FOREST ECOSYSTEMS IN THE CONDITIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

15-16 September 2020

Volga State University of Technology invites to the IX annual Scientific and Practical Conference, which will be held remotely on the Zoom platform. During the event, topical issues of scientific research and practice, monitoring and remote assessment of forest management, international projects and technologies in the field of forest ecosystems in a changing climate will be discussed.
The conference will bring researchers to address the issues of reforestation, monitoring and remote sensing of forest management, to explore and discuss opportunities and strengths related to forest ecosystems in the conditions of climate change. Several individual sessions of the event will be informed by several keynote speakers with extensive expertise in the field. Contributions are welcome on any aspect of modern forest science, including focused empirical, theoretical and practical contributions to forest management in the conditions of climate change. The conference is held in the framework of two international projects SUFOGIS (Erasmus+) and GEMOECO (BRICS).

Themes of presentations:
1. Biological productivity of forests.
2. Assessment of ecosystem disturbances.
3. Technologies for artificial reforestation.
4. The ecological role of forests.
5. Forest inventory and planning.
6. GIS and remote monitoring of ecosystems.
7. Forest conservation and protection.

The conference proceedings are considered for publication in the annual Compendium “Forest Ecosystems under Climate Change: Biological Productivity and Remote Monitoring”. Manuscripts are also welcomed for submissions to the Special Issue of Journal of Remote Sensing "Remote Sensing of Burnt Area Monitoring".

Organizers: Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Center for Sustainable Forest Management and Remote Sensing.

The following information is required from participants for the conference program:
Title of the presentation, full names of the authors, organization, position, scientific degree, email
Contact address:inter@volgatech.net

Deadlines:

31 July 2020 for registration.
1 September 2020 submission of papers for the Compendium.

The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

Conference program

Link to enter the conference

Presentations:

S. Papaiordanidis On the fly land cover mapping using machine learning with multispectral satellite imagery on Google Earth Engine (pdf, 4.4Mb)

C. Pucher Combining remote sensing and national forest inventory data for large scale forest structure assessment (pdf, 2.9Mb)

I. Abdurahmanov Erasmus+ projects in the field of Geoinformatics in Uzbekistan: DSinGIS and NICoPA (pdf, 2.4Mb)

F. Stytsenko National scale fire induced tree mortality assessment using EO data (pdf, 3.3Mb)