ForestSAT 2012 • Conference Themes and General Topics
Theme 1: Approaches for characterizing forest cover, structure, change
• Biomass, height, cover, species, and related variables
• Change detection, time series analyses, and monitoring techniques
• Harvest, fire, storms, insects, disease, drought, land use change
• Regeneration, regrowth, succession, encroachment, gap dynamics
• Invasive species
• Remote sensing guided statistical estimation, uses of inventory data, sampling, stratification
• Carbon accounting
• Uncertainty analysis
Theme 2: Ecological & physical modeling applications
Theme 3: Remote controlled aerial systems
• Monitoring forest fire
• Detecting disease and insect presence
• Forest inventory assessment
• Hydrologic engineering
• Forest operation support
• Emergency response and monitoring
Theme 4: Data processing techniques
• Classification algorithms
• Continuous variable modeling
• Radiometric and geometric accuracy and precision
• Compositing and mosaicking
• Objects v. pixels
• Visualization
• Radiative transfer modeling
• 3-dimensional modeling
• Multi-sensor and multi-scale (integrated) approaches
Theme 5: Forest management, policy, and education
• Monitoring effects of regional to national forest policies
• Evaluating trade-offs among ecosystem services
• International agreements and programs
• Operational applications
• Assessment and monitoring of habitat condition
• Remote sensing in the classroom
• Opportunistic uses of publicly available spatial data
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