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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

Chairman

: Ross Hill, Bournemouth University, UK.

Room: Auditorium
10:00-10:20:
Forest aboveground
biomass mapping in
Mexico using SAR,
optical and airborne
LiDAR data.
Mikhail Urbazaev et al.

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.

Session 2

: REDD+ FREL/FRL and MRV

Chairman

10:40-11:00:
FREE.

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

Chairman

Room: G-36
10:00-10:20:
A comparison of biomass
change estimations in a
subtropical forest from
repeated airborne LiDAR
surveys.
Lin Cao 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.

Session 4

: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Chairman

10:40-11:00:
FREE.

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

10:20-10:40:
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: Coffee Break

10:40-11:00:
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11:30

Session 5

: Forestry & Forest Management

Chairman

: Laszlo Pancel, GIZ, Germany.

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:
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.
12:50-13:10:
FREE

Session 6

: Latin American Forests

Chairman

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

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.

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

Session 7

: Development of Methods

Chairman

: Lucio Castro, Embrapa, Brazil.

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.

Session 8

: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Chairman

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

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

Chairman

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.

Session 10

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Angela de Santis, CEQUA, Chile.

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

Room: G-35
14:30-14:50:
Changing northern
vegetation conditions
are influencing barren
ground caribou (Rangifer
tarandus groenlandicus)
behavior.
Gregory Rickbeil et al

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:
FREE

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

Session 11

: Development of Methods

Chairman

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.

Session 12

: GOFC Fire IT meeting

Chairman

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.

Room: HHSR-507
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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16:10

: Coffee Break

15:10-15:30:
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16:40

Session 13

: FREE

Room: Auditorium

Session 14

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Nicholas Coops, Forestry UBC, Canada.

Room: G-35
16:40-17:00:
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.

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:
FREE

Session 15

: Development of Methods

Chairman

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

Chairman

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

: Welcome Icebreaking Cocktail

19:30

: End day 1 ForestSAT 2016

17:20-17:40:
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Date

: WEDNESDAY, November 16, 2016

08:00

: Registration

08:30

: Keynote Speaker, Pang Yong PhD.

09:00

: Keynote Speaker, Sylvia Wilson PhD.

09:30

Session 17

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Angela de Santis, CEQUA, Chile.

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 Murillo-Sandoval &
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

Chairman

: Nicholas Coops, Forestry UBC, Canada.

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

Chairman

: Kevin Tansey, University of Leicester, UK.

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:
Forest-ObservationSystem.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
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.

Session 20

: GWIS meeting

Chairman

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

: Coffee Break

11:20

: Poster Session (See Posters at the End of this Program)

Session 21

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Ross Hill, Bournemouth University, UK.

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:
FREE.

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.

Session 22

: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Chairman

: Lucio Castro, Embrapa, Brazil.

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.

12:10-12:30:
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.

12:50-13:10:
Inventory of Small Forest
Areas Using an
Unmanned Aerial
System.
Stefano Puliti et al.

Session 23

: Development of Methods

Chairman

: Kevin Tansey, University of Leicester, UK.

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

Session 24

: GWIS meeting

Chairman

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

Session 25

: Forest Modelling

Chairman

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

Chairman

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.

Session 27

: Development of Methods

Chairman

: Emilio Chuvieco, University of Alcala, Spain.

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

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.
15:50-16:10:
Use of partial-coverage
UAV data as a sampling
tool for large scale forest
inventories.
Stefano Puliti et al.

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

Session 28

: GWIS meeting

Chairman

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

Chairman

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.

Session 31

: Development of Methods

Chairman

: Emilio Chuvieco, University of Alcala, Spain.

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

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

Chairman

: Lucio Castro, Embrapa, Brazil.

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

08:30

: Special Session in Memory Dr Thomas Hilker.

09:00

: Keynote Speaker, Maria Pilar Martin PhD.

09:30

Session 33

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Lucio Castro, Embrapa, Brazil.

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

Chairman

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

Chairman

: Emilio Chuvieco, University of Alcala, Spain.

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:
FREE.

09:50-10:10:
Using leaf-on and leaf-off
airborne LiDAR to model
vegetation structure and
above-ground carbon
storage in the critical
zone.
Kristen Brubaker.

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

Session 36

: Forested Wetland Monitoring

Chairman

: Kate Fickas, University of Alcala, Spain.

Room: F-21
09:30-09:50:
3D mapping of mangrove
forests along the Pacific
Coasts of Central and
South America.
Marc Simard, Victor H.
Rivera-Monroy, et al.

