Conference Agenda

Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026

9:50am
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10:50am

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies I
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping I
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management I
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

More than ice in ICESat-2: Unlocking canopy insights from space
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Sorin Popescu

Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate I
Location: Rion Ballroom
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon

11:05am
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12:05pm

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies II
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping II
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management II
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems
Location: Rion Ballroom
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Darby Levin

Large scale european projects supporting current policy making at the EU
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Ruben Valbuena

1:30pm
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2:30pm

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies III
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Geospatial Innovations I
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Remote sensing-assisted sampling and statistical inference in forest inventory
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Zhengyang Hou

Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Chair: Joanne White

2:35pm
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3:35pm

Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping IV
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies IV
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Geospatial Innovations II
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Mapping forest long-term dynamics through multisensor time series and machine learning
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Na Chen

NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action
Location: Rion Ballroom
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Joanne Hall

3:50pm
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4:50pm

Climate Change Impacts
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Near Real-Time Monitoring of Forests
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Agroforestry Applications
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or multi-sensors for comprehensive forest monitoring
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Na Chen

Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs
Location: Rion Ballroom
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Andrew Hudak

Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026

9:50am
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10:50am

Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring I
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience I
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Carbon and Biomass Estimation I
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Cutting-edge Terrestrial Laser Scanning for tree volume, biomass, and carbon estimation: From point clouds to precision forestry
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Georgios Arseniou

Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate II
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon

11:05am
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12:05pm

Carbon and Biomass Estimation II
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring II
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience II
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Ecosystem morphological traits from 3D data and biodiversity
Location: Rion Ballroom
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Ruben Valbuena

Fuel and consumption modeling and mapping to improve fuel, fire, and smoke models
Location: Auditorium
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Chair: Andrew Hudak

1:30pm
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2:30pm

Carbon and Biomass Estimation III
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Forest Health and Disease Detection I
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience III
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Advancing near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbances, recovery, and land-use change through multi-source remote sensing and AI
Location: Auditorium
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Chair: Feng Zhao

Virtual Poster Presentation
Location: Rion Ballroom
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2:35pm
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3:35pm

Carbon and Biomass Estimation IV
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Forest Health and Disease Detection II
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Advances in active remote sensing for forest parameter estimation
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: John Armston

3D Fuels: Characterizing wildland fuels in three dimensions for next-generation fire modeling
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Chair: Hannah Redford

3:50pm
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4:50pm

Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Rodrigo Vieira Leite
Chair: Marcos Longo

Advancing earth science monitoring through web-based cyberinfrastructure platforms
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)
Chair: Viswanath Nandigam

Toward a collaborative framework: Integrating remote sensing research with forestry practice
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)
Chair: Zsofia Koma

Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)
Chair: Jeff Atkins

Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026

9:50am
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10:50am

Emerging Trends in Forest Management
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science I
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry I
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products I
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link

What is the value of satellite imagery? – The impact of Earth Observation programs on forest applications
Location: Rion Ballroom
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11:05am
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12:05pm

Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science II
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry II
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Sustainability Metrics for Forest-Based Industries
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products II
Location: Auditorium
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Chair: Madhu Sridhar

New frontiers in forest biomass mapping with low-frequency SAR satellites
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Chair: Maciej J. Soja

1:30pm
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2:30pm

Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization I
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

Programming and Data Analysis for Forestry
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Policy and Decision-Making Support
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

From canopy to complexity: Advances in understanding forest structure using remote sensing
Location: Auditorium
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Zachary Horve

Applications of NASA’s hyperspectral PACE mission: New insights for ecosystem science
Location: Rion Ballroom
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Chair: Morgaine McKibben

2:35pm
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3:35pm

Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization II
Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355)

RS36
Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365)

Stakeholder Engagement in Forest Management
Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315)

Assessing map quality, accuracy, and area estimation: implications and applications for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and financing
Location: Auditorium
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Chair: Erik Lindquist

Beyond the flames: Advancing wildfire science and management with spaceborne LiDAR
Location: Rion Ballroom
Virtual zoom link
Chair: Christopher Hakkenberg