Guy Létourneau
Current research and/or projects
Through environmental monitoring activities, helps to ensure the conservation and protection of aquatic ecosystems.
- Monitoring of wetland vegetation along the St. Lawrence using remote sensing to provide a current portrait of the distribution of major classes of plants.
- Monitors land use in the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence basin in order to determine the relationship between changes in shoreline land use and water quality (development of new indicators).
- Participates in activities aimed at developing water quality monitoring using remote sensing.
- Participates in a project aimed at integrating the various environmental indicators monitored along the St. Lawrence.
- Seeks partnerships to extend current activities over a larger geographic area.
Professional activities / interests
Applies remote sensing to the environment (wetlands, water quality, land use)
Analyzes changes based on geospatial data.
Is responsible for and supervises information gathering activities in the field and the acquisition of remote sensing images.
Manages and distributes information.
Education and awards
Award of Excellence 2010 - Teamwork, Partnership and Collaboration
M.Sc. Geography and Remote Sensing, Université de Sherbrooke
B.Sc. Physical Geography, Université de Sherbrooke
Key publications
Jean, M. and G. Létourneau (2014). Quality Assurance Plan: Monitoring the wetlands of the St. Lawrence River. Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Section, Working document, 59 p.
Jean, M. et G. Létourneau (2014). Les milieux humides en eau douce / Freshwater Weltands. 3rd edition, St.Lawrence Action Plan, Coordination Office, Sainte-Foy, Québec, 9 p.
Jean, Martin and Guy Létourneau. 2011. Changes to the wetlands of the St. Lawrence River from 1970 to 2002. Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Quebec Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Section, Technical Report Number 511, 293 pages.
Binding, C. E., T. A. Greenberg, J. H. Jerome, R. P. Bukata and G. Letourneau (2011). An assessment of MERIS algal products during an intense bloom in Lake of the Woods. Journal of Plankton Research, vol. 33 (5), pp. 793-807.
Létourneau, Guy (2010). L’occupation du sol le long des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent / Land cover along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. St. Lawrence Vision 2000 Coordination Office, Sainte-Foy, Québec, 8 p.
Létourneau, G. and M. Jean. 2006. Mapping the Wetlands of the St. Lawrence Using Remote Sensing (2002). Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch. Scientific and Technical Report ST-239, 130 pages.
Létourneau, G. and M. Jean. 2006. Mapping the Wetlands of the St. Lawrence Using Remote Sensing (1996-1997).Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch. Scientce and Technical Report ST-237, 122 pages.
Létourneau, G. and M. Jean. 2005. Mapping the Wetlands of the St. Lawrence Using Remote Sensing (1990-1991). Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch. Science and Technical Report ST-232, 99 pages.
Ingram, J., K. Holmes, M. Jean, G. Létourneau and C. Savage. 2005. Loss and Fragmentation of Wetlands along the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Shoreline. Environment Canada – Quebec Region, Environmental Conservation Directorate, St. Lawrence Centre, 16 p.
Mertes, L.A.K., A.G. Dekker, G.R. Brakenridge, C.M. Birkett and G. Létourneau. 2004. Manual of Remote Sensing, vol 4 – Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Monitoring, Chapter: Rivers & Lakes. John Wiley and Sons.
Hudon, C., P. Gagnon, J.-P. Amyot, G. Létourneau, M. Jean, C. Plante, D. Rioux and M. Deschênes. 2004. Historical changes in herbaceous wetland distribution induced by hydrological conditions in Lake St. Pierre (St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada).