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Conference Agenda

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Tue05May
Auditorium
Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Rion Ballroom
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More than ice in ICESat-2: Unlocking canopy insights from space
9:50am - 10:50am
Auditorium
Sorin Popescu
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Sorin Popescu
Virtual Oral Presentation

Evaluating ICESat-2-Derived Canopy Cover for Large-Area Forest Mapping

Lana Narine, Sorin Popescu



In-person Oral Presentation

Continental-Scale Forest Height Dynamics Using Integrated GEDI and ICESat-2 Lidar Data

Sorin Popescu, Justinn Jones, Hailey Melzow, Lonesome Malambo, Lana Narine, Andrew Hudak, Andrew Lister, Horia Olariu, Mei-Kuei Lu



In-person Oral Presentation

Continental and global-scale canopy height modeling: space-lasers to cloud-computing

Justinn J. Jones, Hailey Schmidt Melzow, Sorin Popescu



In-person Oral Presentation

ICESat-4D: Monitoring Forest Resistance and Post-Hurricane Recovery Dynamics in Southern Forests by the Synergism of ICESat-2, SAR, and Optical Data and AI

Carlos Silva

Large scale european projects supporting current policy making at the EU
11:05am - 12:05pm
Auditorium
Ruben Valbuena
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Ruben Valbuena
In-person Oral Presentation

Overview of EU large scale projects

Ruben Valbuena, Lauri Mehtätalo, Johannes Breidenbach, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Alessandro Cescatti



In-person Oral Presentation

Remote sensing and the Nature Restoration Regulation: assessing biodiversity indicators for integrated forest management

Jacob Emanuel Parry, Stefanie Linser, Inka Bohlin, Karin Ohman, Yunsheng Wang, Hanna Sorokina, Ruben Valbuena



In-person Oral Presentation

Federated Learning for forest monitoring: a privacy-preserving approach to cross-border data integration

Johannes Schumacher, Alessandro Cescatti, Gherardo Chirici, Giovanni D'Amico, Saverio Francini, Johannes Hertzler, Lauri Mehtätalo, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Mats Nilsson, Juho Pitkänen, Johannes Breidenbach



In-person Oral Presentation

Harmonised Remote Sensing Products and Disturbance Reference Data to Support European Forest Monitoring and Multifunctionality Assessment

Giovanni D'Amico, Gherrdo Chirici, Elia Vangi, Costanza Borghi, Davide Botticelli, Walter Mattioli, Piermaria Corona, Johannes Schumacher, Johannes Breidenbach, Lauri Mehtätalo, Ruben Valbuena, Beatrice Petti, Marco Ottaviano, Marco Marchetti, Saverio Francini

Remote sensing-assisted sampling and statistical inference in forest inventory
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Auditorium
Ronald E McRoberts
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Ronald E McRoberts
Virtual Oral Presentation

Nexus of certain design-based estimators in remote sensing forest inventory

Zhengyang Hou



In-person Oral Presentation

Remote sensing-assisted, post-stratified estimation

Ronald McRoberts, Erik Næsset, Victor Strimbu



In-person Oral Presentation

A STATISTICALLY CONGRUENT INNOVATIVE STRATEGY FOR ENHANCED NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES

Piermaria Corona, Sara Franceschi, Walter Mattioli, Giovanni D'Amico, Giancarlo Papitto, Gherardo Chirici, Caterina Pisani, Marzia Marcheselli, Lorenzo Fattorini



In-person Oral Presentation

Impact of Tree Species on the Accuracy and Transferability of Lidar-Based Biomass Models

Lauri Korhonen, Raija Timonen, Matti Maltamo

Mapping forest long-term dynamics through multisensor time series and machine learning
2:35pm - 3:35pm
Auditorium
Na Chen
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Na Chen
In-person Oral Presentation

The Spanish Atlas of Forests and Disturbances (SAFoD): Four Decades of Forest Change Across Continental Spain

Mihai A Tanase, Sofia Miguel, Alba Viana-Soto, Cristina Aponte, Paloma Ruiz-Benito



In-person Oral Presentation

Integrating Weakly Supervised Learning and Multispectral Time Series for Robust Tree Species Mapping of Heterogeneous Forest

Jana Annika Wicklein, Davide Andreatta, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Michele Dalponte



In-person Oral Presentation

Vegetation Transition History Predicts Wildfire Risk Beyond Climate Forcing: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of California

Yichan Li, Di Yang, Wei Liu



In-person Oral Presentation

Large-scale Tropical Forest Disturbances Monitoring Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data

Na Chen, Sherrie Wang

Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or multi-sensors for comprehensive forest monitoring
3:50pm - 4:50pm
Auditorium
Na Chen
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Na Chen
In-person Oral Presentation

TESSERA and Barlow Twins for forestry applications and carbon projects

Clement Atzberger, Markus Immitzer, Sadiq Jaffer, Zhengpeng Feng, Josue Lopez Ruiz, Srinivasan Keshav, Mateusz Zoltak, David Coomes, Anil Madhavapeddy, Madeline Lisaius, Andrew Blake, James Ball, Robin Young, Silja Sormunen, Jovana Knezevic



In-person Oral Presentation

Near real time forest disturbance monitoring by integrating satellite-borne SAR data

Feng Zhao



In-person Oral Presentation

Global BIOMASS Digital Terrain Model Under the Canopy: Estimation Principle and Applications to Forest Characterization

Laurent Ferro Famil, Marta Bottani, Francesco Salvaterra, Francesco Banda, Stefano Tebaldini



In-person Oral Presentation

Integrating NAIP Point Cloud, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 Data for Improved Forest/Non-Forest Classification Using Explainable Machine Learning

Chandan Kumar, Todd A. Schroeder, Monica Papes, Charles A. Price

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies I
9:50am - 10:50am
Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Veraldo Liesenberg
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Session Chair: Veraldo Liesenberg
In-person Oral Presentation

Large-Scale Reconstruction of Realistic 3D Forest Voxel-Based Scenes from Airborne Lidar Data

Cailin Zhou, Tiangang Yin, Shanshan Wei, Weiwei Tan, Qi Chen



In-person Oral Presentation

A sensitivity study of satellite jitter’s effect on forest canopy surface retrieval

Weiwei Tan, Tiangang Yin, Shaodong Wei, Cailin Zhou, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry, Nicolas Lauret, David Shean, Ameni Mkaouar, Oleg Alexandrov, Christopher Neigh



In-person Oral Presentation

Airborne Lidar Pulse Density Thinning Effects on Area-based Forest Inventory Metrics

Jessie Eastburn, Daniel Rode, Patrick Fekety, Leah Rathbun, Kelly Meehan, Jody Vogeler



In-person Oral Presentation

An improved canopy height model for the forest-tundra ecotone

Jack Marchant, Daniel Donoghue, Robert Baxter

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies II
11:05am - 12:05pm
Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Peder Nelson
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Session Chair: Peder Nelson
Virtual Oral Presentation

Assessment of stem straightness in mediterranean forest species using Handheld Laser Scanning: An Italian case study

Serena Sofia, Andrea Laschi, Marcello Miozzo, Marco Niccolini, Marco Perrino, Federico Guglielmo Maetzke, Simone Fiornovelli



In-person Oral Presentation

Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data Collection and Integration: Geospatial Innovations in Location Sampling and On-the-Ground Efficiency

Seth Price, Joshua Picotte, Chris Woody, Ethan Ilse, Katelyn Woolfrey, Hazel Mebius, Peter Streufert



In-person Oral Presentation

Exploring the Potential of the Mandeye Handheld LiDAR System for Ecosystem Characterization

Cosme Hernanz-Gilbert, Carlos Cabo, Álvaro Moreno-Martínez, Norman Moreno-Matute, Mónica Herrero-Huerta



In-person Oral Presentation

Benchmarking Tree Instance Segmentation Algorithms: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Performance Across Diverse LiDAR Datasets and Forest Conditions

Stefan Reder Koithahn, Josafat-Mattias Burmeister, Andreas Tockner, Markus Engel, Rico Richter, Jan-Peter Mund, Jürgen Döllner

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies III
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Thomas Martinoli
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Session Chair: Thomas Martinoli
In-person Oral Presentation

Bayesian Multi-Source Fusion for Near Real-Time Deforestation Monitoring using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series: Application in the Brazilian Amazon

Marta Bottani, Laurent Ferro-Famil



In-person Oral Presentation

AI and GIS for urban biodiversity monitoring - Trees census, from location estimation to ecosystem services assessment

Thomas Martinoli, Piero Fraternali



In-person Oral Presentation

Assessing Forest Structure and Biophysical Controls on Degradation Across the Amazon Using Spaceborne LiDAR

Hasan Ahmed, Matthew Fagan



Virtual Oral Presentation

Evaluating Traditional and Novel Height-Diameter Models for Urban Tree DBH Estimation

Lan Qing Zhao, Derek T. Robinson, Brandon Giura

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies IV
2:35pm - 3:35pm
Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Valerie Thomas
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Session Chair: Valerie Thomas
Virtual Oral Presentation

Estimation of canopy fAPAR using optical reflectance and airborne LiDAR data

Dalei Han, Jing Liu, Shan Xu, Tiangang Yin, Peiqi Yang



In-person Oral Presentation

Development of crown morphology models for Pinus halepensis in central Spain using terrestrial laser scanning and unmanned aerial laser scanning data.

Manuel Gomez-Roux, David Candel-Pérez, Darío Domingo, José Bernardo González-Mesquida, Nuria Martínez-Miguel, Raúl Hoffrén, Juan de la Riva, Teresa Lamelas, Rodrigo García-Gómez, José Antonio Manzanera, Francisco Mauro



In-person Oral Presentation

Use of high-resolution commercial X-band SAR and optical data to model forest height

Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, Paige Williams, Rachel Cook, Timothy Albaugh, Kyle Peer, Matthew Sumnall



In-person Oral Presentation

NAIP-based digital aerial photogrammetry for forest structure estimation and evaluating disturbance effects in Colorado, USA

Steven Filippelli, Karen Schleeweis, Andrew Hudak, Patrick Fekety, Daniel Rode, Jody Vogeler

Climate Change Impacts
3:50pm - 4:50pm
Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Piotr Wezyk
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Session Chair: Piotr Wezyk
In-person Oral Presentation

Assessing Vertical Structural Complexity in Regulating Forest Microclimate Using Mobile Laser Scanning

Meika Tomita, Akira Kato, Tatsurou Nakaji, Fumio Nakajima



Virtual Oral Presentation

Analysis of Motifs of Intact Forest Resilience and Global Climate Variables

Pius Nwachukwu, Laure Berti-Equille



Virtual Oral Presentation

Detecting tree stress in 3D: Using structural metrics to predict tree physiology and drought tolerance in P. taeda

Monique Bohora Schlickmann, Marylou Mantova, William Hammond, Susan Prichard, Denis Valle, Inacio Bueno, Andrew Hudak, Jinyi Xia, Carine Klauberg, Carlos Alberto Silva



In-person Oral Presentation

The importance of UF spatial structure in combating UHI using VHR satellite and ALS data - Kraków case study

Piotr Wezyk, Wojciech Krawczyk, Karolina Zięba-Kulawik, Magdalena Szechyńska-Hebda

Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management I
9:50am - 10:50am
Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Costanza Borghi
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Session Chair: Costanza Borghi
In-person Oral Presentation

Comparing k-Nearest Neighbor and Convolutional Neural Network Approaches for Generating Spatially Explicit Tree Lists in Mediterranean Pine Forests

José Bernardo González-Mesquida, Chad Babcock, Francisco Rodríguez-Puerta, José Antonio Manzanera, Darío Domingo-Ruiz, Manuel Gomex-Roux, Francisco Mauro-Gutiérrez



In-person Oral Presentation

From Accuracy to Interpretability: Assessing Hyperparameter Sensitivity and SHAP Consistency in Forest Volume and Carbon Modelling

Giovanni D'Amico, Alessandro Montaghi, Elia Vangi, Mattia Niccoli, Costanza Borghi, Gherardo Chirici



In-person Oral Presentation

A Machine Learning Approach for Large-Scale Mapping of Old-Growth Forest Probability in Italy

Costanza Borghi, Giovanni D'Amico, Francesco Solano, Titomanlio Pepe, Elia Vangi, Mattia Niccoli, Francesco Parisi, Davide Travaglini, Giancarlo Papitto, Gianluca Piovesan, Gherardo Chirici



Virtual Oral Presentation

Enhancing forest inventory and Analysis through satellite derived embeddings

Alexander Young, Andrew Lister, John Hogland

Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management II
11:05am - 12:05pm
Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
James Ball
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Session Chair: James Ball
In-person Oral Presentation

Predicting Forest Inventory Parameters from Remote Sensing Data: Comparison of Random Forest and Deep Learning Approaches

Isabelle Klein, Maximilian Pichler, Christine Hechtl, Jakob Ebenbeck, Rupert Seidl, Florian Hartig, Marco Heurich



Virtual Oral Presentation

Scaling Up Forest Vision with Synthetic Data

Yihang She, Andrew Blake, David Coomes, Srinivasan Keshav



In-person Oral Presentation

Geospatial foundation models enable data-efficient tree species mapping in temperate mountain forests

James Ball, Jana Wicklein, Feng Zhengpeng, Clement Atzberger, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jovana Knezevic, Srinivasan Keshav, Michele Dalponte, David Coomes



In-person Oral Presentation

Wall-to-Wall Forest Structure Mapping Using Generative AI and NAIP Imagery

Anthony Marcozzi, Lucas Wells, Kevin Barnett, Allison Thompson

Geospatial Innovations I
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Monica Herrero-Huerta
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Session Chair: Monica Herrero-Huerta
In-person Oral Presentation

Leveraging Geospatial Embeddings for Cloud-Free Reconstruction and Phenology Monitoring in Optical Remote Sensing

Shuai Li, Di Yang, Yaqian He



In-person Oral Presentation

Isolating Urban Tree Cooling: A 3D Workflow Using ALS LiDAR Data

Eliotte Lin, Sorin Popescu, Justinn Jones



In-person Oral Presentation

Multimodal Approach to Tree Species Classification: Integrating TLS Point Clouds with Contextual Remote Sensing and Forest Inventory Data

Maksymilian Kulicki, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Janusz Będkowski



In-person Oral Presentation

Integrating UAV LiDAR and Multispectral Data for Improved Classification and Flood Hazard Assessment in Mediterranean Forests

Monica Herrero-Huerta, Cosme Hernanz-Gilbert, Norman Matute-Romero, Francesco Pirotti, Antonio Moreno-Rodenas

Geospatial Innovations II
2:35pm - 3:35pm
Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Jonathan Batchelor
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Session Chair: Jonathan Batchelor
In-person Oral Presentation

Study on the Examination of Data Acquisition Methods Based on Forest Conditions and the Evaluation of Ecological Functions in Japan

Yoriyuki Yamada, Toshihiro Okubo, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Nakagawa



In-person Oral Presentation

Mapping Understory Vegetation Using LiDAR-Derived Canopy Models and Machine Learning

Akira Kato, Yoshito Sawada, Seitaro Yamada, Tatsuro Nakaji, Andrew. T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright



In-person Oral Presentation

Automated reconstruction of power lines from ALS point cloud using adaptive nonlinear tracking algorithm

Miłosz Mielcarek, Grzegorz Krok, Krzysztof Stereńczak



In-person Oral Presentation

Tracking Appalachian Surface Mine Reclamation Trajectories with Remotely Sensed Data

Daniel Putnam, Randolph Wynne, Valerie Thomas, Patricia Donovan

Near Real-Time Monitoring of Forests
3:50pm - 4:50pm
Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Wade Fortney
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Session Chair: Wade Fortney
Virtual Oral Presentation

Edge-AI Fusion Pipeline for Real-Time Forest Health Monitoring in Subtropical Pine Ecosystems of North-Central Florida

Zarrin Tasneem



In-person Oral Presentation

Attributing direct drivers to pantropical deforestation alerts

Bart Slagter, Laura Cue La Rosa, Anika Berger, Sarah Carter, Marielos Peña-Claros, Martin Herold, Johannes Reiche



In-person Oral Presentation

Real-Time Event-Driven Vision for Aerial Surveillance on MPSoC Platforms in Forest Environments

Wade Fortney, Zhaoqi Wang, Peter Forcha



In-person Oral Presentation

Monthly Forest Canopy Cover Loss in Europe, 2017–2024

Frank Thonfeld, Patrick Kacic, Marco Wegler, Sarah Asam, Claudia Kuenzer

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping I
9:50am - 10:50am
Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Seth Price
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Session Chair: Seth Price
In-person Oral Presentation

Deriving 3D fuels characteristics from terrestrial lidar data to inform fuel treatment strategy

Birgit Peterson, Seth Price



Virtual Oral Presentation

Enhancing Wildfire Risk Assessment in Canada through Continuous Hazardous Fuel Classification Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data

Stuart Krause, Jen Beverly



Virtual Oral Presentation

: The effect of fuel treatments in the Sierra Nevada: Integrating multi-scale remote sensing data to create high quality three-dimensional inputs for fire behavior modeling

Olivia Chandrasekhar, Seth Price, Sophie Bonner



In-person Oral Presentation

vostokR: Integrating Lidar and Solar Radiation Modeling in R

Andrew Sánchez Meador

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping II
11:05am - 12:05pm
Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Jonathan Batchelor
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Session Chair: Jonathan Batchelor
In-person Oral Presentation

Flareless: A Hybrid Machine Learning and AHP Approach for High-Resolution Forest Fire Risk Assessment

Bill Herbert Ziegelmaier Neto, Marcos Benedito Schimalski, Veraldo Liesenberg, João Victor Schimalski, Cindy Fernandes Mendes



In-person Oral Presentation

A vision for multiscale mapping of disaggregated fuel bed components and consumption

Andrew Hudak, Francisco Mauro, Nuria Sánchez López, Mickey Campbell, Benjamin Bright



In-person Oral Presentation

Fire progression and severity across fuel treatments in the Western United States

Jonathan Batchelor



In-person Oral Presentation

Good fire: quantifying the beneficial ecosystem work of western U.S. wildfires (2010-2020)

Jennifer Balch, Tyler McIntosh, Nyani Illangakoon, Karen Cummins, J. Morgan Varner, Winslow Hansen, Kate Dargan Marquis, Crystal Raymond, Brian Harvey, Rutherford Platt

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Francisco Mauro
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Session Chair: Francisco Mauro
In-person Oral Presentation

Quantifying Fire-Induced Biomass Loss in the Amazon Forest Using GEDI

Maria Isabel Silva dos Santos, Ernesto Alvarado



Virtual Oral Presentation

Object-Based Scanning of Wildland Fuels: Bridging the Resolution Gap in 3D Vegetation Modeling

Iris Mire, Jessie Thoreson, Susan Prichard, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael Gallagher



In-person Oral Presentation

Pointclouds_DeepLab: Wildland fuel aware Multi-sensors LiDAR point clouds segmentation and classification: A case study of United States Forest ecosystems

Nadeem Fareed, Carlos Alberto Silva, Naga Venkata Siva Reddy, Susan Prichard



In-person Oral Presentation

Integrating Airborne Laser Scanning data, Topography, and Climate Metrics for Forest Fuel Mapping in the Western U.S.

Rodrigo García Gómez, Francisco Mauro Gutiérrez, Patrick Feketty, Benjamin Bright, Manuel Gómez-Roux, Bernardo González-Mesquida, Andrew Hudak, Nuria Sánchez-López

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping IV
2:35pm - 3:35pm
Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Simon Mueller
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Session Chair: Simon Mueller
In-person Oral Presentation

Tracing Land-Use Imprints on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildfires

Wei Liu, Di Yang



In-person Oral Presentation

Wildfire Propagation Modelling for Europe and the Mediterranean with Deep Learning and an adjusted Dataset

Simon Mueller, Anja Hofmann-Boellinghaus, Kristin Vogel, Philipp Benner



In-person Oral Presentation

Quantifying fuel composition with terrestrial LiDAR in a longleaf pine savanna

D. Alex Bowers, Raelene M. Crandall, Arthur Lamounier Moura, Jinyi Xia, Ross A. Barreto, Daniel J. Johnson



In-person Oral Presentation

A network of point-dendrometers to forecast live fuel moisture content using remotely sensed imagery data.

Francisco Mauro, Fermin Alcasena, Nuria Martínez-Miguel, Dario Domingo-Ruiz, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Andrew Hudak, Nuria Sánchez-López, Manuel Gómez-Roux, José Bernardo González-Mesquida, Cristina Gómez, Rodrigo García-Gómez

Agroforestry Applications
3:50pm - 4:50pm
Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Oluwatobi Olaniyi
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Session Chair: Oluwatobi Olaniyi
In-person Oral Presentation

Operational 3DGS and OB-NeRF Pipelines for Field Vegetation: Case Study on Strawberries

Hemanth Reddy Sankaramaddi, Won Suk Lee, Kyoungchul Kim, Youngki Hong



In-person Oral Presentation

Mapping research pathways for restoring South Carolina’s historic tidal rice landscapes

Oluwatobi Olaniyi, Troy Farmer, David White, Travis Folk, James Anderson



In-person Oral Presentation

GIS-Driven Land Suitability Mapping for Tiger Grass (Thysanolaena maxima, Roxb.) under Biophysical and Zoning Considerations in the Baroro Watershed, La Union, Philippines

Kharmina Paola Anit-Evangelista, Canesio Predo, Asa Jose Sajise, Margaret Calderon, Cristino Tiburan Jr., Juan Pulhin



Virtual Oral Presentation

Evaluating Vertical Structure Differences Between Old-Growth Avocado Orchards and Temperate Forests with GEDI Metrics: Implications for Habitat Availability

Jonathan V. Solórzano

Welcome and Announcements
8:30am - 8:45am
Rion Ballroom
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Location: Rion Ballroom
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NISAR: A New Era for the Remote Sensing of Ecosystems
8:45am - 9:45am
Rion Ballroom
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Paul Siqueira
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Session Chair: Paul Siqueira
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate I
9:50am - 10:50am
Rion Ballroom
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Jeffery B. Cannon
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Session Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon
In-person Oral Presentation

Using terrestrial lidar to understand hurricane-adaptive canopy traits in pine species from the Southeastern US to The Bahamas

Jeffery B. Cannon, Chambers J. English, Michaella A. Ivey, Jacob S. Fraser, Benjamin O. Knapp, L. Tanner Warren, Andrew W. Whelan, Nicole E. Zampieri, Brittany Harris, Latonya Williams, Cara Rockwell



In-person Oral Presentation

Gone with the wind: Assessing disease progression and hydraulic conductivity of pine trees exposed to extreme winds of hurricane Helene.

Tania Quesada, Christy Walton, William Hammond



In-person Oral Presentation

Long-term effects of canopy scorch on mitigating hurricane damage using long-term data and terrestrial lidar

Morné le Roux, Timothy Shearman, Jeffery B. Cannon, Brandon T. Rutledge



In-person Oral Presentation

Storm-driven Acceleration of Coastal Forest Retreat and Ghost Forest Formation

Daniel Donahoe, Valerie Thomas, Elizabeth Hunter

Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems
11:05am - 12:05pm
Rion Ballroom
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Darby Levin
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Session Chair: Darby Levin
In-person Oral Presentation

Assessment of automatic hedgerows detection using Pleiades Neo 30cm images and Foundation model

Lea Moyon, Marie Ballere, Noe Roure, David Souveton, Vincent Varoquaux, Anne Jacquin, Laurent Gabet



In-person Oral Presentation

Providing a New Remote Sensing Method and Extensive Tree Database for Allometric Scaling Models of Carbon Stocks of Individual Trees Outside of Forests

David Skole, Tabitha Alimo, Jay Samek, Dan Ndalowa, Judith Kamoto, Vincent Oeba, Alfred Chioza, Justine Spore, Darby Levin, Moussa Dieng, Cheikh Mbow



In-person Oral Presentation

Determining Detection Thresholds for Individual Trees to Enable Farmer-Specific Payments in Agroforestry Carbon Programs

Darcy Gray, John Brandt, Lydia Tasia, Justine Spore, Darby Levin, Katie Dowhaniuk, Cheenar Shah



In-person Oral Presentation

Learnings and applied results from combined remote and field monitoring of a restoration portfolio

John Brandt, Darby Levin, Justine Spore, Jessica Ertel, Justine Spore

Early Career Mentorship & Networking Event
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Rion Ballroom
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Location: Rion Ballroom
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Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Rion Ballroom
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Joanne White
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Session Chair: Joanne White
In-person Oral Presentation

Tracking fire across the Southeast from burn severity to recovery with harmonized Landsat-Sentinel data

Melanie Vanderhoof, Casey Menick, Joshua Picotte, Holly Nowell



Virtual Oral Presentation

Tracking forest recovery across Europe using spectral unmixing of Landsat time series

Alba Viana-Soto, Katja Kowalski, Lisa Mandl, Cornelius Senf



In-person Oral Presentation

Evaluating UAV-Based Approaches for Detecting Forest Regeneration in Post-Disturbance Landscapes: Insights from the KI-Recover Project

Caileigh Shoot, Christine Wallis, Robert Jackisch, Marco Heurich, Jakob Ebenbeck, Max Mangold



In-person Oral Presentation

Post-Fire Conifer Recovery From Spectral and Field Data - Why Monitoring Methods Matter

Sarah Smith-Tripp, Joanne White, Nicholas Coops

NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action
2:35pm - 3:35pm
Rion Ballroom
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Matthew Miller, Joanne Hall
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Session Chair: Matthew Miller
Session Chair: Joanne Hall
In-person Oral Presentation

Advancing Wildfire Smoke Forecasting and Exposure Assessment Across the CONUS Using Multi-Model Intercomparison and Ensemble Techniques

Yunyao Li, Daniel Tong, Peng Xian, Kevin Cromar, Laura Myers, Barry Baker, Ravan Ahmadov, Anton Darmenov, Edward Hyer, Daniel Figueras Nieto, Jack Chen, Christine Pham



Virtual Oral Presentation

Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Active Fire Impacts

Kyle Hilburn, James Haley



In-person Oral Presentation

NASA’s Wildland Fire Program – Supporting Proactive Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Management and Research Efforts

Joanne Hall, Ryan Wade, Sarah Dutton, Jennifer Fowler, Daniel Hodkinson, Teresa Kauffman, Christine Mataya, Kimberley Miner, Matthew Miller, Kelley Murphy, Paul Padgett, Robert Sohlberg, Steve Stolze, Eleanor Stokes



In-person Oral Presentation

Harmonics of stress and structure from ECOSTRESS and GEDI to support pre-fire mapping and the management of fire trajectories

Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, Adrian Pascal, Antonio Ferraz, Glynn Hulley, Inga Lapuma, Birgit Peterson, Kurtis Nelson, Tinh LA

Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs
3:50pm - 4:50pm
Rion Ballroom
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Andrew Hudak
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Session Chair: Andrew Hudak
In-person Oral Presentation

A geospatial database for quantifying effects from 40 years of fire (1985-2025) on biomass and fuel dynamics across the western USA

Andrew Hudak, Clare Saiki, Benjamin Bright, Patrick Fekety, Francisco Mauro, Chad Babcock, Nancy French



In-person Oral Presentation

Quantifying the preferences of final users of LiDAR derived tree list maps to maximize their use and adoption.

Francisco Mauro, Andrew Hudak, Arjan Meddens, Michelle Steen-Adams, Manuel Gomez-Roux, José Bernardo González-Mesquida, Severin Scott, Cristina Gomez, Patrick Fekety, Beatríz Águeda-Hernándex, Concepción González-García



In-person Oral Presentation

Introducing the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase: a new tool for accessing fuel treatment and wildfire data

Anson Call, Camille Stevens-Rumann



In-person Oral Presentation

Integrating remote sensing and landscape modeling for monitoring biomass carbon pools and fluxes: results from three scales of stakeholder use-cases in the working forests of Maine, USA

Daniel Hayes, Andrew Finley, Yury Shafirin, Xinyuan Wei, Aaron Weiskittel, Bruce Cook

Morning Breakfast in Grand Ballroom
7:30am - 8:30am
Grand Ballroom
Location: Grand Ballroom
Lunch
12:05pm - 1:30pm
Grand Ballroom
Location: Grand Ballroom
Poster Reception
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Grand Ballroom
Location: Grand Ballroom
In-person Poster Presentation

Towards Automated Detection of Brazilian Pine in Open Environments Using UAV Data and YOLOv11

Cindy Fernandes Mendes, Veraldo Liesenberg, Raul Queiroz Feitosa, Pedro Henrique Pereira Guedes, Laura Fuchigami Farias, Sara Vitória Andrade Aguiar e Silva, Henrique Genske Teodoro, Victor Mohamad Bortolozzo Dabbous, Vicenzo Lemos Waltrick, João Victor Schimalski, Marcos Benedito Schimalski



In-person Poster Presentation

Tracking Landscape Transformation in the Eastern Amazon Through LiDAR and MapBiomas Time-Series

Derica dos Santos Sousa, Veraldo Liesenberg, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Rorai Pereira Martins Neto, Leonardo Josoé Biffi, Silvio Cesar Oliveira Colturato, Marcos Benedito Schimalski



In-person Poster Presentation

Assessing biodiversity and succession at disturbed forest sites using multi-sensor data and object-segmentation

Max Mangold, Jakob Ebnbeck, Caileigh Shoot, Robert Jackisch, Christine Wallis, Marco Heurich



In-person Poster Presentation

Multi-Method Ensemble Classification for Post-Replantation Recovery Assessment using NDVI Time Series in Madagascar

Phan Viet Hoa Vu, Carlos Dewasseige, Justine Huge



In-person Poster Presentation

Six years of global forest biomass change from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation

Jamis Bruening, Amelia Holcomb, John Armston, Tiago De Conto, Sean Healey, Adrian Pascual, Zhiqiang Yang, Ralph Dubayah



In-person Poster Presentation

Evaluating Structural and Climatic Controls on Forest Water Yield through Evapotranspiration Dynamics

Lindsey Finks, Daniel McLaughlin, Brian Strahm



In-person Poster Presentation

Variation in beetle and tree-related microhabitat diversity in relation to forest tree species under future climate conditions

Elia Vangi, Giovanni D'Amico, Saverio Francini, Davide Travaglini, Gherardo Chirici, Marco Marchetti, Francesco Parisi



In-person Poster Presentation

A systematic review and meta-analysis of airborne lidar-based forest aboveground biomass estimation

Nisham Thapa, Lana L. Narine, Alan E. Wilson, Favour Onyido



In-person Poster Presentation

An Earth Observation-based Framework for Monitoring Forest Aboveground Biomass

Janaki Sandamali, Lana L. Narine, Favour Onyido



In-person Poster Presentation

Modeling Tree Mortality Across Scales Using Remote Sensing and Field Measurements

Jeftey Saint Fleur, Carlos Alberto Silva, William Hammond

Morning Break Refreshments
10:50am - 11:05am
Afternoon Break Refreshments
3:35pm - 3:50pm