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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Session

From canopy to complexity: Advances in understanding forest structure using remote sensing

Time:

Thursday, 07/May/2026:

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Session Chair: Zachary Horve

Location: Auditorium

Presentations

In-person Oral Presentation

Evaluation of Height Changes in Uneven-Aged Spruce–Fir–Beech Forest with Freely Available Nationwide Lidar and Aerial Photogrammetry Data

Anže Martin Pintar¹, Mitja Skudnik^1,2

1: Slovenian Forestry Institut, Slovenia; 2: Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana

In-person Oral Presentation

LiDAR Reveals Structurally Similar Canopies at Forest Edges Adjacent to Urban and Agricultural Land Uses

Bowen Li¹, Zachary Horve¹, Benjamin McCallister¹, Brady Hardiman^1,2, Suresh Rao^3,4, Robert Fahey^5,6

1: Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 2: Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 3: Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 4: Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 5: Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; 6: Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, Storrs, CT, USA

In-person Oral Presentation

Towards a unified estimation of forest structural metrics from active remote sensing platforms

Jeff Atkins¹, Brandon Alveshere¹, Robert Fahey², Christopher Gough¹, Carlos Silva³, Atticus Stovall^4,5

1: Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America; 2: University of Connecticut; 3: University of Florida; 4: University of Maryland; 5: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Virtual Oral Presentation

The Global Terrestrial Laser Scanning Database: Understanding Regional Drivers of 3D Tree Architectural Traits

Atticus Stovall^1,2, Shukhrat Shokirov¹, John Armston¹, Xin Xu¹, Lisa Patrick Bentley³, Kim Calders⁴, Disney Mathias⁵, Lola Fatoyinbo²

1: Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, United States; 2: Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; 3: Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, United States; 4: CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium; 5: Department of Geography, University College London, London, United Kingdom