Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Auditorium |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
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 |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |