Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 8:30am |
Morning Breakfast in Grand Ballroom Location: Grand Ballroom |
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| 8:30am - 8:45am |
Welcome and Announcements Location: Rion Ballroom |
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| 8:45am - 9:45am |
NISAR: A New Era for the Remote Sensing of Ecosystems Location: Rion Ballroom Chair: Paul Siqueira |
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| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Veraldo Liesenberg Large-Scale Reconstruction of Realistic 3D Forest Voxel-Based Scenes from Airborne Lidar Data In-person Oral Presentation A sensitivity study of satellite jitter’s effect on forest canopy surface retrieval In-person Oral Presentation Airborne Lidar Pulse Density Thinning Effects on Area-based Forest Inventory Metrics In-person Oral Presentation An improved canopy height model for the forest-tundra ecotone |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Seth Price Deriving 3D fuels characteristics from terrestrial lidar data to inform fuel treatment strategy Virtual Oral Presentation Enhancing Wildfire Risk Assessment in Canada through Continuous Hazardous Fuel Classification Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data 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 In-person Oral Presentation vostokR: Integrating Lidar and Solar Radiation Modeling in R |
Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: Costanza Borghi Comparing k-Nearest Neighbor and Convolutional Neural Network Approaches for Generating Spatially Explicit Tree Lists in Mediterranean Pine Forests In-person Oral Presentation From Accuracy to Interpretability: Assessing Hyperparameter Sensitivity and SHAP Consistency in Forest Volume and Carbon Modelling In-person Oral Presentation A Machine Learning Approach for Large-Scale Mapping of Old-Growth Forest Probability in Italy Virtual Oral Presentation Enhancing forest inventory and Analysis through satellite derived embeddings |
More than ice in ICESat-2: Unlocking canopy insights from space Location: Auditorium Chair: Sorin Popescu Evaluating ICESat-2-Derived Canopy Cover for Large-Area Forest Mapping In-person Oral Presentation Continental-Scale Forest Height Dynamics Using Integrated GEDI and ICESat-2 Lidar Data In-person Oral Presentation Continental and global-scale canopy height modeling: space-lasers to cloud-computing 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 |
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate I Location: Rion Ballroom Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon Using terrestrial lidar to understand hurricane-adaptive canopy traits in pine species from the Southeastern US to The Bahamas In-person Oral Presentation Gone with the wind: Assessing disease progression and hydraulic conductivity of pine trees exposed to extreme winds of hurricane Helene. In-person Oral Presentation Long-term effects of canopy scorch on mitigating hurricane damage using long-term data and terrestrial lidar In-person Oral Presentation Storm-driven Acceleration of Coastal Forest Retreat and Ghost Forest Formation |
| 10:50am - 11:05am |
Morning Break Refreshments |
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| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Peder Nelson Assessment of stem straightness in mediterranean forest species using Handheld Laser Scanning: An Italian case study In-person Oral Presentation Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data Collection and Integration: Geospatial Innovations in Location Sampling and On-the-Ground Efficiency In-person Oral Presentation Exploring the Potential of the Mandeye Handheld LiDAR System for Ecosystem Characterization In-person Oral Presentation Benchmarking Tree Instance Segmentation Algorithms: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Performance Across Diverse LiDAR Datasets and Forest Conditions |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Jonathan Batchelor Flareless: A Hybrid Machine Learning and AHP Approach for High-Resolution Forest Fire Risk Assessment In-person Oral Presentation A vision for multiscale mapping of disaggregated fuel bed components and consumption In-person Oral Presentation Fire progression and severity across fuel treatments in the Western United States In-person Oral Presentation Good fire: quantifying the beneficial ecosystem work of western U.S. wildfires (2010-2020) |
Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: James Ball Predicting Forest Inventory Parameters from Remote Sensing Data: Comparison of Random Forest and Deep Learning Approaches Virtual Oral Presentation Scaling Up Forest Vision with Synthetic Data In-person Oral Presentation Geospatial foundation models enable data-efficient tree species mapping in temperate mountain forests In-person Oral Presentation Wall-to-Wall Forest Structure Mapping Using Generative AI and NAIP Imagery |
Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems Location: Rion Ballroom Chair: Darby Levin Assessment of automatic hedgerows detection using Pleiades Neo 30cm images and Foundation model 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 In-person Oral Presentation Determining Detection Thresholds for Individual Trees to Enable Farmer-Specific Payments in Agroforestry Carbon Programs In-person Oral Presentation Learnings and applied results from combined remote and field monitoring of a restoration portfolio |
Large scale european projects supporting current policy making at the EU Location: Auditorium Chair: Ruben Valbuena Overview of EU large scale projects In-person Oral Presentation Remote sensing and the Nature Restoration Regulation: assessing biodiversity indicators for integrated forest management In-person Oral Presentation Federated Learning for forest monitoring: a privacy-preserving approach to cross-border data integration In-person Oral Presentation Harmonised Remote Sensing Products and Disturbance Reference Data to Support European Forest Monitoring and Multifunctionality Assessment |
| 12:05pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: Grand Ballroom |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Early Career Mentorship & Networking Event Location: Rion Ballroom |
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| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Francisco Mauro Quantifying Fire-Induced Biomass Loss in the Amazon Forest Using GEDI Virtual Oral Presentation Object-Based Scanning of Wildland Fuels: Bridging the Resolution Gap in 3D Vegetation Modeling 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 In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Airborne Laser Scanning data, Topography, and Climate Metrics for Forest Fuel Mapping in the Western U.S. |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies III Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Thomas Martinoli Bayesian Multi-Source Fusion for Near Real-Time Deforestation Monitoring using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series: Application in the Brazilian Amazon In-person Oral Presentation AI and GIS for urban biodiversity monitoring - Trees census, from location estimation to ecosystem services assessment In-person Oral Presentation Assessing Forest Structure and Biophysical Controls on Degradation Across the Amazon Using Spaceborne LiDAR Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating Traditional and Novel Height-Diameter Models for Urban Tree DBH Estimation |
Geospatial Innovations I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: Monica Herrero-Huerta Leveraging Geospatial Embeddings for Cloud-Free Reconstruction and Phenology Monitoring in Optical Remote Sensing In-person Oral Presentation Isolating Urban Tree Cooling: A 3D Workflow Using ALS LiDAR Data In-person Oral Presentation Multimodal Approach to Tree Species Classification: Integrating TLS Point Clouds with Contextual Remote Sensing and Forest Inventory Data In-person Oral Presentation Integrating UAV LiDAR and Multispectral Data for Improved Classification and Flood Hazard Assessment in Mediterranean Forests |
Remote sensing-assisted sampling and statistical inference in forest inventory Location: Auditorium Chair: Ronald E McRoberts Nexus of certain design-based estimators in remote sensing forest inventory In-person Oral Presentation Remote sensing-assisted, post-stratified estimation In-person Oral Presentation A STATISTICALLY CONGRUENT INNOVATIVE STRATEGY FOR ENHANCED NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES In-person Oral Presentation Impact of Tree Species on the Accuracy and Transferability of Lidar-Based Biomass Models |
Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics Location: Rion Ballroom Chair: Joanne White Tracking fire across the Southeast from burn severity to recovery with harmonized Landsat-Sentinel data Virtual Oral Presentation Tracking forest recovery across Europe using spectral unmixing of Landsat time series In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating UAV-Based Approaches for Detecting Forest Regeneration in Post-Disturbance Landscapes: Insights from the KI-Recover Project In-person Oral Presentation Post-Fire Conifer Recovery From Spectral and Field Data - Why Monitoring Methods Matter |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping IV Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Simon Mueller Tracing Land-Use Imprints on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildfires In-person Oral Presentation Wildfire Propagation Modelling for Europe and the Mediterranean with Deep Learning and an adjusted Dataset In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying fuel composition with terrestrial LiDAR in a longleaf pine savanna In-person Oral Presentation A network of point-dendrometers to forecast live fuel moisture content using remotely sensed imagery data. |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies IV Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Valerie Thomas Estimation of canopy fAPAR using optical reflectance and airborne LiDAR data 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. In-person Oral Presentation Use of high-resolution commercial X-band SAR and optical data to model forest height In-person Oral Presentation NAIP-based digital aerial photogrammetry for forest structure estimation and evaluating disturbance effects in Colorado, USA |
Geospatial Innovations II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: Jonathan Batchelor Study on the Examination of Data Acquisition Methods Based on Forest Conditions and the Evaluation of Ecological Functions in Japan In-person Oral Presentation Mapping Understory Vegetation Using LiDAR-Derived Canopy Models and Machine Learning In-person Oral Presentation Automated reconstruction of power lines from ALS point cloud using adaptive nonlinear tracking algorithm In-person Oral Presentation Tracking Appalachian Surface Mine Reclamation Trajectories with Remotely Sensed Data |
