Monday, April 6, 1998

9:00 a.m. On-Site Registration - Monday Morning Period - until 12:30 p.m. at the desk located adjacent to the Admiral Ballroom

10:00 a.m. Vendor and Poster Display Setup - Marina Ballroom

1:00 p.m. Field Trip to Space Center Houston - NASA Johnson Space Center . Meet at Hilton Hotel Lobby for bus boarding. Tour lasts approximately 4 hours. Buses will be running between Space Center Houston and the hotel to facilitate return at each attendees' convenience.

6:30 p.m. - On-Site Registration - Monday Evening Period

8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7, 1998

7:00 a.m. On-Site Registration Opens

Formal Conference - Admiral Ballroom

8:00 a.m. Opening Remarks - Paul Greenfield, Conference Chairperson, USDA Forest Service,

Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

8:10 a.m. Welcome to Texas - R. Scott Beasley, PhD, Dean, Arthur Temple College of Forestry,

Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

8:20 a.m. Forest Service National Perspective - Gloria Manning, Associate Deputy Chief,

USDA Forest Service, Washington, D.C.

8:40 a.m. Forest Service Southern Region's Geospatial Needs from Remote Sensing - Eurial Turner, Deputy Regional Forester, Southern Region, USDA Forest Service, Atlanta, GA

9:00 a.m. The International Space Station: New Opportunities for Environmental Monitoring from Space - Kamlesh P. Lulla, PhD, Chief, Earth Sciences Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

9:30 a.m. Core Data for GIS Applications: The Forest Service Implementation Plan - Wanda Hodge, National GIS Program Manager, USDA Forest Service, Washington, D.C.

9:45 a.m. An Overview of the Future Forest Service Image Processing Technology - Stan Bain, Operations Program Leader, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

10:00 a.m. Break (light refreshments, vendor and poster displays in the Marina Ballroom - typical for all breaks)

SESSION I - Tuesday

Session I Moderator: Christine Fayad, RS '98 Program Chairperson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, OR

10:30 a.m. Landsat 7: Maintaining Landsat Data Continuity into the 21st Century, Darrel L. Williams, PhD, J.R. Irons, J.L. Barker and B.L. Markham, Biospheric Sciences Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight, Greenbelt, MD

11:00 a.m. Stem Mapping a White Pine Plantation Using ARC/INFO COGO, GPS and a Laser Ranging Instrument, Geral McDonald, Stephen Hayes, and Richard Grassetti, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID

11:30 a.m. Statewide Change Detection Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data, Lisa Levien, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Sacramento, CA, Chris Fischer, California Department of Forestry, Sacramento, CA, Peter Roffers and Barbara Maurizi, Pacific Meridian Resources, Forest Service Remote Sensing Laboratory in Sacramento, CA

12:00 p.m.. Lunch - On your own

SESSION II - Tuesday

Session II Moderator: Ebeth McMullen, Gemetronic Services Group Leader, USDA Forest Service, Southern Region, Atlanta, GA

1:00 p.m. Afternoon Session Keynote Address: The Current Situation and a Vision to the Future of Remote Sensing in the Forest Service, Charles Dull, National Remote Sensing Program Manager, USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, Washington, D.C.

1:30 p.m. The Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation Project: An Example of Successful Technology Transfer, Paul Hardwick, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

2:00 p.m. Component Discrimination of Stand Boundaries Using Landsat Thematic Mapper and SIR-C Data in Conjunction with the Angelina National Forest Database, Kindness Israel, Arthur Temple College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX and Bruce Silvey, USDA Forest Service, National Forests of Texas, Lufkin, TX

2:30 p.m. Surface Lidar Remote Sensing of Forest Biophysical Parameters and Canopy Structure in the Pacific Northwest, Michael A. Lefsky, Warren B. Cohen and Thomas A. Spies, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Corvallis, OR

3:00 p.m. Break

SESSION III - Tuesday

Session III Moderator: David Wolf, Geometronics Group Leader, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Lakewood, CO

3:30 p.m. Sediment Slug Migration in the North Fork Bradfield River, Southeast Alaska, Bob Gubernick, USDA Forest Service, Stikine Area, Tongass National Forest, Petersburg, AK, Steve Reutebuch, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA and David Montgomery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

4:00 p.m. Movements, Activity Range, and Habitat Use of the Puerto Rican Boa (Epicrats inornatus), an Endemic Endangered Snake: Use of GPS and Radio Telemetry, Carlos D. Rodriguez-Pedraza, USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden, Rio Piedras, PR

4:30 p.m. Integrating GIS and Remote Sensing into a Mountain Goat Habitat Model, Robin Garwood, USDA Forest Service, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Ketchum, ID, and Tony P. Guay, Henry Lachowski, and Tim Wirth, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Wednesday, April 8, 1998

SESSION IV - Wednesday

Session IV Moderator: David George, GIS Center of Excellence, USDA Forest Service, Ogden, UT

8:00 a.m. Ecosystem Management and Remote Sensing at Multiple Levels, Ron Brohman, USDA Forest Service, Northern Region, Eastside Zone, Helena, MT, Haans Fisk and Henry Lachowski, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Kevin Suzuki, USDA Forest Service, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Ennis, MT and Jim MacNamara, USDA Forest Service, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Butte, MT

8:30 a.m. Wetland Classification and Monitoring in California , Andrew Lewis, Pacific Meridian Resources, Sacramento, CA

9:00 a.m. Ecoregion Partitioning for AVHRR and Landsat TM Regression Modeling , William H. Cooke, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Starkville, MS

9:30 a.m. Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Gabor Transforms, Motion Features and Neural Networks, W. E. Underwood, Artificial Intelligence Atlanta, Inc., Decatur, GA, and L. N. Kanal, LNK Corporation, Riverdale, MD

10:00 a.m. Break

SESSION V - Wednesday

Session V Moderator: Kim Rivard, Geometronics Group Leader, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, OR

10:30 a.m. GPS Positioning of Digital Aerial Cameras in Small Area Projects , Everett Hinkley, USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, Juneau, AK

11:00 a.m. Modifying the Airborne Video Toolkit to Support the Auto-Mosaicking of Digital Still-Frame Imagery, David S. Linden, INTECS International Inc., Fort Collins, CO

11:30 a.m. Hyperspectral Reflectance Profiles from AVIRIS of Vegetation, Water, Submerged Wetlands and Contaminated Soils in the Vicinity of Caddo Lake and the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant, Victor Whitehead, Warren Duncan and Mathew Phillips, Arthur Temple College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

12:00 p.m. Lunch - On your own

SESSION VI - Wednesday

Session VI Moderator: James L. Lowe, GIS Specialist, USDA Forest Service, Sam Houston National Forest, New Waverly, TX

1:00 p.m. Mapping and Monitoring Noxious Weeds Using Remote Sensing , Vicky Varner, Henry Lachowski, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Deborah Hayes, USDA Forest Service, Washington Office Range Staff, Washington, D.C., Leonard Lake and Bruce Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Nez Perce National Forest, Grangeville, ID

1:30 p.m. USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program, Thomas Owens, US Geological Survey - National Park Service, Center for Biological Informatics, Denver, CO

2:00 p.m. Remote Sensing Application and Research Within Forest Inventory and Analysis, David Alerich, and Rachel Riemann Hershey, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Radnor, PA

2:30 p.m. Applications of a Global Land Cover Database in Support of Global Forest Survey, Zhi-liang Zhu, Hughes STX Corporation, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD

3:00 p.m. A Report of Accuracy Assessment Methods and Results for the Lassen-Modoc Northeastern California Cooperative Vegetation Mapping Project, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Debby Beardsley, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, Ralph Warbington, Jeff Milliken, and Samantha Gill, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Sacramento, CA

3:30 p.m. Implementation of Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Management , Keith Lannom, Tony P. Guay, Paul E. Hardwick, Stan Bain, Henry Lachowski, and Tom Bobbe, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

4:00 p.m. - Vendor and Poster Session in the Marina Ballroom

6:00 p.m.

Vendors

ERDAS, Incorporated, 2801 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30329

ESRI, Incorporated, 14100 San Pedro Avenue, Suite 210, San Antonio, TX 78232

GPS Technology Corporation, 1250 Woodbranch Park Drive, Suite 350, Houston, TX 77079

Pacer Infotec Geospatial Services, 4099 SE International Highway #206, Portland, OR 97222

Pacific Meridian Resources, 5915 Hollis Street, Building B, Berkeley, CA 94708

Research Systems, Incorporated, 2995 Wilderness Place, Boulder, CO 80301

SPOT Image Corporation, 1897 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191

Trimble Navigation Limited, 3630 Sinton Road, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80907

Poster Presentations

Airborne Sensor Facility, Bruce Coffland, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA

Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for Habitat Modeling: A Case Study on the Prescott National Forest, Carolyn Finnance Enquist and William Krausmann, USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region Remote Sensing Unit, Albuquerque, NM

The Use of a Twelve Band Digital Video System As a Remote Sensing Research Tool, D.E. Escobar, J.H. Everitt, and M.R. Davis, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Weslaco, TX

An Aerial Forest Inventory and Monitoring System, David L. Evans, John W. McCombs and Susan D. Batten, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS and George Carlson, Resource Management Technologies, Bellingham, WA

Ecosystem Management and Remote Sensing at Multiple Levels, Hanns Fisk, USDA

Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Applying Airborne Video/Digital Stills Technology at the Ground Level, Ron Hall,

USDA Forest Service, Stikine Area, Tongass National Forest, AK

Using 3-D Orthophotos to Increase Public Presentation Communication, Ron Hall, USDA Forest Service, Stikine Area, Tongass National Forest, AK

Use of the Shadow Detection Method to Assess the Health of Dogwood Trees in a Landscape Setting, Tara Hayes and Caula Beyl, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Alabama A & M University, Normal, AL, and Nolan Hess, USDA Forest Service, Forest Pest Management, State and Private Forestry, Pineville, LA

Human Remote Sensing with Specially Filtered Glasses for Agriculture and Forestry, Brian Huberty, USDA Natural Conservation Service, Madison, WI, Dr. Robert Brock, Advanced Optical Technology, Portland, OR, Dr. Carlos Blazvuez, University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL and Vince Ambrosia, NASA Ames Research Center, Aircraft Data Facility, Moffett Field, CA

Landsat and GIS Analysis of the Rhett Prescribed Natural Fire Within the Blue

Primitive Area, William Jackson, Alpine Ranger District, Apache/Sitgraves National

Forest, Alpine, AZ and William Krausmann, Regional Remote Sensing Specialist,

USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Albuquerque, NM

Subpixel Classification of Loblolly Pine, Mark Karaska, Robert Huguenin and Donald

Van Blaricom, Applied Analysis Incorporated, Boston, MA

Wilderness Management: The Role of Remote Sensing and GIS, Henry Lachowski, Keith Lannom, and Tony Guay, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Example Applications of the Interregional Ecosystem Management Coordination Group Data Procurement, Keith Lannom, Stan Bain, and Henry Lachowski, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

3-D Visualization of DN Values to Aid in the Optimal Selection of Clustering Algorithms, Xiannong Meng, Department of Computer Science, and Eric Rieken,

Department of Physics and Geology, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX

Fire Danger Mapping Using AVHRR, Jim Plummer, Lloyd Queen, Steve Running, and Rama Nemani, School of Forestry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Integration of SPOT Imagery with GIS Data, Cameron County, Texas, Eric Rieken, Department of Physics and Geology, and Xiannong Meng, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX

Ecological Hierachical Units in Forest Mapping - Use of Existing Vegetation

Mapping, Brian D. Schwind, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region,

Remote Sensing Laboratory, Sacramento, CA

New Developments in the Future of Infrared Fire Mapping, Woody Smith, Tom Gough, Tiana Glenn, Ken Shurtliff, William Crampton , and Mike Cavaille, USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID

FIRESIGHT: An Integrated Intelligent System for Fire Detection and Monitoring, W.E. Underwood, and Matthew Underwood, Artificial Intelligence Atlanta, Inc., Decatur, GA

Monitoring Restoration of Mono Lake, California, Vicky Varner, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Ginelle O'Connor, and Roger Porter, USDA Forest Service, Inyo National Forest, Lee Vining, CA

Classification and Monitoring of Forest Structure Change, Brad Villnow and Lloyd Queen, School of Forestry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Mapping to the NVCS Alliance Level Using USFS FIA and Landsat Thematic Mapper Data for Brown County, Indiana, Dale R. Weigel, USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station, Bedford, IN, Jerry J. Johnston, Pangaea Information Technologies, Limited, Willowbrook, IL, David A. Banks, Nature Conservatory, Indianapolis, IN, and J.C. Randolph, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN

Understanding the Puzzle with GIS: The Ozark/Ouachita National Forests Highlands Assessment, Robert Weih, and Chris Bennett, School of Forest Resources, Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR

Enhancing Ecosystem Research with Remote Sensing and GIS, Robert Weih, and Suzanne Wiley, School of Forest Resources, Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR

Merging Digital Data Sources to Produce Human Interpretable Images, Ken Winterberger, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Anchorage, AK

Thursday, April 9, 1998

SESSION VII - Thursday

Session VII Moderator: Mark Flood, National Geometronics Program Manager, USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, Washington D.C.

8:00 a.m. Application of Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Technologies for Detecting and Mapping Insect Infestations, J. H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar and M.R. Davis, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Westlaco, TX, J.V. Richerson, Biology Department, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX, J.P. Karges, Nature Conservancy of Texas, Alpine, TX

8:30 a.m. Integration of a Color Infrared Digital Camera System into Forest Health Protection Programs in the Western United States, Southern Brazil, and Anhui Province, China, K. Andrew Knapp, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Boise, ID, Dr. Attilio Disperati, Senior Professor of Forest Management and Silviculture, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, and Dr. Zhou Jian Sheng, Director, Anhui Forest Ecological Control Center, Hefei City, Anhui Province, Peoples Republic of China

9:00 a.m. Use of Aerial Videography for Hazard Rating for the Southern Pine Beetle, David L. Kulhavy, James S. Mathews, William G. Ross, and Robert DuBey, Arthur Temple College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, Bruce Silvey, USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Texas, Lufkin, TX

9:30 a.m. An Evaluation of the Utility of Sub-Pixel Analysis of Thematic Mapper Imagery for the Spruce Beetle Outbreak on the Manti-LaSal National Forest, Jan Johnson and Paul Greenfield, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT, and Steve Munson, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Ogden Field Office, Ogden, UT

10:00 a.m. Break

SESSION VIII - Thursday

Session VIII Moderator: Robert Rosenthal, Geometronics Program Manager, USDA Forest Service, Northwest Region, Milwaukee, WI

10:30 a.m. Mapping Historic Fire Regimes for the Western United States: Integrating Remote Sensing and Biophysical Data, Colin Hardy, James P. Menakis, Donald G. Long, and James K. Brown, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, and David L. Bunnell, USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, Fire Operations, Boise, ID

11:00 a.m. Mapping Fuels for Spatial Fire Simulations Using Remote Sensing and Biophysical Modeling, Robert E. Keane, Kirsten M. Schmidt, Donald G. Long, James P. Manakis, and Janis L. Garner, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT

11:30 a.m. Airborne Mapping of Near-Ground Smoke at Night Using GPS and Light-Enhancing Video Imagery, Gary L. Achtemeier and Carl W. Adkins, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Juliette, GA, and Paul Greenfield, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

12:00 p.m. Lunch - On your own

SESSION IX - Thursday

Session IX Moderator: William Belton, National Remote Sensing Program Assistant, USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, Washington, D.C.

1:00 p.m. Fuel Loading and Risk Assessment, Lassen National Forest , Ken Robby, USDA Forest Service, Lassen National Forest, Susanville, CA, Judy Forbes, Lassen National Forest, Almanor Ranger District, Chester, CA and Paul Hardwick, Henry Lachowski, and Michael Wing, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT

1:30 p.m. Common Signal Processor (CSP) for Firemapping and Detection , Krishna Myneni,

Mark K. Hose, David Wallace, Roger Crump and Ron Wicks, Science Applications International Corporation, Huntsville, AL

2:00 p.m. Future Forest Service Image Processing Technology, Stan Bain, Operations Program Leader, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Sharmila Hutchins, Staff Software Engineer, IBM Global Government Industry, Denver, CO, and William Sharp, Industry Manager for Agriculture and Natural Resources, ERDAS Incorporated, Atlanta, GA

4:30 p.m. Conference Closing Remarks, Tom Bobbe, Manager, USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center, Salt Lake City, UT