{"id":31371,"date":"2024-12-20T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=31371"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:39:58","slug":"mohamed-abbas","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/mohamed-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>I hold a B.A. degree in Geography from Kafrelsheikh University in Egypt. After moving to Canada in 2014, I pursued further education, earning a postgraduate diploma in GIS and an M.Sc. degree in Geography (Remote Sensing) from the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have extensive professional experience as a GIS Specialist, working on land planning and management projects in various municipal departments across the province of Quebec. Additionally, I have worked as a Land Use Change Analyst at Environment and Climate Change Canada. My work experience spans a wide range of geomatics applications, including land use\/land cover mapping, image segmentation, watershed analysis, spatial planning, and photo-interpretation in forestry and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My Research:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precise estimation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and detailed monitoring of the carbon cycle are essential for mitigating and adapting to climate change. On Canada&#8217;s agricultural lands, woody vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, and shelterbelts, accumulates biomass over multiple years and serves as a significant carbon sink. In this context, my research focuses on leveraging multi-sensor remote sensing data &#8211; particularly LiDAR and very high-resolution multispectral imagery &#8211; to detect and segment woody vegetation in and around croplands. Using advanced deep learning segmentation techniques, the project aims to quantify the multi-temporal dynamics of carbon stocks and analyze their spatial distribution. This project will be conducted in collaboration with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and funded through the Research Affiliate Program of the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31372,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Mohamed","cu_people_last_name":"Abbas","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[16],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-31371","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-graduate"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"PhD student researching the use of multi\u2011sensor remote sensing and deep learning to map woody vegetation in croplands and quantify carbon stocks across Canadian agricultural landscapes.","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32847,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31371\/revisions\/32847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=31371"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=31371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}