Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 | |||||
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Large-Scale Reconstruction of Realistic 3D Forest Voxel-Based Scenes from Airborne Lidar Data In-person Oral Presentation A sensitivity study of satellite jitter’s effect on forest canopy surface retrieval In-person Oral Presentation Airborne Lidar Pulse Density Thinning Effects on Area-based Forest Inventory Metrics In-person Oral Presentation An improved canopy height model for the forest-tundra ecotone |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Deriving 3D fuels characteristics from terrestrial lidar data to inform fuel treatment strategy Virtual Oral Presentation Enhancing Wildfire Risk Assessment in Canada through Continuous Hazardous Fuel Classification Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data 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 |
Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Comparing k-Nearest Neighbor and Convolutional Neural Network Approaches for Generating Spatially Explicit Tree Lists in Mediterranean Pine Forests In-person Oral Presentation From Accuracy to Interpretability: Assessing Hyperparameter Sensitivity and SHAP Consistency in Forest Volume and Carbon Modelling In-person Oral Presentation A Machine Learning Approach for Large-Scale Mapping of Old-Growth Forest Probability in Italy Virtual Oral Presentation Enhancing forest inventory and Analysis through satellite derived embeddings |
More than ice in ICESat-2: Unlocking canopy insights from space Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Sorin Popescu Evaluating ICESat-2-Derived Canopy Cover for Large-Area Forest Mapping In-person Oral Presentation Continental-Scale Forest Height Dynamics Using Integrated GEDI and ICESat-2 Lidar Data In-person Oral Presentation Continental and global-scale canopy height modeling: space-lasers to cloud-computing 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 |
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate I Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon Using terrestrial lidar to understand hurricane-adaptive canopy traits in pine species from the Southeastern US to The Bahamas In-person Oral Presentation Gone with the wind: Assessing disease progression and hydraulic conductivity of pine trees exposed to extreme winds of hurricane Helene. In-person Oral Presentation Long-term effects of canopy scorch on mitigating hurricane damage using long-term data and terrestrial lidar In-person Oral Presentation Storm-driven Acceleration of Coastal Forest Retreat and Ghost Forest Formation |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Assessment of stem straightness in mediterranean forest species using Handheld Laser Scanning: An Italian case study In-person Oral Presentation Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data Collection and Integration: Geospatial Innovations in Location Sampling and On-the-Ground Efficiency In-person Oral Presentation Exploring the Potential of the Mandeye Handheld LiDAR System for Ecosystem Characterization In-person Oral Presentation Benchmarking Tree Instance Segmentation Algorithms: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Performance Across Diverse LiDAR Datasets and Forest Conditions |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Flareless: A Hybrid Machine Learning and AHP Approach for High-Resolution Forest Fire Risk Assessment Virtual Oral Presentation Estimating forest wildfire emissions across the United States In-person Oral Presentation Fire progression and severity across fuel treatments in the Western United States In-person Oral Presentation Good fire: quantifying the beneficial ecosystem work of western U.S. wildfires (2010-2020) |
Artificial Intelligence in Forest Research and Management II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Predicting Forest Inventory Parameters from Remote Sensing Data: Comparison of Random Forest and Deep Learning Approaches In-person Oral Presentation Scaling Up Forest Vision with Synthetic Data In-person Oral Presentation Geospatial foundation models enable data-efficient tree species mapping in temperate mountain forests In-person Oral Presentation Wall-to-Wall Forest Structure Mapping Using Generative AI and NAIP Imagery |
Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Darby Levin Assessment of automatic hedgerows detection using Pleiades Neo 30cm images and Foundation model In-person Oral Presentation Providing a New Remote Sensing Method and Extensive Tree Database for Allometric Scaling Models of Carbon Stocks of Individual Trees Outside of Forests In-person Oral Presentation Determining Detection Thresholds for Individual Trees to Enable Farmer-Specific Payments in Agroforestry Carbon Programs In-person Oral Presentation Learnings and applied results from combined remote and field monitoring of a restoration portfolio |
Large scale european projects supporting current policy making at the EU Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Ruben Valbuena Remote sensing and the Nature Restoration Regulation: assessing biodiversity indicators for integrated forest management In-person Oral Presentation Federated Learning for forest monitoring: a privacy-preserving approach to cross-border data integration In-person Oral Presentation Harmonised Remote Sensing Products and Disturbance Reference Data to Support European Forest Monitoring and Multifunctionality Assessment In-person Oral Presentation Overview of EU large scale projects |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping III Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Quantifying Fire-Induced Biomass Loss in the Amazon Forest Using GEDI Virtual Oral Presentation Object-Based Scanning of Wildland Fuels: Bridging the Resolution Gap in 3D Vegetation Modeling 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 In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Airborne Laser Scanning data, Topography, and Climate Metrics for Forest Fuel Mapping in the Western U.S. |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies III Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) AI and GIS for urban biodiversity monitoring - Trees census, from location estimation to ecosystem services assessment In-person Oral Presentation Assessing Forest Structure and Biophysical Controls on Degradation Across the Amazon Using Spaceborne LiDAR Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating Traditional and Novel Height-Diameter Models for Urban Tree DBH Estimation In-person Oral Presentation Integrating UAV and Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices in Mediterranean Forests |
Geospatial Innovations I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Leveraging Geospatial Embeddings for Cloud-Free Reconstruction and Phenology Monitoring in Optical Remote Sensing In-person Oral Presentation Isolating Urban Tree Cooling: A 3D Workflow Using ALS LiDAR Data In-person Oral Presentation Multimodal Approach to Tree Species Classification: Integrating TLS Point Clouds with Contextual Remote Sensing and Forest Inventory Data In-person Oral Presentation Integrating UAV LiDAR and Multispectral Data for Improved Classification and Flood Hazard Assessment in Mediterranean Forests |
Remote sensing-assisted sampling and statistical inference in forest inventory Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Zhengyang Hou Nexus of certain design-based estimators in remote sensing forest inventory In-person Oral Presentation Remote sensing-assisted, post-stratified estimation In-person Oral Presentation A STATISTICALLY CONGRUENT INNOVATIVE STRATEGY FOR ENHANCED NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES In-person Oral Presentation Impact of Tree Species on the Accuracy and Transferability of Lidar-Based Biomass Models |
Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Joanne White Tracking fire across the Southeast from burn severity to recovery with harmonized Landsat-Sentinel data Virtual Oral Presentation Tracking forest recovery across Europe using spectral unmixing of Landsat time series In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating UAV-Based Approaches for Detecting Forest Regeneration in Post-Disturbance Landscapes: Insights from the KI-Recover Project In-person Oral Presentation Post-Fire Conifer Recovery From Spectral and Field Data - Why Monitoring Methods Matter |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Fire, Burned Area, and Fuel Load Mapping IV Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Tracing Land-Use Imprints on the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Wildfires 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. In-person Oral Presentation Wildfire Propagation Modelling for Europe and the Mediterranean with Deep Learning and an adjusted Dataset In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying fuel composition with terrestrial LiDAR in a longleaf pine savanna |
Advances in Remote Sensing Technologies IV Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Estimation of canopy fAPAR using optical reflectance and airborne LiDAR data 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. In-person Oral Presentation Use of high-resolution commercial X-band SAR and optical data to model forest height In-person Oral Presentation NAIP-based digital aerial photogrammetry for forest structure estimation and evaluating disturbance effects in Colorado, USA |
Geospatial Innovations II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Study on the Examination of Data Acquisition Methods Based on Forest Conditions and the Evaluation of Ecological Functions in Japan In-person Oral Presentation Mapping Understory Vegetation Using LiDAR-Derived Canopy Models and Machine Learning In-person Oral Presentation LiDAR-based Reconstruction of Power Lines in Complex Forested Terrains In-person Oral Presentation Tracking Appalachian Surface Mine Reclamation Trajectories with Remotely Sensed Data |
Mapping forest long-term dynamics through multisensor time series and machine learning Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Na Chen The Spanish Atlas of Forests and Disturbances (SAFoD): Four Decades of Forest Change Across Continental Spain In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Weakly Supervised Learning and Multispectral Time Series for Robust Tree Species Mapping of Heterogeneous Forest In-person Oral Presentation Vegetation Transition History Predicts Wildfire Risk Beyond Climate Forcing: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of California In-person Oral Presentation Large-scale Tropical Forest Disturbances Monitoring Using Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data |
NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Joanne Hall Advancing Wildfire Smoke Forecasting and Exposure Assessment Across the CONUS Using Multi-Model Intercomparison and Ensemble Techniques Virtual Oral Presentation Coupled Interactive Forecasting of Active Fire Impacts In-person Oral Presentation NASA’s Wildland Fire Program – Supporting Proactive Wildfire and Prescribed Burn Management and Research Efforts In-person Oral Presentation Harmonics of stress and structure from ECOSTRESS and GEDI to support pre-fire mapping and the management of fire trajectories |
| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Climate Change Impacts Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Assessing Vertical Structural Complexity in Regulating Forest Microclimate Using Mobile Laser Scanning Virtual Oral Presentation Analysis of Motifs of Intact Forest Resilience and Global Climate Variables Virtual Oral Presentation Detecting tree stress in 3D: Using structural metrics to predict tree physiology and drought tolerance in P. taeda In-person Oral Presentation The importance of UF spatial structure in combating UHI using VHR satellite and ALS data - Kraków case study |
Near Real-Time Monitoring of Forests Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Edge-AI Fusion Pipeline for Real-Time Forest Health Monitoring in Subtropical Pine Ecosystems of North-Central Florida In-person Oral Presentation Attributing direct drivers to pantropical deforestation alerts In-person Oral Presentation Real-Time Event-Driven Vision for Aerial Surveillance on MPSoC Platforms in Forest Environments In-person Oral Presentation Monthly Forest Canopy Cover Loss in Europe, 2017–2024 |
Agroforestry Applications Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Operational 3DGS and OB-NeRF Pipelines for Field Vegetation: Case Study on Strawberries In-person Oral Presentation Mapping research pathways for restoring South Carolina’s historic tidal rice landscapes 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 Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating Vertical Structure Differences Between Old-Growth Avocado Orchards and Temperate Forests with GEDI Metrics: Implications for Habitat Availability |
Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or multi-sensors for comprehensive forest monitoring Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Na Chen TESSERA and Barlow Twins for forestry applications and carbon projects In-person Oral Presentation Near real time forest disturbance monitoring by integrating satellite-borne SAR data In-person Oral Presentation Global BIOMASS Digital Terrain Model Under the Canopy: Estimation Principle and Applications to Forest Characterization In-person Oral Presentation Integrating NAIP Point Cloud, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 Data for Improved Forest/Non-Forest Classification Using Explainable Machine Learning |
Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Andrew Hudak A geospatial database for quantifying effects from 40 years of fire (1985-2025) on biomass and fuel dynamics across the western USA In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying the preferences of final users of LiDAR derived tree list maps to maximize their use and adoption. In-person Oral Presentation Introducing the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase: a new tool for accessing fuel treatment and wildfire data In-person Oral Presentation Integrating remote sensing and landscape modeling for monitoring biomass carbon pools and fluxes: results from three scales of stakeholder use-cases in the working forests of Maine, USA |
| Date: Wednesday, 06/May/2026 | |||||
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Crown-level mapping and persistence of emergent tropical trees in fragmented tropical landscapes In-person Oral Presentation Assessing forest naturalness using airborne laser scanning (ALS) In-person Oral Presentation Extracting Ecological Variables from The Brazilian Atlantic Forest Using UAV Images In-person Oral Presentation Beyond Climate and Soil: LiDAR-Derived Forest Structure Unlocks Species Habitat Signatures Across the Temperate–Boreal Ecotone |
Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Characterizing the vertical structure of forests in the Brazilian Amazon Virtual Oral Presentation Enhanced Detection of Forest Disturbances in the Pan-Amazon through Integration of Sentinel-2 and Landsat Time Series In-person Oral Presentation deFOREST: Fusing Optical and Radar satellite data for Enhanced Sensing of Tree-loss Virtual Oral Presentation Evaluating endmember specificity for SMA-based disturbance detection across Pinus sylvestris provenance regions in Spain |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Augmenting Training data for Individual Tree Biomass Estimation using UAV LiDAR in Dense Forest and Urban Environments 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 In-person Oral Presentation Estimating aboveground biomass loss from tree cover to cropland conversion In-person Oral Presentation Addressing The Small Data Problem in Forestry: Self-Supervised Learning for Aboveground Biomass Estimation |
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 Validating Handheld LiDAR for Single-Tree Volume and Aboveground Biomass Carbon: Quantifying the Impact of Height Uncertainty Virtual Oral Presentation Advancing the quantification of urban tree carbon content through the application of terrestrial laser scanning technology. In-person Oral Presentation A novel tree-height independent method for tree volume estimation based on TLS point clouds In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying Aspen Aboveground Biomass and Allometry in Boreal Forests Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning |
Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate II Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Jeffery B. Cannon Using UAVs to understand stand-level drivers of hurricane susceptibility in southeastern Georgia’s pecan orchards In-person Oral Presentation Scaling tropical cyclone risk across the southeast to inform conservation planning In-person Oral Presentation Mapping post-hurricane damage severity in southern U.S. forests using PlanetScope imagery, LiDAR, and deep learning Virtual Oral Presentation Fifty years of tropical cyclones in US forests through the lens of forest inventory |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Forest Biomass Estimation Using Deep Learning and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem In-person Oral Presentation Forest structure and carbon dynamics across the Amazon using GEDI and airborne lidar 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 In-person Oral Presentation Using destructive sampling to validate mangrove biomass estimates from terrestrial laser scanning and published allometries |
Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Tree species mapping at regional scale with Planet data and weakly labelled training data In-person Oral Presentation Pixel-based tree species detection using aerial hyperspectral imagery data in mid-Atlantic mixed hardwood forests In-person Oral Presentation Individual Tree Species Prediction and Area-Based Metrics in the Acadian Forest: New Brunswick's Unique and Highly Diverse Forest In-person Oral Presentation Spectral response of plants to herbivore overabundance |
Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Modeling the Regeneration of Aspen Using Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Field Validation in Post-Fire Ecosystems. In-person Oral Presentation Mapping Forest Vulnerability Across Europe Using the Composite2Change (C2C) Framework In-person Oral Presentation Longterm index trends demonstrate canopy loss and possible link to hydrologic change in a barrier island forest In-person Oral Presentation Integrating field and high-resolution remote sensing data for comprehensive forest disturbance monitoring |
Ecosystem morphological traits from 3D data and biodiversity Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Ruben Valbuena Connecting forest structural diversity and foliar trait diversity across spatial scales and climate gradients in the eastern United States In-person Oral Presentation Detecting deadwood from terrestrial laser scanning data using deep learning In-person Oral Presentation Pristine forests approach maximum mean-independent entropy in every global climate In-person Oral Presentation Essential Biodiversity Variables of Ecosystem Structure: Definitions and Operational Workflows |
