Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
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 |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
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 |
| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |