Congress Final Program

Session

WG III/8D: Remote Sensing for Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems

Time:

Thursday, 09-July-2026:

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session Chair: Kevin David Rodriguez
Session Chair: Francesco Pirotti

Location: 714B

175 theatre

Session Topics:

Remote Sensing for Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems (WG III/8)

Presentations

1:30pm - 1:45pm

Spatial Aerodynamic Roughness of Forested Landscapes from Airborne LiDAR

Mahmoud Ahmed, Roderik Lindenbergh, Massimo Menenti, Joris Timmermans

1:45pm - 2:00pm

Forest Canopy Height Mapping in Tanzanian Tropical Rainforests Using Multimodal Remote Sensing Data and Machine Learning

Soheil Zaghain, Seyed Ehsan Khankeshizadeh, Sadegh Jamali, Torbern Tagesson, Ernest William Mauya, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Filbert Francis

2:00pm - 2:15pm

Comparing DeepLabv3+ and Depth Anything V2 on Canopy Height Model Prediction on a Continental Scale Dataset of Australia

Kevin Yuelin Qiu, Rewanth Ravindran, Nicolas Pucino, Dimitri Bulatov, Shaun R. Levick, Martin Brandt, Dorota Iwaszczuk, Tim McVicar

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Data-Driven vs Functional Approaches for Regionally Transferable Biomass Modeling Using Airborne LiDAR

Maxim Okhrimenko, Guillermo Castilla, Craig Coburn, Chris Hopkinson

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Optimization of the National Biomass Allometric Equation Using Remote Sensing Data

Shweta Parajuli, Tramo K. Remmel, Richard L. Bello