Conference Agenda

Recent Dynamics of Forest Canopy Cover Loss in Germany

Frank Thonfeld¹, Patrick Kacic^1,2, Stefanie Holzwarth¹, Marco Wegler¹, Niklas Jaggy^1,2, Kjirsten Coleman¹, Ursula Gessner¹, Claudia Kuenzer^1,2

¹German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; ²University of Wuerzburg, Germany

The German National Forest Damage Monitoring System: Validation process and accuracies of the annual Sentinel-2 disturbance product

Katja Oehmichen¹, Julian Backa², Janik Deutscher³, Philipp Eisnecker⁴, Niklas Langner¹, Martin Puhm³, Eike Reinosch⁵, Marius Rüetschi⁶, Jens Wiesehahn⁷, Lars T. Waser⁶

¹Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Germany; ²Public Enterprise Sachsenforst, Germany; ³Joanneum Research, Austria; ⁴Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Germany; ⁵Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Germany; ⁶Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Switzerland; ⁷Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Germany

Detecting Bark Beetle-Induced Changes in Coniferous Alpine Forests Using Sentinel-2 Time Series and In-Situ Felling Data

Ana Potočnik Buhvald¹, Krištof Oštir¹, Mitja Skudnik^2,3

¹University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Slovenia; ²University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources; ³Slovenian Forestry Institute

Enabling Near Real-Time Forest Disturbance Detection on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Jonas Viehweger

Joanneum Research, Austria

MoBiTools – Monitoring Biodiversity with remote sensing Tools

Selina Ganz^1,2, Martin Denter¹, Katarzyna Zielewska-Büttner³, Petra Adler¹

¹Dept. of Biometry and Informatics, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA); ²Chair of Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; ³Dept. of Forest Nature Conservation and Biodiversity, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA)

Towards A Collaborative Framework: Integrating Remote Sensing Research With Forestry Practice

Lars T. Waser¹, Nataliia Rehush¹, Hannes Horneber², Bienz Raffael³, Krzysztof Stereńczak⁴, Mirela Beloiu Schwenke⁵

¹Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL; ²School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, HAFL, Switzerland; ³Forest department of Aargau, BVU, Switzerland; ⁴Forest Research Institute, IBL, Poland; ⁵Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Swizterland

Advancing the European Copernicus Forest Layers: Prototyping and New Developments Towards a Continuous and Harmonized Monitoring of Forests in Europe

Janik Deutscher¹, Martin Puhm¹, Andreas Wimmer¹, Annemarie Bastrup-Birk², Gunter Zeug³, Conrad Bielski³, Jakob Lobensteiner³, Linda Moser⁴, Andreas Langner⁴, Anna Grabatin-Homolka⁴, Fabian Berndt⁴, Tim Ng⁵, Koimé Kouacou⁶, Ludvig Forslund⁷

¹Joanneum Research, Institute for Digital Technologies, Graz, Austria; ²University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science, Forests and Bioresources, Denmark; ³Riscognition GmbH, Germany; ⁴GAF AG, Munich, Germany; ⁵Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Remote Sensing Unit, Mol, Belgium; ⁶Beetle ForTech, Tulln, Austria; ⁷European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark