Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |||||
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) 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) 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 |
Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) 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 Virtual zoom link 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 Virtual zoom link 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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) 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) Flareless: A Hybrid Machine Learning and AHP Approach for High-Resolution Forest Fire Risk Assessment Virtual Oral Presentation Estimating forest wildfire emissions across the United States 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) Predicting Forest Inventory Parameters from Remote Sensing Data: Comparison of Random Forest and Deep Learning Approaches In-person 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 Virtual zoom link 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 Virtual zoom link Chair: Ruben Valbuena 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 In-person Oral Presentation Overview of EU large scale projects |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) 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) 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 In-person Oral Presentation Integrating UAV and Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices in Mediterranean Forests |
Geospatial Innovations I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) 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 Virtual zoom link Chair: Zhengyang Hou 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 Virtual zoom link 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) Tracing Land-Use Imprints on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildfires In-person Oral Presentation Spatially analyzing vegetation type and tree cover influence on building survival during extreme urban fire events in California US using PlanetScope and eCognition. 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 |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies IV Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) 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) 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 LiDAR-based Reconstruction of Power Lines in Complex Forested Terrains 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 Virtual zoom link 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 Virtual zoom link 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 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Climate Change Impacts Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) 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) 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) 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 Virtual zoom link 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 Virtual zoom link 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 |