The 2013 Forestry GIS Conference Proceedings is a compilation of professional abstracts and presentations delivered in Redlands, CA. Esri users played a fundamental role in the conference by presenting information on a diverse collection of GIS applications.
Watch the videos from the 2013 Forestry GIS Conference Plenary and Technical Workshops.
| Title | Presentation | Author | Session |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome | Presentation | Peter Eredics | Welcome and Opening |
| Creating Value from America's Forest Census | Presentation | Richard W. Guldin, Ph.D., CF, RPF | Keynote Address |
| Addressing Business Challenges with Changing Geospatial Technology - a TIMO Perspective | Presentation | Brent Keefer | Opening Plenary |
| Monitoring Reporting and Verification System for REDD+ in Guyana | Presentation | Haimwant Persaud | Opening Plenary |
| Forests in a Broader Context: The Three Basins Initiative | Presentation | Dr. D. James Baker | Opening Plenary |
| Evaluating Landscape Alternatives with Spatial Adjacency Constraints | Presentation | Tyler Bax | Technical Plenary: Forest Management |
| Enterprise GIS for the Bavarian State Forest Administration | Presentation | Christian Simbeck | Technical Plenary: Forest Management |
| Seven Habits of Highly Effective Wildland Firefighting | Presentation | David Blankinship | Technical Plenary: Forest Management |
| Rugged Handhelds - The Next Generation | Presentation | Mark Milligan, Rick Davis | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility |
| Deploying Lightweight GIS in Disconnected Environments | Presentation | Michael Helm | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility |
| No Surprises in the Field, No Mistakes in the Office | Presentation | Kendis Scharenbroich | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility |
| Forestry Measurement Tools & Techniques | Presentation | Derrick Reish | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility |
| GPS Accuracy: What Really Works Under the Canopy? | Presentation | Johnny Thompson | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility |
| Managing Natural Resources with Lidar at the USDA Forest Service | Presentation | Brent Mitchell | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Comparing Color and Color-Infrared in 4-Band Imagery | Presentation | David Shear | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Scalable, Esri Integrated Image Processing Solutions for Natural Resources Management | Presentation | Vasu Pillalamarri | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Weyerhaeuser's Grande Prairie Forest Management Area | Presentation | Vashti Dunham | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Connecting the Dots: Lidar and ArcGIS in Action | Presentation | Kevin Lim | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| The Esri and Exelis Lidar Grant Program | Presentation | David Gonzalez | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Lidar for Mapping Shallow Rivers and Riparian Vegetation | Presentation | Russ Faux | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Practical Lidar Applications for Plantation Forest Management Using ArcGIS | Presentation | Mark Norris-Rogers | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |
| Lessons Learned as the Result of 30 Years of GIS Development | Presentation | Allen Brackley | Breakout Session: Enterprise Forest Management Systems |
| Web Apps to Share Statewide Forest Information | Presentation | Brad Barber | Breakout Session: Enterprise Forest Management Systems |
| Stewardship Mapping Made Easy - Get SMART | Presentation | Chris Gerecke | Breakout Session: Enterprise Forest Management Systems |
| GIS as a System at Latvian State Forests | Presentation | Maris Kuzmins | Breakout Session: Enterprise Forest Management Systems |
| GIS Data Integration and Management | Presentation | Deborah Sheeler, William Ayersman, Tina McKeand | Breakout Session: Data Integration and Management |
| A Simple Spatial Approach to Land Records | Presentation | Tucker Alley | Breakout Session: Data Integration and Management |
| Better Data Management Leads to Better Decision Making | Presentation | Mark Milligan | Breakout Session: Data Integration and Management |
| Manage Image Acquisition to Lower Costs and Level Budgets using ArcGIS | Presentation | David Shear | Breakout Session: Data Integration and Management |
| Automated Plat Creation at Weyerhaeuser | Presentation | Corrin Crawford | Breakout Session: Data Integration and Management |
| Introduction to Lidar and Forestry | Presentation | Ron Behrendt | Breakout Session: Lidar for Forest Management |
| Multi-Scale Forest Characterization from Airborne Lidar and Imagery | Presentation | Mischa Hey | Breakout Session: Lidar for Forest Management |
| An Optimized Logistics Scheduling Solution - what's possible? | Presentation | Doug Jones | Breakout Session: Modeling, Optimization and Analysis |
| The Development of Long-term Biomass Harvest Scheduling Scenarios for Alternative Energy Production | Presentation | Kenneth Stumpf | Breakout Session: Modeling, Optimization and Analysis |
| Optimizing Terrain Transport in Forestry Using GIS | Presentation | Isabelle Bergkvist | Breakout Session: Modeling, Optimization and Analysis |
| Offline Mobile Editing for iOS and Android with ArcGIS Online | Presentation | Matt Sheehan | Breakout Session: Field Mobility Solutions |
| Juniper Aspect Field Mapping Solutions | Presentation | Scott Hunter | Breakout Session: Field Mobility Solutions |
| GIS & Mobility for Forestry Management | Presentation | Niva Vilela | Breakout Session: Field Mobility Solutions |
| Taking your data off the GRID | Presentation | Austin Mulder | Breakout Session: Field Mobility Solutions |
| Presentation: Buying and Acquiring Lidar | Presentation | Mischa Hey | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 |
| Presentation: Lidar Sensors, Today & Tomorrow | Presentation | Christian Sevcik | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 |
| Hands On: Introduction to the LAS Dataset | Presentation | Melanie Harlow | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 |
| Hands On: Introduction to the Mosaic Dataset | Presentation | Melanie Harlow | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 |
| Presentation: Integrating Information from Lidar Data with your GIS | Presentation | David Gonzalez | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 |
| Editing with Feature Templates | Presentation | Miriam Schmidts | Editing Forestry Data with Feature Templates |
| Creating and Editing Attributes | Presentation | Miriam Schmidts | Editing Forestry Data with Feature Templates |
| Integrating Data | Presentation | Miriam Schmidts | Editing Forestry Data with Feature Templates |
| Data QC - Fixing Misalignments, Slivers and Duplicates | Presentation | Miriam Schmidts | Editing Forestry Data with Feature Templates |
| Keeping Track of Change | Presentation | Miriam Schmidts | Editing Forestry Data with Feature Templates |
| Real Time Situational Awareness for Wildfires Across the Nation | David Buckley | Breakout Session: Enterprise Forest Management Systems | |
| ArcGIS Online to Maximize Urban Forest Assessments | Richard Thurau | Breakout Session: Enterprise Forest Management Systems | |
| Interact with the Experts: Lidar Roundtable | Ron Behrendt, Brent Mitchell, Kevin Lim, Mischa Hey, Jason Strunk | Breakout Session: Lidar for Forest Management | |
| Mapping Forest Inventory Parameters Using Lidar | Brent Mitchell | Breakout Session: Lidar for Forest Management | |
| Operational Forest Inventories with Lidar | Jacob Strunk | Breakout Session: Lidar for Forest Management | |
| GIS-Based Estimation of Climate Change Effects on the National Forests | Arnaldo Ferrerira | Breakout Session: Modeling, Optimization and Analysis | |
| Growth Model Development Using Spatial Climatic and Topographic Indices | Moonil Kim | Breakout Session: Modeling, Optimization and Analysis | |
| Land Surface Temperature and Normalized Difference Index Products | Hangnan Yu | Breakout Session: Modeling, Optimization and Analysis | |
| Field Data Collection using Collector for ArcGIS (Android, iOS) | Paul Barker | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Commercial-Grade Tablet Solutions for Disconnected Location Awareness, Data Access and Collection | Tyler Bax, James Schriever | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| GIS Mapping with Lasers, GPS and ArcPad | Joe Cronn | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Field Mapping with Juniper Systems Ultra-Rugged Handhelds and Aspect Mobile GIS | Scott Hunter | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Mobilizing GPS/GIS Data with Rugged Tablet PCs for Increased Field Productivity | Jo Lynn Smith | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Trimble Mobile Field Solutions | Brooks McKee, Rich Hilliker, Shaun Minton | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| The Next Generation Handheld - The Forge Echo | Mark Milligan, Rick Davis, John Cothrun, Johnny Thompson | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Single Tree and Plot Mapping in ArcGIS Online: Digitech Professional & PosTex Laser | Brian Mitchell | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Using Mobile GIS to Perform Real-Time Damage Assessment Caused by Wildfires | Tom Patterson | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Laser Offset Data Collection Utilizing ArcGIS for Windows Mobile | Derrick Reish | Field Lab: Forest Navigation and Field Mapping | |
| Workshop Welcome and Agenda Review | Ron Behrendt | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 | |
| Q & A, Wrap-Up | Ron Behrendt | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 | |
| Demo: Creating Derivative Products | Cody Benkelman | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 | |
| Presentation: Feature Extraction from Lidar Point Clouds | Jonathon Gale | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 | |
| Demo: ArcGIS for Imagery Management | Melanie Harlow | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 | |
| Hands On: Case Study - Mondi Ltd. (My Lidar Data Just Arrived....NOW WHAT?) | Mark Norris-Rogers | Hands on Workshop: Lidar in ArcGIS 10.1 | |
| Using GIS to Support Decision Making for Texas Forest Managers: Case Study of the Texas A&M Forest Service | Thomas G Boggus | Opening Plenary | |
| The Road Ahead for the Esri Forestry Group | Mark Books | Road Ahead Session | |
| Field Data Collection with ArcGIS Online Web Maps and the ArcGIS Collector | Timothy E. Clark | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility | |
| Field Data Collection and Real-Time Progress Monitoring | Timothy E. Clark | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility | |
| The Gatewing UAV solution for Remote Data Collection in Forestry | Rich Hilliker | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility | |
| Mobile GIS Solutions for Forestry | Jeff Shaner | Technical Plenary: Field Mobility | |
| What's New in ArcGIS Online | Michael Berzinis | Technical Plenary: Forest Management | |
| Spatial Analysis for Foresters | Peter Eredics, Mike Livingston | Technical Plenary: Forest Management | |
| The Art and the Science of Spatial Optimization | Ugo Feunekes | Technical Plenary: Forest Management | |
| The ArcGIS Desktop Water Crossing Tool | Nick Gralewicz | Technical Plenary: Forest Management | |
| Using LIDAR Data, Imagery and Automated Feature Extraction (AFE) for Forestry Applications | Jonathan Gale | Technical Plenary: Lidar and Imagery |