Conference Agenda
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Location: 716A 175 theatre |
| 8:30am - 5:00pm |
TuT8: Quantum Computing for Earth Observation Location: 716A |
| 8:30am - 12:00pm |
TuT16: Metrics That Make a Difference: How to analyze change and error Location: 716A |
| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
ThS26: Earth Observation Foundation Models: Scalable, Multimodal AI for Environmental Intelligence Location: 716A From Orthophotos to Insights: AI-Powered Forest Monitoring for Digital Forest Twin 12:15pm - 12:30pm Scalable Framework for Peatland Aboveground Biomass Mapping Using Multi-source Satellite Data and Machine Learning 12:30pm - 12:45pm A self-supervised method for soil moisture estimation using multisensor data over forests 12:45pm - 1:00pm Zero-shot multi-class semantic segmentation of remote sensing images using SAM 2 with prior database information |
| 1:30pm - 2:45pm |
ThS23A: Towards Large Cultural Heritage Foundation Models: Datasets, Semantic Alignment, and Component-Level Annotation Location: 716A Investigating The Form And Restoration Of The Diji Altar 1:45pm - 2:00pm A Digital Restoration Method for Earth God Altars from Discrete Components to Scene Reconstruction 2:00pm - 2:15pm Building a Multimodal Dataset of Rock Art: Integrating Text, Images, and 3D Point Clouds 2:15pm - 2:30pm Monocular Depth Estimation from UAV images for 3D documentation of architectural heritage: a Depth Anything v2-based approach |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
IvS3A: Advancing Digital Twins for Urban Environments: Approaches to Mapping, Monitoring, and Management Location: 716A A Decade of Aerial Mapping in Singapore 8:45am - 9:00am Large-Scale Urban and Peri-Urban Mapping Using Deep Learning and PlanetScope Imagery 9:00am - 9:15am Research on Urban 3D Data Management and Representation Method Based on BeiDou Grid Code 9:15am - 9:30am Evaluating iPhone-based 3D-Scanning Applications for Heritage Documentation: Controlled Experiments and Future Directions 9:30am - 9:45am Automatic DEM-infused 2D to 3D LoD1 Urban Morphology Python Framework |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
IvS3B: Advancing Digital Twins for Urban Environments: Approaches to Mapping, Monitoring, and Management Location: 716A Digital Building Analysis (DBA): Cloud-GIS-Based 3D Building Modelling and Multi-Agent AI Analytics Using Gaussian Splatting and Google Maps Platform 1:45pm - 2:00pm A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Spatial Accuracy of Building Gaussian Splatting 2:00pm - 2:15pm Geopose-enabled Urban Digital Twin for Rapid Road Quality Analysis using Geo-AI 2:15pm - 2:30pm Towards Roof Material Identification by Fusing Aerial and Street View Imagery 2:30pm - 2:45pm Evaluating Comparative Performance of 2D and 3D Feature Detection Models for Digital Twinning |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
IvS4: Operationalizing Earth Observation for Sustainable Resource Development Location: 716A Supporting Canada’s Ring of Fire Regional Assessment Through Earth Observation 3:45pm - 4:00pm Forest Biomass Estimation in Québec with Multi-Source Earth Observation and Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine 4:00pm - 4:15pm The Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission (TSMM) Academic Consortium: Ku-Band SWE Retrieval Advances and Validation from Mountainous and Arctic Field Campaigns 4:15pm - 4:30pm Gaussian Process Regression-Based Geospatial Framework for Emergency Shelter Suitability Assessment 4:30pm - 4:45pm Earth Observation–Based Geospatial Analysis of Population–Air Quality Interaction 4:45pm - 5:00pm Comparing PlanetScope and Sentinel 2 for mapping water quality using machine learning models in Fanshawe Lake, Ontario, Canada 5:00pm - 5:15pm Climate-Induced Changes in Glacier and Snow Dynamics Using Integrated Remote Sensing for Water Resource and Ecosystem Resilience |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
IvS1: Recent Advances in Iceberg Monitoring and Tracking Location: 716A Ocean Target Discrimination in SAR Imagery through Machine Learning: Towards a Fully Automated Approach 8:45am - 9:00am Is Pre-Training Enough? Towards Multi-Task Foundation Models for Sea Ice Classification 9:00am - 9:15am Automated Iceberg Detection in RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) Imagery 9:15am - 9:30am Automatic Segmentation of SAR imagery Using Mixture Models 9:30am - 9:45am Cross - Sectional Morphology of Sea Ice features from IPS observations across the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
IvS2: Canadian Advances in Geospatial AI for Intelligent and Resilient Mobility Location: 716A Toward a Unified Geospatial Intelligence Framework Utilizing Edge Computing, IoT, and Multimodal Generative AI for Climate Risk Mitigation and Adaptive Evacuation Planning 1:45pm - 2:00pm A Theoretical Framework for Environmental Similarity and Vessel Mobility as Coupled Predictors of Marine Invasive Species Pathways 2:00pm - 2:15pm Congestion-aware multi-agent reinforcement learning for wildfire evacuation routing 2:15pm - 2:30pm Exploring Bus Stop Passenger Ridership Using explainable Machine Learning 2:30pm - 2:45pm Advancing Geospatial Analysis with Foundation Models and LLMs in ArcGIS |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
ApS: Applied Session Location: 716A A Multi-Stage Framework for Remote Sensing-Based Detection of Mining Disturbances Across British Columbia to Inform Salmon Habitat Conservation 3:45pm - 4:00pm Compact Polarimetry Data for Estimation of Relative Oil Thickness 4:00pm - 4:15pm Automatic detection of eelgrass (Zostera marina) from multispectral satellite data along Canada’s Pacific coast to support conservation and restoration efforts 4:15pm - 4:30pm Autonomous Driving in a GNSS-Denied Environment using Real-Time Sensor Fusion 4:30pm - 4:45pm Integrated Multi-Sensor Data Fusion from Land, Air, and Marine Platforms for Enhanced Geospatial Mapping 4:45pm - 5:00pm From Satellites to Grain Elevators: using NDVI-based Indices to reduce Price Discovery Gaps in non-Futures Prairie Crop Markets 5:00pm - 5:15pm Simultaneous LiDAR & Trajectory Data Optimization for Mobile Mapping Systems in GNSS-Denied Environments |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
IvS6A: Canadian Remote Sensing for Urban Applications Location: 716A Urban Growth, NO₂ Pollution, and Economic Development Across Global Megacities 8:45am - 9:00am Mapping Environmental Equity: Urban Green Spaces and the 3-30-300 Rule in Canada 9:00am - 9:15am Measuring Heat Stress and Mitigation Capacity Around Transit Stops Using Hyperlocal Microclimate Data 9:15am - 9:30am Landfill methane emission detection and quantification using a drone-based path-integrated TDLAS sensor 9:30am - 9:45am Coupling dynamic cities and climate: the urbisphere project |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
IvS6B: Canadian Remote Sensing for Urban Applications Location: 716A Advances in 3D urban Reconstruction and Building Mesh Extraction using Gaussian Splatting and Google Earth 1:45pm - 2:00pm Semantic-Aware Harmonization Model (SAHM) for Improving Consistency In Large-area, Fine-resolution Urban Land Cover Mapping 2:00pm - 2:15pm Individual tree crown delineation and classification in urban landscapes from multi-source remote sensing by integrating SAM and watershed segmentation 2:15pm - 2:30pm Satellite-based Detection of Invasive Shrubs in Urban Woodlands 2:30pm - 2:45pm Seasonal analysis of surface temperature and vegetation dynamics using drone-based thermal and multispectral remote sensing |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
IvS9: Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Vegetation Fire Management and Recovery Resilience Location: 716A A new Canadian radar satellite mission to retrieve snow water equivalent 3:45pm - 4:00pm Airborne Lidar derived Snow Water Equivalent outputs to improve spatialized Raven hydrologic Snowpack Water simulation 4:00pm - 4:15pm Assessing SWOT WSE retrievals and monitoring karst-influenced surface water dynamics in Bruce Peninsula National Park 4:15pm - 4:30pm Snowpack Water Resource Forecasting and Public Education using Airborne Lidar Sampling, Imputation, Melt Simulation and Game Engine Visualisation 4:30pm - 4:45pm A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Field-Scale Surface Soil Moisture Estimation Using SAR and Optical Satellite Data 4:45pm - 5:00pm Issues and potentials of multi-sensor water level monitoring: lesson learned at Recentino Lake, Italy 5:00pm - 5:15pm Physics-Based and Machine Learning Approaches for Adjacency Effect Correction in Small Inland Water Bodies: A Case Study of Canadian Lakes Using Sentinel-2 Data |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
IvS5: Next-Generation Flood Mapping: Integrating AI, Remote Sensing, and Evolving Landscapes Location: 716A Spatiotemporal Flood Susceptibility Mapping using a Hybrid CNN-ConvLSTM Architecture 8:45am - 9:00am Risk-guided Flood Segmentation from Optical Satellite Imagery using NDWI Threshold Optimization and Segment Anything Model. 9:00am - 9:15am Integration of Remote Sensing Indices and Ensemble Machine Learning with Independent HEC-RAS 2D Simulations for Improved Flood Hazard Assessment in the Ottawa River Watershed. 9:15am - 9:30am Multi-Event Machine Learning for Annual Flood Susceptibility Prediction at a National Scale 9:30am - 9:45am Geomorphometric analysis of urban fluvial terraces using UAV LiDAR: a case study from the La Silla River, Mexico |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
IvS7A: Innovative Remote Sensing of Wetlands in Canada and Beyond Location: 716A Retrieving Peatland Soil Moisture from Polarimetric L- and C-band SAR to Support Carbon and Wildfire Assessments in Boreal Ecosystems 1:45pm - 2:00pm Using a Landsat multi-index and thermal image composite time series framework to evaluate hydroclimatic forcing and vegetation trajectories in the Peace-Athabasca Delta 2:00pm - 2:15pm Aquatic and Riparian Land Cover Trends across Mountainous Headwater Basins in Alberta, Canada 2:15pm - 2:30pm Transfer Learning using Functional Data Analysis of Seasonal SAR Time Series 2:30pm - 2:45pm Multi-scale DSM and Multi-temporal Sentinel-2 Derivatives for Wetland Mapping: A Boreal Case Study |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
WG IV/6: Human Behaviour and Spatial Interactions Location: 716A Semantic-Enhanced Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Graph for Human Mobility Prediction 3:45pm - 4:00pm Development of a Perception-based Urban Quality of Life Index using Street View Imagery and Deep Learning: the Case of Metro Manila, Philippines 4:00pm - 4:15pm Detection and Modeling of Pedestrian Groups Based on Laser Sensor Trajectories 4:15pm - 4:30pm From sensing to understanding: modeling pedestrian crossing behavior from LiDAR-derived trajectories 4:30pm - 4:45pm Ring-based Spatial Transformer: Learning Non-linear Spatial Interactions between Building Distribution and Pedestrian Flow 4:45pm - 5:00pm Who Can Reach What? Travel-Time-Based Accessibility and Urban Inequality in Los Ángeles, Chile 5:00pm - 5:15pm Perception-Oriented 3D Blue–Green–Grey Urban Landscapes: A Multi-Source Data and XGBoost–SHAP Analysis in Geo-information Town 5:15pm - 5:30pm Active Mobility Accessibility Index - Assessing Local Transport Competitiveness 5:30pm - 5:45pm Causal Discovery and Deep Learning-based Interaction-aware Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
IvS7B: Innovative Remote Sensing of Wetlands in Canada and Beyond Location: 716A Automated multi-temporal wetland mapping using Sentinel-2 in the Great Lakes-St Lawrence basin 8:45am - 9:00am High-Resolution Delineation of Coastal Marsh Boundaries: Evaluating Adaptive Thresholding and Machine Learning Approaches 9:00am - 9:15am Comparative Analysis of 5-band and 10-band Multispectral Drone Imagery for Salt Marsh Vegetation Mapping 9:15am - 9:30am Wetland classification and mapping in the Richelieu river watershed with Sentinel-1 sar and Sentinel-2 multispectral data 9:30am - 9:45am Monitoring coastal marsh vegetation features using high-resolution remote sensing |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
