Catherine Champagne
Catherine Champagne is the manager of the Earth Observation team at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. She has 26 years of experience in monitoring agroecosystems using Earth Observation and and modelling tools from field to national scales. She has a PhD from the University of Guelph where she evaluated the integration of satellite based soil moisture into drought and climate risk analyses and has studied at the University of Ottawa and McGill University. She works out of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario.
Sessions in which Catherine Champagne participates
الأربعاء 2 مارس, 2022
Inter-annual variability in agricultural production in Canada is largely determined by weather and climate. Climate-related impacts have caused billions of dollars in financial losses in some years, with the incidence of extreme weather and related costs expected in increase in a changing climate. The National Agroclimate Information Service at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada monitors the impacts of weather and climate on agricultural activities using a number of geospatial data sets, mod...
الثّلاثاء 14 مايو, 2024
GeoIgnite is excited to present an all star panel discussion on earth observation in Canada. This panel brings together a trifecta of esteemed experts from various Canadian government agencies, with Steven Ramage, CEO of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), serving as the moderator.Moderator: Steven Ramage, in his role as CEO of CEOS, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in satellite earth observation. His expertise in coordinating international satellite earth ...
الأربعاء 15 مايو, 2024
The agriculture and agri-food sector is a major contributor to the Canadian economy, accounting for 2.3 millions jobs and 7% of Canada’s gross domestic product with farmland covering 62 million hectares (6.2%) of Canada’s land area. This area is changing over annual and decadal time scales as a result of changes in annual crop production, urban expansion, sustainable land use/management and a changing climate. Monitoring such a vast area to account for how these environments respond to the pr...