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Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Sessions

Tuesday 29 October, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Why Space Matters to Canada
30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Keynote

Dr Gordon Osinski, University of Western Ontario (Keynote speaker)

Space, the final frontier. Or is it? Although many people are fascinated by space, most are relatively unaware of how space technologies pervade th...
9:45 AM
9:45 AM

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Talk

Scott Vegter, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (Speaker)

The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) defines human footprint as the visible alteration or conversion of native ecosystems to tempor...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

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Talk

Jiaao Guo, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (Speaker)

Sessions: Human footprint datasets for Canada: mapping and monitoring in support of land and resource managementDisturbance is a key compone...
10:15 AM
10:15 AM

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Talk

Sharlene Fritz, Sourcewater Communications (Speaker)

From ancient cave drawings depicting hunting grounds to hand-sketched layouts of backyard gardens, humans conceptualize space through map making. M...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

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Talk

Jesse Viehweger, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (Speaker)

Maintaining undisturbed habitat is key to the recovery strategy of the Woodland Caribou boreal population. Seismic lines have been identified as a ...
11:15 AM
11:15 AM

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Talk

Mir Mustafizur Rahman, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (Speaker)

Large-scale habitat inventories are necessary for understanding how human land-use, natural disturbances (e.g., fire) and climate change are influe...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM

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Talk

Miguel Arias, University of Northern British Columbia (Speaker)

Session Human footprint datasets for Canada: mapping and monitoring in support of land and resource managementHuman activities have disturbe...
11:45 AM
11:45 AM

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Talk

Juan Pablo Ramirez-Delgado, University of Northern British Columbia (Speaker)

Regional and provincial conservation efforts require detailed human pressure mapping to manage and mitigate human impacts effectively. However, in ...
1:15 PM
1:15 PM

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Talk

John Bowers, MDA (Speaker)

The health of the global ocean environment is of critical importance. Planetary limits for climate change and biodiversity are being reached, and u...
2:15 PM
2:15 PM

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Talk

Andrea Krupa, PhotoSat (Speaker)

In flood mapping and dam breach analysis, engineers and planners define inundation areas through flow modeling. A crucial input for this analysis i...
3:15 PM
3:15 PM

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Talk

Warren Shaw, GHGSat (Speaker)

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has a global warming potential 80 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Reducing methane emissi...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM

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Talk

John Roos, Maxar Intelligence (Speaker)

Maxar has doubled the size of its electro-optical constellation in 2024 with the launch of four new WorldView Legion satellites, and two more will ...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
UESI Ontario AB BC AGM
1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Please register and attend in perso...

Wednesday 30 October, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Talk

Mack Kowalski, LiDAholics consulting (Speaker)

This presentation details the results of a field study conducted in July in Santa Cr...
9:45 AM
9:45 AM
Virtual Assembly for Heavy Industrial Projects
30 minutes, 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Talk

Kyle Pickering, OnSite3D (Speaker)

The Virtual Assembly Showcase highlights the value of integrating advanced 3D laser scanning and virtual assembly in industrial construction. In a ...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM

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Talk

Jeff Benjamin, Dillon Consulting Limited (Speaker)

Dillon was retained by the Government of Nunavut to perform a Needs Assessment for the reh...
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
CanSLAM 2024 Results
30 minutes, 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

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Talk

Alex Hill-Stosky, Eagle Engineering and Consulting (Speaker)

Carina Butterworth P.Eng., PhD(c), Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) (Speaker)

The time has come for the presentation of this year's mobile mapping system and SLAM system participants.Are you looking to collect more dat...
1:15 PM
1:15 PM

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Talk

Carina Butterworth P.Eng., PhD(c), Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) (Speaker)

Traditional teaching methods in post-secondary often included using powerpoint presentations and writing on a white or blackboard.  The newer ...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

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Talk

Kenneth Ang, Terra Remote Sensing Inc (Speaker)

How do hydrographic surveys, aerial Remote Sensing and GIS help with environmental efforts? Terra explores 2 projects that use a combination of dif...
2:45 PM
2:45 PM
Putting Earth Observation Technology to Work
30 minutes, 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Talk

Aaron Addison, World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) (Speaker)

Earth Observation technologies have experienced unprecedented inno...