Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Deriving 3D fuels characteristics from terrestrial lidar data to inform fuel treatment strategy Virtual Oral Presentation Enhancing Wildfire Risk Assessment in Canada through Continuous Hazardous Fuel Classification Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data Virtual Oral Presentation : The effect of fuel treatments in the Sierra Nevada: Integrating multi-scale remote sensing data to create high quality three-dimensional inputs for fire behavior modeling |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Flareless: A Hybrid Machine Learning and AHP Approach for High-Resolution Forest Fire Risk Assessment Virtual Oral Presentation Estimating forest wildfire emissions across the United States In-person Oral Presentation Fire progression and severity across fuel treatments in the Western United States In-person Oral Presentation Good fire: quantifying the beneficial ecosystem work of western U.S. wildfires (2010-2020) |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Quantifying Fire-Induced Biomass Loss in the Amazon Forest Using GEDI Virtual Oral Presentation Object-Based Scanning of Wildland Fuels: Bridging the Resolution Gap in 3D Vegetation Modeling In-person Oral Presentation Pointclouds_DeepLab: Wildland fuel aware Multi-sensors LiDAR point clouds segmentation and classification: A case study of United States Forest ecosystems In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Airborne Laser Scanning data, Topography, and Climate Metrics for Forest Fuel Mapping in the Western U.S. |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping IV Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Tracing Land-Use Imprints on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildfires In-person Oral Presentation Spatially analyzing vegetation type and tree cover influence on building survival during extreme urban fire events in California US using PlanetScope and eCognition. In-person Oral Presentation Wildfire Propagation Modelling for Europe and the Mediterranean with Deep Learning and an adjusted Dataset In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying fuel composition with terrestrial LiDAR in a longleaf pine savanna |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Agroforestry Applications Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Operational 3DGS and OB-NeRF Pipelines for Field Vegetation: Case Study on Strawberries In-person Oral Presentation Mapping research pathways for restoring South Carolina’s historic tidal rice landscapes In-person Oral Presentation GIS-Driven Land Suitability Mapping for Tiger Grass (Thysanolaena maxima, Roxb.) under Biophysical and Zoning Considerations in the Baroro Watershed, La Union, Philippines Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating Vertical Structure Differences Between Old-Growth Avocado Orchards and Temperate Forests with GEDI Metrics: Implications for Habitat Availability |
| 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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
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 |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
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 |