Overview of research topics DÉPARTEMENT DE GÉOMATIQUE APPLIQUÉE AND CARTEL U. Sherbrooke, Canada Prof. Kalifa Goïta, Prof. Ramata Magagi Conference IPN Mexico, 11 March 2015

Structures 1) Centre d’Applications et de Recherches en TÉLédétection 2) Canada Research Chair in Earth Observation and ecophysiology of phytoplancton (Yannick Huot) 1) Centre d’Applications et de Recherches en TÉLédétection (CARTEL) 11 research scientists 4) Land management, Transport and road Security (Lynda Bellalite) 3) 30 Adjunct Research scientists

Land Management, transport and road security Prof. Lynda Bellalite Land Management Transport and road security Urban planning Transportation Networks Technical studies Diagnosis and monitoring Management plans Security around schools Reglementations Moderation devices Sustainable Management Impact studies

Canada Research Chair in Earth Observation and Ecophysiology of phytoplancton Chair: Yannick Huot Understand, Model, and observe the increase and production of phytoplancton (including cyanobacteries) using Automatic in situ observations Lab experiments Missions on sea Modelling Remote Sensing

A critical mass of expertise for a unique thematic: remote sensing CARTEL A group of 11 research scientists 30 adjunct research scientists More than 60 graduate students 4 research professionals A critical mass of expertise for a unique thematic: remote sensing

Remote sensing at CARTEL Remote sensing algorithms: - RADAR - Passive and active microwaves - Optical data - LIDAR - Spatial modelling - Sensor development - Image processing algorithms - GIS software and tools Applications domains: Atmosphere Climate change Cryosphere (snow, ice) Forests Soils and agriculture Watersheds Oceans Lakes and humid areas Wildlife habitats Urban studies, etc..

Eyjafjallajokull Summer 2010 Aerosols of Volcan Eyjafjallajokull: Billions of dollar lost for airlines Thousands of flight canceled Millions of CO2 tons Volcan Eyjafjallajokull, Island Mt. Merapi, Indonesia Volcan Sarychev, Russia

Aerosols Quantity? Types? Origin? Destinations? Influence on: climate? Light on Earth? Satellites measurements?

Multi sensors approach Norm O’neill

Cryosphere: Snow and Ice Quantity? where? type? Water equivalent? Consequences? flood Climate Water resources Kalifa Goita, Hardy Granberg, Alain Royer, Robert leconte, Alexandre Langlois

Snow, River discharge and remote sensing Prediction of river discharge Observed Simulated using remote sensing Discharge (m3 s-1) Simulated without remote sensing Date Roy, A., Royer, A., Turcotte, R., 2010, Journal of Hydrology,390, 35-44

Soil moisture Algorithms development and validation Consequences Agriculture, forests Climate, hydrology Field campaigns for SMOS and SMAP: (CanEx SM10, SMAPVEX 12), etc… http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/canexsm10/ Ramata Magagi, Kalifa Goita

LIDAR Measurements at finer scales Surface and volume Various usages (forestry, archeology, urban studies, etc.) Eruption Mont St-Hélène, 2004, USGS Surface of an Aztec scultpure, National geographic

LIDAR Research at CARTEL Forest architecture Wood volume Wood quality Richard Fournier

LIDAR Research at CARTEL Example for tree architecture Côté, J.-F., Widlowski, J-L, Fournier, R.A., Verstraete, M.M., (2009) Remote Sensing of Environment 113: 1067–1081

Image processing and cartographic updating Development of segmentation and classification algorithms for very high resolution images Bouziani, M, Goita K., and He, D-C . Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on 48, no. 8 (2010)

Conception and development of GIS and image processing systems Geospatial databases Web GIS Web cartography and image processing For various applications Cadastre, urban studies Natural resources Environment, etc. Goze Bertin Bénié, Dong-Chen He pages.usherbrooke.ca/cartel

Wildlife Habitat Example: Monitoring of habitats through food resources Jérome Théau

Resources and infrastructures Several specialized equipments ~1.7 M$ of new sensors in the last years 4 specialized laboratories Spectroradiometry Experimental site (SIRENE) Laboratory of environmental analyses Facilities for image processing and GIS

… For more information Sites web usherbrooke.ca/geomatique pages.usherbrooke.ca/cartel Merci !