Tuesday June 15

Registration and Socializing begins at 7PM in the Conference Hospitality Suite

 Wednesday June 16

Bayou Room

   Early morning

Classification/Mapping with Satellite Image Data 1

   Late morning

Growth and Yield Modeling 1  

   Early afternoon

Self-referencing Functions 1  

   Late afternoon

Special Inventory Topics 1  

   Dinner

Banquet at Lake Hamilton Resort  

   Evening

Socializing in the Conference Hospitality Suite

Bayou Room

Hamilton Room

   Early morning

Special Inventory Topics 2

Intensive Management Silviculture and Modeling

   Late morning

Growth and Yield Modeling 2

Large-area Long-term Natural Resource Analysis

   Early afternoon

Growth and Yield Modeling 3  

Classification/Mapping with Satellite Image Data 2

   Late afternoon

Meta-Analysis of Experimental Data and Habitat Modeling

An open discussion session on self-referencing parameter estimation with two leading presentations

Southern Mensurationists Business Meeting

   Dinner

Onboard the Belle Riverboat

   Evening 

Socializing in the Conference Hospitality Suite

Friday June 18

   830am-3pm

The field tour with a barbeque lunch

Moderator: Erkki Tomppo

Classification/Mapping with Satellite Image Data (this session will continue on June 17th)

8:00-10:00am Wednesday

Chris Cieszewski and Mike Strub

Welcome and Conference Organization and Safety Overview 

Albert R Stage

Most Similar Neighbor Revisited: Reformulating the Weight Matrix and Components of Imputation Error

Raymond L Czaplewski

Transformation of Feature Space for k-nearest Neighbors Imputation in Remote Sensing

Greg Koeln / Eleanore Meredith

Forest Area Assessment, Land Cover Mapping, and Change Detection Techniques

Ronald E McRoberts

The Effects of the Choice of k on Preserving Covariance Structure in k-NN Estimation

Erkki Tomppo

Using Coarse Scale Forest Variables as Ancillary Information and Weighting of Variables in K-NN Estimation - a Genetic Algorithm Approach

This session will continue on June 17th

Moderator: Chris Cieszewski

Growth and Yield Modeling 1

10:20-12:00 Wednesday

Boris Zeide

Dynamics of Optimal Stand Density

Harold Burkhart

Choosing an Appropriate Level for Modeling Forest Stands

Quang V Cao  

Paul F Doruska

Timo Tokola 

Moderator: Mike Strub

Self-referencing Functions 1

1:00-3:00PM Wednesday

Oscar Garcia

Site Index, the SDE Approach

Andres Kiviste

Difference equations of stand height, diameter and volume depending on stand age and site factors for Estonian state forests

Thomas Nord-Larsen

Developing dynamic site index curves for European beech in Denmark

Mingliang Wang

Base-age invariant site index models with Chinese fir data

Michal Zasada

Site index modeling in Poland : its history and current directions

Chris Cieszewski 

Analysis of Different Base Models and Options for Site Model Derivation Using Historical Data for Scots Pine (Pinus Sylvestris L.) in Central Europe

Moderator: Kim Iles

Special Inventory Topics

3:20-5:20pm Wednesday

Thomas E Burk

BigBAF Sampling: Application and Issues

Nick Smith

Sector sampling- a new type of sample plot

Nicholas L Crookston

Assigning Measurements to All Simulation Units in a Landscape Using Most Similar Neighbor Imputation

Mark Ducey

Boundary Overlap:  An Easier, Faster, and (Almost) Unbiased Solution

Thomas B. Lynch

Sampling Trees in Riparian Areas with Horizontal Line Sampling

Kim  Iles

Area-free volume estimation with variable plot sampling

Thursday � Early morning

Bayou Room

Hamilton Room

Moderator: Bill Smith

Special Inventory Topics 2

Moderator: Bruce Borders

Intensive Management Silviculture and Modeling

Greg Reams

Panel Designs for FIA�s Annual Inventory

Yujia Zhang

Impacts of cultural treatments on branch development

Salvador A Gezan

Design and Analysis of Experiments in Forestry: Incorporating Spatial Variation

Shangbin  Liu  

Preliminary results of sensitivity analysis on Long-Term Simulations of Forest Resources in Georgia  

