Catherine Champagne, Ph.D.

Environmental Scientist

Dr. Catherine Champagne leads applied research and development on agroclimate, remote sensing, yield forecasting, drought monitoring, agricultural water balances and land dynamics.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario

Current research and/or projects

Estimating risk to agricultural systems from drought and excess moisture from earth observation
Crop yield forecasting at regional and local spatial scales
Drought forecasting
Soil moisture and agricultural water management
Building integrated modelling and data explotation systems using geospatial data

Professional activities / interests

Canadian Society for Agriculture and Forest Meteorology (CSAFM)
Adjunct in Department of Geography at University of Guelph
NASA Harvest Partner
Global Earth Observation Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM)
American Geophysical Union Hydrology and Remote Sensing

Education and awards

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – Physical Geography , University of Guelph 2011
Evaluation of Agricultural Soil Moisture Extremes in Canada Using Passive Microwave Remote Sensing

Master of Science (M.Sc.) – Physical Geography, University of Ottawa 2002
Remote Sensing of Plant Water Content for Precision Agriculture: The Potential for Hyperspectral Modelling

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – Physical Geography, McGill University 1998

Key publications

Arcand, Y., Bittman, S., Britten, M., Champagne, C., Daneshfar, B., David, S., Davidson, A., Derdall, E. Drury, C., Eden, J., Handyside, P., Hung, Y., Javorek, S., Jiang, Y., Jingui, Y., Jordan, C., Joosse, P., Li, S., McAuley, E., McNairn, H., MacDonald, D., Pacheco, A., Powers, J., Reid, K., Smith, E. L., Topp, E., Vanrobaeys, J., Villeneuve, S., Wilson, H., Yang, J. Agricultural Land Use. Synthesis of Science. Canada Water Agency Report. Freshwater Science Assessment-Line of Inquiry. Nov. 20, 2020.
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Oozeer, Y., Fletcher, C.G., Champagne, C. (2020). Evaluation of satellite-derived surface soil moisture products over agricultural regions of Canada. Remote Sensing, [online] 12(9), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/RS12091455
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Wadsworth, E., Champagne, C., Berg, A.A. (2020). Evaluating the utility of remotely sensed soil moisture for the characterization of runoff response over Canadian watersheds. Canadian Water Resources Journal, [online] 45(1), 77-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2019.1691943
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Dong, T., Shang, J., Qian, B., Liu, J., Chen, J.M., Jing, Q., McConkey, B., Huffman, T., Daneshfar, B., Champagne, C., Davidson, A., MacDonald, D. (2019). Field-scale crop seeding date estimation from MODIS data and growing degree days in Manitoba, Canada. Remote Sensing, [online] 11(15), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11151760
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White, J., Berg, A.A., Champagne, C., Warland, J., Zhang, Y. (2019). Canola yield sensitivity to climate indicators and passive microwave-derived soil moisture estimates in Saskatchewan, Canada, 268 354-362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.004
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Champagne, C., White, J., Berg, A., Belair, S., Carrera, M. (2019). Impact of soil moisture data characteristics on the sensitivity to crop yields under drought and excess moisture conditions, 11(4), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11040372
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Zhang, Y., Chipanshi, A., Daneshfar, B., Koiter, L., Champagne, C., Davidson, A., Reichert, G., Bédard, F. (2019). Effect of using crop specific masks on earth observation based crop yield forecasting across Canada. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, [online] 13 121-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2018.10.002
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Zhang, H., Li, Q., Liu, J., Du, X., Dong, T., McNairn, H., Champagne, C., Liu, M., Shang, J. (2018). Object-based crop classification using multi-temporal SPOT-5 imagery and textural features with a Random Forest classifier. Geocarto International, [online] 33(10), 1017-1035. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2017.1333533
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Champagne, C., Zhang, Y., Cherneski, P., Hadwen, T. (2018). Estimating regional scale hydroclimatic risk conditions from the soil moisture active-passive (SMAP) satellite. Geosciences (Switzerland), [online] 8(4), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8040127
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Zhang, H., Li, Q., Liu, J., Shang, J., Du, X., McNairn, H., Champagne, C., Dong, T., Liu, M. (2017). Image Classification Using RapidEye Data: Integration of Spectral and Textual Features in a Random Forest Classifier. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, [online] 10(12), 5334-5349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2774807
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Tadesse, T., Champagne, C., Wardlow, B.D., Hadwen, T.A., Brown, J.F., Demisse, G.B., Bayissa, Y.A., Davidson, A.M. (2017). Building the vegetation drought response index for Canada (VegDRI-Canada) to monitor agricultural drought: first results. GIScience and Remote Sensing, [online] 54(2), 230-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2017.1286728
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Roy, S.K., Rowlandson, T.L., Berg, A.A., Champagne, C., and Adams, J.R. (2016). "Impact of sub-pixel heterogeneity on modelled brightness temperature for an agricultural region.", International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45(Part B), pp. 212-220. doi : 10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.003
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Champagne, C., Rowlandson, T.L., Berg, A.A., Burns, T., L'Heureux, J., Tetlock, E., Adams, J.R., McNairn, H., Toth, B.M., and Itenfisu, D. (2016). "Satellite Surface Soil Moisture from SMOS and Aquarius: Assessment for Applications in Agricultural Landscapes.", International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 45(Part B), pp. 143-154. doi : 10.1016/j.jag.2015.09.004
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Dong, T., Liu, J., Shang, J., Qian, B., Huffman, T., Zhang, Y., Champagne, C., Daneshfar, B. (2016). Assessing the impact of climate variability on cropland productivity in the Canadian Prairies using time series MODIS FAPAR. Remote Sensing, [online] 8(4), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs8040281
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Chipanshi, A.C., Qian, B., Smith, W.N., Desjardins, R.L., Waldick, R.C., Audet, R., Jégo, G., Worth, D.E., Champagne, C., and McDonald, D. (2015). "Climate information use and requirements in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.", CCDS Workshop, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, October 21, 2015. (Presentation)
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Catherine Champagne, Jesslyn Brown, Tsegaye Tadesse, Trevor Hadwen, Andrew M. Davidson and Richard Warren.2015. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in Canada using the Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI). American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 14-18 December.
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Pacheco, A., McNairn, H., Mahmoodi, A., Champagne, C., Kerr, Y.H. (2015). The Impact of National Land Cover and Soils Data on SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval over Canadian Agricultural Landscapes. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, [online] 8(11), 5281-5293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2417832
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Kross, A., Lapen, D.R., McNairn, H., Sunohara, M., Champagne, C., Wilkes, G. (2015). Satellite and in situ derived corn and soybean biomass and leaf area index: Response to controlled tile drainage under varying weather conditions. Agricultural Water Management, [online] 160 118-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2015.06.007
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Adams, J.R., McNairn, H., Berg, A.A., Champagne, C. (2015). Evaluation of near-surface soil moisture data from an AAFC monitoring network in Manitoba, Canada: Implications for L-band satellite validation, 521 582-592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.10.024
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Champagne, C., Davidson, A., Cherneski, P., L'Heureux, J., Hadwen, T. (2015). Monitoring agricultural risk in Canada using L-band passive microwave soil moisture from SMOS. Journal of Hydrometeorology, [online] 16(1), 5-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0039.1
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