Special Interest Group on Forestry

1st EARSeL SIG Forestry workshop:

Operational remote sensing in forest management

Prague, Czech Republic
2 – 3 June 2011

in the framework of the 31st EARSeL Symposium 2011

A number of sensors, tools and methods were developed in the field of forestry remote sensing during the last decade. However, the practical utilisation seem not to be enough considered by the forest (national park) administration and other potential users.

The event aims at setting up the common forum for the research community and people from the forestry sector, where both the operational techniques as well as developing methodologies can be presented and understood in order to improve the forest management and protection practices in Europe.

Main topics:

• forest resource mapping, biomass estimation and change detection
• forest inventories, biophysical parameters
• REDD, forest damage/ degradation related to climate change
• biodiversity, protected forests, mountain forestry
• acquisition of reference field data

Methods and tools:

• active/ passive sensors including VHRS, hyperspectral, radar, ALS, TLS, …
• data from satellite, airborne platforms and their combinations
• image processing and related aspects

Deadline for abstracts is 28 February 2011

The 1st International Workshop of the Forestry Special Interest Group (SIG) will be held in framework of the next EARSeL symposium, 2 – 3 June 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. It is organized by the Forest Management Institute in collaboration with the Czech Technical University (CTU) Prague as a first meeting of the EARSeL SIG Forestry series. However, there were several relevant and very successful predecessor events such as ScandLaser in Umeå 2003, ForestSat in Borås 2005, 3D Remote Sensing in Vienna 2006, and ForestSat in Montpellier 2007, initiated or (co)organised by the previous SIG chairman Håkan Olsson from Sweden.