursday
12:05 - 12:20
AGMQ - Remise de bourse AGMQ-UQAM
Venue
Agora
Thursday
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch - Repas
Thursday
13:30 - 15:00
Chaired By:
TBD
Venue
Agora
13:30
Automatic Generation of a 3D Terrain Model for Granular Flow Simulation
» Kenichi Sugihara (Gifu-Keizai University), Martin Wallace (Okanagan College), Frank Zhang (Selkirk College), Youry Khmelevsky (Okanagan College)
14:00
Acquisition et traitement des imageries hyperspectrales de haute résolution pour la cartographie des îlots de chaleur et des microparticules de Montréal
» RICHARD MONGEAU (Ville de Montréal), François CAVAYAS (Université de Montréal), Yves Baudouin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
14:30
Déterminants urbains de la santé issus de données d'observation de la Terre
» Yves Baudouin (Université du Québec à Montréal), François CAVAYAS (Université de Montréal), Claude Codjia (UQAM)
Thursday
13:30 - 15:00
Venue
Chaufferie
13:30
L'importance de la haute précision des données
» Jean-philippe Dargis (Eos Systèmes de Positionnement et Esri Canada)
14:00
Le drone: un outil révolutionnaire d'analyse spatiale
» Maude Pelletier (Génidrone inc.)
14:30
L'utilisation des drones dans le monde municipal
» Jonathan Roy (H4G géomatique inc.)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Didier Davignon
Venue
SH-2620
13:30
Predicting the minimum Height of Forest Fire Smoke within the Atmosphere using Machine learning and Data from the CALIPSO Satellite
» Angela Yao (University of British Columbia)
13:50
Wildland Fire Smoke monitoring and forecasting by Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change: recent Case Studies
» Frank Dempsey (Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change)
14:10
Environment and Climate Change Canada's FireWork System: taking Advantage of Remote Sensing of Wildland Fires to improve Air Quality and Smoke Forecast Services
» Didier Davignon (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Radenko Pavlovic (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Kerry Anderson (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Paul-andré Beaulieu (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jack Chen (Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Peter Englefield (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Hugo Landry (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Michael D. Moran (Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Desmond Power
Venue
Amphi.
13:30
Detection of Melt Ponds in Sea Ice in the Labrador Sea by Quad-Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar
» Will Perrie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), Tao Xie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography)
13:50
An Integrated Approach Utilizing RADARSAT-2 SAR and GLCM Texture to Quantify the Relationship between Aerial Melt-Pond Distribution and Microwave Backscatter
» Saroat Ramjan (University of Calgary), Torsten Geldsetzer (University of Calgary), John Yackel (University of Calgary), Randy Scharien (University of Victoria), Vishnu Nandan (University of Calgary), Mallik Mahmud (University of Calgary)
14:10
Polarimetric C- and X-band SAR Observations of Multi-Year Sea Ice: towards the retrieval of Sea Ice Surface roughness and thickness
» Alec Casey (York University), Justin Beckers (University of Alberta), Anne Bublitz (York University), Benjamin Lange (Alfred Wegener Institute), Christian Haas (Alfred Wegener Institute)
14:30
Incidence Angle dependency of L-band Microwave backscatter of Arctic Sea Ice
» Mallik Mahmud (University of Calgary), Torsten Geldsetzer (University of Calgary), Vishnu Nandan (University of Calgary), Stephen Howell (Environment and Climate Change Canada), John Yackel (University of Calgary), Saroat Ramjan (University of Calgary)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Michael Bock, Lyse Champagne
Venue
SH-R810
13:30
Synergistic use of X- and C-Band SAR Data for tactical Ship Route planning in the Arctic Waters
» Markus Jochum (Airbus), Oliver Lang (Airbus), Roland Christmann (Airbus), Parivash Lumsdon (Airbus), Camilla Mohrdieck (Airbus)
13:50
Detection and Tracking of Icebergs and Ships in Sea Ice with RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR X/TanDEM-X data
» Igor Zakharov (C-CORE), Desmond Power (C-CORE), Sherry Warren (C-CORE), Mark Howell (C-CORE)
14:10
High Resolution Sea Ice Motion Estimation from C- and X-Band SAR Data Acquired During Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
» Anja Frost (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Suman Singha (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Sven Jacobsen (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Stefan Wiehle (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
14:30
Multi-application InSAR Integration (MI2): Combined Use of C-Band and X-Band Imagery for Displacement Monitoring
» Kathy McKay (3v Geomatics Inc.), Matteusz Gara (3v Geomatics Inc.), Parwant Ghuman (3v Geomatics Inc.)
Thursday
13:30 - 15:10
Chaired By:
H. Peter White/ Raymond Soffer
Venue
SH-2420
13:30
Validation of Sentinel-2 Data Products of a Peatland Test Site using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery and Field Spectrometry
» Raymond Soffer (National Research Council Canada), J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora (National Research Council Canada), Margaret Kalacska (McGill University), H.Peter White (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Gabriela Ifimov (National Research Council Canada), George Leblanc (National Research Council Canada), Dennis Nazarenko (LOOKNorth)
13:50
Sensitivity Analysis of Atmospheric Correction Methods for Hyperspectral Imagery Using ATCOR4 and FLAASH: A Peatland Example
» Gabriela Ifimov (National Research Council Canada), J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora (National Research Council of Canada), Raymond Soffer (National Research Council Canada), George Leblanc (National Research Council Canada)
14:10
Towards multi-temporal Estimations of Peatland Net Ecosystem exchange from Airborne and Satellite Imagery
» Margaret Kalacska (McGill University), J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora (National Research Council of Canada), Raymond Soffer (National Research Council of Canada), George Leblanc (National Research Council Canada)
14:30
High Precision GPS Survey at the Mer Bleue Bog: Preliminary Results and Lessons Learnt
» H.Peter White (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Christian Prevost (Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada)
14:50
Optical Satellite Simulations for Sentinel-2A for Evaluation of Peatland Applications
» H.Peter White (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Lixin Sun (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Raymond Soffer (National Res)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Valentin Poncos
Venue
SH-3620
13:30
A Multi-Sensor, Multi-Frequency Remote Sensing Approach for Wetland Identification and Change Detection
» Sarah Banks (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Lori White (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), brian huberty (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Amir Behnamian (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Jon Pasher (Environ), Jason Duffe (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
13:50
Wetland Identification and Change Detection using a multi-sensor, multi-frequency Remote Sensing Approach
» brian huberty (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Brian Brisco (NRCAN CMEO), Lori White (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Sarah Banks (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Laura Chavez (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Mike Battaglia (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), Colin Brooks (Michigan Tech Research Institute, Michigan Technological University), James Klassen (Sharegeo), Keith Pelletier (University of Minnesota), Joe Knight (University of Minnesota), Paul Morin (University of Minnesota)
14:10
Mapping Wetland Water dynamics using Synthetic Aperture Radar and multi-temporal Shannon Entropy
» Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc), Andrew Welch (JWRL Geomatics)
14:30
SAR Techniques for Flooded Vegetation Mapping in Flood Response Products
» Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Colleen Fuss (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Joshua Montgomery (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Valentin Poncos (Kepler Space Inc), Chris Hopkinson (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Alice Deschamps (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Karem Chokmani
Venue
SH-3420
13:30
Arctic coastal Ecosystem mapping using high Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery
» Zhaohua Chen (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jon Pasher (E), Jason Duffe (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Amir Behnamian (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
13:50
Use of Enhanced Multi-temporal and Conventional Imagery for Inland Water Body and Coastal Zone Characterization
» Cynthia Dacre (MDA Information Systems, LLC), Gordon Staples (MDA GSI), Chris Peterson (MDA Information Systems, LLC), Francois Smith (MDA Information Systems, LLC)
14:10
IcePAC - A Regional Scale Sea Ice Concentration Probability model of the Hudson Bay
» Charles Gignac (INRS-ETE), Monique Bernier (INRS-ETE), Karem Chokmani (INRS-ETE)
14:30
Mapping Eelgrass Beds in shallow coastal Waters in Tabusintac (NB) using WorldVew 2 optical Images
