Conference Agenda

Towards Automated Detection of Brazilian Pine in Open Environments Using UAV Data and YOLOv11

Cindy Fernandes Mendes, Veraldo Liesenberg, Raul Queiroz Feitosa, Pedro Henrique Pereira Guedes, Laura Fuchigami Farias, Sara Vitória Andrade Aguiar e Silva, Henrique Genske Teodoro, Victor Mohamad Bortolozzo Dabbous, Vicenzo Lemos Waltrick, João Victor Schimalski, Marcos Benedito Schimalski

Tracking Landscape Transformation in the Eastern Amazon Through LiDAR and MapBiomas Time-Series

Derica dos Santos Sousa, Veraldo Liesenberg, Polyanna da Conceição Bispo, Rorai Pereira Martins Neto, Leonardo Josoé Biffi, Silvio Cesar Oliveira Colturato, Marcos Benedito Schimalski

Assessing biodiversity and succession at disturbed forest sites using multi-sensor data and object-segmentation

Max Mangold, Jakob Ebnbeck, Caileigh Shoot, Robert Jackisch, Christine Wallis, Marco Heurich

Multi-Method Ensemble Classification for Post-Replantation Recovery Assessment using NDVI Time Series in Madagascar

Phan Viet Hoa Vu, Carlos Dewasseige, Justine Huge

Six years of global forest biomass change from the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation

Jamis Bruening, Amelia Holcomb, John Armston, Tiago De Conto, Sean Healey, Adrian Pascual, Zhiqiang Yang, Ralph Dubayah

Evaluating Structural and Climatic Controls on Forest Water Yield through Evapotranspiration Dynamics

Lindsey Finks, Daniel McLaughlin, Brian Strahm

Variation in beetle and tree-related microhabitat diversity in relation to forest tree species under future climate conditions

Elia Vangi, Giovanni D'Amico, Saverio Francini, Davide Travaglini, Gherardo Chirici, Marco Marchetti, Francesco Parisi

A systematic review and meta-analysis of airborne lidar-based forest aboveground biomass estimation

Nisham Thapa, Lana L. Narine, Alan E. Wilson, Favour Onyido

An Earth Observation-based Framework for Monitoring Forest Aboveground Biomass

Janaki Sandamali, Lana L. Narine, Favour Onyido

Modeling Tree Mortality Across Scales Using Remote Sensing and Field Measurements

Jeftey Saint Fleur, Carlos Alberto Silva, William Hammond

Remote Sensing for Forest Biodiversity: Modelling Tree Microhabitats at National Scale

Giovanni D'Amico, Francesco Parisi, Elia Vangi, Davide Travaglini, Gherardo Chirici, Costanza Borghi, Beatrice Petti, Marco Ottaviano, Marco Marchetti, Saverio Francini

Saproxylic Microhabitats (SaproMs): A Tool for Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Sustainable Forest Management

Costanza Borghi, Francesco Parisi, Saverio Francini, Elia Vangi, Giovanni D'Amico, Marco Marchetti, Davide Travaglini, Gherardo Chirici

Unit-level National-scale small-area estimation in Italy

Elia Vangi, Giovanni D'Amico, Saverio Francini, Costanza Borghi, Giancarlo Papitto, Gherardo Chirici

Satellite-Based Monitoring of Cork Oak Woodlands: Current Applications, Gaps, and Perspectives

Emma Bambagioni, Solaria Anzilotti, Costanza Borghi, Gherardo Chirici, Fabio Salbitano, Marco Marchetti, Saverio Francini

Comparing ITD Method Performance Across Artificially Thinned Point Clouds from High-Density Airborne Lidar

Daniel Rode, Jessie Eastburn, Patrick Fekety, Leah Rathbun, Kelly Meehan, Jody Vogeler

Improving Loblolly Pine Stand Mapping in Southern Brazil with Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing;

Marchante Olímpio Assura Ambrósio, Veraldo Liesenberg, Marcos Benedito Schimalski, João Victor Schimalski, Cindy Fernandes Mendes

i-ATL08: An improved ICESat-2 ATL08 classification method to include urban features

Justinn J. Jones, Hailey Schmidt Melzow, Sorin C. Popescu

Toward Causal AI for Ecological Decision-Making: A Framework for Woody Plant Encroachment and Land Management

Hailey Schmidt Melzow, Javier Osorio Leyton, Sorin Popescu

Global evaluation of the spectral variation hypothesis with hyperspectral satellite imagery

Emmelia Braun, Charles Southwick, Maquelle Garcia, Fred Huemmrich, Petya Campbell, Kelvin Acebron, Na Wang, Sean McMahon, Loren Albert

Scaling Plot-Level Pyrogenic Carbon Inventories to Regional Estimates Across Western Cascades Fire Footprints

Hayley Peter-Contesse, Aron Boettcher, Yuzhe Wang, Cristina Winters Borcich, Sebastian Hjelstrom, Matthew Dickinson, Jessica Miesel, Steven Perakis, Georgia Seyfried, Jacob J. Bukoski

Positional accuracy of digital terrain models (DTM) generated by LiDAR/UAV in areas with vegetation cover along highways

Marcos Benedito Schimalski, Felipe Canello de Camargo, João Victor Schimalski, Veraldo Liesenberg, Cindy Fernandes Mendes

Classification and Spatialization of Commercial Forest Stands (Pinus and Eucalyptus) in Santa Catarina State

Marcos Benedito Schimalski, Tiago Mioto, Veraldo Liesenber, João Victor Schimalski, Cindy Fernandes Mendes

Woody Vegetation Structural Monitoring

Lydia Li, Robert Denham, Dan Tindall

EMS4D: multi-scale fuel mapping and decision support system for next generation of fire management

Inacio Bueno, Carlos Silva, Francisco Mauro, Andrew Hudak, Eben Broadbent, Andres Susaeta, Jason Vogel, Russell Parsons, Inga La Puma, Michael Campbell, Jeff Atkins, Carine Klauberg

Time-series of canopy height maps using Google’s Alpha Earth Foundations calibrated with airborne lidar and post-fire GEDI data to improve estimates over burned areas

Adrian Pascual, Juan Guerra Hernandez

Airborne LiDAR waveform features as a basis for enhanced forest structure representation

Antti Polvivaara, Ilkka Korpela, Samuli Junttila

Automatic above-canopy radiance prediction from below-canopy fish-eye image for canopy gap fraction measurement

Gastón Mauro Díaz, Mait Lang, Jan Pisek, Lauri Korhonen, Birgitta Putzenlechner, Matti Maltamo

Remote sensing support for small forest owners decision making as a free smartphone-app to indicate young forest maintenance necessity

Mait Lang, Oleksandr Borysenko

Efficient In-Forest Data Collection Technology Using Drone-Based LiDAR

Akira Kato, Narumasa Tsutsumida, Yoshito Sawada, Seitaro Yamada, Satoshi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Nakata

Combining terrestrial and drone lidar with improved allometric equations to estimate mangrove biomass at community and landscape scales

Charles Price, Todd Schroeder, Benjamin Branoff, Eben Broadbent, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Skip Van Bloem, Karen Cummins, Danielle Ogurcak, Monica Papeș

Inter-disciplinary Applications of Laser Remote Sensing in Vegetation Studies: A Technical Review on Advances in Sensors and Methods

Nadeem Fareed, Carlos Alberto Silva

Pan-tropical tree plantation extent and expansion into natural forests

Alexandra Tyukavina, Diana Parker, Svetlana Turubanova, Pickens Amy, Xinyuan Li, Matthew Hansen

Using GIS to assess soil carbon distribution under different forest management regimes

Victoria Alden, Rebecca Barringer, Alanis Bernis, Christine Mutiti

Applications of Citizen Science in Enhancing Satellite Estimation of Tree Canopy Height

Jacob Hall, Evelyn Albanese, Justinn Jones, Sorin Popescu

Validating NAIP Point Cloud-Derived Canopy Height Models in Diverse Forest Types of the Southern U.S.

Chandan Kumar, Todd A. Schroeder, Monica Papes, Charles A. Price

Towards unbiased and precise estimates of tree canopy cover using point cloud data

Demetrios Gatziolis

Forest Biomass Modelling with GEDI and Sentinel-2 Data: A Comparison Between Ensemble Algorithms and Convolutional Neural Networks

Norma Ey Beltrao

Influence of Airborne LiDAR Spatial Resolution on Detecting Temporal Changes in a Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Amazonia

Raiany de Oliveira Silva, Veraldo Liesenberg, Izabelle Maria Barboza de Azevedo, João Victor Schimalski, Emanuel Araújo Silva, Juliana Marchesan, Marcos Benedito Schimalski

Integrating HLS time series and GEDI to improve biomass mapping in fragmented Atlantic Forests of Brazil

Rodrigo Vieira Leite, Paul Montesano, Qiang Zhou, Margaret Wooten, Jordan Caraballo-Vega, Christopher Neigh

Validation of GEDI Lidar Biomass Estimates in Dense Tropical Forests of Eastern Amazonia

Caio Brito, Norma Ey Beltrao

Multi-temporal high-resolution data products of ecosystem structure derived from country-wide airborne laser scanning surveys of the Netherlands

Yifang Shi, Jinhu Wang, W. Daniel Kissling

From Point Clouds to Prop Roots: Evaluating Automated vs QSM TLS Workflows Across Tidal Forested Wetlands

Elisabeth Powell, Lola Fatoyinbo, David Lagomasino, Doug Morton, Ralph Dubayah

Assessing Post-Storm Forest Disturbance in the United Kingdom Using Remote Sensing Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches

Tijs Kuzee, Tommaso Locatelli, Mike Perks, Georgios Xenakis, Paul Burgess, Abdou Khouakhi

A Remote Sensing Framework for Brown Spot Needle Blight: Bibliometric Gaps and UAV-Based Solutions

Swati Singh, Lana L. Narine

Evaluating size and competition as confounders of tree structural economics using architectural metrics from mobile mapping system LiDAR

Zachary Horve, Sangyoon Park, Noah Scott Lyon, Brady Hardiman, Ayman Habib, Songlin Fei

CMS4D: A Multi-Scale Data Fusion Prototype System for the next Generation of Carbon Dynamics Monitoring from Space: A Case Study in the Brazilian Cerrado – Fire and Fuel in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Carlos Silva

Detecting 40 Years of Forest Disturbance in the Continental United States with Deep Learning

Linus Scheibenreif, Anton Raichuk, Maxim Neumann