ForestSAT 2026 Virtual Workshops:

Registration Fees (per workshop): Student $50 / Academic $100 / Industry Professional $150

Choose the workshops that interest you most: Participants may register for one or more workshops individually.

Registration for a workshop closes 2 business days before the workshop. Please note that registration for the March 18th workshop will close on March 9th to allow for procurement of resources needed for the workshop.

All times listed are in Eastern Time, USA

All workshops are delivered live only and will not be recorded; if you cannot attend, please refer to the cancellation policy below or contact us to transfer your registration to another workshop.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Wall-to-wall forest biomass estimation using Google Earth Engine

January 14, 2026 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructor: Dr. Cesar Alvites

TLS Point Cloud Processing and Leaf-Wood Segmentation Using Open-Source Methods

January 15, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Jinyi Xia

Quantitative Structure Modeling (QSM) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Open-Source Tools

January 22, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Jinyi Xia

Integrating GLOBE Observer Tree and Land Cover Data with NASA Earth Observations for Environmental Monitoring

January 29, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Di Yang, Peder Nelson

NASA’s new PACE mission: introduction to PACE’s hyperspectral, near daily observations of the world’s forest ecosystems

February 5, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Morgaine McKibben, Dr. Emil Cherrington, Skye Caplan, Dr. Fred Huemmrich

Mapping Forest Attributes Using Airborne Laser Scanning and Artificial Intelligence

February 9, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4:00 hours

Instructor: Dr. Cesar Alvites

Dive into TreeAIBox: An Open-Source AI-Driven CloudCompare Plugin for Interactive 3D Forest LiDAR Analysis

February 16, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4:00 hours

Instructors: Charumitha Selvaraj, Dr. Dani Degenhardt

Introduction to Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) and Basic Data Processing in R

February 18, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4:00 hours

Instructor: Dr. Jonathan L Batchelor

ICESat2VegR: An R Package for Accessing, Handling, and Processing ICESat2 ATL08 and ATL03 Data

February 23, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4:00 hours

Instructor: Dr. Caio Hamamura, Dr. Cesar Alvites

Deep-learning based tree species mapping with UAV images

March 2, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 8 hours

Instructor: Dr. Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira

Wall-to-Wall canopy metrics from Airborne Laser Scanning data using open-source tools

March 5, 2026 | Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Jeff Atkins, Dr. Inacio Bueno

Spaceborne lidar for vegetation assessment

March 10, 2026 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Sorin C. Popescu, Dr. Justinn J. Jones

Development of a Google Earth Engine Web-Based App for Forest Monitoring

March 12, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Cesar Alvites

Introduction to Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and Its Application in Forestry and Sinkhole Mapping

March 18, 2026 - 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Chunli Dai, Dr. Changhyun Choi Dr. Sanduni Disanayaka Mudiyanselage.

Please note that registration for this workshop will close on March 9th to allow for procurement of resources needed for the workshop.

Introduction to NASA's GEDI and rGEDI: An R Package for Accessing, Handling, and Processing GEDI Data

March 26, 2026 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Caio Hamamura, Dr. Inacio Bueno

COMPLETED WORKSHOPS

FORTLS: TLS Data Processing and Stand Variable Estimation

October 23, 2025 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Juan Alberto Molina-Valero, Adela Martínez-Calvo

3D Radiative Transfer Simulations of Virtual Forest Scenes: from Reflectance, SIF to Photosynthesis

November 10, 2025 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Jianbo Qi

PlotToSat: Extraction of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time-series at multiple regions

November 13, 2025 - 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Duration: 4 hours

Instructors: Dr. Milto Miltiadou, James Chamberlain, Oliver Appleby