IEEE GRSS
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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
TH1.R18: Remote sensing for generating robust datasets for forest health assessment and management planning (1/3)
Thursday, 13 August, 08:30 - 09:45
Location: Monroe
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Parinaz Rahimzadeh, University of Maine and Pulakesh Das, M.P. State Electronics Development Corporation
Track: Community Contributed Themes
Thu, 13 Aug, 08:30 - 08:45

TH1.R18.1: OPTIMIZING FOREST DEFOLIATION DETECTION USING REMOTE SENSING DATA: A MULTI–RESOLUTION APPROACH USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
Rajeev Bhattarai, Mississippi State University; Parinaz Rahimzadeh, University of Maine
Thu, 13 Aug, 08:45 - 09:00

TH1.R18.2: QUANTIFYING THE IMPACTS OF ELEPHANTS ON SAVANNA TREE BIOMASS DENSITY AND CARBON STOCKS USING ALOS2 SCANSAR TIME-SERIES DATA.
Konrad Wessels, George Mason University; Mike Peel, Agricultural Research Council; Izak Smit, South African National Parks; John Armston, University of Maryland; Xiaoxuan Li, George Mason University; Preet Lal, University of Maryland; Mikhail Urbazaev, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:00 - 09:15

TH1.R18.3: Global uncertainty assessment of vegetation indices from NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Project
Qiang Zhou, Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI), contractor to NASA GSFC; Christopher Neigh, Junchang Ju, Margaret Wooten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Zhe Zhu, University of Connecticut; Tomoaki Miura, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Petya Campbell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Madhu Sridhar, Bradley Baker, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Rodrigo Leite, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:15 - 09:30

TH1.R18.4: FROM PIXELS TO CROWNS: INDIVIDUAL BLACK ASH TREE IDENTIFICATION USING A MULTI-SCALE REMOTE SENSING FRAMEWORK INTEGRATING SATELLITE TIME SERIES AND UAV-BASED DEEP LEARNING
Zahra Najjar-Khodabakhsh, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, University of Maine
Thu, 13 Aug, 09:30 - 09:45

TH1.R18.5: FIRE-WISE EVALUATION OF DEEP LEARNING AND SPECTRAL INDEX METHODS FOR PRESCRIBED BURN AREA MAPPING
Mahmad Isaq Karankot, Dr. Bradley Whitaker, Montana State University