Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |||||
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Crown-level mapping and persistence of emergent tropical trees in fragmented tropical landscapes In-person Oral Presentation Assessing forest naturalness using airborne laser scanning (ALS) In-person Oral Presentation Extracting Ecological Variables from The Brazilian Atlantic Forest Using UAV Images In-person Oral Presentation Beyond Climate and Soil: LiDAR-Derived Forest Structure Unlocks Species Habitat Signatures Across the Temperate–Boreal Ecotone |
Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Characterizing the vertical structure of forests in the Brazilian Amazon Virtual Oral Presentation Enhanced Detection of Forest Disturbances in the Pan-Amazon through Integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat Time Series In-person Oral Presentation deFOREST: Fusing Optical and Radar satellite data for Enhanced Sensing of Tree-loss Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating endmember specificity for SMA-based disturbance detection across Pinus sylvestris provenance regions in Spain |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Augmenting Training data for Individual Tree Biomass Estimation using UAV LiDAR in Dense Forest and Urban Environments In-person Oral Presentation Estimating tree-level aboveground biomass using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based multispectral imagery in mixed-species forests of the southeastern United States In-person Oral Presentation Estimating aboveground biomass loss from tree cover to cropland conversion In-person Oral Presentation Addressing The Small Data Problem in Forestry: Self-Supervised Learning for Aboveground Biomass Estimation |
Cutting-edge Terrestrial Laser Scanning for tree volume, biomass, and carbon estimation: From point clouds to precision forestry Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Georgios Arseniou Validating Handheld LiDAR for Single-Tree Volume and Aboveground Biomass Carbon: Quantifying the Impact of Height Uncertainty Virtual Oral Presentation Advancing the quantification of urban tree carbon content through the application of terrestrial laser scanning technology. In-person Oral Presentation A novel tree-height independent method for tree volume estimation based on TLS point clouds In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying Aspen Aboveground Biomass and Allometry in Boreal Forests Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning |
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate II Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon Using UAVs to understand stand-level drivers of hurricane susceptibility in southeastern Georgia’s pecan orchards In-person Oral Presentation Scaling tropical cyclone risk across the southeast to inform conservation planning In-person Oral Presentation Mapping post-hurricane damage severity in southern U.S. forests using PlanetScope imagery, LiDAR, and deep learning Virtual Oral Presentation Fifty years of tropical cyclones in US forests through the lens of forest inventory |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Forest Biomass Estimation Using Deep Learning and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem In-person Oral Presentation Forest structure and carbon dynamics across the Amazon using GEDI and airborne lidar In-person Oral Presentation Forest structure as a source of bias in remote sensing-based biomass estimates: insights from the validation of ESA’s CCI and NASA’s GEDI models In-person Oral Presentation Using destructive sampling to validate mangrove biomass estimates from terrestrial laser scanning and published allometries |
Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Tree species mapping at regional scale with Planet data and weakly labelled training data In-person Oral Presentation Pixel-based tree species detection using aerial hyperspectral imagery data in mid-Atlantic mixed hardwood forests In-person Oral Presentation Individual Tree Species Prediction and Area-Based Metrics in the Acadian Forest: New Brunswick's Unique and Highly Diverse Forest In-person Oral Presentation Spectral response of plants to herbivore overabundance |
Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Modeling the Regeneration of Aspen Using Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Field Validation in Post-Fire Ecosystems. In-person Oral Presentation Mapping Forest Vulnerability Across Europe Using the Composite2Change (C2C) Framework In-person Oral Presentation Longterm index trends demonstrate canopy loss and possible link to hydrologic change in a barrier island forest In-person Oral Presentation Integrating field and high-resolution remote sensing data for comprehensive forest disturbance monitoring |
Ecosystem morphological traits from 3D data and biodiversity Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Ruben Valbuena Connecting forest structural diversity and foliar trait diversity across spatial scales and climate gradients in the eastern United States In-person Oral Presentation Detecting deadwood from terrestrial laser scanning data using deep learning In-person Oral Presentation Pristine forests approach maximum mean-independent entropy in every global climate In-person Oral Presentation Essential Biodiversity Variables of Ecosystem Structure: Definitions and Operational Workflows |
Fuel and consumption modeling and mapping to improve fuel, fire, and smoke models Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Andrew Hudak Accurate and Dynamic Fuel Load Mapping Using Satellite Remote Sensing Across Canada In-person Oral Presentation Coupling dead surface and ground fuel estimates to canopy biomass characterized using pre- and post-fire airborne laser scanning data in the western US In-person Oral Presentation Spatially explicit fuel distribution models from neighborhood methods In-person Oral Presentation Deep Learning of Snags and Coarse Woody Bebris (CWD) using VHR UAS imagery and LiDAR point clouds at FuelCraft Selected sites in United States |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation III Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Fusion of GEDI and ICESat-2 for Mapping Forest Canopy Height and Aboveground Biomass In-person Oral Presentation How close can we get? Comparing drone-based lidar and QSM estimates of tree dbh and biomass against in-situ measurements and allometric scaling models. In-person Oral Presentation Improving Biomass Estimates in Heterogeneous Rangelands In-person Oral Presentation Large-scale aboveground carbon mapping from multi-source remote sensing and AI in tropical savanna |
Forest Health and Disease Detection I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Assessing the accuracy of changepoint algorithms and vegetation index in detecting beetles related forest mortality. In-person Oral Presentation Aspen leafminer detection in Interior Alaska from high-resolution satellite data using deep learning In-person Oral Presentation An Evaluation of UAV Lidar for Assessing Brown Spot Needle Blight Disease in Loblolly Pine In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating superpixel algorithms for standing dead tree dealineation using aerial orthoimagery |
Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience III Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Structural Quality Recovery of Amazon Tropical Forests using Spaceborne LiDAR In-person Oral Presentation Monitoring Post-Disturbance Forest Recovery across the Brazilian Amazon In-person Oral Presentation The (mis)measurement of forest edge effects using remote sensing In-person Oral Presentation Using the proportion of primary forest in the landscape to model forest degradation in the tropics |
Advancing near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbances, recovery, and land-use change through multi-source remote sensing and AI Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Feng Zhao Improving the attribution of forest canopy loss drivers using time series remote sensing and multi-modal foundation model In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Multi-Source Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Policy Pathways for Forest Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon In-person Oral Presentation linking in situ, airborne and satellite measurements of biophysical variables in tropical forests In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying tropical tree cover loss driven by cropland conversion |
Virtual Poster Presentation Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Scalable monitoring of deforestation-free supply chains via cloud-native remote sensing Virtual Poster Presentation A Multi-Source Remote Sensing Pipeline for Individual-Tree Phenotyping in Eucalyptus Breeding: Integrating UAV-LiDAR, MLS and Spectral Data Virtual Poster Presentation Combining MODIS and ASTER Data for Satellite based Super-Resolution with Generative Deep Learning Virtual Poster Presentation Effect of ratio between point cloud clipping size and field plot size on goodness-of-fit of forest attributes models based on LiDAR metrics Virtual Poster Presentation Improvement forest biodiversity assessment through Handheld Laser Scanning for precision forestmanagement Virtual Poster Presentation The Best Tool for the Fuel: Comparing 3D characterization approaches for forest understories Virtual Poster Presentation Spatio-temporal analysis of the ecological characteristics of mountainous forests in the Republic of Korea |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation IV Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Tracking forest aboveground biomass recovery following wind disturbance using PlanetScope-derived canopy structure and spectral data In-person Oral Presentation Terrestrial LiDAR and Forest Inventory Integration for Improved Estimates of Wildfire Impacts on Forest Carbon In-person Oral Presentation UAS lidar enables quantification of forest coarse woody debris to support forest carbon management plans In-person Oral Presentation Recent changes in global forest biomass as viewed from space |
Forest Health and Disease Detection II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning Approaches for Early Detection of Forest Pest Outbreaks in Croatia In-person Oral Presentation Cloud-based forest health monitoring in Europe In-person Oral Presentation Forests from Space: Fusing Satellite Embeddings with NEON Field Data to Map Tree Mortality In-person Oral Presentation Modeling the spatial distribution of southern pine beetle outbreaks across the southeastern United States |
Advances in active remote sensing for forest parameter estimation Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: John Armston Development Update on MOLI : Spaceborne Lidar Mission In-person Oral Presentation GEDI and the Path from Sampling to Monitoring: Forest Structure in the Next Generation of Active Missions Virtual Oral Presentation The BIOMASS mission: status and first results after 1 year in orbit In-person Oral Presentation The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) mission: Tracking change in the 3D structure of terrestrial ecosystems using satellite laser altimetry |
3D Fuels: Characterizing wildland fuels in three dimensions for next-generation fire modeling Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Hannah Redford Characterizing fuels in 3D: scaling measurements and inputs for fire behavior and smoke modeling In-person Oral Presentation From Planar Intercepts to Point-Based Insights: 3D Fuel Characterization for Southwestern Forests and Woodlands In-person Oral Presentation TreeFlow: Generative Modeling of 3D Tree Structure for Canopy Fuel Characterization In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating a novel understory vegetation segmentation method on airborne and terrestrial lidar point clouds |
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| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Rodrigo Vieira Leite Chair: Marcos Longo Monitoring the circumpolar boreal forest’s structure and shifts with ICESat-2 & HLS In-person Oral Presentation Northward advance of the boreal forest confirmed by the Landsat record In-person Oral Presentation Mapping aboveground biomass and canopy height recovery following stand-replacing forest disturbances in Japan In-person Oral Presentation Rapid operational monitoring of global tree cover change |
Advancing earth science monitoring through web-based cyberinfrastructure platforms Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Viswanath Nandigam Multi-temporal Lidar Workflow for Forest Change Mapping In-person Oral Presentation OpenForest4D - Cyberinfrastructure for Next-Generation Forest Structure and Biomass Monitoring In-person Oral Presentation Spaceborne remote sensing and AI highlight asymmetric canopy height change across southeastern US forests In-person Oral Presentation Mapping forest canopy height across the western United States using spaceborne lidar and multi-sensor data |
Toward a collaborative framework: Integrating remote sensing research with forestry practice Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: Zsofia Koma How deep learning can enhance and expand forest resource mapping in Norway Virtual Oral Presentation Joint development of remote sensing-based tools for forest management planning –Project “VorratAktuell” In-person Oral Presentation Barriers in the Implementation of Close-Range Remote Sensing Technologies in Forestry In-person Oral Presentation Practical Forestry Insights from ALS, Sentinel and NFI |
Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Jeff Atkins Direct assessment of forest water status and water stress from satellite-based microwave measurements In-person Oral Presentation Improved estimation of the interannual variability of dryland carbon and water fluxes In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating Carbon Uptake and Evaporative Cooling in Temperate Forests Using Remote Sensing and Flux Tower Data In-person Oral Presentation Characterizing relationships between vegetation traits and land-atmosphere exchanges of CO2, CH4, and H2O across Mid-Atlantic coastal wetlands |
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