Executive

Dr. Ahmed Shaker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Shaker has international work experience in Canada, Spain, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Kuwait. His research interests cover the fields of LiDAR data processing, satellite sensor modelling, image segmentation and classification, and 3-D modeling. Dr. Shaker has more than 80 publications in international journals and conferences.
Dr. Shaker is the recipient of the National Science Progress Award in Surveying and Mapping from the Chinese National Congress in 2005, Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship in 2006, Faculty Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity Award, 2011, the Bronze Medal Award from the Canadian Remote Sensing Society in 2011, and Dean’s Teaching Award in 2015. Dr. Shaker is serving in different capacities number of national and international organizations such as CIG and ISPRS. He services as an Executive member of the CRSS-SCT since 2014.

Gordon Staples received the M.Sc. degree in ocean physics and the B.Sc. degree in honours physics and oceanography from the University of British Columbia. He joined MDA in 1993 and is currently Senior Staff Scientist and Project Manager in the Earth Observations Systems group. In this role he oversees the Richmond geospatial services group, manages projects, develops and delivers radar training, and provides scientific expertise for business development. He has extensive experience in radar polarimetry and the development of maritime and terrestrial radar applications. Gordon was the former President and is now Treasurer of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society. He is a member of the IEEE and the CRSS.

Raymond is an experienced Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst.  His work focuses on facilitating and managing the use and integration of spatial analysis, remote sensing, geospatial data, and the associated methodologies into his client’s projects.

Raymond holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Lakehead University, and an advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the Centre of Geographic Sciences. Raymond has also just graduated with a Master of Environmental Studies degree from Dalhousie University where he completed a thesis on mapping wetlands using multi-beam RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR, optical satellite imagery, and elevation data.

Gordon Staples received the M.Sc. degree in ocean physics and the B.Sc. degree in honours physics from the University of British Columbia. He joined MDA in 1993 and is currently Senior Analyst/Project Manager for the Geospatial Group. In this role, he oversees the geospatial services group, manages research projects, develops and delivers radar training, and is active in business development. He has extensive experience in radar polarimetry and the development of radar applications. Gordon has over 80 technical publications and reports, and has delivered over 100 technical presentations and training sessions.

Gordon was the Program Manager for the RADARSAT-2 Science and Operational Applications Research Program. He was the one of the Guest Editors for the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing special issue on RADARSAT-2 and for the special issue on the RADARSAT-2 SOAR program. He was the Exhibits Chair for the IGARSS’14 and the Finance Chair for the 2015 Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. He served on the Canadian National Committee of the International Radio Science Union (1999-2007) and is a member of the IEEE and the CRSS.

Monique Bernier graduated in Physical Geography (B.Sc., M.Sc.) from the University of Sherbrooke. In 1981, she began her career as an Environmental Scientist at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. In 1991, she earned a Ph.D. from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). Since 1993, she has been a professor at INRS, Québec City, where her research is mainly oriented towards the development of applications for SAR sensors in hydrology and northern environments monitoring.

Prof. Bernier is an active member of the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS), serving on the Board of Directors in the 1980s and from 2002 to 2016. She served as the CRSS President from 2009 to 2014 and was nominated the Editor in Chief of CJRS-JCT in early 2018. In the 1990s, she served as President of the Québec Association of Remote Sensing (AQT). She was awarded the 2011 Ferdinand-Bonn Prize by AQT for her career achievements in the development of EO applications and the training of high qualified persons.

She hosted, as General Chair, the joint IGARSS 2014 / 35th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing in Québec City. She was an Associate Editor (2008-2015) for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. She is a member of the GRSS Publications Awards Committee (2015-2019). Since 2016, she is a member of the Advisory Committee for Earth Observation (ACEO) for the ESA Earth Observation Programmes. She was honored to be awarded the 2019 CRSS Larry Morley Gold Medal.

Md Saifuzzaman (Saif) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geography and Environment degree from Jahagairnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and hold a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Saif joined the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), a Government trust of Bangladesh, as a Remote Sensing and GIS specialist in 2002 and dealt with a wide range of optical sensor data for resource mapping and historical Radarsat data (1996 to 2007) for flood and erosion monitoring in Bangladesh. In 2009, he took a faculty position at the Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh and taught remote sensing for resource management and image processing courses. He worked with Government agencies and NGOs in Bangladesh and was involved in many development projects in the public and private sectors. He is currently enrolled in a graduate program in Bioresource Engineering at McGill University. His research focuses on the integration of remote sensing and proximal soil sensing (PSS) data in precision farming. He can be reached at md.saifuzzaman@mail.mcgill.ca.

Desmond Power is Vice President, Remote Sensing at C-CORE and is based in St. John’s. He is a graduate of Memorial University’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (1991) and has Master of Engineering (electrical – 1994) in radar systems. Desmond has experience with synthetic aperture radar, optical remote sensing, deformation mapping with interferometry, high frequency (HF), ultra-high frequency (UHF) and microwave radar design, radar performance measurement, and radio frequency design. He has experience in the application of radar polarimetry and electromagnetic backscatter at microwave frequencies. In addition to his membership with CRSS, Desmond is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador (PEGNL), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Canadian Institute of Geomatics.

Steve Schwarz

Steve DeRoy

Christopher Hopkinson

Jean-Simon Michaud is a Senior Remote Sensing Specialist at Hatfield Consultants. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Environmental Geomatics from the University of Sherbrooke and a Master of Science in remote sensing from the University of British Colombia. Jean-Simon has more than ten years’ experience managing and contributing to remote sensing projects for a broad range of Earth science applications, including agriculture and forestry, land cover and land use monitoring, biodiversity conservation, critical habitat mapping, environmental assessment and monitoring, disaster management, and geological and geotechnical hazard identification. As part of his work at Hatfield, Jean-Simon supports government, private sector, and non-government clients with the application of remote sensing technology in Canada and internationally. He also leads research projects where cutting-edge approaches are applied to manage and analyze large remote sensing data sets. Jean-Simon is an excellent communicator and has presented results of his work at national and international scientific conferences, and in peer-reviewed journal articles and reports. He has organized and facilitated capacity building workshops in Canada and internationally.