2023 Operational Lidar Inventory (OLI) Meeting

Location: Vancouver, WA or Virtual
8:45 Welcome/Intro – Jacob Strunk, USDA Forest Service, FIA
9:00 CMS Regional Map Calibration – Andy Hudak, USDA Forest Service, RMRS
9:25 Species Identification from Remote Sensing Data – Examples from Three Forests – Cam Brown, Forsite
9:50 Break
10:05 Modeling Lynx Habitat with TLS and ALS – Jonathan Batchelor, UW
10:30 Scale Effects in Area-Based Forest Modeling – Jacob Strunk, USDA Forest Service, FIA
10:55 Working with a Single-Tree Digital Inventory – Mark Corrao, Northwest Management, Inc.
11:20 Break
11:35 Saving the Monarchs One Tree at a Time – Kelsey Watkins, NV5
12:00 Assessment of NAIP Point Clouds with Lidar – Kevin Ceder, Woodland Creek Consulting
12:25 Lunch
1:25 Remote Sensing Inventory Research Database – Luke Rogers, University of Washington, SEFS, NRSIG
2:25 LAPIS – Lidar Processing Tool – Jonathan Kane, UW, PFC
2:50 Break
3:05 Recovering Discrete Distributions in Forest Inventory using R package Hermite – Tom Baribault, DroneSeed
3:30 Interior AK Advanced Remote Sensing Forest Inventory – Hans Andersen, USDA Forest Service, FIA
3:55 Break
4:10 Lidar Forest Inventory and Carbon – Peter Tittman, New Forest
4:35 Stand Effects: What Are They and What Can We Do About Them? – Bryce Frank, OR BLM
5:00 Adjourn
Informal Social - Tuesday, April 4th at 6pm
If you are in town early (April 4th) join us 6 pm for an informal social gathering at Beaches Restaurant & Bar. Make sure to sign up as there is limited space for this event. If there is overflow part of the group will go across the parking lot to McMenamins on the Columbia.
- Professional Registration: $75, in-person or virtual
- Student Registration: Free, in-person or virtual, but please make sure to register.
Hotel Recommendations
- Closest to meeting venue: Homewood Suites (hotel is full)
- Closest to downtown Vancouver: Hilton Vancouver Washington
- Closest to downtown Portland: Paramount Hotel
- Best Budget: Comfort Inn & Suites
- Most interesting (Portland): McMenamins
- White Eagle / Crystal Ballroom / Kennedy School
Society of American Foresters CFE Credits
Meeting attendees will be eligible for 7.0 Category 1 CFE through the Society of American Foresters.