» David Forsey (University of Ne), Armand LaRocque (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Brigitte Leblon (Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick), Angela Douglas (Southern Gulf of Saint-Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability), Marc Skinner (Stantec Ltd.)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Joe Buckley
Venue
SH-3140
13:30
Geospatial Analysis of Proximal Soil Sensing and Remote Sensing Data in Precision Agriculture
» Md Saifuzzaman (McGill University), Viacheslav Adamchuk (McGill University)
13:50
ANNULÉ/CANCELLED: Synergy of TerraSAR-X and SPOT data for Object-based crop classification in South Africa
» Masroor Hussain (PCI Geomatics)
14:10
Soil Moisture Estimation in the Hunshandake Sandy Land from polarimetric SAR Data
» Chi Wang (Inner Mongolia University of Technology), Pingping Huang (Inner Mongolia University of Technology), Joseph Buckley (Royal Military College of Canada)
14:30
Mapping and Quantification of Soil Cover on Southern Ontario Agricultural Fields
» Ahmed Laamrani (Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Pamela Joosse (Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Aaron Berg (Dept of Geography, University of Guelph), Peter Doris (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)), Jennifer Birchmore (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)), Natalie Feisthauer (Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Jennifer Hagerman (Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Thursday
13:30 - 14:50
Chaired By:
Matt Arkett/Gordon Staples
Venue
SH-3220
13:30
Comparison of different compact polarimetry Modes in respect to the full polarization for the identification and characterization of the Land use Classes
» Gabriel Gosselin (PCI Geomatics), John Wessels (PCI Geomatics)
13:50
Marine Surface Wind retrieval from simulated RCM-CP SAR Data for National SAR Winds System
» Kerri Warner (Earth Observation & Geomatics - Environment and Climate Change Canada), Shahid Khurshid (Earth Observation & Geomatics - Environment and Climate Change Canada), Torsten Geldsetzer (Independant Contractor), Guosheng Zhang (Bedford Institute of Oceanography - Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Matt Arkett (Earth Observation & Geomatics - Environment and Climate Change Canada), Will Perrie (Bedford Institute of Oceanography - Fisheries and Oceans Canada), François Charbonneau (Natural Resources Canada,), Daniel De Lisle (Canadian Space Agency)
14:10
Oil Slick Characterization using Simulated Compact Polarimetry Data
» Gordon Staples (MDA GSI)
14:30
Qualitative Assessment of RADARSAT Constellation Compact Polarimetry for CIS Operational Sea Ice Monitoring
» Benoit Montpetit (Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada), Marilee Pregitzer (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Stéphanie Tremblay-therrien (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Céline Fabi (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Dean Flett (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
Thursday
14:50 - 15:30
Break - Pause
Thursday
15:30 - 16:00
Venue
Agora
Thursday
15:30 - 16:00
Venue
Chaufferie
15:30
Utilisation de l'ETL pour intégrer et exploiter les données du territoire disponibles en ligne
» Félix Lafond Touikan (Consortech)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Helena van Mierlo
Venue
SH-2620
15:30
NASA Applied Science Program: Wildland Fire
» Vincent Ambrosia (NASA Ames Research Center)
15:50
The Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) Fire Theme
» Tim Lynham (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Christopher Justice (Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland)
16:10
Workshop Outcomes: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science
» Alison York (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Vincent Ambrosia (NASA Ames Research Center), Laura Bourgeau-Chavez (Michigan Tech Research Institute), Amy Breen (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Jessica Cherry (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Evan Ellicott (Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland), Mike Flannigan (Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta), Tom Heinrichs (University of Alaska Fairbanks), George Huffman (NASA Goddard), Go Iwahana (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Randi Jandt (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Jennifer Jenkins (Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service), Tatiana Loboda (Department of Geographical Sciences University of Maryland), Rachel Loehman (US Geological Survey), Tim Lynham (Canadian Forest Service), Kathryn Pyne (Alaska Division of Forestry), Christine Waigl (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Robert Ziel (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Benjamin Deschamps
Venue
Amphi.
