Special Sessions

Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit a special session proposal. We are pleased to advise the following special sessions have been selected for inclusion in the conference.

More information on how to submit your abstract is available here.

ORGANISER	TOPIC
Matthew Hansen	A decade of Global Forest Watch - results and way forward
Henrik J. Persson	Advancing forest assessment with radar sensors
Naila Yasmin	Advancing MRV Systems: Development, implementation, and it’s crucial role in addressing climate change
Krzysztof Stereńczak, Markus Hollaus, Juan Suarez	Airborne laser scanning in precision forestry
Mikey Mohan	Applications of remote sensing for mangrove conservation and blue carbon assessment
Carlos Alberto Silva	Beyond Ice: NASA’s ICESat-2 spaceborne lidar mission for land and vegetation applications
Davide Andreatta	Challenges and new developments in the use of remote sensing for plant phenology monitoring
Chad Babcock	Characterizing uncertainty in remote sensing-assisted forest carbon mapping and accounting
Edil Sepúlveda Carlo	Connecting science with decision-making: Lessons learned from stakeholder engagement efforts in the use of remote sensing data to address forestry & land management needs
Chris Mulverhill	Continuous forest inventory
Andrew Holdaway	Forest monitoring in Google Earth engine
Francesca Giannetti, María Menéndez-Miguélez	Innovative uses of multisource remote sensing data in forest biodiversity conservation and restoration
António Ferraz	Monitoring ecosystem change from dense time series
Sean Healey, Michael Wulder	Monitoring that informs emerging regulations on forest degradation and deforestation
John Armston	NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission: Science, applications and future directions
Pontus Olofsson, Sylvia Wilson	New advancements in remote sensing science: opportunities for capacity building in forest monitoring
Florian Kraxner	Planted forests and forest plantations under fire
Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, Jonathan Batchelor	Remote sensing and machine learning for modeling forest ecosystems
Justin Morgenroth	Remote sensing in urban forests
Valerie Thomas, Brian Strahm	Remote sensing of forest nutrient dynamics
Loretta Garrett	Remote sensing of the belowground attributes of forests
Ronald E. McRoberts	Remote sensing-assisted, model-based inference for forest inventory and climate change applications
Andrew Hudak	Remotely sensed data products in support of carbon monitoring and other land management decisions
Krzysztof Stereńczak, Martin Mokros, Carlos Cabo	Short-range remote sensing in precision forestry
Daniele Marinelli	Time series for forest disturbances: Unraveling spatio-temporal dynamics to improve their detection and management
Winyu Chinthammit	Virtual and augmented reality technologies in forestry

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