Professional Memberships
- Member, Canadian Institute of Geomatics
- Member, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Member, IEEE, Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Selected Services to the University
- Member, Biomedical Committee, Faculty of Engineering, 2009 - present
- Department Acting Chair, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, July - December 2007
- Member, Dineen Memorial Lecture committee, 2000 - 2008
- Principal Organizer, Dineen Memorial Lecture, 2001, 2007
- Member, Subcommittee of the Engineering Task Force for developing the 2nd design course of first year engineering curricula, 2004 - 2005
- Member, Continuing Education Committee, Faculty of Engineering, 2000 - 2008
Referee of Research Grants
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Strategic Project Grants
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Research Grants
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Leaders Opportunity Fund
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Belgian Remote Sensing Program, Thematic Projects
- Belgian Remote Sensing Program, Technical Projects
Reviewer of Scholarly Journals
- Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
- International Journal of Remote Sensing
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing of Environment
- Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
- International Journal of Image and Data Fusion
- Geomatica
- IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing
- IEE Electronics Letters
- Machine Vision and Applications Journal
- Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
- Information Fusion (Elsevier)
- Pattern Recognition Letter
- International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
Member of Professional Committees
- Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, publisher Taylor&Franci, March 2009 – present
- Member, Scientific Committee of TECTERRA (a Canadian funding program to promote geomatics technologies), January 2011 - May 2012
- Chair, ISPRS Working Group VII/4: Methods for Land Cover Classification, 2008 - 2012
- Co-Chair, ISPRS Working Group VII/4: Advanced Classification Techniques, 2004 - 2008
- Canadian National Correspondent, CIG-ISPRS, Commission VII, 2004 - present
- Member, Talbert Abrams Award Committee, ASPRS, 2005 and 2006
- Canadian National Correspondent, CIG-ISPRS, Commission II, 2001 - 2004
- Member, Steering Committee of Belgian Remote Sensing Program, 2006 - 2009
Member of Conference Committees
Served on committees of over 21 international conferences since 2001, such as:
- 2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event/Conference, May 20-22, 2009, Shanghai, China.
- The Second International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC2009), 25-29 May 2009, Chengdu, China.
- ISPRS Workshop on Updating Geo-spatial Databases with Imagery & the 5th International Workshop on DMGISs, Urumchi, Xingjiang,P.R. China, August 28-29, 2007.
- The 4th IEEE GRSS/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas, 11-13 April 2007, Paris, France.
Consulting Activities
Technical consulting support to dozens of Canadian government and industry organizations, and dozens of international organizations, since 2001.
Public Awareness/Education
- Delivered multiple remote sensing presentations to school students each year.
- Developed 2D and 3D satellite image Web sites for local communities and schools in Fredericton.