1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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..

7. 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

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

9. Multi sensors approach
Norm O’neill

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

11. 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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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)

17. 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

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

19. 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

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