Catherine Champagne, Ph.D.

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Environmental Scientist

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

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

  1. Zare, F., Boye, J.I., Champagne, C., Orsat, V., and Simpson, B.K. (2009). "Acidification trend and microbial growth of yogurt and probiotic supplemented with lentil flour.", 9th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, USA, June 6-9, 2009.

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  2. Shang, J., McNairn, H., Champagne, C., Jiao, X., and Geng, X. (2009). "Integration of RadarSAT-2 ScanSAR and AWiFS for operational agricultural land use monitoring over the Canadian Prairies.", IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2009), Capetown, South Africa, July 12-17, 2009, Vol. 4, Article number 5417496, pp. IV793-IV796.

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  3. Champagne, C., Shang, J., McNairn, H., and Xiao, X. (2009). "Synergy of L-, C-, and X-Band SAR for crop mapping: A case study in Canada.", 3rd ALOS Joint PI Symposium, Alaska Satellite Facility, Kona, Hawaii, USA, November 9-13, 2009.

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  4. Jiao, X., McNairn, H., Pattey, E., Shang, J., and Champagne, C. (2009). "The sensitivity of RADARSAT-2 quad-polarization SAR data to crop LAI.", SPIE Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability VI, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, August 5-6, 2009, Vol. 7454, Article No. 7454-23.

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  5. McNairn, H., Shang, J., Jiao, X., Champagne, C. (2009). The contribution of ALOS PALSAR multipolarization and polarimetric data to crop classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, [online] 47(12), 3981-3992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026052

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  6. McNairn, H., Shang, J., Champagne, C., and Jiao, X. (2009). "TerraSAR-X and RADARSAT-2 for crop classification and acreage estimation.", International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), pp. II898-II901. doi : 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418243

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  7. McNairn, H., Champagne, C., Shang, J., Holmstrom, D., Reichert, G. (2009). Integration of optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery for delivering operational annual crop inventories. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, [online] 64(5), 434-449. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2008.07.006

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  8. Shang, J., McNairn, H., Champagne, C., and Jiao, X. (2008). "Contribution of multi-frequency, multi-sensor, and multi-temporal radar data to operational annual crop mapping.", IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2008), Boston, MA, USA, July 6-11, 2008.

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  9. Jarvis, I.E., McNairn, H., Howard, A., Champagne, C., and Ogston, R. (2008). "Canada’s National Land and Water Information Service.", in Group on Earth Observations (GEO) (ed.) - The Full Picture, Tudor Rose, Leicester, UK, pp. 98-99.

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  10. McNairn, H., Shang, J., Champagne, C., and Jiao, X. (2008). "Application of multi-frequency and multi-temporal polarimetric SAR for operational crop inventories in Canada.", 2nd JointALOS PI Symposium 2008, Rhodes, Greece, November 3-7, 2008.

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  11. Shang, J., McNairn, H., Champagne, C., and Jiao, X. (2009). "Contribution of multi-frequency, multi-sensor, and multi-temporal radar data to operational annual crop mapping.", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 3(1), pp. III378-III381. doi : 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779362

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  12. McNairn, H., Champagne, C., and Shang, J. (2007). "The Value of SAR Multi-polarization Data in Delivering Annual Crop Inventories.", International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007.

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  13. Champagne, C., McNairn, H., Shang, J., and Johnson, D.M. (2007). "Evaluation of Resourcesat-1 AWiFS data for producing an agricultural crop inventory for Canada.", The Canadian Remote Sensing Symposium/American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2007 Specialty Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 28- November 1, 2007.

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  14. Champagne, C., McNairn, H., Shang, J., and Daneshfar, B. (2007). "Examining Accuracy Assessment for an Agricultural Land Use Classification.", 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE), San Jose, Costa Rica, June 25-29, 2007.

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  15. Champagne, C., McNairn, H., and Shang, J. (2006). "An object-oriented approach to land use mapping in the Canadian Prairies.", 11th Biennial USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, April 24-28, 2006.

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  16. Shang, J., Champagne, C., and McNairn, H. (2006). "Agriculture land use mapping using multi-sensor and multi-temporal Earth Observation data.", MAPPS/ASPRS 2006 Fall Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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  17. Champagne, C., Shang, J., McNairn, H., and Fisette, T. (2005). "Exploiting Spectral Variation from Crop Phenology for Agricultural Land-Use Classification.", SPIE Optics and Photonics 2005, July 29-August 4, 2005, Digital Proceedings, Volume 5884.

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  18. McNairn, H., Shang, J., Champagne, C., Huffman, E.C., Smith, A.M., and Fisette, T. (2005). "A multi-sensor approach to inventorying agricultural land use.", 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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  19. Champagne, C., Staenz, K., Bannari, A., McNairn, H., and Deguise, J.-D. (2003). "Validation of a hyperspectral curve-fitting model for the estimation of plant water content of agricultural canopies.", Remote Sensing of Environment, 87, pp. 148-160.

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