Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |||||
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Emerging Trends in Forest Management Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Early success of natural regeneration after gap cuttings in Scots pine stands with varying site preparation methods in northern Finland evaluated using remote sensing and field-based models In-person Oral Presentation From 2D to 3D: Transforming Marteloscope Training through Digital Forest In-person Oral Presentation Is natural forest regeneration always a climate-cooling strategy? In-person Oral Presentation Look up, look down, look all around: lessons learned from recent experiments evaluating real-time data networks to support use of AI for digital transformation in operational forestry |
Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Characterizing the Effective Footprint Diameter of ICESat-2 when Measuring Canopy In-person Oral Presentation Annual Canopy Height Mapping Across the Northeastern US from 2019 to 2024 Using GEDI, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, and 3DEP: A Machine Learning Framework for Regional Forest Monitoring Virtual Oral Presentation Four decades of change in tree species composition across the Spanish Iberian Range forests: insights from NFI and Landsat data In-person Oral Presentation Atmospheric correction stands on the way in effective use of Landsat and Sentinel-2 image time series for forest inventories |
Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Effects of sample plot size on model-assisted estimates of above-ground forest biomass across Europe In-person Oral Presentation Characterizing Italian species phenology through Sentinel-2-derived vegetation phenology and productivity products In-person Oral Presentation Bridging GEDI Sampling Gaps: Multimodal Deep Learning for Wall-to-Wall Forest Structural Complexity Mapping Virtual Oral Presentation Engineering independent intensity and texture features for sample design, classification, regression, and clustering analyses using principal component analysis and convolution kernels |
Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products I Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Project Updates In-person Oral Presentation Global uncertainty assessment of vegetation indices from NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project In-person Oral Presentation A Time-series-based Image Fusion Algorithm for Harmonizing Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data at 10 m In-person Oral Presentation Congo Basin forest monitoring applications with Harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data |
What is the value of satellite imagery? – The impact of Earth Observation programs on forest applications Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link IMPROVING FOREST DISTURBANCE DETECTION TECHNIQUES USING LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGERY Virtual Oral Presentation Global Earth observation-based maps of annual greenhouse gas fluxes from land Virtual Oral Presentation Imagery Into Action: Indigenous Remote Sensing for Territorial Security and Climate Resilience In-person Oral Presentation The impact of available satellite imagery on national monitoring and reporting capacity |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Leveraging Planet imagery and LiDAR data for enhanced estimation of wild edible mushroom yield in Mediterranean forests In-person Oral Presentation Modeling TROPOSIF using PACE EVI and PRI: Seasonal differences in the multivariate relationship Virtual Oral Presentation Using dense Landsat time series imagery and national forest inventory field plots to monitor US forests In-person Oral Presentation Monitoring the Community Level Individual Tree Phenology from Space |
Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) GEDI AGBD Calibration and Model-Based Inference in Tropical Forests via Embedding-Aided Spatiotemporal NNGP and Bayesian Regression In-person Oral Presentation Improving Precision of Stand-Level Estimates in Southern Pine Plantations Using Small Area Estimation In-person Oral Presentation Stand effects, not spatial autocorrelation are often the main driver behind underestimating stand-level uncertainty. In-person Oral Presentation Small-Area Estimation improves FIA estimates in areas of high nonresponse |
Sustainability Metrics for Forest-Based Industries Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Assessing Risk Uncertainty in Deforestation-Free Supply Chains through Multi-Tiered Remote Sensing Analysis In-person Oral Presentation Towards Resilient Carbon Farming: Accounting for Reversal Risks in European Forest Carbon Markets In-person Oral Presentation Accounting for Water Assets in the Pagsanjan-Lumban Watershed Using the SEEA-Water Framework In-person Oral Presentation High-resolution global forest typology and natural forest identification in support of sustainability initiatives |
Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products II Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Madhu Sridhar Validation of the NASA Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel-2 (HLS) surface reflectance data product against MODIS NBAR In-person Oral Presentation Eucalyptus Woodlot Expansion on Croplands in Mecha Woreda, Northwestern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from Very-High-Resolution and HLS Time-Series Analysis In-person Oral Presentation Leveraging NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data and Google Earth Engine (GEE) for Forest Dynamics Monitoring using Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) In-person Oral Presentation Fire-driven vegetation loss across North American forest zones: attribution of near real-time DIST-ALERT data |
New frontiers in forest biomass mapping with low-frequency SAR satellites Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Maciej J. Soja Forest disturbance analysis of BIOMASS time-series in the Brazilian Amazon: comparison with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions Virtual Oral Presentation First demonstration of spaceborne L-band bistatic InSAR from China's Lutan-1 for forest height and AGBD mapping In-person Oral Presentation ESA's BIOMASS mission: a new frontier in forest biomass mapping with P-band SAR In-person Oral Presentation A Study on High-Resolution Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation at the National Scale |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Modeling biomass in loblolly pine plantations using variables from UAV multispectral imagery and SfM point clouds In-person Oral Presentation Linking Tree Architecture with Genetics and Management: A Multi-scale Assessment Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Loblolly Pine Virtual Oral Presentation Operational Use of Mobile Laser Scanning for Estimating Tree Volume in Temperate Hardwood Forests Virtual Oral Presentation Scalable Correction and Characterization of Forestry Roads in Ontario Using Single Photon LiDAR and Deep Learning |
Programming and Data Analysis for Forestry Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) AiDroneTree: A Software for Individual Tree Detection, Inventory, and Biomass Estimation Using UAV Point Cloud In-person Oral Presentation ForestVision: A Universal Framework for Forestry Vision Tasks Based on Strong Foundation Models In-person Oral Presentation PlotToSat: A Scalable and Efficient Tool for Generating Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time-Series Signatures from Distributed Field Plots and Multiple Polygons Virtual Oral Presentation treeX: Unsupervised Tree Instance Segmentation in Dense Forest Point Clouds |
Policy and Decision-Making Support Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) From Spatial Analysis to Decisions: Modelling and Mapping Mangrove Forest Restoration Potential in Coastal Africa In-person Oral Presentation From Land Cover to Land Use: A Remote Sensing–Based Map of Forest Area in Europe In-person Oral Presentation U.S. mature and old-growth forest mapping, ownership, and land use In-person Oral Presentation Mapping and Characterizing High Conservation Value Forests in the Polish Carpathians Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing |
From canopy to complexity: Advances in understanding forest structure using remote sensing Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Zachary Horve Evaluation of Height Changes in Uneven-Aged Spruce–Fir–Beech Forest with Freely Available Nationwide Lidar and Aerial Photogrammetry Data In-person Oral Presentation LiDAR Reveals Structurally Similar Canopies at Forest Edges Adjacent to Urban and Agricultural Land Uses In-person Oral Presentation Towards a unified estimation of forest structural metrics from active remote sensing platforms Virtual Oral Presentation The Global Terrestrial Laser Scanning Database: Understanding Regional Drivers of 3D Tree Architectural Traits |
Applications of NASA’s hyperspectral PACE mission: New insights for ecosystem science Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Morgaine McKibben PACE Terrestrial Products – a New View of Forest Distributions, Phenology, and Function In-person Oral Presentation Land in living color: Terrestrial applications from PACE, NASA’s new global, hyperspectral satellite mission In-person Oral Presentation Terrestrial Remote Sensing with the Ocean Color Instrument In-person Oral Presentation A cloud-based toolkit for accessing hyperspectral data from NASA's PACE mission |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Potential of GEDI waveform data for plantation forests and natural forests detection In-person Oral Presentation Predicting Pinus taeda L. stand volume using Random Forest and hyperspectral data in southern Brazil In-person Oral Presentation Using Satellite-Derived Phenology Metrics to Optimize Silvicultural TreatmentTiming In-person Oral Presentation Monitoring change in softwood plantations using high resolution satellite imagery |
RS36 Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) From Crowns to Stands: LiDAR Mapping of Tree Social Status and Stand Structure by a Standardized, Reproducible Approach In-person Oral Presentation Transparent parametric models as a pathway to reproducible forest volume estimation using NFI and ALS data In-person Oral Presentation Expect the unexpected when processing ALS data stored in large public archives In-person Oral Presentation Beyond maps: Using data from the Nationwide Forest Inventory of the United States to support geospatial modeling and mapping |
Stakeholder Engagement in Forest Management Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Augmented Reality in Forestry: A Strategic Tool for Operational Efficiency, Safety, and Asset Optimization Virtual Oral Presentation Bridging Research and Application: A Framework for Remote Sensing in Forestry In-person Oral Presentation Geospatial Valuation of the Intangible: Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Service Hotspots Based on Tourists Perceptions in the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve ASEAN Heritage Park In-person Oral Presentation Participatory Remote Sensing in support of global forest monitoring |
Assessing map quality, accuracy, and area estimation: implications and applications for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and financing Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Erik Lindquist Area Estimation Using Class Probabilities: Advancing Model-Based Approaches for Forest Monitoring Virtual Oral Presentation Map quality assessment to support the appropriate use of large-scale land cover maps In-person Oral Presentation Area estimation and applications for international financial mechanisms and forest conservation In-person Oral Presentation Assessing sampling efficiency: Implications for area estimation and map accuracy assessment |
Beyond the flames: Advancing wildfire science and management with spaceborne LiDAR Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Christopher Hakkenberg Modeling Future Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Fire Regimes in California In-person Oral Presentation Post-Fire Forest Structure and Carnivore Habitat: Improving GEDI-Fusion Products for Canada Lynx Conservation In-person Oral Presentation Supporting fire behavior modeling with canopy base height and canopy bulk density estimates using airborne and spaceborne lidar In-person Oral Presentation The fire triangle revisited: using continuous GEDI fuel structure to partition variance among drivers |