Mapping forest long-term dynamics through multisensor time series and machine learning Location: Auditorium Chair: Na Chen The Spanish Atlas of Forests and Disturbances (SAFoD): Four Decades of Forest Change Across Continental Spain In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Weakly Supervised Learning and Multispectral Time Series for Robust Tree Species Mapping of Heterogeneous Forest In-person Oral Presentation Vegetation Transition History Predicts Wildfire Risk Beyond Climate Forcing: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of California In-person Oral Presentation Large-scale Tropical Forest Disturbances Monitoring Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data |
NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action Location: Rion Ballroom Chair: Matthew Miller Chair: Joanne Hall Advancing Wildfire Smoke Forecasting and Exposure Assessment Across the CONUS Using Multi-Model Intercomparison and Ensemble Techniques Virtual Oral Presentation Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Active Fire Impacts In-person Oral Presentation NASA’s Wildland Fire Program – Supporting Proactive Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Management and Research Efforts In-person Oral Presentation Harmonics of stress and structure from ECOSTRESS and GEDI to support pre-fire mapping and the management of fire trajectories |
| 3:35pm - 3:50pm |
Afternoon Break Refreshments |
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| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Climate Change Impacts Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Piotr Wezyk Assessing Vertical Structural Complexity in Regulating Forest Microclimate Using Mobile Laser Scanning Virtual Oral Presentation Analysis of Motifs of Intact Forest Resilience and Global Climate Variables Virtual Oral Presentation Detecting tree stress in 3D: Using structural metrics to predict tree physiology and drought tolerance in P. taeda In-person Oral Presentation The importance of UF spatial structure in combating UHI using VHR satellite and ALS data - Kraków case study |
Near Real-Time Monitoring of Forests Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: Wade Fortney Edge-AI Fusion Pipeline for Real-Time Forest Health Monitoring in Subtropical Pine Ecosystems of North-Central Florida In-person Oral Presentation Attributing direct drivers to pantropical deforestation alerts In-person Oral Presentation Real-Time Event-Driven Vision for Aerial Surveillance on MPSoC Platforms in Forest Environments In-person Oral Presentation Monthly Forest Canopy Cover Loss in Europe, 2017–2024 |
Agroforestry Applications Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Oluwatobi Olaniyi Operational 3DGS and OB-NeRF Pipelines for Field Vegetation: Case Study on Strawberries In-person Oral Presentation Mapping research pathways for restoring South Carolina’s historic tidal rice landscapes 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 Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating Vertical Structure Differences Between Old-Growth Avocado Orchards and Temperate Forests with GEDI Metrics: Implications for Habitat Availability |
Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or multi-sensors for comprehensive forest monitoring Location: Auditorium Chair: Na Chen TESSERA and Barlow Twins for forestry applications and carbon projects In-person Oral Presentation Near real time forest disturbance monitoring by integrating satellite-borne SAR data In-person Oral Presentation Global BIOMASS Digital Terrain Model Under the Canopy: Estimation Principle and Applications to Forest Characterization In-person Oral Presentation Integrating NAIP Point Cloud, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 Data for Improved Forest/Non-Forest Classification Using Explainable Machine Learning |
Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs Location: Rion Ballroom Chair: Andrew Hudak A geospatial database for quantifying effects from 40 years of fire (1985-2025) on biomass and fuel dynamics across the western USA In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying the preferences of final users of LiDAR derived tree list maps to maximize their use and adoption. In-person Oral Presentation Introducing the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase: a new tool for accessing fuel treatment and wildfire data 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 |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Poster Reception Location: Grand Ballroom Towards Automated Detection of Brazilian Pine in Open Environments Using UAV Data and YOLOv11 In-person Poster Presentation Tracking Landscape Transformation in the Eastern Amazon Through LiDAR and MapBiomas Time-Series In-person Poster Presentation Assessing biodiversity and succession at disturbed forest sites using multi-sensor data and object-segmentation In-person Poster Presentation Multi-Method Ensemble Classification for Post-Replantation Recovery Assessment using NDVI Time Series in Madagascar In-person Poster Presentation Six years of global forest biomass change from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation In-person Poster Presentation Evaluating Structural and Climatic Controls on Forest Water Yield through Evapotranspiration Dynamics In-person Poster Presentation Variation in beetle and tree-related microhabitat diversity in relation to forest tree species under future climate conditions