15:30
Sea Ice and open Water retrieval from SAR using Bayesian Probability and multisource ancillary Data
» Torsten Geldsetzer (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Alexander Komarov (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Lynn Pogson (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Mark Buehner (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Michael Ross (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Tom Carrieres (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
15:50
Automated Pan-Arctic Sea Ice Motion Tracking from Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
» Mike Brady (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Stephen Howell (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Anne Walker (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
16:10
An Electromagnetic Backscatter Modeling of Iceberg at C-band
» Md. Saimoom Ferdous (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Peter McGuire (C-CORE), Desmond Power (C-CORE)
16:30
Ku-, X-, and C-band Backscatter Evolution from a Saline Snow Cover on First-Year Sea Ice from Late-Winter to Pre-Early Melt
» Vishnu Nandan (University of Calgary), Randy Scharien (University of Victoria), Torsten Geldsetzer (University of Calgary), Mallik Mahmud (University of Calgary), John Yackel (University of Calgary), Saroat Ramjan (University of Calgary)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Michael Bock, Lyse Champagne
Venue
SH-R810
15:30
Monitoring of Man-made Changes Using C- and X-Band SAR Satellite Data
» Catherine Hartley (Airbus Defence and Space), Nadine Kiefl (Airbus Defence and Space), Maik Bindrich (Airbus Defence and Space), Wolfgang Koppe (Airbus Defence and Space), Jan Anderssohn (Airbus Defence and Space)
15:50
Wide-Area Change Monitoring using RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR-X
» Fernando Greene (MDA), Jayanti Sharma (MDA), Jennifer Busler (MDA), Hans Wehn (MDA), Xin Liu (MDA)
16:10
SAR-based Forest mapping and evaluation of TanDEM-X InSAR Height in Forest Stands
» Daniel Baron (Georg-August Universität Göttingen), Stefan Erasmi (Georg-August Universität Göttingen), Michael Bock (scilands GmbH), Rüdiger Köthe (scilands GmbH)
16:30
Forest Canopy Height from combined TanDEM-X and Radarsat-2 for Northwest Territories (NWT)
» Hao Chen (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), david hill (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Andrea Nesdoly (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Shane Cloude (AEL Consultants), David Goodenough (University of Victoria)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Tim Haltigin
Venue
SH-2420
15:30
Surface roughness and polarimetric SAR Signatures of Geologic Units in the Canadian Arctic
» Byung-Hun Choe (The University of Western Ontario), Gordon Osinski (The University of Western Ontario), Catherine Neish (The University of Western Ontario), Michael Zanetti (The University of Western Ontario), Livio Tornabene (The University of Western Ontario), Jinfei Wang (The University of Western Ontario)
15:50
Polarimetric SAR signatures and Kinematic LiDAR Scanning Surface Roughness of Periglacial Patterned Ground in the Canadian Arctic
» Michael Zanetti (The University of Western Ontario), Catherine Neish (The University of Western Ontario), Antero Kukko (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute), Gordon Osinski (The University of Western Ontario), Byung-Hun Choe (The University of Western Ontario), Elise Harrington (The University of Western Ontario), Nilushi Mahathantila (The University of Western Ontario)
16:10
The use of deep convolutional neural Networks for surficial Geology Mapping
» Darren Pouliot (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing), Rasim Latifovic (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
16:30
SAR Quad Polarization for Improved Structural Mapping in the Central Region of the Manicouagan Impact Crater, Canada
» Mary-Anne Fobert (University of New Brunswick), John Spray (University of New Brunswick), Vern Singhroy (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Bahram Salehi
Venue
SH-3620
15:30
Surface Water Detection Using RADARSAT-2 Data
» Amir Behnamian (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Lori White (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Sarah Banks (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jon Pasher (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jason Duffe (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
15:50
Change Detection in Wetland Using RADARSAT-2 Full and Simulated Compact Polarimetric Time Series SAR Data
» Mohammed Dabboor (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Brian Brisco (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Sarah Banks (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Kevin Murnaghan (Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Lori White (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
16:10
A Synthetic Aperture Radar, Optical and Lidar, Data Fusion Approach to Wetland Classification in a Boreal Environment of the Utikuma Regional Study Area, Alberta, Canada
» Joshua Montgomery (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge), Chris Hopkinson (University of Lethbridge), Brian Brisco (2Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Laura Chasmer (University of Lethbridge)
16:30
An Interferometric Coherence Analysis of Newfoundland Wetlands
» Fariba Mohammadimanesh (C-CORE, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Bahram Salehi (C-CORE), Masoud Mahdianpari (C-CORE, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Brian Brisco (2Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa), Mahdi Motagh (Institute for Photogrammetry and GeoInformation, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Vincent Lecours
Venue
SH-3420
15:30
Satellite Derived Bathymetry for improving Canadian Hydrographic Service Navigational Charts
» René Chénier (Canadian Hydrographic Service), Xianfeng Jiao (Canadian Hydrographic Service), Marc-André Faucher (Canadian Hydrographic Service), Ryan Ahola (Canadian Hydrographic Service), Laurent Tardif (Canadian Hydrographic Service)
15:50
Bringing Acoustic Remote Sensing into the Mainstream
» Vincent Lecours (University of Florida), Rodolphe Devillers (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
16:10
Analyzing performances of different atmospheric correction techniques for Landsat data processing: Applications for shallow water bathymetry
» Christopher Ilori (Simon Fraser University), Nima Pahlevan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Anders Knudby (University of Ottawa)
16:30
Temporal Prediction of SST-Sea Surface Temperature along the Western Californian Coast for the period of years 1919-2015
» Geetali Saha (G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology), Narendra Chauhan (A D Patel Institute of Technology)
Thursday
15:30 - 16:50
Chaired By:
Anne Smith
Venue
SH-3140
15:30
Crop Classification Using the MNF Transformation of Multi-temporal RADARSAT-2 Polarimetric SAR Data
» Chunhua Liao (University of Western Ontario), Jinfei Wang (University of Western Ontario), Xiaodong Huang (University of Western Ontario), Jiali Shang (AAFC)
15:50
Assessing Unmanned Aerial Systems Imagery for Deriving Information Related to Potato Production
» Anne Smith (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Bernie Zebarth (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Tom Dixon (McCain Foods (Canada)), Gilles Moreau (McCain Foods (Canada))
16:10
Leaf Water Content Estimation in Grassland using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
» Phuong D. Dao (University of Toronto), Yuhong He (University of Toronto)
Thursday
16:00 - 16:55
AGMQ-5A
AGMQ - Plénière et mot de fermeture
Venue
Agora
Thursday
17:00 - 17:30
KN-8
Keynote - Conférencier
Venue
Amphitheatre
17:00
»
Mike Flannigan
(University of Alberta / Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science)
Thursday
17:30 - 17:50
Wildfire Remote Sensing Workshop Report
Venue
Amphitheatre
Thursday
17:50 - 18:00
EO Summit 2017 Conclusion
Venue
Amphitheatre

Friday, 23rd June

Friday
09:00 - 10:30
STu-1
SAR Tutorial 1
Venue
SH-3620
09:00
»
Gabriel Gosselin
PCI Geomatics
Friday
10:30 - 11:00
Break - Pause
Friday
11:00 - 12:30
STu-2
SAR Tutorial 2
Venue
SH-3620
11:00
»
Chuck Livingstone
DRDC
Friday
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch - Repas
Friday
13:30 - 15:30
STu-3
SAR Tutorial 3
Venue
SH-3620
13:30
»
Bernd Scheuchl
University of California