Conference Agenda
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| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Large-Scale Reconstruction of Realistic 3D Forest Voxel-Based Scenes from Airborne Lidar Data 1Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, National University of Singapore, Singapore In-person Oral Presentation
A sensitivity study of satellite jitter’s effect on forest canopy surface retrieval 1Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong; 2Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère – UT3, CNES, CNRS, IRD, Université de Toulouse, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France; 3Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States; 4Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; 5Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center, M/S 269-3, Moffet Field, CA 94035, USA; 6Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 614.4, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, United States In-person Oral Presentation
Airborne Lidar Pulse Density Thinning Effects on Area-based Forest Inventory Metrics 1Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, USA; 2LCR EcoAnalytics; 3USDA Forest Service In-person Oral Presentation
An improved canopy height model for the forest-tundra ecotone Durham University, United Kingdom |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Deriving 3D fuels characteristics from terrestrial lidar data to inform fuel treatment strategy US Geological Survey, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Enhancing Wildfire Risk Assessment in Canada through Continuous Hazardous Fuel Classification Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data 1Cabin Resource Management Ltd., Canada; 2University of Alberta, Canada 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 KBR, contractor to the USGS, United States of America |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Comparing k-Nearest Neighbor and Convolutional Neural Network Approaches for Generating Spatially Explicit Tree Lists in Mediterranean Pine Forests 1Universidad de Valladolid - iuFOR; 2University of Minnesota; 3Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - SILVANET In-person Oral Presentation
From Accuracy to Interpretability: Assessing Hyperparameter Sensitivity and SHAP Consistency in Forest Volume and Carbon Modelling 1University of Florence; 2CNR In-person Oral Presentation
A Machine Learning Approach for Large-Scale Mapping of Old-Growth Forest Probability in Italy 1Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, Piazzale delle Cascine, 50144 Firenze (FI), Italy; 2Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, University of Tuscia, via San Camillo de Lellis s/n, 01100 Viterbo, Italy; 3Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Contrada Fonte Lappone, 86090 Pesche (Is), Italy; 4Arma dei Carabinieri, Comando Unità Forestali Ambientali Agroalimentari, Via. G. Carducci 5, Rome, 00187, Italy; 5Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, Largo dell’Università s/n, 01100 Viterbo, Italy Virtual Oral Presentation
Enhancing forest inventory and Analysis through satellite derived embeddings 1University of New Hampshire, United States of America; 2USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station; 3USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | More than ice in ICESat-2: Unlocking canopy insights from space Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Sorin Popescu |
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Evaluating ICESat-2-Derived Canopy Cover for Large-Area Forest Mapping 1Auburn University, United States of America; 2Texas A&M University In-person Oral Presentation
Continental-Scale Forest Height Dynamics Using Integrated GEDI and ICESat-2 Lidar Data 1Texas A&M University, United States of America; 2Texas A&M Forest Service; 3Auburn University; 4USDA Forest Service In-person Oral Presentation
Continental and global-scale canopy height modeling: space-lasers to cloud-computing Texas A&M University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
ICESat-4D: Monitoring Forest Resistance and Post-Hurricane Recovery Dynamics in Southern Forests by the Synergism of ICESat-2, SAR, and Optical Data and AI University of Florida, United States of America |
| 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 Session Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon |
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Using terrestrial lidar to understand hurricane-adaptive canopy traits in pine species from the Southeastern US to The Bahamas 1The Jones Center at Ichauway, USA; 2University of Georgia, USA; 3USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, USA; 4University of Missouri, USA; 5Florida International University, USA; 6Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources, 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. 1School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatic Sciences, University of Florida, United States of America; 2School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, United States of America; 3Agronomy Department, University of Florida, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Long-term effects of canopy scorch on mitigating hurricane damage using long-term data and terrestrial lidar 1Auburn University; 2The Jones Center at Ichauway In-person Oral Presentation
Storm-driven Acceleration of Coastal Forest Retreat and Ghost Forest Formation 1Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States; 2U.S. Geological Survey, Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Blacksburg, United States; 3Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Assessment of stem straightness in mediterranean forest species using Handheld Laser Scanning: An Italian case study 1D.R.E.AM. ITALIA company, Italy; 2Università degli studi di Palermo In-person Oral Presentation
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data Collection and Integration: Geospatial Innovations in Location Sampling and On-the-Ground Efficiency 1KBR, United States of America; 2United States Geological Survey (USGS); 3C2G, Unites States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Exploring the Potential of the Mandeye Handheld LiDAR System for Ecosystem Characterization 1Desertification Research Centre (CIDE) - CSIC, Spain; 2Department of Mining Exploitation, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; 3Department of Mining Exploitation, University of Oviedo, Spain In-person Oral Presentation
Benchmarking Tree Instance Segmentation Algorithms: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Performance Across Diverse LiDAR Datasets and Forest Conditions 1Eberswalde University of Sustainable Development, Department of Forestry, Eberswalde, Germany; 2University of Potsdam, Digital Engineering Faculty, Potsdam, Germany; 3BOKU University, Department of Ecosystem Management, Climate and Biodiversity, Institute of Forest Growth, Wien, Austria; 4State Forestry Research Centre, Eberswalde, Germany; 5Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Flareless: A Hybrid Machine Learning and AHP Approach for High-Resolution Forest Fire Risk Assessment 1Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Brazil; 2Quiron Digital, Brazil Virtual Oral Presentation
Estimating forest wildfire emissions across the United States USDA Forest Service, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Fire progression and severity across fuel treatments in the Western United States University of Montana, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Good fire: quantifying the beneficial ecosystem work of western U.S. wildfires (2010-2020) 1Gettysburg College, United States of America; 2Earth Lab, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA; 3Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL, USA; 4Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, PO Box AB, Millbrook, NY, USA; 5Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 1661 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA USA; 6School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Predicting Forest Inventory Parameters from Remote Sensing Data: Comparison of Random Forest and Deep Learning Approaches 1Department of Visitor Management and National Pak Monitoring, Bavarian Forest National Park, 94481 Grafenau, Germany; 2Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife Management, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; 3Theoretical Ecology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; 4School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, Freising 85354, Germany; 5Berchtesgaden National Park, Doktorberg 6, Berchtesgaden 83471, Germany; 6Inland Norway University of Applied Science, Institute for Forest and Wildlife Management, 2480 Koppang, Norway In-person Oral Presentation
Scaling Up Forest Vision with Synthetic Data University of Cambridge, United Kingdom In-person Oral Presentation
Geospatial foundation models enable data-efficient tree species mapping in temperate mountain forests 1University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy; 3dClimate Labs, New York In-person Oral Presentation
Wall-to-Wall Forest Structure Mapping Using Generative AI and NAIP Imagery 1New Mexico Consortium; 2Silvx Labs |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Darby Levin |
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Assessment of automatic hedgerows detection using Pleiades Neo 30cm images and Foundation model Airbus Defence and Space, France 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 1Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, United States of America; 2Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi; 3Kenya Forest Research Institute, Kenya; 4World Resources Institute, United States of America; 5Institute of Agricultural Research, Senegal; 6Center for Ecological Monitoring, Senegal In-person Oral Presentation
Determining Detection Thresholds for Individual Trees to Enable Farmer-Specific Payments in Agroforestry Carbon Programs 1One Acre Fund; 2World Resources Institute In-person Oral Presentation
Learnings and applied results from combined remote and field monitoring of a restoration portfolio World Resources Institute |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Large scale european projects supporting current policy making at the EU Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Ruben Valbuena |
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Remote sensing and the Nature Restoration Regulation: assessing biodiversity indicators for integrated forest management 1Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; 2BOKU, Austria; 3Finnish Geospatial Institute, Finland In-person Oral Presentation
Federated Learning for forest monitoring: a privacy-preserving approach to cross-border data integration 1Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norway; 2European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy; 3University of Florence, Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Sciences and Technologies (DAGRI), Italy; 4University of Bologna, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Italy; 5Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Germany; 6Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Finland; 7Forest Ecology and Management Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; 8Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Resource Management, Sweden In-person Oral Presentation
Harmonised Remote Sensing Products and Disturbance Reference Data to Support European Forest Monitoring and Multifunctionality Assessment 1University of Florence; 2CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics; 3NIBIO - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research; 4LUKE - Natural Resources Institute Finland; 5SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; 6University of Molise; 7La Sapienza University; 8University of Bologna In-person Oral Presentation
Overview of EU large scale projects 1Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; 2LUKE, Finland; 3NIBIO, Norway; 4IIASA, Austria; 5European Commission JRC, Ispra, Italy |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Quantifying Fire-Induced Biomass Loss in the Amazon Forest Using GEDI University of Washington, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Object-Based Scanning of Wildland Fuels: Bridging the Resolution Gap in 3D Vegetation Modeling 1University of Washington, College of the Environment, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), Seattle, WA, United States; 2USDA Forest Service, Washington, D.C.; 3USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, New Lisbon, NJ 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 1University florida, United States of America; 2University florida, United States of America; 3University florida, United States of America; 4School of Environmental and Forest Sciences University of Washington In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating Airborne Laser Scanning data, Topography, and Climate Metrics for Forest Fuel Mapping in the Western U.S. 1iuFOR, EiFAB, University of Valladolid, 42004 Soria, Spain; 2US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; 3Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; 4Institute of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning (INDUROT), University of Oviedo Foundation (FUO), Mieres, 33600 Asturias, Spain |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies III Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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AI and GIS for urban biodiversity monitoring - Trees census, from location estimation to ecosystem services assessment 1Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento Di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Milano, Italy; 2National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61, 90133 Palermo, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Assessing Forest Structure and Biophysical Controls on Degradation Across the Amazon Using Spaceborne LiDAR University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Evaluating Traditional and Novel Height-Diameter Models for Urban Tree DBH Estimation University of Waterloo, Canada In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating UAV and Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices in Mediterranean Forests 1Desertification Research Centre (CIDE) - CSIC, Spain; 2Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), Universitat de Valencia, Paterna, Valencia, Spain |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Geospatial Innovations I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Leveraging Geospatial Embeddings for Cloud-Free Reconstruction and Phenology Monitoring in Optical Remote Sensing 1University of Florida, United States of America; 2Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Isolating Urban Tree Cooling: A 3D Workflow Using ALS LiDAR Data Texas A&M University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Multimodal Approach to Tree Species Classification: Integrating TLS Point Clouds with Contextual Remote Sensing and Forest Inventory Data 1Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences; 2Forest Research Institute; 3IDEAS Research Institute In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating UAV LiDAR and Multispectral Data for Improved Classification and Flood Hazard Assessment in Mediterranean Forests 1Desertification Research Centre (CIDE-CSIC-UV-GVA),Spain; 2Research Center of Desertification, SP; 3University of Padua, IT; 4Deltares, NL |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Remote sensing-assisted sampling and statistical inference in forest inventory Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Zhengyang Hou |
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Nexus of certain design-based estimators in remote sensing forest inventory Beijing Forestry University, China, People's Republic of In-person Oral Presentation
Remote sensing-assisted, post-stratified estimation 1University of Minnesota, United States of America; 2Norwegian University of Life Sciences In-person Oral Presentation
A STATISTICALLY CONGRUENT INNOVATIVE STRATEGY FOR ENHANCED NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES 1Italian Academy of Forest Sciences, Italy; 2University of Siena, Italy; 3CREA Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Italy; 4University of Firenze, Italy; 5Arma dei Carabinieri, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Impact of Tree Species on the Accuracy and Transferability of Lidar-Based Biomass Models University of Eastern Finland, Finland |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Joanne White |
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Tracking fire across the Southeast from burn severity to recovery with harmonized Landsat-Sentinel data 1USGS, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center; 2USGS, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center; 3Tall Timbers Research Stations Virtual Oral Presentation
Tracking forest recovery across Europe using spectral unmixing of Landsat time series Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences, Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management. Freising, Germany In-person Oral Presentation
Evaluating UAV-Based Approaches for Detecting Forest Regeneration in Post-Disturbance Landscapes: Insights from the KI-Recover Project 1Technische Universität Berlin; 2Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald; 3Universität Freiburg In-person Oral Presentation
Post-Fire Conifer Recovery From Spectral and Field Data - Why Monitoring Methods Matter University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping IV Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Tracing Land-Use Imprints on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildfires University of Florida, United States of America 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. USDA Forest Service, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Wildfire Propagation Modelling for Europe and the Mediterranean with Deep Learning and an adjusted Dataset Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany In-person Oral Presentation
Quantifying fuel composition with terrestrial LiDAR in a longleaf pine savanna University of Florida, United States of America |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies IV Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Estimation of canopy fAPAR using optical reflectance and airborne LiDAR data 1Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China; 2Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China; 3The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China In-person Oral Presentation
Development of crown morphology models for Pinus halepensis in central Spain using terrestrial laser scanning and unmanned aerial laser scanning data. 1EiFAB, iuFOR, Universidad de Valladolid, Soria, Spain; 2GEOFOREST-IUCA, Department of Geography, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; 3Department of Geography, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; 4Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain; 5Sección de Desarrollo Territorial Sostenible, NASUVINSA, Pamplona, Spain; 6Research Group SILVANET, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain In-person Oral Presentation
Use of high-resolution commercial X-band SAR and optical data to model forest height 1Virginia Tech, United States of America; 2Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America; 3North Carolina State University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
NAIP-based digital aerial photogrammetry for forest structure estimation and evaluating disturbance effects in Colorado, USA 1Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; 2USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis, USA; 3Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Geospatial Innovations II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Study on the Examination of Data Acquisition Methods Based on Forest Conditions and the Evaluation of Ecological Functions in Japan Sustainable Society Laboratory, Kajima Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping Understory Vegetation Using LiDAR-Derived Canopy Models and Machine Learning 1Chiba University, Japan; 2Hokkaido University, Japan; 3US Forest Service, USA In-person Oral Presentation
LiDAR-based Reconstruction of Power Lines in Complex Forested Terrains 1IDEAS Research Institute, Poland; 2Forest Research Institute, Poland In-person Oral Presentation
Tracking Appalachian Surface Mine Reclamation Trajectories with Remotely Sensed Data 1Virginia Tech, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, United States of America; 2Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, United States of America |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Mapping forest long-term dynamics through multisensor time series and machine learning Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Na Chen |
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The Spanish Atlas of Forests and Disturbances (SAFoD): Four Decades of Forest Change Across Continental Spain 1Instituto de Ciencias Forestales, INIA-CSIC; 2Geología, Geografía y Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Alcalá; 3School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating Weakly Supervised Learning and Multispectral Time Series for Robust Tree Species Mapping of Heterogeneous Forest 1University of Trento, Italy; 2Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Vegetation Transition History Predicts Wildfire Risk Beyond Climate Forcing: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of California University of Florida, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Large-scale Tropical Forest Disturbances Monitoring Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; 2Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Joanne Hall |
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Advancing Wildfire Smoke Forecasting and Exposure Assessment Across the CONUS Using Multi-Model Intercomparison and Ensemble Techniques 1The University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America; 2George Mason University; 3Naval Research Lab; 4New York University; 5Kaiser Permanente Northern California; 6NOAA ARL; 7NOAA GSL; 8NASA; 9Environmental and Climate Change of Canada Virtual Oral Presentation
Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Active Fire Impacts Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
NASA’s Wildland Fire Program – Supporting Proactive Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Management and Research Efforts 1University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Science; 2NASA Langley Research Center; 3NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; 4University of Alabama in Huntsville; 5NASA Headquarters, Washington DC; 6NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; 7Science Systems and Applications In-person Oral Presentation
Harmonics of stress and structure from ECOSTRESS and GEDI to support pre-fire mapping and the management of fire trajectories 1NASA JPL, United States of America; 2University of Maryland; 3USGS |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Climate Change Impacts Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Assessing Vertical Structural Complexity in Regulating Forest Microclimate Using Mobile Laser Scanning 1Chiba University, Japan; 2Hokkaido University, Japan; 3Denbei Farm Virtual Oral Presentation
Analysis of Motifs of Intact Forest Resilience and Global Climate Variables IRD, ESPACE-DEV, Montpellier France Virtual Oral Presentation
Detecting tree stress in 3D: Using structural metrics to predict tree physiology and drought tolerance in P. taeda 1University of Florida; 2INRAE; 3University of Washington; 4USDA Forest Service In-person Oral Presentation
The importance of UF spatial structure in combating UHI using VHR satellite and ALS data - Kraków case study 1University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland; 2Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER); 3Władysław Szafer Institute of Botany in Krakow - Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Near Real-Time Monitoring of Forests Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Edge-AI Fusion Pipeline for Real-Time Forest Health Monitoring in Subtropical Pine Ecosystems of North-Central Florida NA In-person Oral Presentation
Attributing direct drivers to pantropical deforestation alerts 1Wageningen University; 2World Resources Institute; 3GeoForschungsZentrum In-person Oral Presentation
Real-Time Event-Driven Vision for Aerial Surveillance on MPSoC Platforms in Forest Environments University of Florida, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Monthly Forest Canopy Cover Loss in Europe, 2017–2024 German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Agroforestry Applications Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Operational 3DGS and OB-NeRF Pipelines for Field Vegetation: Case Study on Strawberries 1University of Florida; 2National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Korea In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping research pathways for restoring South Carolina’s historic tidal rice landscapes 1Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; 2James C. Kennedy Waterfowl and Wetlands Conservation Center, Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, Georgetown, SC, USA; 33Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA; 4Folk Land Management, Inc., 3515 White Hall Rd, Green Pond, SC 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 1Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines; 2Department of Economics, College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños; 3Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños Virtual Oral Presentation
Evaluating Vertical Structure Differences Between Old-Growth Avocado Orchards and Temperate Forests with GEDI Metrics: Implications for Habitat Availability Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or multi-sensors for comprehensive forest monitoring Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Na Chen |
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TESSERA and Barlow Twins for forestry applications and carbon projects 1dClimate Labs, New York, US; 2Cambridge University, UK In-person Oral Presentation
Near real time forest disturbance monitoring by integrating satellite-borne SAR data Northeast Forestry University, China, People's Republic of In-person Oral Presentation
Global BIOMASS Digital Terrain Model Under the Canopy: Estimation Principle and Applications to Forest Characterization 1ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France; 2CESBIO, , University of Toulouse, France; 3Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 4Aresys, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating NAIP Point Cloud, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 Data for Improved Forest/Non-Forest Classification Using Explainable Machine Learning 1The National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee, 1122 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996-3410; 2United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 2730 Cherokee Farm Way, Suite 101, Knoxville, TN 37920; 3The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Andrew Hudak |
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A geospatial database for quantifying effects from 40 years of fire (1985-2025) on biomass and fuel dynamics across the western USA 1US Forest Service, United States of America; 2University of Santa Barbara, United States of America; 3Colorado State University, United States of America; 4Universidad de Valladolid, Spain; 5University of Minnesota, United States of America; 6Michigan Tech Research Institute, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Quantifying the preferences of final users of LiDAR derived tree list maps to maximize their use and adoption. 1EiFAB, iuFOR, University of Valladolid, Spain; 2US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; 3Washington State University; 4Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University; 5Technical University of Madrid In-person Oral Presentation
Introducing the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase: a new tool for accessing fuel treatment and wildfire data Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University, United States of America 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 1University of Maine; 2Michigan State University; 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| 9:50am - 10:50am | Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Crown-level mapping and persistence of emergent tropical trees in fragmented tropical landscapes University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Assessing forest naturalness using airborne laser scanning (ALS) Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia In-person Oral Presentation
Extracting Ecological Variables from The Brazilian Atlantic Forest Using UAV Images Santa Catarina State University, Brazil In-person Oral Presentation
Beyond Climate and Soil: LiDAR-Derived Forest Structure Unlocks Species Habitat Signatures Across the Temperate–Boreal Ecotone 1Research Center on Renewable Materials, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada; 2Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Sainte-Foy, Quebec City; 3Centre for Forest Research, Faculty of Forestry, Geography, and Geomatics, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada; 4Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Characterizing the vertical structure of forests in the Brazilian Amazon 1School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.; 2Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.; 3Environment and Sustainability Studies Program, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA.; 4Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.; 5Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.; 6International Institute of Tropical Forestry, United Stated Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; 7BRCarbon, Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.; 8Bioflore, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Virtual Oral Presentation
Enhanced Detection of Forest Disturbances in the Pan-Amazon through Integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat Time Series 1European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy; 2CIRAD, Forêts et Sociétés, Montpellier, France; 3LETG Rennes UMR 6554 LETG, Université Rennes 2, 35042 Rennes, France; 4European Dynamics Luxembourg S.A., Milan, 20121, Italy; 5GIS and Remote Sensing Consultant, Varese, Italy; 6VASS Italy, Torino, 10100, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
deFOREST: Fusing Optical and Radar satellite data for Enhanced Sensing of Tree-loss 1Boston University, United States of America; 2James Madison University; 3NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Virtual Oral Presentation
Evaluating endmember specificity for SMA-based disturbance detection across Pinus sylvestris provenance regions in Spain 1University of Valladolid, Spain; 2University of Aberdeen, Scotland |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Carbon and Biomass Estimation I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Augmenting Training data for Individual Tree Biomass Estimation using UAV LiDAR in Dense Forest and Urban Environments 1State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Environmental Resources Engineering; 2State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) Department of Sustainable Resources Management 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 College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Auburn University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Estimating aboveground biomass loss from tree cover to cropland conversion University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Addressing The Small Data Problem in Forestry: Self-Supervised Learning for Aboveground Biomass Estimation 1University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Canada; 2Canadian Forest Service (Pacific Forestry Centre), Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 1M5, Canada; 3CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, 1615 Lionel-Boulet Blvd, P.O. Box 4800, Varennes, Québec, J3X 1P7, Canada; 4Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Québec, H3T 1J4, Canada |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Cutting-edge Terrestrial Laser Scanning for tree volume, biomass, and carbon estimation: From point clouds to precision forestry Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Georgios Arseniou |
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Validating Handheld LiDAR for Single-Tree Volume and Aboveground Biomass Carbon: Quantifying the Impact of Height Uncertainty University College Dublin, Ireland Virtual Oral Presentation
Advancing the quantification of urban tree carbon content through the application of terrestrial laser scanning technology. Auburn University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
A novel tree-height independent method for tree volume estimation based on TLS point clouds 1IDEAS Research Institute, Poland; 2Forest Research Institute, Poland In-person Oral Presentation
Quantifying Aspen Aboveground Biomass and Allometry in Boreal Forests Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning 1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2University of Regina , Regina, Canada |
| 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 Session Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon |
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Using UAVs to understand stand-level drivers of hurricane susceptibility in southeastern Georgia’s pecan orchards 1The Jones Center at Ichauway, United States of America; 2University of Georgia, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Scaling tropical cyclone risk across the southeast to inform conservation planning 1University of Central Florida; 2Tall Timbers; 3The Jones Center at Ichauway; 4Louisiana State University; 5Mississippi State University; 6University of West Florida; 7Auburn University In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping post-hurricane damage severity in southern U.S. forests using PlanetScope imagery, LiDAR, and deep learning Forest Biometrics, Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Silva Lab), School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Virtual Oral Presentation
Fifty years of tropical cyclones in US forests through the lens of forest inventory US Forest Service, United States of America |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Carbon and Biomass Estimation II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Forest Biomass Estimation Using Deep Learning and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem 1Department of National Park Monitoring and Animal Management, Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyunger Straße 2, D-94481 Grafenau, Germany; 2Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Straße 4, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany; 3Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Luisenstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany; 4Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 50, Olomouc 77146, Czech Republic; 5Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 1760, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; 6Institute for Forest and Wildlife Management, Campus Evenstad, University of Inland Norway, 2480 Koppang, Norway In-person Oral Presentation
Forest structure and carbon dynamics across the Amazon using GEDI and airborne lidar 1Environment and Sustainability Studies Program, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 2International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, San Juan, PR, USA; 3Climate andEcosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 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 1Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; 2University of Edinburgh In-person Oral Presentation
Using destructive sampling to validate mangrove biomass estimates from terrestrial laser scanning and published allometries 1USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, USA; 2University of Tennessee, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, USA; 3University of Florida, School of Forestry, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, USA; 4Clemson University, Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department, USA; 5Tall Timbers Research Station, USA; 6Florida International University, Institute of Environment, USA |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Tree species mapping at regional scale with Planet data and weakly labelled training data Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Pixel-based tree species detection using aerial hyperspectral imagery data in mid-Atlantic mixed hardwood forests Pennsylvania State University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Individual Tree Species Prediction and Area-Based Metrics in the Acadian Forest: New Brunswick's Unique and Highly Diverse Forest Forsite Consultants, Canada In-person Oral Presentation
Spectral response of plants to herbivore overabundance 1Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; 2CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Spain; 3Wildlife Ecology & Health Group (WE&H) and Servei d’Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (SEFaS), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, UAB, Barcelona, Spain |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Modeling the Regeneration of Aspen Using Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Field Validation in Post-Fire Ecosystems. University of Washington, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping Forest Vulnerability Across Europe Using the Composite2Change (C2C) Framework 1University of Bologna, Italy; 2University of Florence, Italy; 3Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada In-person Oral Presentation
Longterm index trends demonstrate canopy loss and possible link to hydrologic change in a barrier island forest Georgia College & State University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating field and high-resolution remote sensing data for comprehensive forest disturbance monitoring Forest Research Institute, Poland |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Ecosystem morphological traits from 3D data and biodiversity Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Ruben Valbuena |
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Connecting forest structural diversity and foliar trait diversity across spatial scales and climate gradients in the eastern United States 1Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 2Department of Environmental Horticulture, Dankook University, Cheonan, South Chungcheong, South Korea; 3Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Detecting deadwood from terrestrial laser scanning data using deep learning 1University of Eastern Finland (UEF); 2Norwegian Institute for Bio-economy Research (NIBIO); 3ELY Centres of North Karelia In-person Oral Presentation
Pristine forests approach maximum mean-independent entropy in every global climate Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden In-person Oral Presentation
Essential Biodiversity Variables of Ecosystem Structure: Definitions and Operational Workflows Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Fuel and consumption modeling and mapping to improve fuel, fire, and smoke models Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Andrew Hudak |
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Accurate and Dynamic Fuel Load Mapping Using Satellite Remote Sensing Across Canada Forsite, Canada In-person Oral Presentation
Coupling dead surface and ground fuel estimates to canopy biomass characterized using pre- and post-fire airborne laser scanning data in the western US 1Institute of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning (INDUROT), University of Oviedo, 33600 Mieres, Asturias, Spain; 2US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Moscow Forestry Laboratory, Moscow, Idaho, 83843, USA; 3School of Environment, Society and Sustainability, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA; 4American Forests, Washington, DC, 20005, USA; 5School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA; 6USDA Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Fire Sciences Lab, Missoula, Montana, 59808, USA; 7Department of Mining Exploitation and Prospecting, University of Oviedo, 33600 Asturias, Spain In-person Oral Presentation
Spatially explicit fuel distribution models from neighborhood methods 1Tall Timbers, United States of America; 2USDA-FS Rocky Mountain Research Station; 3University of Oviedo, Spain; 4USDA-FS Southern Research Station In-person Oral Presentation
Deep Learning of Snags and Coarse Woody Bebris (CWD) using VHR UAS imagery and LiDAR point clouds at FuelCraft Selected sites in United States 1School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida; 2School of Environmental and Forest Sciences University of Washington |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Carbon and Biomass Estimation III Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Fusion of GEDI and ICESat-2 for Mapping Forest Canopy Height and Aboveground Biomass Auburn University, United States of America 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. University of Waterloo, Canada In-person Oral Presentation
Improving Biomass Estimates in Heterogeneous Rangelands 1Dept. of Rangeland, Wildlife, & Fisheries Management, Texas A&M University, United States of America; 2Blackland Research and Extension Center, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, United States of America; 3Dept. of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Large-scale aboveground carbon mapping from multi-source remote sensing and AI in tropical savanna 1Forest Biometrics, Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Lab (SilvaLab). School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science, University of Florida, PO Box 110410 Gainesville, FL, USA 32611; 2School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; 3BIOFIX, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Avenida Prefeito Lothario Meissner, 632, Jardim Botânico, Curitiba, PR, BR 80210-170,; 4Department of Forest Engineering, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Lages 88520-000, SC, Brazil; 5Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Av. Dos Astronautas, 1758 Jardim da Granja, São José Dos Campos, SP 12227-010, Brazil; 6USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID 83843 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Forest Health and Disease Detection I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Assessing the accuracy of changepoint algorithms and vegetation index in detecting beetles related forest mortality. 1Northern Arizona University, United States of America; 2Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service In-person Oral Presentation
Aspen leafminer detection in Interior Alaska from high-resolution satellite data using deep learning Institute of Agriculture Natural Resources and Extension,University of Alaska Fairbanks In-person Oral Presentation
An Evaluation of UAV Lidar for Assessing Brown Spot Needle Blight Disease in Loblolly Pine Auburn university In-person Oral Presentation
Evaluating superpixel algorithms for standing dead tree dealineation using aerial orthoimagery University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience III Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Structural Quality Recovery of Amazon Tropical Forests using Spaceborne LiDAR University of Florida, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Monitoring Post-Disturbance Forest Recovery across the Brazilian Amazon 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; 2Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA In-person Oral Presentation
The (mis)measurement of forest edge effects using remote sensing 1University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America; 2University of British Columbia, Canada; 3American University, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Using the proportion of primary forest in the landscape to model forest degradation in the tropics 1University of Maryland, United States of America; 2World Resources Institute |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Advancing near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbances, recovery, and land-use change through multi-source remote sensing and AI Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Feng Zhao |
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Improving the attribution of forest canopy loss drivers using time series remote sensing and multi-modal foundation model Northeast Forestry University, China, People's Republic of In-person Oral Presentation
Integrating Multi-Source Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Policy Pathways for Forest Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon Imazon, Brazil In-person Oral Presentation
linking in situ, airborne and satellite measurements of biophysical variables in tropical forests National University of Singapore, Singapore In-person Oral Presentation
Quantifying tropical tree cover loss driven by cropland conversion University of Maryland, United States of America |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Virtual Poster Presentation Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link |
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Scalable monitoring of deforestation-free supply chains via cloud-native remote sensing Thünen-Institute for Forestry, Germany Virtual Poster Presentation
A Multi-Source Remote Sensing Pipeline for Individual-Tree Phenotyping in Eucalyptus Breeding: Integrating UAV-LiDAR, MLS and Spectral Data 1Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil; 2North Carolina State University, United States of America Virtual Poster Presentation
Combining MODIS and ASTER Data for Satellite based Super-Resolution with Generative Deep Learning Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany 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 1Proyectos y Planificación (PROEPLA), Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Proyectos de Ingeniería, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Ingeniería, Campus Terra, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain; 2Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic; 3Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic Virtual Poster Presentation
Improvement forest biodiversity assessment through Handheld Laser Scanning for precision forestmanagement 1D.R.E.AM. ITALIA company, Italy; 2Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy Virtual Poster Presentation
The Best Tool for the Fuel: Comparing 3D characterization approaches for forest understories University of Washington, College of the Environment, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), Seattle, WA, USA Virtual Poster Presentation
Spatio-temporal analysis of the ecological characteristics of mountainous forests in the Republic of Korea Hanyang University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Carbon and Biomass Estimation IV Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Tracking forest aboveground biomass recovery following wind disturbance using PlanetScope-derived canopy structure and spectral data College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Terrestrial LiDAR and Forest Inventory Integration for Improved Estimates of Wildfire Impacts on Forest Carbon 1Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, United States of America; 2Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, United States of America; 3Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service; 4NASA Goddard Space Center; 5University of Maryland In-person Oral Presentation
UAS lidar enables quantification of forest coarse woody debris to support forest carbon management plans University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Recent changes in global forest biomass as viewed from space 1University of Leicester, United Kingdom; 2Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom; 3GAMMA Remote Sensing, Switzerland |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Forest Health and Disease Detection II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning Approaches for Early Detection of Forest Pest Outbreaks in Croatia Oikon Ltd. – Institute of Applied Ecology, Croatia In-person Oral Presentation
Cloud-based forest health monitoring in Europe 1University of Sopron, Hungary; 2Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway; 3ETH Zürich, Switzerland In-person Oral Presentation
Forests from Space: Fusing Satellite Embeddings with NEON Field Data to Map Tree Mortality University of Florida, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Modeling the spatial distribution of southern pine beetle outbreaks across the southeastern United States 1Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, SC, USA; 2Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, SC, USA; 3Coastal Carolina University, SC, USA; 4USDA Forest Services, Southeast Climate Hub, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USA |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Advances in active remote sensing for forest parameter estimation Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: John Armston |
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Development Update on MOLI : Spaceborne Lidar Mission JAXA, Japan In-person Oral Presentation
GEDI and the Path from Sampling to Monitoring: Forest Structure in the Next Generation of Active Missions University of Maryland, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
The BIOMASS mission: status and first results after 1 year in orbit European Space Agency In-person Oral Presentation
The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) mission: Tracking change in the 3D structure of terrestrial ecosystems using satellite laser altimetry 1University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; 2Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA; 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | 3D Fuels: Characterizing wildland fuels in three dimensions for next-generation fire modeling Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Session Chair: Hannah Redford |
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Characterizing fuels in 3D: scaling measurements and inputs for fire behavior and smoke modeling 1University of Washington, USA; 2Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, USA; 3University of Florida, USA; 4USDA Forest Service Washington Office In-person Oral Presentation
From Planar Intercepts to Point-Based Insights: 3D Fuel Characterization for Southwestern Forests and Woodlands Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University In-person Oral Presentation
TreeFlow: Generative Modeling of 3D Tree Structure for Canopy Fuel Characterization New Mexico Consortium, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Evaluating a novel understory vegetation segmentation method on airborne and terrestrial lidar point clouds University of Washington, United States of America |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Rodrigo Vieira Leite Session Chair: Marcos Longo |
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Monitoring the circumpolar boreal forest’s structure and shifts with ICESat-2 & HLS 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 2ADNET Systems, Inc; 3U. Maryland-College Park Dept. of Geographical Sciences; 4U. of Texas at Austin Center for Space Research; 5TerraPulse, Inc.; 6Science Systems and Applications, Inc. In-person Oral Presentation
Northward advance of the boreal forest confirmed by the Landsat record terraPulse, Inc., United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping aboveground biomass and canopy height recovery following stand-replacing forest disturbances in Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan In-person Oral Presentation
Rapid operational monitoring of global tree cover change University of Maryland, College Park; United States of America |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Advancing earth science monitoring through web-based cyberinfrastructure platforms Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Session Chair: Viswanath Nandigam |
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Multi-temporal Lidar Workflow for Forest Change Mapping 1Arizona State University, United States of America; 2University of California San Diego; 3University of Florida In-person Oral Presentation
OpenForest4D - Cyberinfrastructure for Next-Generation Forest Structure and Biomass Monitoring 1University of California San Diego; 2University of Florida; 3Arizona State University In-person Oral Presentation
Spaceborne remote sensing and AI highlight asymmetric canopy height change across southeastern US forests 1Forest Biometrics, Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Lab (SilvaLab). School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science, University of Florida, PO Box 110410 Gainesville, FL, USA 32611; 2The Jones Center at Ichauway, Newton, GA, United States 39870; 3USDA Forest Service, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada; 4Auburn University, Auburn, United States; 5San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego; 6Arizona State University; 7Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; 8Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 9USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID 83843 In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping forest canopy height across the western United States using spaceborne lidar and multi-sensor data 1School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; 2San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA; 3School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Toward a collaborative framework: Integrating remote sensing research with forestry practice Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Session Chair: Zsofia Koma |
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How deep learning can enhance and expand forest resource mapping in Norway 1Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway; 2VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Virtual Oral Presentation
Joint development of remote sensing-based tools for forest management planning –Project “VorratAktuell” 1Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 2Regional Council Freiburg In-person Oral Presentation
Barriers in the Implementation of Close-Range Remote Sensing Technologies in Forestry 1Forest Research Institute (IBL); 2IDEAS Research Institute; 3Karabük University; 4University of Oviedo; 5School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork; 6Sustainability Institute, University College Cork; 7TU Wien; 8University College London; 9National Research Council of Italy; 10Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI In-person Oral Presentation
Practical Forestry Insights from ALS, Sentinel and NFI 1University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Slovenia; 2Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia; 3Flai d.o.o, Slovenia; 4ZRC SAZU, Slovenia |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm | Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Session Chair: Jeff Atkins |
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Direct assessment of forest water status and water stress from satellite-based microwave measurements University of Montana, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Improved estimation of the interannual variability of dryland carbon and water fluxes 1School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA; 2O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; 3Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Tucson, AZ, USA; 4Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA; 5Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; 6School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; 7Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Evaluating Carbon Uptake and Evaporative Cooling in Temperate Forests Using Remote Sensing and Flux Tower Data O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University In-person Oral Presentation
Characterizing relationships between vegetation traits and land-atmosphere exchanges of CO2, CH4, and H2O across Mid-Atlantic coastal wetlands 1Virginia Commonwealth University; 2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 3NASA Headquarters |
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| 9:50am - 10:50am | Emerging Trends in Forest Management Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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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 1University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland; 2Natural Resources Institute, Rovaniemi, Finland In-person Oral Presentation
From 2D to 3D: Transforming Marteloscope Training through Digital Forest Landscape Research Institute, Czech Republic (Czechia) In-person Oral Presentation
Is natural forest regeneration always a climate-cooling strategy? Technical University of Munich, Finland 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 University of Idaho, United States of America |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Characterizing the Effective Footprint Diameter of ICESat-2 when Measuring Canopy 1Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geoscience, Univesity of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 3Department Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Cockrell School of Engineering, Univesity of Texas at Austin, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Annual Canopy Height Mapping Across the Northeastern US from 2019 to 2024 Using GEDI, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, and 3DEP: A Machine Learning Framework for Regional Forest Monitoring SUNY ESF Virtual Oral Presentation
Four decades of change in tree species composition across the Spanish Iberian Range forests: insights from NFI and Landsat data 1Universidad de Valladolid, Spain; 2ICIFOR-INIA, CSIC, Spain In-person Oral Presentation
Atmospheric correction stands on the way in effective use of Landsat and Sentinel-2 image time series for forest inventories 1Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, 61602 Tõravere, Estonia; 2Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014 Tartu, Estonia; 3VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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Effects of sample plot size on model-assisted estimates of above-ground forest biomass across Europe Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany In-person Oral Presentation
Characterizing Italian species phenology through Sentinel-2-derived vegetation phenology and productivity products 1University of Florence; 2University of Bologna In-person Oral Presentation
Bridging GEDI Sampling Gaps: Multimodal Deep Learning for Wall-to-Wall Forest Structural Complexity Mapping University of Maryland, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Engineering independent intensity and texture features for sample design, classification, regression, and clustering analyses using principal component analysis and convolution kernels 1USDA RMRS, United States of America; 2University of Montana, United States |
| 9:50am - 10:50am | Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products I Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link |
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Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Project Updates 1NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; 2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 3University of Alabama in Huntsville; 4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 5University of Maryland, College Park; 6Science Systems and Applications, Inc. In-person Oral Presentation
Global uncertainty assessment of vegetation indices from NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project 1Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI), contractor to NASA GSFC, Maryland, 20771, USA; 2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, 20771, USA; 3Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20740, USA; 4Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA; 5Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA; 6Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA; 7NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, USA; 8University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, 35899, USA; 9NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 In-person Oral Presentation
A Time-series-based Image Fusion Algorithm for Harmonizing Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data at 10 m 1University of Connecticut, USA; 2NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA; 3Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA; 4Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; 5Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI), Lanham, MD, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Congo Basin forest monitoring applications with Harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data University of Maryland, United States of America |
| 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 |
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IMPROVING FOREST DISTURBANCE DETECTION TECHNIQUES USING LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGERY University of Maine, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Global Earth observation-based maps of annual greenhouse gas fluxes from land World Resources Institute, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Imagery Into Action: Indigenous Remote Sensing for Territorial Security and Climate Resilience Rainforest Foundation US, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
The impact of available satellite imagery on national monitoring and reporting capacity FAO, Italy |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Leveraging Planet imagery and LiDAR data for enhanced estimation of wild edible mushroom yield in Mediterranean forests 1University of Valladolid, Spain; 2Salale University, Ethiopia; 3University of Tuscia, Italy; 4University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK In-person Oral Presentation
Modeling TROPOSIF using PACE EVI and PRI: Seasonal differences in the multivariate relationship 1Virginia Tech, United States of America; 2University of Maryland-Baltimore County, United States of America; 3Claremont McKenna College, United States of America Virtual Oral Presentation
Using dense Landsat time series imagery and national forest inventory field plots to monitor US forests USDA Forest Service, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Monitoring the Community Level Individual Tree Phenology from Space 1University of Florida, United States of America; 2Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA; 3Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; 4Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 5Cary Institute; 6Australian National University |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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GEDI AGBD Calibration and Model-Based Inference in Tropical Forests via Embedding-Aided Spatiotemporal NNGP and Bayesian Regression 1Department of Geography, National University Of Singapore, Singapore; 2Centre for Natural Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore, Singapore; 3National Parks Board, Singapore In-person Oral Presentation
Improving Precision of Stand-Level Estimates in Southern Pine Plantations Using Small Area Estimation 1Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; 2Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech; 3Forest Investment Associates; 4American Forest Management In-person Oral Presentation
Stand effects, not spatial autocorrelation are often the main driver behind underestimating stand-level uncertainty. Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway In-person Oral Presentation
Small-Area Estimation improves FIA estimates in areas of high nonresponse 1University of Tennessee Knoxville, Department of Geography & Sustainability; 2National Science Foundation Human Networks and Data Science Program; 3USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Sustainability Metrics for Forest-Based Industries Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Assessing Risk Uncertainty in Deforestation-Free Supply Chains through Multi-Tiered Remote Sensing Analysis Thünen Institute of Forestry, Germany In-person Oral Presentation
Towards Resilient Carbon Farming: Accounting for Reversal Risks in European Forest Carbon Markets 1European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy; 2Consultant with the European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy; 3VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland In-person Oral Presentation
Accounting for Water Assets in the Pagsanjan-Lumban Watershed Using the SEEA-Water Framework 1Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños; 2Department of Forest Products and Paper Science, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños; 3Department of Economics, College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños; 4Department of Social Forestry and Forest Governance, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños In-person Oral Presentation
High-resolution global forest typology and natural forest identification in support of sustainability initiatives 1Google, Switzerland; 2University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3WRI, USA; 4IIASA, Austria |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products II Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Madhu Sridhar |
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Validation of the NASA Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel-2 (HLS) surface reflectance data product against MODIS NBAR 1terraPulse, Inc., United States of America; 2Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; 4University of Maryland Department of Geographical Sciences; 5University of Alabama in Huntsville In-person Oral Presentation
Eucalyptus Woodlot Expansion on Croplands in Mecha Woreda, Northwestern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from Very-High-Resolution and HLS Time-Series Analysis 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA; 2Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; 3Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Lanham, MD, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Leveraging NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Data and Google Earth Engine (GEE) for Forest Dynamics Monitoring using Continuous Change Detection and Classification (CCDC) 1NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Office of Data Science and Informatics; 2University of Maryland; 3Science Systems and Applications, Inc; 4NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; 5NASA Goddard Space Flight Center In-person Oral Presentation
Fire-driven vegetation loss across North American forest zones: attribution of near real-time DIST-ALERT data University of Maryland, United States of America |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm | New frontiers in forest biomass mapping with low-frequency SAR satellites Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Maciej J. Soja |
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Forest disturbance analysis of BIOMASS time-series in the Brazilian Amazon: comparison with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions 1CESBIO, Toulouse, France, France; 2ISAE Supaero, Toulouse, France; 3GlobEO, Toulouse, France; 4CNES, Toulouse, France Virtual Oral Presentation
First demonstration of spaceborne L-band bistatic InSAR from China's Lutan-1 for forest height and AGBD mapping Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of In-person Oral Presentation
ESA's BIOMASS mission: a new frontier in forest biomass mapping with P-band SAR 1Wageningen Environmental Research, the Netherlands; 2Aresys, Italy; 3ESA, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
A Study on High-Resolution Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation at the National Scale 1Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan; 2Archeda, Inc., Japan |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Modeling biomass in loblolly pine plantations using variables from UAV multispectral imagery and SfM point clouds 1Stephen F. Austin State University; 2Texas A&M University In-person Oral Presentation
Linking Tree Architecture with Genetics and Management: A Multi-scale Assessment Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Loblolly Pine 1School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA; 2Department of Forest Engineering, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil; 3Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA; 4Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA; 5College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 13418, Brazil Virtual Oral Presentation
Operational Use of Mobile Laser Scanning for Estimating Tree Volume in Temperate Hardwood Forests 1Ressources Naturelles Canada, Service Canadien des Forêts, Centre de Foresterie des Laurentides, Québec, Canada; 2r-lidar, Québec, Canada; 3Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, Direction de la recherche forestière, Québec, Canada; 4Retired, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Ontario, Canada; 5Forest Analysis Ltd, Ontario, Canada; 6Université de Sherbrooke, Département de géomatique appliquée, Québec, Canada Virtual Oral Presentation
Scalable Correction and Characterization of Forestry Roads in Ontario Using Single Photon LiDAR and Deep Learning Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval, Québec, Canada |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Programming and Data Analysis for Forestry Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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AiDroneTree: A Software for Individual Tree Detection, Inventory, and Biomass Estimation Using UAV Point Cloud State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Environmental Resources Engineering In-person Oral Presentation
ForestVision: A Universal Framework for Forestry Vision Tasks Based on Strong Foundation Models Norwegian Institute Of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Ås, Norway 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 1Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Innovation Centre, Exeter, EX4 4RN, United Kingdom; 2Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Cambridge CB2 3EN, United Kingdom; 3School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom; 4Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Madrid, Spain; 5Met Office, Exeter, UK Virtual Oral Presentation
treeX: Unsupervised Tree Instance Segmentation in Dense Forest Point Clouds 1University of Potsdam, Digital Engineering Faculty, Potsdam, Germany; 2BOKU University, Department of Ecosystem Management, Climate and Biodiversity, Institute of Forest Growth, Wien, Austria; 3Eberswalde University of Sustainable Development, Department of Forestry, Eberswalde, Germany; 4State Forestry Research Centre, Eberswalde, Germany; 5Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, Potsdam, Germany |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Policy and Decision-Making Support Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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From Spatial Analysis to Decisions: Modelling and Mapping Mangrove Forest Restoration Potential in Coastal Africa 1Department of Landscape Monitoring, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO); 2Department of Geomatics, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO); 3Deptartment of Geomatics, Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU); 4University of Cape Coast; 5Department of Forest and Climate, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) In-person Oral Presentation
From Land Cover to Land Use: A Remote Sensing–Based Map of Forest Area in Europe 1European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy; 2Consultant with the European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
U.S. mature and old-growth forest mapping, ownership, and land use University of Maryland, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Mapping and Characterizing High Conservation Value Forests in the Polish Carpathians Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing 1Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Poland; 2Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | From canopy to complexity: Advances in understanding forest structure using remote sensing Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Zachary Horve |
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Evaluation of Height Changes in Uneven-Aged Spruce–Fir–Beech Forest with Freely Available Nationwide Lidar and Aerial Photogrammetry Data 1Slovenian Forestry Institut, Slovenia; 2Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana In-person Oral Presentation
LiDAR Reveals Structurally Similar Canopies at Forest Edges Adjacent to Urban and Agricultural Land Uses 1Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 2Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 3Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 4Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 5Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; 6Center 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 1Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America; 2University of Connecticut; 3University of Florida; 4University of Maryland; 5NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Virtual Oral Presentation
The Global Terrestrial Laser Scanning Database: Understanding Regional Drivers of 3D Tree Architectural Traits 1Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, United States; 2Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States; 3Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, United States; 4CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium; 5Department of Geography, University College London, London, United Kingdom |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Applications of NASA’s hyperspectral PACE mission: New insights for ecosystem science Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Morgaine McKibben |
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PACE Terrestrial Products – a New View of Forest Distributions, Phenology, and Function 1University of Maryland Baltimore County; 2Science Systems and Applications Inc.; 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center In-person Oral Presentation
Land in living color: Terrestrial applications from PACE, NASA’s new global, hyperspectral satellite mission 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA; 2Science Systems Applications Inc., Maryland, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Terrestrial Remote Sensing with the Ocean Color Instrument 1Science Systems and Applications Inc, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA; 2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA; 3Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA In-person Oral Presentation
A cloud-based toolkit for accessing hyperspectral data from NASA's PACE mission 1University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States of America; 2National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States of America; 3Science Systems and Applications, Inc., United States of America |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) |
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Potential of GEDI waveform data for plantation forests and natural forests detection 1State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management, Nanjing, China; 2Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China; 3Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China In-person Oral Presentation
Predicting Pinus taeda L. stand volume using Random Forest and hyperspectral data in southern Brazil Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Brazil In-person Oral Presentation
Using Satellite-Derived Phenology Metrics to Optimize Silvicultural TreatmentTiming University of Georgia, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Monitoring change in softwood plantations using high resolution satellite imagery Flinders University |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | RS36 Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) |
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From Crowns to Stands: LiDAR Mapping of Tree Social Status and Stand Structure by a Standardized, Reproducible Approach Landscape Research Institute, Czech Republic (Czechia) In-person Oral Presentation
Transparent parametric models as a pathway to reproducible forest volume estimation using NFI and ALS data 1University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland; 2Forest Management and Geodesy Bureau, Sekocin Stary, Poland In-person Oral Presentation
Expect the unexpected when processing ALS data stored in large public archives USDA Forest Service, United States of America In-person Oral Presentation
Beyond maps: Using data from the Nationwide Forest Inventory of the United States to support geospatial modeling and mapping 1USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, United States of America; 2USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States of America; 3University of New Hampshire, United States of America |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Stakeholder Engagement in Forest Management Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) |
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Augmented Reality in Forestry: A Strategic Tool for Operational Efficiency, Safety, and Asset Optimization Katam Technologies, Sweden Virtual Oral Presentation
Bridging Research and Application: A Framework for Remote Sensing in Forestry 1Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland; 2Forest Research Institute, IBL, Poland; 3Federal Institute of Technology, ETH 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 University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines In-person Oral Presentation
Participatory Remote Sensing in support of global forest monitoring Oregon State University, United States of America |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Assessing map quality, accuracy, and area estimation: implications and applications for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and financing Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Erik Lindquist |
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Area Estimation Using Class Probabilities: Advancing Model-Based Approaches for Forest Monitoring Wageningen University, Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Netherlands, The Virtual Oral Presentation
Map quality assessment to support the appropriate use of large-scale land cover maps 1Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; 2College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; 3Section 1.4 Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany; 4Worlds Resources Insititute, the Hague, Netherlands; 5Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Area estimation and applications for international financial mechanisms and forest conservation UN-FAO, Italy In-person Oral Presentation
Assessing sampling efficiency: Implications for area estimation and map accuracy assessment University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm | Beyond the flames: Advancing wildfire science and management with spaceborne LiDAR Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Session Chair: Christopher Hakkenberg |
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Modeling Future Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Fire Regimes in California 1Florida State University, United States of America; 2Harvard University, United States of America; 3University of Sussex, UK; 4Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil; 5National University of Singapore, Singapore; 6University of Maryland, USA In-person Oral Presentation
Post-Fire Forest Structure and Carnivore Habitat: Improving GEDI-Fusion Products for Canada Lynx Conservation 1Colorado State University; 2University of Wyoming; 3USDA Forest Service; 4University of Idaho In-person Oral Presentation
Supporting fire behavior modeling with canopy base height and canopy bulk density estimates using airborne and spaceborne lidar 1University of Maryland, United States of America; 2Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Portugal; In-person Oral Presentation
The fire triangle revisited: using continuous GEDI fuel structure to partition variance among drivers 1University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America; 2School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA; 3Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis, Department of Geography, Environment and Planning, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA |