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 AlvarezTaboada.

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
below-canopy
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.

11:50-12:10:
Global Positioning
System and
Google Earth
Integration; One
Step Further to
Operational
Planning in
Turkey.
Arif Oguz Altunel et
al.

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

12:30-12:50:
Potential of using
data assimilation
to support forest
planning.
Rami Saad 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.

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.

12:50-13:10:
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

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

11:30-11:50:
A new modelbased mean
squared error
estimator for
area-level forest
inventories.
Johannes
Breidenbach et al.

11:50-12:10:
A novel sampling
strategy for
applying ALSbased 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
Multi-temporal
Airborne Lidar in
Wytham Forest
(UK).
Rubn Valbuena et
al.

12:10-12:30:
An approximation
for nonparametric
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

12:10-12:30:
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14:30

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 taigatundra 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.

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

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.

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.
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.

14:50-15:10:
Assessing the
ability of highresolution lidarbased techniques
to estimate
tropical tree
crown size
variability.
Antonio Ferraz et al.
15:50-16:10:
Comparison of
forest canopy
pointmeasurement
methods from
above and below.
Jaan Liira et al.

Session 12: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Room: HHSR-507

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.

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15:50-16:10:
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16:10

: Coffee Break

16:40

Session 13: FREE

Room: Auditorium

Session 14: Forest Monitoring

Room: G-35

15:10-15:30:
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16:40-17:00:
Characterization
of the wildlandurban interface
using LiDAR data
and OBIA to
estimate the risk
of damage due to
wildfires.
Flor Alvarez-Taboada
et al.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

09:50-10:10:
Estimating the
regional resource
supply of forests
in south-west
Germany for a
future
lignocellulosebased 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.

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

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

Session 22: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Room: G-36

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

11:50-12:10:
Large scale timber
volume prediction
with digital aerial
photogrammetry
and national
forest inventory
data.
Johannes Rahlf et al.

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

12:30-12:50:
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 SARbased 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.

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

Session 24: GWIS meeting

Room: G-38
11:50-12:10:
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12:10-12:30:
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12:50-13:10:
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13:10

: Lunch

14:30

Session 25: Forest Modelling

Room: G-35

12:30-12:50:
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14:30-14:50:
Modelling residual
stand volume
using unmanned
aerial vehicles
and digital aerial
photogrammetry.
Tristan Goodbody 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.

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.
15:50-16:10:
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 DazHormazbal 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.

Session 27: Development of Methods

Room: G-37

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

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

Session 30: REDD+ FREL/FRL and MRV

15:10-15:30:
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Room: G-36
16:40-17:00:
Comparison of
local EO-based
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
(97-05).
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

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.

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.

10:30-10:50:
3D measurement
of tree health
using
multispectral
intensity data
from terrestrial
laser scanners.
Samuli Junttila 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 19732014.
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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10:50

: Coffee Break

11:20

: Poster Session

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.

12:50-13:10:
Mapping licit and
illicit mining
activity in the
Madre de Dios
region of Peru.
Arthur Elmes et al.

Session 38: Development of Methods

12:30-12:50:
Comparison of
local EO-based
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.

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 allin-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
multi-angle 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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.

12:10-12:30:
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12:50-13:10:
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13:10

: Lunch

14:30

Session 41: FREE

Room: G-36

Session 42: Development of Methods

12:30-12:50:
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.

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
model-based
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 imagebased 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.
17:40-18:00:
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.

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.

Session 46: Development of Methods

Room: G-37
16:40-17:00:
Use of partialcoverage UAV
data as a
sampling tool for
large scale forest
inventories.
Stefano Puliti et al.
17:40-18:00:
.

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

Session 47: Forest Mapping & Inventory

17:20-17:40:
.

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 highresolution
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:
.

17:40-18:00:
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18:00
ForestSAT

17:00-17:20:
.

17:20-17:40:
.

: Plenary Session Round Table: Future of

Date: FRIDAY, November 18, 2016

08:30
Course II
Room

: LiDAR Part I
: G-38

08:30
Course III
: Design of Forest Inventories based on Remote
Sensing Data Part I
Room
: C-33

08:30
Course IV
Room

10:50

11:20
Course II
Room

: Detection of Larch by Hyperspectral imaging Part I

: G-37

: Coffee Break

: LiDAR Part II
: G-38

11:20
Course III
: Design of Forest Inventories based on Remote
Sensing Data - Part II
Room
: C-33

11:20
Course IV
Room

: Detection of Larch by Hyperspectral imaging Part II

: G-37

13:10

: End ForestSAT 2016

18:00
Monday 21

: Bus to Excursion Puelo Lodge until