Workshop

Lasers and Forest Ecology

In this workshop examples from different perspectives will be presented on issues related to the use of novel laser technology for studying forest dynamics and provide new insights in forest structure and forest ecology.

Organised by Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing
Date

Tue 30 October 2018 13:00 to 15:00

Venue Gaia, building number 101
Droevendaalsesteeg 3
101
6708 PB Wageningen
+31 (0) 317 - 48 17 00
Room 1

The workshop precedes the PhD thesis defense of Alvaro Lau. You are also invited to attend the public defense of their theses in the Aula. 

Time Subject Name
13:00 Opening Prof. Dr. Martin Herold
13:15 Studying the impact of lianas on the carbon cycle of tropical forest using vegetation modelling and TLS observations Prof. Dr. Hans Verbeek CAVElab, Ghent University, Belgium
13:45 Quantifying leaf phenology in tropical forests to help improve climate-vegetation models: from laser to (nano)satellites Dr. Nicolas Barbier IRD/UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France
14:15 Characterizing forest structure and biomass from LIDAR-UAV Dr. Harm Bartholomeus, Wageningen University
14:45 Final discussion Prof. Dr. Martin Herold
15:00 Transfer to Aula
16:00 PhD thesis defense: Assessing biomass and architecture of tropical trees with terrestrial laser scanning Alvaro Lau Wageningen University