| 2 June 08 Monday |
| 9:00 |
Radarsat-2 (full day) |
Gordon Staples |
| 13:30 |
Northern Remote Sensing (half day) |
Peter von Gaza |
| 3 June 08 Tuesday |
| 8:00 |
Registration Desk Opens |
| 9:00 |
Welcome/Introductions |
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Session 1 - GIS, Data Integration and Planning (Session Chair: Epp) |
| 9:20 |
Yukon Government Corporate Spatial Data Infrastructure |
Crooks and Parry |
| 9:40 |
North Yukon Regional Planning Database - Yukon Planning Atlas |
Hamm and Francis |
| 10:00 |
Coffee & conversation |
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Session 2 - Environmental Monitoring (Session Chair: Dean) |
| 10:30 |
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| 10:50 |
Satellite Analysis Procedures for National Scale Land Cover Map Update (Presentation Word Doc 18086 KB / PowerPoint 46610 KB) |
Leckie, Cranny, and Henley |
| 11:10 |
20 Metre Bio-Physical Variability of the Northern Mixedgrass Prairie |
Piwowar |
| 11:30 |
An Operational System for Deforestation Estimation for Canada (Presentation PowerPoint 15843 KB) |
Leckie |
| 12:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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| 13:30 |
Time Series Analysis of the Mountain Pine Beetle Out Break in British Columbia |
Goodwin, Coops, Wulder, and Gillanders |
| 13:50 |
SAR and Optical EO Data for Monitoring Permafrost in the North |
Brisco, Budkewitsch, Short, Murnaghan, and Perrott |
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Session 3 - Arctic Vegetation (Session Chair: Crooks) |
| 14:10 |
Modelling Habitat Distribution of Arctic Plant Species at a Regional Scale: An Example from Svalbard in the European Arctic |
Arnesen, Joly, and Nilsen |
| 14:30 |
A New Circa-2000 Land Cover Map of Northern Canada at 30-m Landsat Resolution (Presentation Word Doc 2702 KB) |
Olthof, Latifovic, and Pouliot |
| 14:50 |
Vegetation Mapping and Estimation of the Extent of Near-surface Permafrost in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories (Presentation Word Doc 5598 KB) |
Nguyen, King, and Burn |
| 15:10 |
The Effects of Landscape Age on Circumpolar Distribution of Arctic Vegetation |
Raynolds and Walker |
| 15:30 |
Coffee & conversation |
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Session 4 - Data Integration and Data Mining, Modeling (Session Chair: Markon) |
| 16:00 |
Northern Mapping - A Yukon Perspective |
Brunke, Gaza, and Crooks |
| 16:20 |
High Resolution Lake Edge Extraction from Colour Orthophotography (Presentation PDF 2923 KB) |
Pierce and Law |
| 16:40 |
PROSPECT+SAILH Canopy Analysis Using Python |
Li, Latifovic, Fernandes, Hu, and Canisius |
| 17:00 |
End of Second Day |
| 18:30 |
Ice Breaker Reception at the High Country Inn |
| 4 June 08 Wednesday |
| 8:30 |
Registration Desk Opens |
| 8:50 |
Welcome/Introductions |
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Session 5 - LIDAR and Geology (Session Chair: Schwarz) |
| 9:00 |
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| 9:20 |
Use of LIDAR for Characterising the July 24, 2007, Rock and Ice Avalanche at Mount Steele, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada |
Lipovsky, Hopkinson, Demuth, Evans, and Clague |
| 9:40 |
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| 10:00 |
Coffee & conversation |
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Session 6 - Ground, Airborne and Satellite Imaging (Session Chair: Markon) |
| 10:30 |
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| 10:50 |
The Alaska Volcano Observatory Monitoring System: A Possible Model for the Changing Polar Environment |
Dean, Dehn, Webley, and Bailey |
| 11:10 |
Real time MERIS image geo-projection and multifractal interpolation with C++ |
Li, Latifovic, Fernandes, and Khurshid |
| 11:30 |
Comparison of Temporal Filtering Methods for Error Minimization of 250m MODIS Spectral Time Series |
Pouliot, Fernandes, Latifovic, and Olthof |
| 11:50 |
StereoSATs: a Satellite-based Approach that Optimizes Mapping Processes |
Benoit |
| 12:30 |
Lunch (on your own) |
| 12:00-12:30 |
CRSS Executive Meeting |
| 12:30-13:30 |
CRSS Annual General Meeting (AGM) |
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Session 7 - Radar (Session Chair: Bernier) |
