Tuesday 29 October, 2024

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

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

Human Footprint Datasets for Alberta: Mapping and Monitoring in Support of Land and Resource Management

15 minutes, 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Democratizing and Operationalizing Satellite-based Vegetation Recovery Monitoring in Canadian Boreal Forests

15 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Pairing Geospatial Datasets with Local Knowledge for Landscape Management Planning in the Ghost Region of Alberta

15 minutes, 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Lidar and AI Based Seismic Line Mapping in Caribou Ranges in Boreal Alberta, Canada

15 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Fusion of Lidar and Machine Learning Methods for Vegetation Classification on Human Footprint Features in Boreal Alberta, Canada

15 minutes, 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Accuracy, Uncertainty and Biases in the Human Footprint Mapping in British Columbia

15 minutes, 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

High-Resolution Human Pressure Mapping for Improved Cumulative Effects Assessment in British Columbia

15 minutes, 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Space-based Maritime Monitoring for Sustainable Management of Ocean Resources

30 minutes, 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

How Topography Affects Flood Mapping and Dam Breach Analysis

30 minutes, 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Mapping Industrial Methane Emissions Using Space-based and Airborne Instruments

30 minutes, 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Harnessing the Supercharged Maxar Constellation for Energy

30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Talk

John Roos, Maxar Intelligence Inc. (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

UESI Ontario AB BC AGM

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

Please register and attend in perso...

Wednesday 30 October, 2024

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

9:00 AM

Results of Accuracy Testing for Laser Scanners in Concrete Verificaion

30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 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

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

Leveraging UAVs and GIS Machine Learning to Support Airport Runway Rehabilitations

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

CanSLAM 2024 Results

30 minutes, 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

The Effect of Creative Teaching and Radical Constructivism in Geomatics Education

30 minutes, 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

Multi Disciplicinary Geomatics for Environmental Management

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Big Four Roadhouse - Theatre 2

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

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...