Special Sessions for ForestSAT 2026

No.	Topic	First Name	Last Name	Organization
1	Remote sensing-assisted sampling and statistical inference in forest inventory	Zhengyang	Hou	Beijing Forestry University
2	Monitoring post-disturbance forest recovery dynamics	Joanne	White	Canadian Forest Service
3	Emerging approaches and trends in forest monitoring and management	Qing	Xu	International Center for Bamboo and Rattan
4	Biomass carbon monitoring of pools and fluxes that is responsive to stakeholder needs	Andrew	Hudak	US Forest Service
5	Fuel and consumption modeling and mapping to improve fuel, fire, and smoke models	Andrew	Hudak	US Forest Service
6	Toward a collaborative framework: Integrating remote sensing research with forestry practice	Lars	Waser	Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
7	Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate I	Jeffery	Cannon	The Jones Center at Ichauway
8	Hurricane-resilient forests: Innovations in remote sensing for hurricane ecology and management in a changing climate II	Jeffery	Cannon	The Jones Center at Ichauway
9	Advancing near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbances, recovery, and land-use change through multi-source remote sensing and AI	Feng	Zhao	Northeast Forestry University
10	Novel applications of remote sensing for quantifying fluxes of carbon and water in savanna, woodland, and forested ecosystems	Jeff	Atkins	Virginia Commonwealth University
11	From canopy to complexity: Advances in understanding forest structure using remote sensing	Zack	Horve	Purdue University
12	Mapping forest long-term dynamics through multisensor time series and machine learning	Di	Yang	University of Florida
13	Assessing map quality, accuracy, and area estimation: implications and applications for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and financing	Erik	Lindquist	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 🌍
14	Challenges and opportunities for the synergism of multiple remote sensing data sources in innovative AI applications	Veraldo	Liesenberg	State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC), Brazil
15	Leveraging BIOMASS, NISAR or multi-sensors for comprehensive forest monitoring	Na	Chen	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16	Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products I	Margaret	Wooten	NASA / SSAI
17	Forest applications with Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 analysis ready data products II	Madhu	Sridhar	NASA-IMPACT / The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
18	Emerging applications of Landsat data for forest management and monitoring	Rodrigo	Leite	NASA GSFC/UMD ESSIC
19	More than ice in ICESat-2: Unlocking canopy insights from space	Sorin	Popescu	Texas A&M University
20	Remote sensing of trees in smallholder agroforestry systems	Darby	Levin	World Resources Institute
21	Advances in active remote sensing for forest parameter estimation	Naveen	Ramachandran	Jet Propulsion Lab
22	Large scale european projects supporting current policy making at the EU	Ruben	Valbuena	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
23	Cutting-edge Terrestrial Laser Scanning for tree volume, biomass, and carbon estimation: From point clouds to precision forestry	Georgios	Arseniou	Auburn University
24	The NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission: Advancing global forest monitoring	Paul	Siqueira	University of Massachusetts Amherst
25	New frontiers in forest biomass mapping with low-frequency SAR satellites	Maciej	Soja	Wageningen University
26	Using state-of-the-art technology for monitoring and management of urban forests	Piotr	Wężyk	University of Agriculture in Krakow
27	Advancing earth science monitoring through web-based cyberinfrastructure platforms	Viswanath	Nandigam	San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego
28	NASA Wildland fire and FireSense: Transforming wildfire science into action	Jacquelyn	Shuman	NASA Ames Research Center
29	From smoke to satellites: Detecting and monitoring fires in the Southeast US	Holly	Nowell	Tall Timbers
30	3D Fuels: Characterizing wildland fuels in three dimensions for next-generation fire modeling	Susan	Prichard	University of Washington
31	Applications of NASA’s hyperspectral PACE mission: New insights for ecosystem science	Morgaine	McKibben	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
32	What is the value of satellite imagery? – The impact of Earth Observation programs on forest applications	Charlotte	Bishop	Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT)
33	Beyond the flames: Advancing wildfire science and management with spaceborne LiDAR	Sergio	Godinho	University of Évora, Portugal
34	Ecosystem morphological traits from 3D data and biodiversity	Ruben	Valbuena	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences