Masters

Program Master’s Degree Advisor Richard Fournier Field of research Mapping water-related ecosystem services for forest management in Harry’s Watershed, Newfoundland, Canada Development of a proxies-based method to quantify and map the sediment regulation service offer in a forest management context. Publications Colloque of Centre d’étude la forêt of 3rd May, Montréal 2016 : Cartographie des impacts des … Read more

Program Master’s degree in Geographic Sciences, remote sensing research program Advisors Richard Fournier et Yan Boucher Field of research Multi-scale spatial characterization of fire severity in a context of burned wood recovery in the boreal forest In a context of global change, extreme natural events such as large-scale forest fires will increase and intensify (in frequency and … Read more

Program Master’s degree in Geomatics Advisors Richard Fournier, Yan Boucher, Luc Guindon Field of research Characterize the post-disruption increase of the boreal forest using airborne LiDAR: an approach to improving the site quality index. The project aims to use the LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data to acquire data on young forest stands in the boreal forest … Read more

Program Master of Science in Geography, Remote Sensing program Advisors Ramata Magagi et Kalifa Goïta Field of research Characterization of agricultural soils in saturated environments from radar images I apply moisture indices to Radarsat-2 images to assess the water saturation of agricultural soils according to their texture, taking into account crop moisture tolerance thresholds. Contact juliette.lapeyre@usherbrooke.ca

Program Master’s degree in Applied Geomatics Advisors Kalifa Goïta / Michaël Germain Field of research Development of a Web GIS mapping application for mining research in Côte d’Ivoire Mineral predictive mapping by modelling the geostatistical distribution of mineralization indicators: Application to columbo-tantalite deposits in west-central Côte d’Ivoire. Contact shawolivier@gmail.com 873 200-7898

Program Master’s degree in applied geomatics, geographic environments program Advisors Lynda Bellalite (co-advisor), Yacine Bouroubi (advisor), Samuel Foucher (external) Field of research Characterization of pedestrian corridors: automatic extraction of geographical features from urban panoramic images by convolutional neural networks The condition of pedestrian corridors, such as sidewalks, has a significant impact on the mobility of people with … Read more