| 14:00 |
RADARSAT-2: SOAR Program and Benefits for the Canadian Government |
Staples |
| 14:20 |
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| 14:40 |
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| 15:00 |
Coffee & conversation |
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Session 8 - Agriculture/Forestry/Wetlands (Session Chair: Peddle) |
| 15:30 |
Mountain Pine Beetle Structural Change and Damage Assessment Using MFM Canopy Reflectance Inversion Modeling |
Peddle, Boon, and Glover |
| 15:50 |
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| 16:10 |
A Medium-Resolution Remote Sensing Classification of Agricultural Areas in Grizzly Bear Habitat |
Collingwood, Franklin, Guo, Stenhouse |
| 16:30 |
The Canadian Wetland Inventory Phase I |
Kazmerik and Hélie |
| 16:50 |
End of Third Day |
| 18:30 |
Symposium Banquet at the MacBride Museum--cash bar--dinner starts at 19:00 |
| 5 June 08 Thursday |
| 8:30 |
Registration Desk Opens |
| 8:50 |
Welcome/Intro |
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Session 9 - Snow and Ice, Glaciers (Session Chair: Bernier) |
| 9:00 |
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| 9:20 |
Development of Passive Microwave Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals for Tundra Environments |
Toose, Derksen, and Walker |
| 9:40 |
Formosat, Automatic Cameras and GPS to Survey a Polar Glacier (Austre Lovénbre, 79°N, Svalbard): First Results of the IPY Field Trips |
Griselin, Laffly, Marlin, Freidt, Bernard, and Martin |
| 10:00 |
Coffee & conversation |
| 10:30 |
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| 10:50 |
Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) – A Large Scale Data Solution for Science |
Parks |
| 11:10 |
Initial Assessment of RADARSAT-2 for Sea Ice Monitoring |
Arkett, Flett, Abreu, and Gauthier |
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Session 10 - International Polar Year (Session Chair: Epp) |
| 11:30 |
A GeoNetwork Discovery Portal for North Yukon IPY Data Collections |
Hamm and Lee |
| 11:50 |
The Polar Metadata Catalogue as a Resource for Canadian IPY Scientists |
LeDrew, Yoon, Barnard, Vincent, Latour, and Tomlinson |
| 12:30 |
Symposium Luncheon at the High Country Inn |
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Session 11 - Land/Water/Wildlife (Session Chair: Schwarz) |
| 14:00 |
Seasonal and Long Term Changes in Forage Availability to the Bathurst Caribou Herd Detected Using Remote Sensing Time Series and Field Measurements |
Chen, Li, Keohler, Zhang, Chen, Griffith, Croft, and Russell |
| 14:20 |
Ecosystem Classification of Regional Planning Areas in Northern Yukon |
Waterreus, Meikle, and Francis |
| 14:40 |
Multi-Species Habitat Modelling for Land Use Planning |
Skinner |
| 15:00 |
A Ground-Based Classification Scheme for Interpreting Satellite Derived Urban Vegetation Characteristics |
Tooke, Coops, and Voogt |
| 15:20 |
End of Fourth Day |
| 6 June 08 Friday |
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Kluane National Park |
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Skagway on Narrow Gauge Railway |
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Information is available at the Registration Desk -- please sign up by noon on Tuesday! |
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Remote Sensing Technologies in Support of Wildland Fire Management Operations and Planning for Yukon |
Adams |
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Caractérisation des Types d'Occupation du Sol en Milieu Urbain à partir de l’Imagerie Radar en Bande C |
Codjia |
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Méthode empirique de correction des effets cardinaux sur les images radarsat-1 portant sur le milieu urbain |
Codjia |
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Examining the Relationships between Thermokarst and Headwater Drainage Networks Using Remote Sensing in the Upper Kuparuk Basin |
Trochim |
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Operational crop acreage estimation on a national scale based on statistics and remote sensing (Presentation Word Doc 436 KB) |
Xianfeng JIAO1, Heather McNAIRN2, Bangjie YANG1 Jiali SHANG2 Zhiyuan PEI1 |
| For changes to the program, email Steve_Schwarz@gov.nt.ca. |