IvS11: Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Vegetation Fire Management and Recovery Resilience Location: 716A Application of remote sensing data in ice modelling for a regulated river 1:45pm - 2:00pm Investigating the Sensitivity of multi-frequency SAR Coherence to flooded Arctic Landfast Ice 2:00pm - 2:15pm Segmentation of SAR imagery of river ice in the St. Lawrence River using deep learning: Preliminary steps to best practice 2:15pm - 2:30pm Retrieving Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) from satellite gravimetry using a spectral combination approach 2:30pm - 2:45pm Forecasting Ice Thickness on the Churchill River and Lake Melville, Labrador Using Machine Learning, 2023-2025 2:45pm - 3:00pm From Concept to Application: Machine Learning for Near-Real-Time River Ice Breakup Prediction Using SAR and Meteorological Data |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
IvS10: Innovation in River Ice and Surveillance and Modeling: Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Location: 716A Mapping the Structural Complexity of Vancouver Island’s Forests with Deep Learning and LiDAR–Sentinel Data Fusion 3:45pm - 4:00pm Scaling LiDAR-derived forest biomass to optical and RADAR satellite imagery in peatlands: a systematic review and meta-analysis of modelling approaches and sensor performance 4:00pm - 4:15pm Habitat suitability mapping using satellite imagery and continuous landscape inventory CLI: a case study for new Brunswick, Canada 4:15pm - 4:30pm Quantifying Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stock from Remote Sensing based Forest Disturbance and Recovery Monitoring 4:30pm - 4:45pm Wild Fire Early warning system: Global and Canadian Perspectives 4:45pm - 5:00pm Integrating UAV imagery and deep learning for small-scale land cover classification in post-rehabilitated ecosystems 5:00pm - 5:15pm Anomalous Moisture Signal in Sentinel-2 Imagery Precedes Overwintering Wildfire |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
WG IV/3: Geo-computation and Geo-simulation Location: 716A A Framework for Mapping Recreational Boating: Inferring Vessel Behaviour from Mobile Phone Data and Sentinel-2 Imagery 8:45am - 9:00am Building Footprint Aggregation with Preservation of Edge Orientations 9:00am - 9:15am Lane-level Dynamic Information Updating for High-Definition Maps Based on Crowdsourced Data 9:15am - 9:30am Maximum entropy for climate change and variability impact assessment on seabirds: use case on Eudyptula minor little penguins 9:30am - 9:45am Parametric Modelling and GIS Integration for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making: An Application to the Einstein Telescope Underground Research Infrastructure 9:45am - 10:00am Kinematic Characteristics and Risk Analysis of Potential Rockfall based on 3D Point Clouds |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
WG IV/4: Data Management for Spatial Scenarios Location: 716A Construction and Integration of Image Control Point, Interpretation Sample, and Spectral Information Databases for Megacity Management 10:45am - 11:00am Fireguard: A Real-Time Wildfire Monitoring and Risk Assessment System Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Multi-Sensor Fusion 11:00am - 11:15am A Multi-Agent Geospatial Model for Semantic and Spatial Querying 11:15am - 11:30am Point Cloud Data Management for Cross-Domain Applications 11:30am - 11:45am Mathematical Modeling of Confidence Ellipses and Computational Validation of their Implementation in the LFTools Plugin: A Case Study Using GWDBrazil 11:45am - 12:00pm Consumer's risk in zero-defect sampling inspection of surveying and mapping products |
