PRELIMINARY PROGRAM FORESTSAT 2016

Date: TUESDAY, November 15, 2016

08:00

: Registration

08:30

: Welcome Forestsat2016 (Auditorium)

: Keynote Speaker, Warren Cohen PhD.

10:00

Session 1: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Room: Auditorium
10:00-10:20:
Biomass estimation using
at-surface reflectance
multispectral aerial
images.
Miguel Marabel & Flor
Alvarez-Taboada.

10:20-10:40:
Effect of flying altitude,
scanning angle and
scanning mode on the
accuracy of ALS based
forest inventory.
Juha Kernen et al.

10:40-11:00:
Forest aboveground
biomass mapping in
Mexico using SAR,
optical and airborne
LiDAR data.
Mikhail Urbazaev et al.

Session 2: REDD+ FREL/FRL and MRV

Room: G-35
10:00-10:20:
An assessment of 30 m
resolution global forest
change maps for national
forest monitoring in
Guyana.
Daniel Donoghue et al.

10:20-10:40:
Assessing the cumulative
climatic effects on
regional forest decline
dynamics in coniferous
forests.
David M. Bell et al.

10:40-11:00:
Assessing predictions of
high-resolution climate
surfaces: a statistical
analysis in a Southern
Hemisphere country.
Christian Salas et al.

Session 3: Development of Methods

Room: G-36
10:00-10:20:
3D mapping of mangrove
forests along the Pacific
Coasts of Central and
South America.
Marc Simard, Victor H.
Rivera-Monroy, et al.

10:20-10:40:
3D modeling of belowcanopy global irradiance
using terrestrial LiDAR
data and ray tracing.
Renato Cifuentes La
Mura, et al.

10:40-11:00:
A comparison of biomass
change estimations in a
subtropical forest from
repeated airborne LiDAR
surveys.
Lin Cao et al.

Session 4: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Room: HHSR-507
10:00-10:20:
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10:20-10:40:
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11:00

: Coffee Break

11:30

10:40-11:00:
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Session 5: Forestry & Forest Management

Room: Auditorium
11:30-11:50:
Analysing the relations
between landscape
structural changes and
hydrological response at
subcatchment scale in
temperate forest basins.
B. Sotomayor et al.
12:30-12:50:
Potential of using data
assimilation to support
forest planning.
Rami Saad et al.

11:50-12:10:
Global Positioning
System and Google Earth
Integration; One Step
Further to Operational
Planning in Turkey.
Arif Oguz Altunel et al.
12:50-13:10:
Use of remotely sensed
data to spatially predict
optimal final stand
density, value and the
economic feasibility of
pruning for even age
plantation forests.
Michael S. Watt et al.

12:10-12:30:
National Report on
Sustainable Forests05:
Conservation of
Biological Diversity.
Mark D. Nelson et al.

Session 6: Latin American Forests

Room: G-35
11:30-11:50:
Comparing Generalized
Linear Models and
random forest to model
vascular plant species
richness using LiDAR
data in a natural forest in
central Chile.
Javier Lopatin et al.
12:30-12:50:
Estimating of the leaf
area index in a forest
fragment of mixed
ombrophilous forest in
Brazil, using remote
sensing techniques.
Bruna Nascimento et al.

11:50-12:10:
Detection of low density
natural forest in the
Andes region using
LANDSAT 8 imagery.
Luis Alberto Vega.

12:10-12:30:
Effect of LiDAR pulse
density on the
aboveground biomass
change prediction in
Brazilian Amazon
Rainforest.
Carlos Alberto Silva et al.

12:50-13:10:
Evaluating the extent of
ecological vulnerability
of the remaining of
Araucaria Forest Southern Brazil.
Henrique Cassol et al.

Session 7: Development of Methods

Room: G-36
11:30-11:50:
A new model-based
mean squared error
estimator for area-level
forest inventories.
Johannes Breidenbach et
al.

11:50-12:10:
A novel sampling
strategy for applying
ALS-based plot
imputation in Australian
native eucalypt forests.
Gavin Melville et al.

12:30-12:50:
Analyzing some factors
affecting the extraction
of full-waveform LiDAR
metrics and their effect
in forest structure
variable estimates.
Luis A. Ruiz et al.

12:50-13:10:
Analyzing the Lorenz
Curve of Tree Growth
Dominance with Multitemporal Airborne Lidar
in Wytham Forest (UK).
Rubn Valbuena et al.

12:10-12:30:
An approximation for
non-parametric
bootstrapping to assess
uncertainties in
imputation mapping of
forest vegetation.
David M. Bell & Matthew
Gregory.

Session 8: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Room: HHSR-507
11:30-11:50:
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11:50-12:10:
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12:30-12:50:
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12:50-13:10:
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13:10

: Lunch

14:30

12:10-12:30:
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Session 9: Forest Modelling

Room: Auditorium
14:30-14:50:
Data assimilation of
InSAR-based estimated
forest stand attributes.
N. Lindgren et al.

14:50-15:10:
Delineation of forest
structure patterns in the
circumpolar taiga-tundra
ecotone.
Paul M. Montesano et al.

15:30-15:50:
Lessons Learned
National Individual Tree
Species Extent and
Parameter Modeling for
Insect and Disease Risk
Mapping.
James Ellenwood, Frank
Krist.

15:50-16:10:
Modeling aboveground
biomass across multiple
biomes integrating
airborne LiDAR and
ALOS-PALSAR data.
Mariano Garcia et al.

15:10-15:30:
How much forest area
should be sampled to get
accurate biomass
estimations at different
scales?.
Rico Fischer et al.

Session 10: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-35
14:30-14:50:
A long term study of land
cover change in
Queensland, Australia
using Landsat in support
of vegetation
management.
Fiona Watson.

14:50-15:10:
A polyalgorithm for land
cover trend and change
detection.
Rishu Saxena et al.

15:30-15:50:
Bringing Earth
Observation Services for
Monitoring Dynamic
Forest Disturbances to
the Users EOMonDis
project.
F. Enle et al.

15:50-16:10:
Changing northern
vegetation conditions
are influencing barren
ground caribou (Rangifer
tarandus groenlandicus)
behavior.
Gregory Rickbeil et al.

15:10-15:30:
AFIS - Wildfire
Visualisation and Multisensor detection
capabilities.
Philip Frost.

Session 11: Development of Methods

Room: G-36
14:30-14:50:
Assessing forest biomass
and exploration in the
Brazilian Amazon with
Airborne InSAR: an
alternative for REDD.
Julianno Sambatti et al.

14:50-15:10:
Assessing the ability of
high-resolution lidarbased techniques to
estimate tropical tree
crown size variability.
Antonio Ferraz et al.

15:30-15:50:
Combining remote
sensing and
dendrochronology to
assess the effect of
groundwater extraction
on Prosopis tamarugo
from tree to aquifer
level.
Mathieu Decuyper et al.

15:50-16:10:
Comparison of forest
canopy pointmeasurement methods
from above and below.
Jaan Liira et al.

15:10-15:30:
Change detection
techniques for
development of
compatible height
growth and site index
models using repeated
Airborne Laser Scanning
Data.
Jaroslaw Socha et al.

Session 12: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Room: HHSR-507
14:30-14:50:
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14:50-15:10:
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16:10

: Coffee Break

16:40

Session 13: FREE

Room: Auditorium

15:10-15:30:
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Session 14: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-35
16:40-17:00:
Characterization of the
wildland-urban interface
using LiDAR data and
OBIA as a tool for fire
risk prevention and
management at a local
scale.
Miguel A. RodrguezGarrido et al.

17:00-17:20:
Combining Sentinel-1
and Sentinel-2 images for
near-real time forest
change detection.
Ruth Sonnenschein et al.

17:20-17:40:
Developing a U.S.
national land use and
land cover reference
data set to support interagency mapping,
validation and statistical
estimation needs.
Todd A. Schroeder et al.

17:40-18:00:
Development of a UAV
based platform for
monitoring simulated
disease expression using
time-series airborne
laser scanning and high
resolution multi-spectral
imagery.
Jonathan P. Dash et al.

Session 15: Development of Methods

Room: G-36
16:40-17:00:
Constructing a seamless
Landsat image mosaic
over the Amazon
rainforest.
Jasper Van Doninck &
Hanna Tuomisto.

17:40-18:00:
Development of an
energy balance model for
estimating canopy
stomatal conductance
from airborne thermal
data.
Juan Surez et al.

17:00-17:20:
Detection of Dead
Standing Eucalyptus for
managing biodiversity
using full-waveform
LiDAR data.
Milto Miltiadou et al.

17:20-17:40:
Detection of dead trees
by machine learning
techniques in temperate
forests of the Bavarian
Forest National Park.
Peter Krzystek &
Przemyslaw Polewski.

Session 16: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Room: HHSR-507
16:40-17:00:
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17:00-17:20:
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18:00

: Welcome Icebreaking Cocktail

19:30

: End day 1 ForestSAT 2016

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Date: WEDNESDAY, November 16, 2016

08:00

: Registration

08:30

: Keynote Speaker, Pang Yong PhD.

09:30

Session 17: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-35
09:30-09:50:
Fire behavior simulation
from global fuel and
climatic information.
M. Lucrecia Pettinari & E.
Chuvieco.

09:50-10:10:
Forest monitoring using
remote sensing timeseries: The case of
Colombian Andes
Protected Areas.
Paulo Murillo-Sandoval &
Thomas Hilker.

10:10-10:30:
Global fire impacts
assessment from long
term analysis of burned
area products.
Emilio Chuvieco et al.

10:30-10:50:
Improving forest change
detection in the UK using
LandTrendr and
TimeSync Landsat
analysis tools.
Jacqueline Rosette et al.

Session 18: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Room: G-36
09:30-09:50:
GEDI Biomass Model
Development in Tropical
Forests.
Laura Duncanson et al.

10:30-10:50:
Industrial forest
mapping: a Landsat
Spatial and Temporal
Approach.
Luigi Boschetti et al.

09:50-10:10:
Improved forest cover
mapping based on
MODIS time series and
landscape stratification.
Vronique Chret et al.

10:10-10:30:
Improving assessment of
fire risk in Yunnan
Province, China using
remote sensing.
Jacqueline Rosette et al.

Session 19: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
09:30-09:50:
Development of
precision forestry
applications for New
Zealand plantations
using remotely sensed
datasets.
Michael S. Watt et al.

09:50-10:10:
Estimating the regional
resource supply of
forests in south-west
Germany for a future
lignocellulose-based
bioeconomy using
airborne LiDAR, Landsat
7 and National Forest.
Joachim Maack et al.

10:10-10:30:
Estimation of canopy
cover in hemi-boreal
broad-leaved forests in
Estonia using
hemispherical
photography and LiDAR
data.
Tauri Arume et al.

09:50-10:10:
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10:30-10:50:
Forest-ObservationSystem.net towards
global reference
database for forest
biomass.
Dmitry Schepaschenko et
al.

Session 20: GWIS meeting

Room: G-38
09:30-09:50:
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10:50

: Coffee Break

11:20

: Poster Session

Session 21: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-35
11:50-12:10:
Mapping tree canopy
cover in support of
proactive prairie grouse
conservation in western
North America.
Michael J. Falkowski et al.

12:10-12:30:
Monitoring forest cover
change through a time
series approach.
Martin Romero-Snchez
et al.

12:30-12:50:
Patagonian forests under
attack: increasing largescale insect outbreaks
detected from MODIS
images.
Roberto Chvez et al.

12:50-13:10:
P-Band DInSAR time
series of river bank
erosions: Preliminary
results and comparisons
with field
measurements.
Karlus de Macedo et al.

Session 22: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Room: G-36
11:50-12:10:
Large scale timber
volume prediction with
digital aerial
photogrammetry and
national forest inventory
data.
Johannes Rahlf et al.
12:50-13:10:
Mapping forest height
and biomass of the
Choc region, Colombia,
combining stratified
random sampling of
Lidar data and
spaceborne remote
sensing data.
Victoria Meyer et al.

12:10-12:30:
Large-Scale Prediction of
Aboveground Biomass in
Mountain Forests
Utilizing Airborne Laser
Scanning.
Matti Maltamo et al.

12:30-12:50:
Mapping certified forests
for sustainable
management - a tool for
information
improvement through
citizen science.
Florian Kraxner et al.

Session 23: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
11:50-12:10:
LiDAR- and SAR-based
mapping of structural
attributes of deciduous
savannahs and
woodlands in the
southern African region.
Renaud Mathieu et al.

12:10-12:30:
Linking remotely sensed
functional diversity with
phylogenetic structure of
a temperate forest.
Carla Guilln Escrib et al.

12:30-12:50:
Machine learning
regression algorithms for
biophysical parameter
retrieval from spectral
properties to detect
different levels of ash
vitality in Central Europe.
Michael Foerster et al.

12:10-12:30:
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12:50-13:10:
Multi-Year Comparison
of Tree Species
Discrimination from
Formosat- Satellite
Image Time Series.
M. Fauvel et al.

Session 24: GWIS meeting

Room: G-38
11:50-12:10:
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12:50-13:10:
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13:10

: Lunch

14:30

Session 25: Forest Modelling

Room: G-35
14:30-14:50:
Modelling residual stand
volume using unmanned
aerial vehicles and digital
aerial photogrammetry.
Tristan Goodbody et al.

14:50-15:10:
Modelling the effect of
environmental factors on
the height increment of
stands with the use of
repeated Airborne
Scanning data.
Jaroslaw Socha et al.

15:30-15:50:
Prediction of alien
species richness in two
forest watershed of
South-Central Chile: a
remote sensing synergic
approach.
Mauricio Galleguillos et
al.

15:50-16:10:
Reconciling MODIS
satellite with terrestrial
forest inventory data to
assess forest productivity
in Europe.
Mathias Neumann et al.

15:10-15:30:
Nationwide airborne
laser scanning based
models for volume,
biomass and dominant
height in Finland.
Eetu Kotivuori et al.

Session 26: Latin American Forests

Room: G-36
14:30-14:50:
Improving Observations
of Tropical Forests with
Optimized Terrestrial
LiDAR Scanners.
Crystal Schaaf et al.

14:50-15:10:
Mapping forest
degradation in the
Valdivian Temperate
Rainforest ecorregion.
Ignacio Daz-Hormazbal
et al.

15:30-15:50:
Phenological
observations from a
hyperspectral camera in
the Amazonian Tapajos
National Forest.
Yhasmin Mendes de
Moura et al.

15:50-16:10:
Recent trends of land
surface temperature and
vegetation indexes over
the temperate rain forest
in Chile.
V. Olivares-Contreras et
al.

15:10-15:30:
Modeling aboveground
biomass from individual
tree LiDAR-derived
metrics in tropical forest.
Carlos Alberto Silva et al.

Session 27: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
14:30-14:50:
Near Real-Time
Detection of Forest
Changes using Google
Earth Engine and
Sentinel-2 Imagery: A
Case Study in Curacautin
region, Chile.
Nils Nlke et al.
15:30-15:50:
Shadow compensation
for imaging spectroscopy
data using a radiative
transfer approach.
Daniel Kkenbrink et al.

14:50-15:10:
Predicting Single Tree
Species Diameter
Distribution by Airborne
Laser Scanning Using
Different Modeling
Alternatives.
Matti Maltamo et al.

15:10-15:30:
Isolation of obscured
tree stems from forest
environments using TLS
data.
Johannes Heinzel et al.

15:50-16:10:
Simulating the spectral
response of tropical tree
species with -d radiative
transfer modeling.
Matheus Pinheiro
Ferreira et al.

Session 28: GWIS meeting

Room: G-38
14:30-14:50:
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16:10

: Coffee Break

16:40

Session 29: FREE

Room: G-35

15:10-15:30:
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Session 30: REDD+ FREL/FRL and MRV

Room: G-36
16:40-17:00:
Comparison of local EObased dense humid and
dry forest cover and
change area estimates in
the southwest forest
massif of Central African
Republic using the UMD
global dataset.
Christophe Sannier et al.
17:40-18:00:
Mapping historical
canopy cover change and
recovery using Landsat
time series imagery (9705).
Jody C. Vogeler et al.

17:00-17:20:
Estimating the dynamics
of carbon stocks in
forests with remote
sensing data.
Michele Dalponte et al.

17:20-17:40:
Linking Landsat 8 and
forest inventory data for
local biomass mapping in
open canopy woodlands.
Belachew Gizachew et al.

Session 31: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
16:40-17:00:
Study on Removal of
Atmospheric Effect on
Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index.
Haitao Lv, and Yong
Wang.
17:40-18:00:
Temporal Albedo
Dynamics in Boreal
Forest Fire Scars Using
Higher Resolution
Albedo Products from
Landsat and Sentinel 2A.
Angela M. Erb et al.

17:00-17:20:
Synergism of
PALSAR/ALOS-2 and
optical data for land use
mapping in Amazonia
transition landscape.
Joo Pompeu et al.

17:20-17:40:
Tandem-L: Global
Observation of Ecological
Processes on the Earths
Surface with Two L-Band
SAR Satellites.
Andreas Huth et al.

Session 32: GWIS meeting

Room: G-38
16:40-17:00:
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18:00

: Introduction Radar Course

21:00

: Social Dinner

17:20-17:40:
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Date: THURSDAY, November 17, 2016

08:00

: Registration

08:50

: Special Session in Memory Dr Thomas Hilker.

09:30

Session 33: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-36
09:30-09:50:
Relative impact of
previous disturbance
history on the likelihood
of additional disturbance
in the Northern United
States Forest Service
USFS Region.
Alexander J. Hernandez
et al.
10:30-10:50:
Spectral manifestation
and signal to noise ratio
of forest disturbance and
recovery.
Zhiqiang Yang et al.

09:50-10:10:
Remote sensing of
photosynthetic light use
efficiency of tropical
ecosystems.
Celio de Sousa et al.

10:10-10:30:
Satellite-based
monitoring of invasive
species in central-Chile.
Julian Cabezas et al.

Session 34: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
09:30-09:50:
Full waveform LiDAR and
the new PulseWaves
format.
Martin Isenburg.
10:30-10:50:
3D measurement of tree
health using
multispectral intensity
data from terrestrial
laser scanners.
Samuli Junttila et al.

09:50-10:10:
Two Phase Assessment
System for the Effective
Monitoring of Tropical
Forests.
Mathias Schardt.

10:10-10:30:
Why your next mapping
project will probably use
stacking.
Sean P. Healey et al.

Session 35: REDD+ FREL/FRL and MRV

Room: G-38
09:30-09:50:
National inventory of
tropical forest biomass
using statistical samples
of airborne LiDAR data.
Sassan Saatchi et al.
10:30-10:50:
Using leaf-on and leaf-off
airborne LiDAR to model
vegetation structure and
above-ground carbon
storage in the critical
zone.
Kristen Brubaker.

09:50-10:10:
Quantifying mangrove
forest loss in the
Sundarbans 1973-2014.
Abu RJ Mahmood et al.

10:10-10:30:
REDD+ monitoring with
3D data from InSAR.
Svein Solberg & Johannes
May.

Session 36: Forested Wetland Monitoring

Room: F-21
09:30-09:50:
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: Coffee Break

11:20

: Poster Session

10:10-10:30:
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11:50

Session 37: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-36
11:50-12:10:
Landsat time series
analysis the impact of
forest ecosystem history
on biodiversity.
Wanda Graf et al.

12:10-12:30:
Terra-i: A Pantropical
Near Real Time
Monitoring System for
Vegetal Cover Change.
Louis Reymondin et al.

12:30-12:50:
Mapping licit and illicit
mining activity in the
Madre de Dios region of
Peru.
Arthur Elmes et al.

12:50-13:10:
Use of New Technologies
in Monitoring Mountain
Forests Condition.
Radomir Baazy et al.

Session 38: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
11:50-12:10:
Terrestrial LiDAR and 3D
Reconstruction Models
for Estimation of Large
Individual Tree Biomass
in Tropics.
Alvaro Sarmiento et al.
12:50-13:10:
Towards an all-in-one
sensor for forestry
applications estimating
forest density, species
composition and biomass
from stereo WorldViewdata.
Fabian Fassnacht et al.

12:10-12:30:
The global ecosystems
dynamics investigation:
current status.
Ralph Dubayah and the
GEDI Science Team.

12:30-12:50:
The potential of
multitemporal and
polarimetric features
derived from sentineldata for forest
parameters retrieval.
Dariusz Ziolkowski et al.

Session 39: Forest Modelling

Room: G-38
11:50-12:10:
Relating forest height
structure to virtual
ground truth data.
Nikolai Knapp et al.

12:10-12:30:
Temporal and angular
effects of the spectral
signal on deciduous
forest crown
components.
Michael Foerster et al.

12:30-12:50:
Use of random forest
modeling techniques to
predict and detect shrub
locations under canopy
using LiDAR structure
and topography metric.
Caileigh Shoot et al.

12:50-13:10:
Vegetation Chlorophyll
estimated from multiangle MODIS and tower
hyperspectral
observations: A tool for
scaling ecosystem
seasonality and leaf
demography across
Amazonian evergreen
forests.
Thomas Hilker et al.

Session 40: Forested Wetland Monitoring

Room: F-21
11:50-12:10:
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Session 41: FREE

Room: G-36

Session 42: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
14:30-14:50:
Two phase assessment
system for the effective
monitoring of tropical
forests.
Mathias Schardt.

14:50-15:10:
UAV-borne and airborne
remote sensing for tree
disease symptom
detection.
Magdalena Smigaj et al.

15:30-15:50:
Updating of LiDAR based
forest attribute maps
using digital
photogrammetry
combined with the LiDAR
data.
Hkan Olsson et al.

15:50-16:10:
Use of hybrid modelbased inference with a
sample of LiDAR
measurements to
produce gridded biomass
estimates.
Paul L. Patterson et al.

15:10-15:30:
Uncertainty of LiDAR
biomass estimators for
tropical forests.
Sassan Saatchi et al.

Session 43: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Room: G-38
14:30-14:50:
Mapping of forest
attributes across Canada
using Landsat pixel
composites and LiDAR
plots.
Giona Matasci et al.

14:50-15:10:
Mapping the efficacy of
fuel reduction burns
using image-based point
clouds.
Luke Wallace et al.

15:30-15:50:
Multitemporal Landsat
for tree canopy cover
and change.
Jill Derwin et al.

15:50-16:10:
Inventory of Small Forest
Areas Using an
Unmanned Aerial
System.
Stefano Puliti et al.

15:10-15:30:
Multi-scale remote
sensing of mangrove
structure and
biomass/blue carbon.
Emanuelle Feliciano et al.

Session 44: Characterization of Fire Regimes

Room: F-21
14:30-14:50:
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14:50-15:10:
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15:30-15:50:
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15:50-16:10:
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15:10-15:30:
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14:30
Course I

: Forest Canopy Height Mapping with Radar Interferometry Part I

Room

: Auditorium

16:10

: Coffee Break

16:40
Course I

: Forest Canopy Height Mapping with Radar Interferometry Part II

Room

: Auditorium

Session 45: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-36
16:40-17:00:
Time series of burned
area maps derived from
MERIS and MODIS.
Itziar Alonso-Canas &
Emilio Chuvieco.

17:00-17:20:
Understanding the large
area disturbance history
of Australian Sclerophyll
forests.
Simon Jones et al.

17:20-17:40:
Validating a Forest
Canopy Disturbance Map
in North Central USA.
Mark D. Nelson et al.

17:40-18:00:
Water yield dynamics in
forested watersheds:
Using Landsat annual
time series for the
assessment of eco
services in national
forests of the
Intermountain West,
USA.
Alexander J. Hernandez
et al.

Session 46: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
16:40-17:00:
Use of partial-coverage
UAV data as a sampling
tool for large scale forest
inventories.
Stefano Puliti et al.

17:40-18:00:
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17:00-17:20:
Using LiDAR remote
sensing for identifying
suitable habitat. Case:
Darwin's Fox.
G. Carrasco & R. Briones.

17:20-17:40:
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Session 47: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Room: G-38
16:40-17:00:
New 3D measurements
of forest structure:
improving our
understanding of Earth
Observation.
Mathias Disney et al.

17:00-17:20:
Scale-dependent
mapping of stand
structural heterogeneity
from airborne LiDAR
data.
Collins Kukunda & Philip
Beckschfer.

17:20-17:40:
Stereo matched very
high-resolution satellite
images for predictions of
forest variables.
H.J. Persson et al.

17:40-18:00:
The ESA GLOBBIOMASS
Project - Preparing the
Ground for Global Forest
Biomass Mapping.
Heiko Balzter et al.

Session 48: Characterization of Fire Regimes

Room: F-21
16:40-17:00:
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17:40-18:00:
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18:00

17:00-17:20:
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17:20-17:40:
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: Plenary Session Round Table: Future of ForestSAT

Date: FRIDAY, November 18, 2016

08:30
Course II

: LiDAR Part I

Room

: G-38

08:30
Course III

: Design of Forest Inventories based on Remote Sensing Data Part I

Room

: C-33

08:30
Course IV

: Detection of Larch by Hyperspectral imaging Part I

Room

: G-37

10:50

: Coffee Break

11:20
Course II

: LiDAR Part II

Room

: G-38

11:20
Course III

: Design of Forest Inventories based on Remote Sensing Data - Part II

Room

: C-33

11:20
Course IV

: Detection of Larch by Hyperspectral imaging Part II

Room

: G-37

13:10

: End ForestSAT 2016

18:00

: Bus to Excursion until Monday 21