In-person Poster Presentation A systematic review and meta-analysis of airborne lidar-based forest aboveground biomass estimation In-person Poster Presentation An Earth Observation-based Framework for Monitoring Forest Aboveground Biomass In-person Poster Presentation Modeling Tree Mortality Across Scales Using Remote Sensing and Field Measurements In-person Poster Presentation Remote Sensing for Forest Biodiversity: Modelling Tree Microhabitats at National Scale In-person Poster Presentation Saproxylic Microhabitats (SaproMs): A Tool for Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Sustainable Forest Management In-person Poster Presentation Unit-level National-scale small-area estimation in Italy In-person Poster Presentation Satellite-Based Monitoring of Cork Oak Woodlands: Current Applications, Gaps, and Perspectives In-person Poster Presentation Comparing ITD Method Performance Across Artificially Thinned Point Clouds from High-Density Airborne Lidar In-person Poster Presentation Improving Loblolly Pine Stand Mapping in Southern Brazil with Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing; In-person Poster Presentation i-ATL08: An improved ICESat-2 ATL08 classification method to include urban features In-person Poster Presentation Toward Causal AI for Ecological Decision-Making: A Framework for Woody Plant Encroachment and Land Management In-person Poster Presentation Global evaluation of the spectral variation hypothesis with hyperspectral satellite imagery In-person Poster Presentation Scaling Plot-Level Pyrogenic Carbon Inventories to Regional Estimates Across Western Cascades Fire Footprints In-person Poster Presentation Positional accuracy of digital terrain models (DTM) generated by LiDAR/UAV in areas with vegetation cover along highways In-person Poster Presentation Classification and Spatialization of Commercial Forest Stands (Pinus and Eucalyptus) in Santa Catarina State In-person Poster Presentation Woody Vegetation Structural Monitoring In-person Poster Presentation EMS4D: multi-scale fuel mapping and decision support system for next generation of fire management In-person Poster Presentation Time-series of canopy height maps using Google’s Alpha Earth Foundations calibrated with airborne lidar and post-fire GEDI data to improve estimates over burned areas In-person Poster Presentation Airborne LiDAR waveform features as a basis for enhanced forest structure representation In-person Poster Presentation Automatic above-canopy radiance prediction from below-canopy fish-eye image for canopy gap fraction measurement In-person Poster Presentation Remote sensing support for small forest owners decision making as a free smartphone-app to indicate young forest maintenance necessity In-person Poster Presentation Efficient In-Forest Data Collection Technology Using Drone-Based LiDAR In-person Poster Presentation Combining terrestrial and drone lidar with improved allometric equations to estimate mangrove biomass at community and landscape scales In-person Poster Presentation Inter-disciplinary Applications of Laser Remote Sensing in Vegetation Studies: A Technical Review on Advances in Sensors and Methods In-person Poster Presentation Pan-tropical tree plantation extent and expansion into natural forests In-person Poster Presentation Using GIS to assess soil carbon distribution under different forest management regimes In-person Poster Presentation Applications of Citizen Science in Enhancing Satellite Estimation of Tree Canopy Height In-person Poster Presentation Validating NAIP Point Cloud-Derived Canopy Height Models in Diverse Forest Types of the Southern U.S. In-person Poster Presentation Towards unbiased and precise estimates of tree canopy cover using point cloud data In-person Poster Presentation Forest Biomass Modelling with GEDI and Sentinel-2 Data: A Comparison Between Ensemble Algorithms and Convolutional Neural Networks In-person Poster Presentation Influence of Airborne LiDAR Spatial Resolution on Detecting Temporal Changes in a Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Amazonia In-person Poster Presentation Integrating HLS time series and GEDI to improve biomass mapping in fragmented Atlantic Forests of Brazil In-person Poster Presentation Validation of GEDI Lidar Biomass Estimates in Dense Tropical Forests of Eastern Amazonia In-person Poster Presentation Multi-temporal high-resolution data products of ecosystem structure derived from country-wide airborne laser scanning surveys of the Netherlands In-person Poster Presentation From Point Clouds to Prop Roots: Evaluating Automated vs QSM TLS Workflows Across Tidal Forested Wetlands In-person Poster Presentation Assessing Post-Storm Forest Disturbance in the United Kingdom Using Remote Sensing Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches In-person Poster Presentation A Remote Sensing Framework for Brown Spot Needle Blight: Bibliometric Gaps and UAV-Based Solutions In-person Poster Presentation Evaluating size and competition as confounders of tree structural economics using architectural metrics from mobile mapping system LiDAR In-person Poster Presentation CMS4D: A Multi-Scale Data Fusion Prototype System for the next Generation of Carbon Dynamics Monitoring from Space: A Case Study in the Brazilian Cerrado – Fire and Fuel in a Biodiversity Hotspot In-person Poster Presentation Detecting 40 Years of Forest Disturbance in the Continental United States with Deep Learning |
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