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Vince Ambrosia
NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA
2007 Western States Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Fire Imaging Missions
Hans-Erik Andersen and Ken Winterberger
USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Anchorage, AK
Using LIDAR as a Sampling Tool for Forest Inventory on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska
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Cristina Barrado
Technical University of Catalonia, Castelldefels, Spain
An Architecture for the Seamless Integration of UAV-Based Wildfire Monitoring Missions
Gabriel Bissonette
Utah State University/BLM, Moab, UT
Development of a Post-fire Monitoring Protocol for Evaluating Treatment Effectiveness
and Cheatgrass Abundance Using Quickbird Imagery and Ground Observations
Tom Bobbe
USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Center Manager, Salt Lake City, UT
Welcome / Introduction
Matthew Bobo
USDOI Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO
(1) High Resolution Remote Sensing to Monitor Aquatic and Riparian Habitats
in the Powder River Basin
(2) Ecological Type Mapping Using Object-Oriented Approach
Karl Brown
National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO
Describing Vegetation with Neighboring Agencies: Cover Type vs. National Vegetation Classification Standard
Sally Buechel
BAERI/Buechel Consulting, La Honda, CA
Near Real-Time Autonomous Data Products- Results and Assessment
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Julie Casper
USDOI Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, UT
Bureau of Land Management Utah Statewide FORVIS Inventory 2008
Thore Christensen
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Mapping Landscape Scarring Locations to Research Visitor Experience
Bruce Coffland
NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA
Multispectral Scanners for Wildland Fire Assessment
Andrew Cooke
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Analysis of LIDAR-Derived Bare Ground Model Accuracy in Southern California Chaparral
Bud Cribley
USDOI Bureau of Land Management, Deputy Assistant Director for Planning and Renewable Resources, Washington, DC
Current Resource Management Challenges Facing BLM: A Remote Sensing Perspective
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Philip Dennison
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Monitoring the Impacts of Tamarisk Biocontrol Using Remote Sensing
Gregory Dillon
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Missoula, MT
LANDFIRE Potential Vegetation Products: Methods and Applications
Chuck Dull
USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, Assistant Director of Engineering, Washington, DC
Geospatial Technologies Supporting Resource Management in the Forest Service: Issues and Accomplishments
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Jeff Eidenshink
U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science, Sioux Falls, SD
Burn Severity Mapping and Satellite Imagery: Information Products of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity Project
Francis Enomoto
NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA
The Collaborative Decision Environment (CDE)
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Michael Falkowski
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Classifying Forest Succession with LiDAR Data
Tracey Frescino
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, IWFIA, Ogden, UT
Nevada’s Photo-Based Inventory Pilot (NPIP)
Dr. Teresa Fryberger
NASA Headquarters, Director, Applied Sciences, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC
NASA Earth Science and Applications: Partnerships in Progress
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Sara Goeking
USDA Forest Service, FIA, Ogden, UT
Expanding Forest Inventories: A Comparison of Traditional Methods of Remotely Estimating Woody Crown Cover
Wendy Goetz
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Map Maintenance Guide Overview
Tony Guay
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Rapid Assessment of Vegetation Condition after Wildfire (RAVG)
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Randy M. Hamilton
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Remote Sensing: A Sampling Tool to Inventory and Monitor Natural Resources
Steven Haynes
USDA Forest Service, RSL, McClellan, CA
A Multi-Spectral Sensor Comparison for Mid-Level Vegetation Mapping on the Modoc National Forest
Sean Healey
USDA Forest Service, Intermountain West FIA
Development of FIA Capacity to Monitor Carbon for Carbon Management
Alexander Hernandez
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Simulation of the Effects of Wildfires on Water Yield and Water Quality in Rangelands of Northern Utah
Andrew Hudak
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Moscow, ID
Use of Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) Maps to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments Following Wildfire
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Jan Johnson
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Phoenix and Infrared Imagery Interpretation: Changes in Wildland Fire Incident Support Over the Past 5 Years
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Rick Kelson
Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Imagery Products for Utah— Current and Potential Value
Alexander Koltunov
University of California, Davis, CA
Toward Early Wildfire Detection and Improved Monitoring from Satellite Observations
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Sarah Lewis
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Moscow, ID
Using QuickBird and Landsat Imagery to Assess Burn Severity and Monitor Vegetation Recovery
Dara Lynn
NCED Imaging, Colorado Springs, CO
Innovative Woody Biomass Resource Assessment Using Multiple-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Geobia Technology
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Don Major
USDOI Bureau of Land Management Boise, ID
Use of Remote Sensing Technologies for Analysis of the 2007 Murphy Complex Fire
Kevin Megown
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Wyoming Riparian Vegetation Inventory Using Remote Sensing and Other Geospatial Data:
Phase II-High Resolution Imagery Sources
Tom Mellin
USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Albuquerque, NM
Southwestern Region Mid-Scale Existing Vegetation Mapping Project
Jim Menakis
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Missoula, MT
Mapping Wildland Fire Potential for the Conterminous United States
Jay Miller
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, McClellan, CA
Spatiotemporal Trends in Fire Occurrence and Severity in the Sierra Nevada,California
Amanda Moore
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Development of a Remote Sensing Training Curriculum to Support
Soil Resource Inventory in the Natural Resources Conservation Service
Mike Morrison
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
(1) Access Nationwide GIS Data Over the Network Using ArcGIS Image Server and ArcGIS Server
(2) ArcGIS Explorer–GIS for Everyone in a “Virtual Globe” Environment
(3) Leica Geosystems Enterprise Image Processing Solution (Apollo)
Sanford Moss
USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region, Ogden, UT
Comparison of LANDFIRE and a Mid-Level Vegetation Map:
Spatial and Tabular Comparison of Map Products
Jim Muckenhoupt
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, OR
Mapping Forest Stand Characteristics Using LIDAR
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David Nagel
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Boise, ID
Stream Temperature and Thermal Networks: A GIS and Remote Sensing Approach to Assess Aquatic Habitat
Mark Nelson
USDA Forest Service, FIA, St. Paul, MN
Harmonizing Estimates of Forest Land Area from National-Level Forest Inventory and Satellite Imagery
Eric Nielsen
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
(1) Field Sampling for Mid-Level Remote Sensing of Forest Change
(2) Change Detection in Noisy Time-Series Data: Application to Forest Health Monitoring Across Broad Areas
Tom Noble
USDOI Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO
Application of Close-Range Photogrammetric Techniques to Very Large Scale Aerial (VLSA) Photography
for Monitoring Aquatic and Riparian Habitats
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Anna Oldak
MDA Federal, Inc., Rockville, MD
Reverse Updating National Land Cover Data (NLCD) 2001 Canopy Layer
—Creating 1990 Percent Canopy Layer for the Northeastern US Metropolitan Areas
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Sean Parks
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Missoula, MT
Filling in the Gaps: A Technique for Creating Spatially Continuous Soil Data from the Discontinuous SSURGO Dataset
Annette Parsons
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Grants Pass, OR
Remote Sensing Support for Post-Fire BAER Assessment Following the Greek Wildfires, August 2007
Kate Peterson
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Logistic Modeling of the Potential Distribution of Common Plant Species to Assist in the Re-Correlation of Soil Map Units in Rich County, Utah
Corey Plank
USDOI Bureau of Land Management, Portland, OR
LiDAR—What Can I Expect to See?
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Jeffrey Reid
NASA/NRL, Monterey, CA
Naval Research Laboratory and NASA Applied Science Products in Support of Fire and Terrestrial Research
Steve Reutebuch
USDA Forest Service, PNW/University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Understanding LIDAR Mission Specifications and Project Deliverables Before It’s Too Late!
Mark Riley
USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, Juneau, AK
Digital Airborne Survey of Mountain Goat Population in Southeast Alaska
Bonnie Ruefenacht
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Using Orange Classification Trees in ArcGIS
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Charlie Schrader-Patton
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Bend, OR
Virtual Globes - RS-2008 Update
Stephen Sesnie
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
K-Nearest Neighbor Imputation for Estimating Ponderosa Pine Forest Structure and Wood Supply in Northern Arizona
Using Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) and Landsat TM Data
Ramesh Sivanpillai
University of Wyoming/AmericaView Consortium, Laramie, WY
America View—A State-Based Remote Sensing Initiative Developing Remote Sensing Applications
Through Education, Training, Internships, and Pilot Projects
Jeff Sloan
US Geological Survey, Denver, CO
Rapid Geospatial Data Access for Emergency Response—Rapid Data Delivery System (RDDS)
Rob Sohlberg
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Integrating Orbital and Airborne Assets: SensorWeb Demonstrations During Western State Fire Mission (WSFM) 2007
Paul Stephens
DMC International Imaging Ltd., Guildford, SU, United Kingdom
The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC): Advances in Small Satellite Constellation Imaging Capability
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David Tart
USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region, Ogden, UT
(1) Federal Geographic Data Committee Vegetation Subcommittee Update
(2) Developing a Vegetation Information Strategy for the Intermountain Region
(3) Comparison of LANDFIRE and a Mid-Level Vegetation Map: Background, Classification Systems, and Map Legends
(4) Comparison of LANDFIRE and a Mid-Level Vegetation Map: National Forest Applications and Lessons Learned
Brett Thomassie
DigitalGlobe Incorporated, Stennis Space Center, MS
Digital Globe Corporate and System Update
Chris Toney
USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Missoula, MT
Remote Sensing Applications of a Stem-Map Model for Predicting Canopy Cover of FIA Plots
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Ralph Warbington
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region RS Lab, McClellan, CA
USFS/EPA Watershed Analysis Demonstration Project for Estimating Existing and Potential Stream Shading
Richard Warnick
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
National Environmental Threat Assessment Mapping
Jeannie Watanabe
Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Imagery Products for Utah— Current and Potential Value
Steve Wegener
BAERI/NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA
Western States Fire Mission: Ikhana, The COA and Mission Planning
Kent Williams
USDA Farm Service Agency Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO), Salt Lake City, UT
National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
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Tom Zajkowski
USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Salt Lake City, UT
Integration into Incident Management Teams (IMT) and Emergency Operation Centers (EOC) Processes and Use
Zhiliang Zhu
USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, Washington, DC
LANDFIRE and MTBS: Potential for Large-Scale Forest Monitoring
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