09:50-10:10:
P-Band DInSAR time
series of river bank
erosions: Preliminary
results and comparisons
with field
measurements.
Karlus de Macedo et al.

10:30-10:50:
Multi-scale remote
sensing of mangrove
structure and
biomass/blue carbon.
Emanuelle Feliciano et al.

10:50

: Coffee Break

11:20

: Poster Session

10:10-10:30:
Quantifying mangrove
forest loss in the
Sundarbans 1973-2014.
Abu RJ Mahmood et al.

11:50

Session 37

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Kevin Tansey, University of Leicester, UK.

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

Chairman

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

Chairman

: Emilio Chuvieco, University of Alcala, Spain.

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

Chairman

: Kate Fickas, University of Alcala, Spain.

Room: F-21
11:50-12:10:
Statistical correction of
LiDAR-derived digital
elevation models with
multispectral airborne
imagery.
Kevin J. Buffington et al.
12:50-13:10:
.
.

13:10

: Lunch

12:10-12:30:
.
.

12:30-12:50:
.
.

14:30

Session 42

: Development of Methods

Chairman

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.

Session 43

: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Chairman

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

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:
FREE.

15:10-15:30:
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.

Session 44

: Characterization of Fire Regimes

Chairman

Room: F-21
14:30-14:50:
.
.

14:50-15:10:
.
.

15:30-15:50:
.
.

15:50-16:10:
.
.

15:10-15:30:
.
.

14:30
Course I

: Forest Canopy Height Mapping with Radar Interferometry Part I

Room

: G-36

16:10

: Coffee Break

16:40
Course I

: Forest Canopy Height Mapping with Radar Interferometry Part II

Room

: G-36

Session 45

: Development of Methods

Chairman

Room: G-37
16:40-17:00:
Simulating the spectral
response of tropical tree
species with -d radiative
transfer modeling.
Matheus Pinheiro
Ferreira 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.

17:20-17:40:
.

Session 46

: Forest Mapping & Inventory

Chairman

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

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

Session 47

: Characterization of Fire Regimes

Chairman

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

17:00-17:20:
.

17:40-18:00:
.

17:20-17:40:
.

Session 48

: Forest Monitoring

Chairman

: Angela de Santis, CEQUA, Chile.

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.

18:00

: Plenary Session Round Table: Future of ForestSAT (Auditorium)

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

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

13:10

: End ForestSAT 2016

15:30

: Bus to Excursion until Sunday 20

POSTER SESSION
1. 3-D model of a mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem for remote sensing
applications.
Javier Pacheco-Labrador, John Gajardo, David Riao, M. Pilar Martn.
2. A deep learning approach to tree-cover delineation in 1-m NAIP imagery.
Sangram Ganguly, Saikat Basu, Petr Votava, Andrew Michaelis, Supratik
Mukhopadhyay, Shreekant Gayaka, Ramakrishna Nemani.
3. A landsat scale wooded extent map of Australia.
Robert Denham, Fiona Watson, John Armston.
4. A methodology for determining the accumulation of combustible matter in forests
from satellite imagery.
Burak Aricak, Korhan Enez, Adem Kurtipek.
5. A study on forest management mapping and testing the validity of logging success
through the implementation of UAVs.
idem zer, Burak Aricak, Arif Altunel, Korhan Enez.
6. A web service proposal for forest inventory of fast-growing species in areas with
small-size property using free software: GRASS GIS, WPS and LiDAR.
Miguel Cordero, Eduardo Corbelle, David Miranda.
7. Above ground biomass related to field measurement errors.
Trucos C., R., Paudel, P., Kleinn, C.
8. Airborne dual band Radar for rural cadastre.
Dieter Lbeck, Rafael A. S. Rosa, Christian Wimmer, Karlus A. C. Macedo, Juliano
Lzaro.
9. Aligning phase variation in cumulative thermal time curves: a link to plant
phenophase variations.
Biing T. Guan.
10. ALS-based forest inventory data and stem data from harvester to predict timber
quality of Norway spruce structural timber.
Carolin Fischer, Marius Hauglin, Terje Gobakken, Olav Hib, Geir I. Vestl.
11. Analysis of land cover classes separability using optical and SAR data in areas of
high cloud content in northern South America.
Sebastin Palomino-ngel, Jess A. Anaya-Acevedo.
12. Analyzing methodological parameters in the extraction of full-waveform LiDAR
metrics and their effect in forest structure variable estimates.
Ruiz Luis A., Crespo-Peremarch Pablo, Estornell Javier, Balaguer-Beser Angel.

13. Application of high resolution satellite data for monitoring forest areas in
changeable climatic conditions.
Zbigniew Bochenek, Dariusz Ziolkowski, Maciej Bartold, Karolina Orlowska, Bogdan
Zagajewski.
14. Application of LiDAR remote sensing in building precise forest inventory.
H.L. Shrestha, L. Thapa.
15. Assessing the carbon and water balance of Boreal forests using a process-based
model driven by satellite images.
Minunno F., Mutanen T., Aurela M, Hme T, Liski Y, Vesala T, Mkel A.
16. Assessing the impact of logging in Tierra del Fuego.
Carlos Olave, Angela De Santis.
17. Assessment of forest productivity from MODIS NPP data in relation to forest
management and optimal leaf area index.
Mait Lang, Tiit Nilson, Mathias Neumann, Adam Moreno.
18. Automatic detection of coniferous tree genera based on aerial images.
Selina Ganz.
19. Automatic recognition of burned areas with the use of a support vector machine
(SVM) using VNIR spectral bands with multiple satellite sensors.
Manuel Castro, Patricio Acevedo.
20. Barren ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) behaviour after recent
fire events; integrating caribou telemetry data with Landsat fire detection
techniques.
Gregory J.M. Rickbeil, Txomin Hermosilla, Nicholas C. Coops, Joanne C. White,
Michael A. Wulder.
21. Biomass estimation using at-surface reflectance multispectral aerial images. Is
PLSR more accurate than vegetation indices? Do calibration targets matter? Can
the calibration of one image be used for adjacent images?
Miguel Marabel, Flor Alvarez-Taboada.
22. Building NBR time series with cloud-free Landsat 7 and 8 images to determine
burned area at subcontinental scale.
Jess A. Anaya, Armando M. Rodriguez, Walter Sione.
23. Change detection in multitemporal SAR orthoimages.
Rafael A. S. Rosa, David Fernandes, Joo B. Nogueira Jr. , Karlus A. C. Macedo,
Juliano Lzaro, Dieter Lbeck.
24. Characterization of forest structures through the synergic fusion of airborne LiDAR
and multispectral sensor-derived difference vegetation index.
Manzanera, JA., Garca-Abril, A., Pascual, C, Tejera, R, Martn-Fernndez S,
Martnez-Falero E, Valbuena, R.

25. 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. Rodrguez-Garrido, Jos Carlos Garca Lpez, Flor Alvarez-Taboada.
26. Comparison of UAV Photograph based and Airborne LiDAR based Point Clouds over
Forest From a Forestry Application Perspective.
Christian Thiel, Christiane Schmullius.
27. Detecting the spread of invasive tree species in central Chile with combined
Landsat and Sentinel-2 data.
Tobias Schmidt, Michael Foerster, Birgit Kleinschmit, Julian Cabezas, Fabian
Fassnacht.
28. Development of forest-yield maps generated from data automatically collected by
forest harvesters.
Alejandro Olivera, Rien Visser.
29. Disentangling recent patterns in litter fall of european forests with remote sensing
data across a continental scale.
Mathias Neumann, Hubert Hasenauer.
30. Dominant tree species dynamics informed by 30 years of Landsat time series in
mountain areas of Northern Spain.
Cristina Gmez, Isabel Aull, Fernando Montes.
31. Dynamic replacement of native forest and scrubland by exotics plantations in Chile
Central 1975-2014.
Lissette Corts and Jaime Hernndez.
32. Edge influence on the moisture content in relicts of tropical rainforest in the
municipality El Retorno (Guaviare, Colombia).
Mara Constanza Meza Elizalde & Dolors Armenteras Pascual.
33. EO-1 Swir band detection capability and comparison with Landsat.
Shannon Franks, Christopher Neigh.
34. Estimacin y monitoreo de cobertura de malezas a travs de imgenes satelitales.
Rodrigo Saavedra, Rodrigo Burgos, Jorge Requena, Mauricio Reyes, Cecilia Muoz.
35. Evaluation of disjunct LiDAR collections and aggregated field data for estimation of
forest biomass and composition.
Fekety, P. A., M. J. Falkowski, A. T. Hudak, T. B. Jain, and J. S. Evans.
36. Firefighting operations in Turkey.
Acikgoz Altunel T., Kucuk O.
37. Forest area changes and impact of forest boundary delineation on change
detection in forested landscapes in Eastern Europe.
Urmas Peterson and Jaan Liira.

38. ForestMap, combining regional LiDAR plot-level allometry and web-based


technologies to offer high resolution forest inventories.
Jose Luis Tome, Toms Sanchez Pellicer, Jose Antonio Navarro, Iigo Escamochero
Osa, Alfredo Fernandez Landa.
39. Impacto de los patrones y procesos de cambio sobre la cobertura forestal a escala
municipal: Caso de estudio en Chmeza Casanare.
Anglica Quintana- Linares y Beatriz H Ramrez.
40. Improving merchantable timber volume accuracy for balsam fir plots by analyzing
the spatial distribution of airborne LiDAR returns.
Sarah Yoga B., Jean Bgin, Benot St-Onge, Martin Riopel.
41. Interpreted high resolution imagery for rapid assessment of land use and land
cover changes in the United States - The USDA Forest Services Image-based
Change Estimation (ICE) project.
Mark Finco, Abigail Schaaf, Kevin Megown, Paul Patterson, Tracey Frescino, James
Blehm.
42. Landsat reveals the impact of disturbance on carbon storage in the United States
National Forest System.
Sean Healey, Alex Hernandez, Chris Garrard, James McCarter, Crystal Raymond.
43. Large area tree species mapping in mixed temperate forests from multi-temporal
RapidEye satellite images and LiDAR data.
Paul Magdon, Collins Kukunda, Hans Fuchs and Christoph Kleinn.
44. Large tree diameter distribution modeling using airborne LiDAR and ground truth
data in subtropical forest of Nepal.
Parvez Rana, Jari Vauhkonen, Basanta Gautam, Zhengyang Hou and Timo Tokola.
45. Local pivotal method sampling design combined with micro stands utilizing
airborne laser scanning data in a long term forest management planning setting.
Rami Saad, Jrgen Wallerman, Johan Holmgren, Tomas Lms.
46. Mapping alpine wetland in Zoige County, China using random forest classifier and
Landsat-5 tm data.
Yong Wang, Lichao Jiang.
47. Mapping Amazonian biodiversity and geology using basin-wide fern species
inventories and Landsat imagery.
Jasper Van Doninck, Gabriela Zuquim, Hanna Tuomisto.
48. Mapping and small area estimation of forest parameters in the Norwegian
National Forest Inventory.
Johannes Breidenbach, Johannes Rahlf, Rasmus Astrup.
49. Mapping forest degradation caused by fires in 2010 in Mato Grosso State, Brazilian
Amazon using Landsat TM fraction images.

Yosio E. Shimabukuro, Egidio Arai, Liana O. Anderson, Luiz Eduardo Arago,


Valdete Duarte.
50. Mapping mangrove forests with L-band repeat-pass polarimetric synthetic
aperture radar interferometry.
Michael Denbina and Marc Simard.
51. Mapping the 3D structure of a tropical rainforest using terrestrial laser scanning
a quality assessment.
Fabian D. Schneider, Daniel Kkenbrink, Michael E. Schaepman and Felix Morsdorf.
52. Measuring stem diameters - a comparison of three methods.
Susann Klatt, Johannes Breidenbach, Rasmus Astrup.
53. Modeling of ALS data statistics in tree-level application to single tree detection
using Bayesian inference.
Teemu Luostari, Timo Lhivaara, Petteri Packalen, Aku Seppnen.
54. Monitoring of forests to determine different levels of change.
K. Sepp, R.G.H. Bunce, M. Lang, M. Villoslada, S. Mucher.
55. Multiscale remote sensing individual tree health mapping: a case study for a
floodplain eucalypt forest.
Iurii Shendryk, Mirela G. Tulbure, Mark Broich, Andrew McGrath, David Keith,
Sergey V. Alexandrov.
56. Optimal size and location of biomass-based powerplants in Brazil using GIS.
Thaisa Ribeiro Teixeira, Carlos Antonio Alvares Soares Ribeiro, Gustavo Eduardo
Marcatti, Alexandre Lorenzon, Alexandre Santos.
57. Optimization of dynamic a global vegetation model at a land cover remote sensing
data for better representation of Russian forests.
Sergey Venevsky, Sergey Khvostikov, Sergey Bartalev.
58. Predicting the aboveground biomass of individual trees using remote sensing data
and new allometric models: a case study in Norway.
Michele Dalponte, Lorenzo Frizzera, Hans Ole rka, Tommaso Jucker, Terje
Gobakken, Erik Nsset, Damiano Gianelle.
59. Quality control and quality assessment of LiDAR data.
Assis, M.; Cantinho, R. Z.; Oliveira, P. V. C.; dos-Santos, M. N.; Gorgens, E. B.;
Ometto, J. P.
60. Reconstructing forest changes in a fragmented landscape of southwest France
from multiple data sources: ecological implications.
P.-A. Herrault, D. Sheeren, M. Fauvel, M. Paegelow.
61. Regional predictive mapping of paludification black spruce forests in the north
eastern Canada using remote sensing and statistical modeling.
Osvaldo Valeria, Nicolas Mansuy, Ahmed Laamrani, Nicole Fenton and Yves
Bergeron.

