Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
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 |
| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |