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  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    2:30pm - 2:38pm PST
    Estimating forest attributes using airborne LiDAR: Case study from a natural pine-dominated ecosystem
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Taeyoon Lee, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Georgia
    Forest Technology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
    Scorched and torched: UAS-based evaluation of individual tree prescribed fire effects
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Lauren Lad, n/a – Colorado State University
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:00pm - 5:30pm PST
    Getting Techy With It
    Location: A10
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Brandon K. Craft, MNR, CF (he/him/his) – Treeswift
    Forest Technology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:00pm - 4:30pm PST
    Saving lives with smart forestry: a wearable-based digital safety app integrated with real-time personal location-sharing to improve avoidance, detection and response to logging accidents
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Robert F. Keefe, PhD – University of Idaho Experimental Forest
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:30pm - 4:38pm PST
    Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Multi-Temporal Imagery to Monitor the Effects of Prescribed Fire
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Cameron Wingren, n/a – Purdue University
    Forest Technology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:30pm - 5:00pm PST
    Effectiveness of UAV-LiDAR in assessing the impact of catastrophic windstorm events on southeastern forest stands
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Dipika Badal (she/her/hers) – Auburn University
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    5:00pm - 5:30pm PST
    Improving the Timber Harvest with Cloud Computing
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Jimmy Humphrey, n/a – Legna Software
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    8:00am - 8:30am PST
    Lyme Timber Case Study - Individual Tree Inventory
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Maurice LeBlanc, BSc Forestry, MBA – Forsite Consultants Ltd
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    9:00am - 9:30am PST
    A Novel Approach to Stratification in the Sierra Nevada Mountains....
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Michael Kieser, PEng, MSc Engineering – Tesera Systems Inc.
    Speaker: Max Turgeon, PhD, MSc (he/him/his) – Tesera Systems Inc.
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Drone Use for Emergency Management in Forestry
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: I-Kuai Hung, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Author: David L. Kulhavy, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Daniel R. Unger, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Yanli Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Stephen F Austin State University
    Forest Technology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Estimating Biophysical Parameters of Urban Trees on Texas A&M University Campus using Mobile Lidar
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Justinn J. Jones – Texas A&M University
    Forest Technology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Two-Step Tree Crown Delineation for Natural Broadleaf Forests with UAS RGB imagery
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Aishwarya Chandrasekaran, MS – Purdue University
    Forest Technology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Using Pictometry Data to Assist Training Site Selection for a Supervised Land Cover Classification
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Victoria M. Williams, BS (she/her/hers) – Arthur Temple College of Forestry & AgricultStephen F. Austin State University
    Forest Technology
  • Saturday, Oct 28th
    10:00am - 11:30am PST
    Technology trials and tribulations: Demonstrating and evaluating advanced communication technologies effectiveness among various stakeholders
    Location: A9
    Moderator: Ingrid Schneider, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Panelist: Angela S. Gupta – University of Minnesota
    Panelist: Dominik Roeser, PhD – University of British Columbia
    Panelist: Ye (Sandy) Shen, PhD – California Polytechnic State University
    Forest Technology
     CFE 1.5 / ISA CEU 1.5 / ESA CEU .375
  • Saturday, Oct 28th
    10:30am - 11:00am PST
    Auburn University deploys next-gen integrated mapping and inventory system for cutting-edge forestry education
    Location: A10
    Speaker: John C. Gilbert, MS – Auburn University
    Co-Author: Mark A. Books, CF – Landmark Spatial Solutions, LLC
    Forest Technology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125