Congress Final Program

Session

ThS4A: Toward Smart Forests: Emerging Tools in Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, and Field Robotics

Time:

Monday, 06-July-2026:

8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Francesco Pirotti
Session Chair: Roebrto Pierdicca

Location: 717A

125 theatre

Session Topics:

Toward Smart Forests: Emerging Tools in Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, and Field Robotics (Ths4)

Presentations

8:30am - 8:45am

AI-Enabled Forest Inventory in TerraScan: integrating Georeferencing, Species Identification, and Volume Computation

Anna Shcherbacheva, Helen Rost, Ana Puttonen, Arttu Soininen

8:45am - 9:00am

Spatiotemporal Foundation Model for Aboveground Biomass Estimation: A case study in Mixedwood Plains Ecozone, Ontario, Canada

Zilong Zhong, José Bermúdez, Dominic Cyr, Alemu Gonsamo

9:00am - 9:15am

Self-Supervised Leaf-Off Segmentation of Tree Functional Types and Buildings from Airborne NIRGB and LiDAR Data in Southern Ontario

Jose David Bermudez Castro, Zilong Zhong, Dominic Cyr, Alemu Gonsamo

9:15am - 9:30am

Updating Forestry Road networks in Ontario Using Single Photon LiDAR and Deep Learning-enhanced algorithms

Hamid Ghanbari, Emmanuelle Baby-Bouchard, Catherine Chagnon, Alexandre Morin-Bernard, Alexis Achim