Catherine Champagne
AgroClimate Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
How I work with Harvest
Dr. Champagne's work has focused on improving both earth observation methods and integration of earth observation data sets into models to help improve water resources monitoring (soil moisture, evapotranspiration, groundwater), drought estimation, crop yield monitoring, crop type and condition monitoring. Through Harvest, Catherine hopes to work with others in improving these techniques and applying them nationally and globally to support decision making in agricultural policy and food security.
Biography
Dr. Catherine Champagne currently leads research and development of agro-climate data sets from remote sensing data for the Earth Observation Service at Agriculture Canada. Her professional interests are in monitoring environmental health of ecosystems, and her experience has been in remote sensing of agricultural, forested and industrial (mines and metals) environments using both optical and microwave technology.
Selected Relevant Publications
- Building the vegetation drought response index for Canada (VegDRI- Canada) to monitor agricultural drought: first results, GIScience & Remote Sensing
- Satellite Surface Soil Moisture from SMOS and Aquarius: Assessment for Applications in Agricultural Landscapes
- Assessing the Impact of Climate Variability on Cropland Productivity in the Canadian Prairies Using Time Series MODIS FAPAR
- Impact of sub-pixel heterogeneity on modelled brightness temperature for an agricultural region
- Evaluation of near-surface soil moisture data from an AAFC monitoring network in Manitoba, Canada: Implications for L-band satellite validation
Scenes from the field