Bill  Carr

Using an Electronic Relaskop/Dendrometer for Variable Plot Cruising and Measuring Form of Trees

Andrew M. Burrow  

Predicting Basal Area Growth and Yield of Thinned Loblolly Pine Plantations in the West Gulf Region  

Brock  Stewart

Use of a camera as an angle-gauge in angle-count sampling

Dehai  Zhao

Simultaneously modeling response curves and testing treatment effects in repeated measures experiments: A nonlinear mixed-effects model approach

Francis A. Roesch  

Continuous Inventories and the Components of Change

Mike Strub

Height from DBH Curves Continued

Bill Smith

Mind Mapping versus Data Mapping

Bruce E Borders  

Modeling Silvicultural Responses in Intensively Managed Plantations

Thursday � Late morning

Bayou Room

Hamilton Room

Moderator: Peter Newton

Growth and Yield Modeling 2

Moderator: Pete Bettinger

Large-area Long-term Natural Resource Analysis

D.J Leduc

Diameter Distributions for Young Longleaf Pine Plantations: Initial Conditions for a Growth and Yield Model

Pete  Bettinger

Simulation of landowner behavior and potential forest policies at a large scale in Coastal Oregon

Mingliang Wang

Another Parameterization of Johnson's B Distribution

Don R Reimer

Multi-Resource Sustainability Through Habitat-based Planning, A Case Study

Qingchao Li

Quantifying Height Distributions for Young Loblolly Pine Plantations Using Weibull Function

Yangjian Zhang

Mapping of the Wildland Urban Interface related with fire management

Chengcai Ni

Modeling Diameter Growth with Quantile Regression

Clinton T Moore

A decision model for perpetuating maximal old-growth forest conditions under stochastic and structural uncertainty

Thomas B. Lynch

Height-DBH Equations for Cherrybark Oak and Eastern Cottonwood

Michal Zasada

Impact of adjacency and green-up constraints on wood supply in Georgia, USA

  Thursday - Early afternoon

Bayou Room

Hamilton Room

Moderator: Michal Zasada

Growth and Yield Modeling 3

Moderator: Erkki Tomppo

Classification/Mapping with Satellite Image Data 2

Salvador A Gezan

Smoothing Forestry Data with Cubic Splines

Boris Zeide

Analysis of Errors in Size-Number Relationships

Qingmin Meng

Modeling Biomass and Timber Volume from LandSat TM Images

Artur Nilson

Stand density or stand sparsity

Tripp Lowe

LTM-Based Spectral Distance Method for Estimating Forest Stand Basal Area

Thomas Nord-Larsen

Modeling individual tree growth from data with highly irregular measurement intervals

Patrick A Glass

Mississippi�s Initiative for Forest Inventory Aid to economic Development

Rechun He 

Three Dimensional Wood Sheath Models of Loblolly Pine Specific Gravity

Mingliang Wang  

Image-coregistration analysis

 Andres Kiviste 

Open Discussion

Thursday � Late Afternoon

Bayou Room

Hamilton Room

Moderator: Valerie LeMay

Meta-Analysis of Experimental Data and Habitat Modeling

Moderators: Mike Strub and Chris Cieszewski

Self-referencing functions 2: parameter estimation discussion session

Valerie LeMay /Peter Marshall

Measurement and Analysis Issues for Complex Stands

Mike Strub

Base-age Invariance in Self-referencing Parameter Estimation

Peter F. Newton  

Meta-Analytical Trends in Diameter Response of Black Spruce and Jack Pine to Precommercial Thinning 

Chris Cieszewski

Comparison of Base-Age Invariant and Base-Age Dependent Approaches to Parameter Estimation in Self-Referencing Models

David R. Larsen

Development of a growth mode summary system for use with landowners

Open Discussion  

J.C.G. Goelz  

A Forest Model Relevant to Red-cockaded Woodpeckers (Picoides borealis)  

 Zhaofei Fan

Multiple-scale ecological modeling for cavity tree management in Missouri oak forests  

Prime Rib
      Cooked as you like it. 

Jumbo Shrimp
      With crabmeat Au Gratin 

Grilled Salmon Fillet
      With sweet mango salsa 

Chicken Parmesan
     With a creamy white wine sauce