62. Remote sensing analysis of forest cover evolution in Douala - Edea wildlife reserve
between 1989 and 2014: interest for eligibility and access to redd + funding
mechanism.
Nguepkap Lemegne Alex, Etouna Joachim, Dr Ojuku Tiafack.
63. Remote sensing of forest ecosystem services: statistical relations between imaging
spectroscopy and temperate forest patterns.
Vincent Thierion, Corinne Corcher, David Sheeren, Aude Vialatte, Mathieu Fauvel.
64. Study on forest biomass in Zoige based on optical and microwave remote sensing.
Yuanyuan Yang, Yong Wang.
65. Synergistic use of SAR and optical datasets for forest biomass retrieval and
characterization of forests in temperate zone - A national case study Poland.
Hoscilo Agata, Ziolkowski Dariusz, Lewandowska Aneta, Sterenczak Krzysztof,
Bochenek Zbigniew, Bartold Maciej.
66. Terrestrial Condition Assessment for National Forests of the USDA Forest Service in
the Continental US.
Keith Reynolds, Dave Cleland, Robert Vaughan, Barbara Schrader.
67. Terrestrial laser Scanning: towards a standard protocol for biophysical parameter
estimation.
Phil Wilkes, Mat Disney, Kim Calders, Andy Burt, Matheus Boni Vicari and Philip
Lewis.
68. The 2016 NASA AfriSAR campaign for tropical forest structure and biomass
measurements: design, execution and first results.
Lola Fatoyinbo, Christy Hansen, Naiara Pinto, Michelle Hofton, Bryan Blair, Sassan
Saatchi, Marc Simard, Yunling Lou, Ralph Dubayah, Scott Hensley, Laura
Duncanson, Marco Lavalle.
69. The changes of forest area in Cide for using GIS between 1985 to 2015.
Mehmet Cetin, Hakan Sevik.
70. Trends in Persistent Green Cover in Australias Northern Savannas.
Robert Denham and Fiona Watson.
71. Tropical forest height and structure estimation from AfriSAR campaign PolInSAR
data in Gabon.
Marco Lavalle, Ralph Dubayah and Lola Fatoymbo.
72. Uncertainty estimation of stand structural variables in LiDAR-based forest
inventories at different sample sizes.
Sastre L, Mauro F, Pascual C, Gomez-Roux M, Manzanera JA, Garcia-Abril A.
73. Use of Modis data to characterize the growing season in Northern Fennoscandian
forests.
Stein Rune Karlsen, Anne Tolvanen, Kjell Arild Hgda, Bernt Johansen.

74. Use of national spatial information datasets for conducting classifying forest areas
in conjunction with satellite imagery.
Peter Sang-Hoon Lee, Sanghyuk Lee, Seung Yong Ji.
75. Using historical satellite time-series to test an hypothesis of forest susceptibility to
the bark beetle outbreak.
Martin Hais, Jan Wild, Ludk Berec, Josef Brna, Robert Kennedy, Justin Braaten,
Kateina Hellebrandov, Zdenk Bro.
76. Using satellite data to estimate gas emissions into the atmosphere by burning
biomass in Mexico.
Maria Isabel Cruz Lopez.
77. Using UAV Technology for Tree Height and Biomass Estimation in Natural Forests.
Dante Corti, Gerardo Vergara, Mariano Garca, Carlos Bahamondez.
78. Zonificacin de estndares y parmetros edafoclimticos para la conservacin y
proteccin de suelos y aguas incluidos en la ley 20.283. Regiones V X.
Juan Pablo Flores et al.
79. Exploring remote sensing potential in LULUCF inventories in Aragn.
Eva Sevillano, Eduardo Notivol, Guadalupe Zrate.
80. Fractal Volumetric Bouligand-Minkowski Classification of Forest trees.
Joo Herrera, Joo Batista do Esprito Santo Neto, Lcio Andr de Castro Jorge.

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