Participants
Interest Groups
- Interest Groups, Topics, and Participants Table
- IG1: Instrument Development
- IG2: Data Preprocessing and Analysis
- IG3: Algorithms for Information Extraction
- IG4: Ecological Drivers and Applications
- IG5: Field Measurement Protocols
- IG6: Fire Hazard Assessment and Modeling
- Simulation Group
Telecons
All-Hands Telecon, January 22, 2018
- Agenda (.docx)
- Notes (.docx)
- Recording, Part 1
- Recording, Part 2
- Burt-Calders-Disney images shown in telecon (.zip)
All-Hands Telecon, May 17, 2018
All-Hands Telecon, July 18, 2018
All-Hands Telecon, February 20, 2019
- Agenda
- Notes
- Recording (Audio only)
- Text of In-Telecon Chat
- Link to Zoom Recording (Meeting begins at 15:33)
All-Hands Telecon, September 11, 2019
All-Hands Telecon, November 5, 2020
Harvard Forest Calibration Activity Telecons
RCN Meeting at SilviLaser, 1–2 October, 2015
- Agenda and Associated Documents
- Meeting Highlights
- Meeting Report, with links to presentations
Tree Data and Modeling Workshop, Tampere University of Technology, 7–9 June, 2016
GFOI R&D and GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Science Meeting, The Hague, 31 October – 4 November, 2016
- Meeting Web Page
- Summary Report of Meeting (.pdf)
- TLS-RCN Presentations at GFOI R&D Sessions, 31 October 2016
- Crystal Schaaf, Highly Portable Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS) (to come)
- Kim Calders-Mat Disney, Weighing Trees with Lasers: Biomass and Allometry Estimation
- Harm Bartolomeus-Alvaro Lau, Estimation of Above-Ground Biomass of Large Tropical Trees with Terrestrial Lidar (differs slightly from 31 October presentation)
- Alan Strahler, The Terrestrial Laser Scanning Community — TLSIIG and TLSRCN and Synthesis for Biomass from TLS
TLS Workshop at Ecological Society of Australia Meeting, 2 December 2016, Fremantle, Western Australia
- See Google Drive folder of materials, prepared by University of Queensland, DSITI, CSIRO researchers
The Royal Society Theo Murphy Meeting, The Terrestrial Laser Scanning Revolution in Forest Ecology, 27-28 February, Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, England
- Royal Society Web Page for the meeting, including agenda, abstracts of talks, information about speakers, and recordings of talks
- Special issue of Interface Focus, “The Terrestrial Laser Scanning Revolution in Forest Ecology”, with papers submitted by meeting participants. A three-page Introduction introduces and summarizes the meeting themes and organization
RCN Meeting, University College London, 1 March 2017
- Agenda
- Jump to Meeting Page for presentations, discussions
ForestSat 2018
- Comparing TLS-derived Quantitative Structure Models with Direct Measurements of Tree Structure (Philip Radtke, presenter)
- Using ZEB1, a Highly-Mobile Terrestrial Laser Scanner, to Assess and Measure Trees in an Eastern Hemlock-Dominated Forest (Debbie Crawford, presenter)
- Quantifying Forest Structure, Complexity, and Biomass Using the Leica BLK360 Terrestrial Laser Scanner (Jeff Atkins, presenter)
- Structural Signatures of Forest Disturbance (Jeff Atkins, presenter)
- Developing New Biomass Allometric Equations Based on Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Kim Calders, presenter)
- Quantifying Tree Crown-Filling Using New 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanning Measurements (Mat Disney, presenter)
- Seasonal Structure-Function Interactions: Fusing Solar Induced Fluorescence and Terrestrial Lidar for Holistic Ecosystem Measurement (Atticus Stovall, presenter)
- Investigating the Above-Ground Competition Effects of Liana Load on Tree Structure and Allometry Using TLS (Sruthi Moorthy, presenter)
RCN Calibration Activity, Harvard Forest, August 2017
Communication Tools
Reports
- ABLS IG1 Report (.docx)
- Publications (with pdfs at TLSIIG web site)
- NSF Annual Report Year 1, 3/31/2016
- ABLS IG1 Report Year 2 (.docx)
- NSF Annual Report Year 2, 3/31/2017
- ABLS Report Year 3 Instrument Table
- NSF Annual Report Year 3, 3/31/2018
- NSF Annual Report Year 4, 3/31/2019
Proposal Materials