2020 Western Mensurationists Conference
The in-person conference has been changed to an online version. See details below.
June 14-16, 2020 | Online Only | via Zoom
Forestry at the Crossroads: Advancements in Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Agenda
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Monday, June 15, 2020
- 8:00 AM – Welcome and Annoucements
- 8:10 AM – Integrity and Values in Science – Fred Martin, Washington Department of Natural Resources
- 8:40 AM – Improvements in Tree Crown Segmentation – Finding Understory – Cam Brown, Forsite
- 9:15 AM – Algorithms for Fitting Stem Cross-Section from TLS When Partial Occlusion is Present – John Kershaw, University of New Brunswick
- 9:45 AM – Breakout Rooms for side meetings (30-minute break)
- 10:15 AM – Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) For Rapid and Accurate Assessment of Ponderosa Pine Forest Structural Attributes – Andrew Sánchez Meador, Northern Arizona University
- 10:45 AM – Allometric Systems of Equations for Area-Based Lidar-Assisted Estimation – Ting-Ru Yang, University of New Brunswick
- 11:10 AM – Comparing the Use of Airborne Laser Scanning Approaches When Predicting Basal Area, Biomass, and Volume – Ryan Blackburn, Northern Arizona University
- 11:30 AM – Lunch Break: 1 hour (Breakout rooms available)
- 12:30 PM – Impact of Forest Management Activities on Forest Aesthetics Using Photogrammetric Point Clouds – Bogdan Strimbu, Oregon State University
- 1:00 PM – Use of Sector Sampling Selection as an Alternative Subsampling Design – Xiao Dai, University of New Brunswick
- 1:20 PM – Linking Machine Learning, Sampling Designs, and Rapid Expert Assessment in Mapping Spatial Distribution of Species Richness in a Forest – Perng Bo-Hao, National Taiwan University
- 1:50 PM – Testing and Benchmarking Large Scale Small-Area Estimates – Zach Parisa, SilviaTerra
- 2:30 PM – Breakout Rooms for side meetings (30-minute break)
- 3:00 PM – Simulating Tree and Stand Level Response to Commercial Thinning Using TASS III – Sharad K. Baral, B.C. Ministry of Forests
- 3:30 PM – Visualizing Forestry Inventory and Growth Model Results with rSVS: An R Package Incorporating the Stand Visualization System – James McCarter, Rayonier
- 4:00 PM – Day 1 Wrap up
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
- 8:00 AM – Welcome and Housekeeping
- 8:05 AM – Assessing Measured Douglas-fir Taper vs the Flewelling Douglas-fir Taper Model: A Case Study – Donald Gagliasso, Mason, Bruce & Girard
- 8:35 AM – Using Long-Term Provenance Data to Develop a Climate-Sensitive Mortality Function – Kate Peterson, University of British Columbia
- 8:55 AM – A Slash Pine Dominant Height Model Including Responses to Silvicultural Treatments – Laura Ramirez Quintero, University of Georgia
- 9:15 AM – Breakout Rooms for side meetings (15-minute break)
- 9:30 AM – Time-Based vs State-Space Stand Growth Models of Tropical Eucalyptus Hybrid Plantations in Sumatera, Indonesia – Joni Waldy, University of New Brunswick
- 9:50 AM – The Use of Boosted Regression Tree in Modeling Diameter Distribution of Taiwania cryptomerioides Plantations – Ho-Tung Lin
- 10:15 AM – The Importance of Accurate Measurements and Log Sorting in Wisconsin Forests – Shuva Gautam, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
- 10:45 AM – Breakout Rooms for side meetings (15-minute break)
- 11:00 AM – The Influences of Landscape Variations in Drought, N Deposition, and Site Quality on Size-Growth Relationships in Western Forests – Christopher Looney, US Forest Service
- 11:30 AM – Estimating Forest Productivity Using Site Characteristics, Multipoint Measures, and a Nonparametric Approach – Halli Hemingway, University of Idaho / FBRI / Bennett Lumber Inc.
- 11:50 AM – Optimizing Maximum Stand Carrying Capacity of Pacific Northwest Forests as a Function of Management Objectives and Site Resources – Ryan Heiderman, University of Idaho
- 12:15 PM – Meeting Wrap Up
- 12:15 – 1:00 PM – Working Lunch
- 2021 Tri-Society Annual Meeting Update
- Re-affirm 2022 and 2023 Host Organizer/Location
- Financials
- Open Forum
Special issue of Forest Science
Forest Science agreed to dedicate a special issue to the event theme: Forestry Advancements in the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Era. You do not need to be a presenter at the conference to submit a manuscript for the special issue. For those wishing to present, please indicate in your abstract submission if you wish to submit a manuscript to a special issue in Forest Science. Manuscripts will be due by August 31st, 2020 on the journal website: https://academic.oup.com/forestscience.