Fuel and consumption modeling and mapping to improve fuel, fire, and smoke models Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Andrew Hudak Accurate and Dynamic Fuel Load Mapping Using Satellite Remote Sensing Across 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 In-person Oral Presentation Spatially explicit fuel distribution models from neighborhood methods 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 |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation III Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Fusion of GEDI and ICESat-2 for Mapping Forest Canopy Height and Aboveground Biomass 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. In-person Oral Presentation Improving Biomass Estimates in Heterogeneous Rangelands In-person Oral Presentation Large-scale aboveground carbon mapping from multi-source remote sensing and AI in tropical savanna |
Forest Health and Disease Detection I Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Assessing the accuracy of changepoint algorithms and vegetation index in detecting beetles related forest mortality. In-person Oral Presentation Aspen leafminer detection in Interior Alaska from high-resolution satellite data using deep learning In-person Oral Presentation An Evaluation of UAV Lidar for Assessing Brown Spot Needle Blight Disease in Loblolly Pine In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating superpixel algorithms for standing dead tree dealineation using aerial orthoimagery |
Forest Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience III Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Structural Quality Recovery of Amazon Tropical Forests using Spaceborne LiDAR In-person Oral Presentation Monitoring Post-Disturbance Forest Recovery across the Brazilian Amazon In-person Oral Presentation The (mis)measurement of forest edge effects using remote sensing In-person Oral Presentation Using the proportion of primary forest in the landscape to model forest degradation in the tropics |
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 Chair: Feng Zhao Improving the attribution of forest canopy loss drivers using time series remote sensing and multi-modal foundation model In-person Oral Presentation Integrating Multi-Source Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Policy Pathways for Forest Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon In-person Oral Presentation linking in situ, airborne and satellite measurements of biophysical variables in tropical forests In-person Oral Presentation Quantifying tropical tree cover loss driven by cropland conversion |
Virtual Poster Presentation Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Scalable monitoring of deforestation-free supply chains via cloud-native remote sensing Virtual Poster Presentation A Multi-Source Remote Sensing Pipeline for Individual-Tree Phenotyping in Eucalyptus Breeding: Integrating UAV-LiDAR, MLS and Spectral Data Virtual Poster Presentation Combining MODIS and ASTER Data for Satellite based Super-Resolution with Generative Deep Learning Virtual Poster Presentation Effect of ratio between point cloud clipping size and field plot size on goodness-of-fit of forest attributes models based on LiDAR metrics Virtual Poster Presentation Improvement forest biodiversity assessment through Handheld Laser Scanning for precision forestmanagement Virtual Poster Presentation The Best Tool for the Fuel: Comparing 3D characterization approaches for forest understories Virtual Poster Presentation Spatio-temporal analysis of the ecological characteristics of mountainous forests in the Republic of Korea |
| 2:35pm - 3:35pm |
Carbon and Biomass Estimation IV Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Tracking forest aboveground biomass recovery following wind disturbance using PlanetScope-derived canopy structure and spectral data In-person Oral Presentation Terrestrial LiDAR and Forest Inventory Integration for Improved Estimates of Wildfire Impacts on Forest Carbon In-person Oral Presentation UAS lidar enables quantification of forest coarse woody debris to support forest carbon management plans In-person Oral Presentation Recent changes in global forest biomass as viewed from space |
Forest Health and Disease Detection II Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning Approaches for Early Detection of Forest Pest Outbreaks in Croatia In-person Oral Presentation Cloud-based forest health monitoring in Europe In-person Oral Presentation Forests from Space: Fusing Satellite Embeddings with NEON Field Data to Map Tree Mortality In-person Oral Presentation Modeling the spatial distribution of southern pine beetle outbreaks across the southeastern United States |
Advances in active remote sensing for forest parameter estimation Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: John Armston Development Update on MOLI : Spaceborne Lidar Mission In-person Oral Presentation GEDI and the Path from Sampling to Monitoring: Forest Structure in the Next Generation of Active Missions Virtual Oral Presentation The BIOMASS mission: status and first results after 1 year in orbit In-person Oral Presentation The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) mission: Tracking change in the 3D structure of terrestrial ecosystems using satellite laser altimetry |
3D Fuels: Characterizing wildland fuels in three dimensions for next-generation fire modeling Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Hannah Redford Characterizing fuels in 3D: scaling measurements and inputs for fire behavior and smoke modeling In-person Oral Presentation From Planar Intercepts to Point-Based Insights: 3D Fuel Characterization for Southwestern Forests and Woodlands In-person Oral Presentation TreeFlow: Generative Modeling of 3D Tree Structure for Canopy Fuel Characterization In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating a novel understory vegetation segmentation method on airborne and terrestrial lidar point clouds |
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| 3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Rodrigo Vieira Leite Chair: Marcos Longo Monitoring the circumpolar boreal forest’s structure and shifts with ICESat-2 & HLS In-person Oral Presentation Northward advance of the boreal forest confirmed by the Landsat record In-person Oral Presentation Mapping aboveground biomass and canopy height recovery following stand-replacing forest disturbances in Japan In-person Oral Presentation Rapid operational monitoring of global tree cover change |
Advancing earth science monitoring through web-based cyberinfrastructure platforms Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Chair: Viswanath Nandigam Multi-temporal Lidar Workflow for Forest Change Mapping In-person Oral Presentation OpenForest4D - Cyberinfrastructure for Next-Generation Forest Structure and Biomass Monitoring In-person Oral Presentation Spaceborne remote sensing and AI highlight asymmetric canopy height change across southeastern US forests In-person Oral Presentation Mapping forest canopy height across the western United States using spaceborne lidar and multi-sensor data |
Toward a collaborative framework: Integrating remote sensing research with forestry practice Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Chair: Zsofia Koma How deep learning can enhance and expand forest resource mapping in Norway Virtual Oral Presentation Joint development of remote sensing-based tools for forest management planning –Project “VorratAktuell” In-person Oral Presentation Barriers in the Implementation of Close-Range Remote Sensing Technologies in Forestry In-person Oral Presentation Practical Forestry Insights from ALS, Sentinel and NFI |
Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Chair: Jeff Atkins Direct assessment of forest water status and water stress from satellite-based microwave measurements In-person Oral Presentation Improved estimation of the interannual variability of dryland carbon and water fluxes In-person Oral Presentation Evaluating Carbon Uptake and Evaporative Cooling in Temperate Forests Using Remote Sensing and Flux Tower Data In-person Oral Presentation Characterizing relationships between vegetation traits and land-atmosphere exchanges of CO2, CH4, and H2O across Mid-Atlantic coastal wetlands |
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| Date: Thursday, 07/May/2026 | |||||
| 9:50am - 10:50am |
Emerging Trends in Forest Management Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) 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 In-person Oral Presentation From 2D to 3D: Transforming Marteloscope Training through Digital Forest In-person Oral Presentation Is natural forest regeneration always a climate-cooling strategy? 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 |
Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Characterizing the Effective Footprint Diameter of ICESat-2 when Measuring Canopy 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 Virtual Oral Presentation Four decades of change in tree species composition across the Spanish Iberian Range forests: insights from NFI and Landsat data In-person Oral Presentation Atmospheric correction stands on the way in effective use of Landsat and Sentinel-2 image time series for forest inventories |
Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry I Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) Effects of sample plot size on model-assisted estimates of above-ground forest biomass across Europe In-person Oral Presentation Characterizing Italian species phenology through Sentinel-2-derived vegetation phenology and productivity products In-person Oral Presentation Bridging GEDI Sampling Gaps: Multimodal Deep Learning for Wall-to-Wall Forest Structural Complexity Mapping Virtual Oral Presentation Engineering independent intensity and texture features for sample design, classification, regression, and clustering analyses using principal component analysis and convolution kernels |
Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products I Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) Project Updates In-person Oral Presentation Global uncertainty assessment of vegetation indices from NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project In-person Oral Presentation A Time-series-based Image Fusion Algorithm for Harmonizing Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data at 10 m In-person Oral Presentation Congo Basin forest monitoring applications with Harmonized Landsat Sentinel 2 data |
What is the value of satellite imagery? – The impact of Earth Observation programs on forest applications Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link IMPROVING FOREST DISTURBANCE DETECTION TECHNIQUES USING LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGERY Virtual Oral Presentation Global Earth observation-based maps of annual greenhouse gas fluxes from land Virtual Oral Presentation Imagery Into Action: Indigenous Remote Sensing for Territorial Security and Climate Resilience In-person Oral Presentation The impact of available satellite imagery on national monitoring and reporting capacity |
| 11:05am - 12:05pm |
Spaceborne Missions for Forest Science II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Leveraging Planet imagery and LiDAR data for enhanced estimation of wild edible mushroom yield in Mediterranean forests In-person Oral Presentation Modeling TROPOSIF using PACE EVI and PRI: Seasonal differences in the multivariate relationship Virtual Oral Presentation Using dense Landsat time series imagery and national forest inventory field plots to monitor US forests In-person Oral Presentation Monitoring the Community Level Individual Tree Phenology from Space |
Sampling and Statistical Inference in Forestry II Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) GEDI AGBD Calibration and Model-Based Inference in Tropical Forests via Embedding-Aided Spatiotemporal NNGP and Bayesian Regression In-person Oral Presentation Improving Precision of Stand-Level Estimates in Southern Pine Plantations Using Small Area Estimation In-person Oral Presentation Stand effects, not spatial autocorrelation are often the main driver behind underestimating stand-level uncertainty. In-person Oral Presentation Small-Area Estimation improves FIA estimates in areas of high nonresponse |
Sustainability Metrics for Forest-Based Industries Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Assessing Risk Uncertainty in Deforestation-Free Supply Chains through Multi-Tiered Remote Sensing Analysis In-person Oral Presentation Towards Resilient Carbon Farming: Accounting for Reversal Risks in European Forest Carbon Markets In-person Oral Presentation Accounting for Water Assets in the Pagsanjan-Lumban Watershed Using the SEEA-Water Framework In-person Oral Presentation High-resolution global forest typology and natural forest identification in support of sustainability initiatives |
Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products II Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Madhu Sridhar Validation of the NASA Harmonized Landsat-Sentinel-2 (HLS) surface reflectance data product against MODIS NBAR 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 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) In-person Oral Presentation Fire-driven vegetation loss across North American forest zones: attribution of near real-time DIST-ALERT data |
New frontiers in forest biomass mapping with low-frequency SAR satellites Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Maciej J. Soja Forest disturbance analysis of BIOMASS time-series in the Brazilian Amazon: comparison with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions Virtual Oral Presentation First demonstration of spaceborne L-band bistatic InSAR from China's Lutan-1 for forest height and AGBD mapping In-person Oral Presentation ESA's BIOMASS mission: a new frontier in forest biomass mapping with P-band SAR In-person Oral Presentation A Study on High-Resolution Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation at the National Scale |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization I Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Modeling biomass in loblolly pine plantations using variables from UAV multispectral imagery and SfM point clouds In-person Oral Presentation Linking Tree Architecture with Genetics and Management: A Multi-scale Assessment Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Loblolly Pine Virtual Oral Presentation Operational Use of Mobile Laser Scanning for Estimating Tree Volume in Temperate Hardwood Forests Virtual Oral Presentation Scalable Correction and Characterization of Forestry Roads in Ontario Using Single Photon LiDAR and Deep Learning |
Programming and Data Analysis for Forestry Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) AiDroneTree: A Software for Individual Tree Detection, Inventory, and Biomass Estimation Using UAV Point Cloud In-person Oral Presentation ForestVision: A Universal Framework for Forestry Vision Tasks Based on Strong Foundation Models 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 Virtual Oral Presentation treeX: Unsupervised Tree Instance Segmentation in Dense Forest Point Clouds |
Policy and Decision-Making Support Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) From Spatial Analysis to Decisions: Modelling and Mapping Mangrove Forest Restoration Potential in Coastal Africa In-person Oral Presentation From Land Cover to Land Use: A Remote Sensing–Based Map of Forest Area in Europe In-person Oral Presentation U.S. mature and old-growth forest mapping, ownership, and land use In-person Oral Presentation Mapping and Characterizing High Conservation Value Forests in the Polish Carpathians Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing |
From canopy to complexity: Advances in understanding forest structure using remote sensing Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Zachary Horve Evaluation of Height Changes in Uneven-Aged Spruce–Fir–Beech Forest with Freely Available Nationwide Lidar and Aerial Photogrammetry Data In-person Oral Presentation LiDAR Reveals Structurally Similar Canopies at Forest Edges Adjacent to Urban and Agricultural Land Uses In-person Oral Presentation Towards a unified estimation of forest structural metrics from active remote sensing platforms Virtual Oral Presentation The Global Terrestrial Laser Scanning Database: Understanding Regional Drivers of 3D Tree Architectural Traits |
Applications of NASA’s hyperspectral PACE mission: New insights for ecosystem science Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Morgaine McKibben PACE Terrestrial Products – a New View of Forest Distributions, Phenology, and Function In-person Oral Presentation Land in living color: Terrestrial applications from PACE, NASA’s new global, hyperspectral satellite mission In-person Oral Presentation Terrestrial Remote Sensing with the Ocean Color Instrument In-person Oral Presentation A cloud-based toolkit for accessing hyperspectral data from NASA's PACE mission |
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Industrial Plantation Monitoring and Optimization II Location: Pine (Meeting Room 2355) Potential of GEDI waveform data for plantation forests and natural forests detection In-person Oral Presentation Predicting Pinus taeda L. stand volume using Random Forest and hyperspectral data in southern Brazil In-person Oral Presentation Using Satellite-Derived Phenology Metrics to Optimize Silvicultural TreatmentTiming In-person Oral Presentation Monitoring change in softwood plantations using high resolution satellite imagery |
RS36 Location: Oak (Meeting Room 2365) From Crowns to Stands: LiDAR Mapping of Tree Social Status and Stand Structure by a Standardized, Reproducible Approach In-person Oral Presentation Transparent parametric models as a pathway to reproducible forest volume estimation using NFI and ALS data In-person Oral Presentation Expect the unexpected when processing ALS data stored in large public archives In-person Oral Presentation Beyond maps: Using data from the Nationwide Forest Inventory of the United States to support geospatial modeling and mapping |
Stakeholder Engagement in Forest Management Location: Cypress (Meeting Room 3315) Augmented Reality in Forestry: A Strategic Tool for Operational Efficiency, Safety, and Asset Optimization Virtual Oral Presentation Bridging Research and Application: A Framework for Remote Sensing in Forestry 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 In-person Oral Presentation Participatory Remote Sensing in support of global forest monitoring |
Assessing map quality, accuracy, and area estimation: implications and applications for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and financing Location: Auditorium Virtual zoom link Chair: Erik Lindquist Area Estimation Using Class Probabilities: Advancing Model-Based Approaches for Forest Monitoring Virtual Oral Presentation Map quality assessment to support the appropriate use of large-scale land cover maps In-person Oral Presentation Area estimation and applications for international financial mechanisms and forest conservation In-person Oral Presentation Assessing sampling efficiency: Implications for area estimation and map accuracy assessment |
Beyond the flames: Advancing wildfire science and management with spaceborne LiDAR Location: Rion Ballroom Virtual zoom link Chair: Christopher Hakkenberg Modeling Future Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Fire Regimes in California In-person Oral Presentation Post-Fire Forest Structure and Carnivore Habitat: Improving GEDI-Fusion Products for Canada Lynx Conservation In-person Oral Presentation Supporting fire behavior modeling with canopy base height and canopy bulk density estimates using airborne and spaceborne lidar In-person Oral Presentation The fire triangle revisited: using continuous GEDI fuel structure to partition variance among drivers |