Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview | |
| Location: Rion Ballroom |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate I Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon Using terrestrial lidar to understand hurricane-adaptive canopy traits in pine species from the Southeastern US to The Bahamas In-person Oral Presentation Gone with the wind: Assessing disease progression and hydraulic conductivity of pine trees exposed to extreme winds of hurricane Helene. In-person Oral Presentation Long-term effects of canopy scorch on mitigating hurricane damage using long-term data and terrestrial lidar In-person Oral Presentation Storm-driven Acceleration of Coastal Forest Retreat and Ghost Forest Formation |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Darby Levin Assessment of automatic hedgerows detection using Pleiades Neo 30cm images and Foundation model In-person Oral Presentation Providing a New Remote Sensing Method and Extensive Tree Database for Allometric Scaling Models of Carbon Stocks of Individual Trees Outside of Forests In-person Oral Presentation Determining Detection Thresholds for Individual Trees to Enable Farmer-Specific Payments in Agroforestry Carbon Programs In-person Oral Presentation Learnings and applied results from combined remote and field monitoring of a restoration portfolio |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Joanne White Tracking fire across the Southeast from burn severity to recovery with harmonized Landsat-Sentinel data Virtual Oral Presentation Tracking forest recovery across Europe using spectral unmixing of Landsat time series In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating UAV-Based Approaches for Detecting Forest Regeneration in Post-Disturbance Landscapes: Insights from the KI-Recover Project In-person Oral Presentation Post-Fire Conifer Recovery From Spectral and Field Data - Why Monitoring Methods Matter |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Joanne Hall Advancing Wildfire Smoke Forecasting and Exposure Assessment Across the CONUS Using Multi-Model Intercomparison and Ensemble Techniques Virtual Oral Presentation Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Active Fire Impacts In-person Oral Presentation NASA’s Wildland Fire Program – Supporting Proactive Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Management and Research Efforts In-person Oral Presentation Harmonics of stress and structure from ECOSTRESS and GEDI to support pre-fire mapping and the management of fire trajectories |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Andrew Hudak A geospatial database for quantifying effects from 40 years of fire (1985-2025) on biomass and fuel dynamics across the western USA In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying the preferences of final users of LiDAR derived tree list maps to maximize their use and adoption. In-person Oral Presentation Introducing the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase: a new tool for accessing fuel treatment and wildfire data In-person Oral Presentation Integrating remote sensing and landscape modeling for monitoring biomass carbon pools and fluxes: results from three scales of stakeholder use-cases in the working forests of Maine, USA |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate II Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon Using UAVs to understand stand-level drivers of hurricane susceptibility in southeastern Georgia’s pecan orchards In-person Oral Presentation Scaling tropical cyclone risk across the southeast to inform conservation planning In-person Oral Presentation Mapping post-hurricane damage severity in southern U.S. forests using PlanetScope imagery, LiDAR, and deep learning Virtual Oral Presentation Fifty years of tropical cyclones in US forests through the lens of forest inventory |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Ecosystem morphological traits from 3D data and biodiversity Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Ruben Valbuena Connecting forest structural diversity and foliar trait diversity across spatial scales and climate gradients in the eastern United States In-person Oral Presentation Detecting deadwood from terrestrial laser scanning data using deep learning In-person Oral Presentation Pristine forests approach maximum mean-independent entropy in every global climate In-person Oral Presentation Essential Biodiversity Variables of Ecosystem Structure: Definitions and Operational Workflows |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Virtual Poster Presentation Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Scalable monitoring of deforestation-free supply chains via cloud-native remote sensing Virtual Poster Presentation A Multi-Source Remote Sensing Pipeline for Individual-Tree Phenotyping in Eucalyptus Breeding: Integrating UAV-LiDAR, MLS and Spectral Data Virtual Poster Presentation Combining MODIS and ASTER Data for Satellite based Super-Resolution with Generative Deep Learning Virtual Poster Presentation Effect of ratio between point cloud clipping size and field plot size on goodness-of-fit of forest attributes models based on LiDAR metrics Virtual Poster Presentation Improvement forest biodiversity assessment through Handheld Laser Scanning for precision forestmanagement Virtual Poster Presentation The Best Tool for the Fuel: Comparing 3D characterization approaches for forest understories Virtual Poster Presentation Spatio-temporal analysis of the ecological characteristics of mountainous forests in the Republic of Korea |
| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |