Tentative Agenda (Updated June 5, 2004)

June 13, 2004     Arrive in Beijing International Hotel (www.bih.com.cn)

The cost for taxi from the airport to the hotel is around 100 yuan RMB. Keep receipts for reimbursement.

The workshop will reserve all the rooms, one person a room.

Note: A 500 yuan RMB deposit is needed from each participant for room telephone and mini bar.

June 14, 2004    

       7:00-8:30      Breakfast (included in the room charge)

8:30-9:30      Welcome to the Digital Forestry Workshop: Introduction

Welcome: Guofan Shao, Purdue University/SAF/CAS

Keynote Speaker: Shougong Zhang, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Forestry

China’s Forests, Forest Management, Forestry, and Digital Forestry

                            Introduction: Digital Forestry’s Initialization and Background

Shouzheng Tang, Academician of CAS, Chinese Academy of Forestry

Research in Digital Disciplines of Forestry in China

Guang Zhao, Former Chair of GIS WG, Society of American Foresters

Concepts, Issues, and Questions of Digital Forestry

9:30-10:30    Digital Disciplines in Forestry (1): Internet, Outreach, and Education

                            Moderator: Lianjun Zhang, SUNY-ESF

Michael Köhl

The European Forest Information System - an Internet based interface between information providers and the user community

James Brey

The Importance of the First Course in GIS for Any Discipline

       10:30-10:45  Break

10:45-12:15  Digital Disciplines in Forestry (2): Biometrics and Modeling

Moderator: Tim Warner, West Virginia University

                            Andreas Huth

Modeling growth and dynamics of tropical rain forests

                            Keith Reynolds

A modeling framework for coping with complexity in ecosystem assessment and environmental planning

Lianjun Zhang

Exploring spatial heterogeneity in model residuals from four modeling techniques

12:15-1:15    Lunch

       1:15-2:45      Digital Disciplines in Forestry (3): Forest Inventory and Sampling

Moderator: Keith Rennolls, The University of Greenwich

Hans-Erik Andersen

Estimation of forest inventory parameters using interferometric SAR

Guofan Shao

A Compatible Forest Inventory System with GIS and GPS in China

                            Steen Magnussen

Adaptive Cluster Sampling of Deforestation

3:00-3:15      Break

       3:15-5:15      Digital Disciplines in Forestry (4): Forestry Decisions

                            Moderator: Fengyou Wang, Forestry Bureau of Heilongjiang Province

Fengri Li

A Decision Support System for Forest Management in Heilongjiang Province

Limin Dai

The Roles of Decision Support Systems in China’s Forestry

                            Michael C. Wimberly

Applications of digital spatial data and GIS analysis to support forest management in the wildland-urban interface

Yunjun Sun

GIS-based study on distribution of landscape elements along environmental gradients in over-cutting forest region

5:15-6:00      Free Time

       6:00-8:00      Banquet

Host: Zhiwen Yuan, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

June 15, 2004

       7:00-8:00      Breakfast (included in the room charge)

       8:00-9:30      Digital Disciplines in Forestry (5): Geospatial Technologies

                            Moderator: James Brey, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley

                            Keith Rennolls

Grasping Complex Image Objects

Gil Mendoza

Integrating multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and GIS under a participatory Modeling environment

Tim Warner

Identification of Individual Trees in High Resolution Imagery of the Eastern Deciduous Forest of North America

       9:30-9:45      Break

9:45-11:30    Towards Digital Forestry (1): Open Discussion

Secretary: Hans-Erik Anderson, University of Washington

Moderator: Guang Zhao, Society of American Foresters

What Is the Direction of Digital Forestry?

       11:30-12:00  Check out Hotel

       12:00-1:00    Lunch

       1:00-2:30     Towards Digital Forestry (2): Implementation: Discussion Continued

                            Secretary: Li Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Moderator: John Moser, Purdue University

Guang Zhao

A Brief Summary

                            Conclusion Remarks from Participants

What is the Next?

Guofan Shao

Acknowledgements

Field Trip Information

       2:30-3:00      Get Ready for Field Trip   

       3:00-4:00      Go to the Airport (by bus)

       5:00-7:00      Fly to Yanji City

       7:30                     Arrive Luyuan (Green Source) Hotel

       8:00-9:00      Welcome Dinner

                            Host: Bai Guangxin

June 16, 2004

7:30-8:30     Breakfast

       8:30-12:00    Go to Baihe (a town on Changbai Mountain) by Bus

       12:00-12:30  Check in Meirensong (Changbai Pine) Hotel

       12:30-1:30   Lunch

       1:30-6:30      Trip to Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve and Return

       6:30-8:30      Welcome Dinner

                            Host: Du Wenyan

June 17, 2004

       7:30-8:30     Breakfast

       8:30-12:00    Trip to Managed Forests on Changbai Mountain and Return

       12:00-1:00    Lunch

       For people who will fly to Beijing:

1:00-1:30      Check Out

              1:30-5:00      Go to Yanji by Bus

              5:00-6:00      Check in Baishan Hotel

              6:00-8:00      Dinner

       For people who will take train for Beijing: Stay in Baihe and take train in the evening.

June 18, 2004

       7:30-8:30      Breakfast

8:30-12:00    Sightseeing in Yanji City

12:00-1:00    Lunch

1:00-4:00      Free time

4:00                     Go to airport

7:30                     Arrive in Beijing International Airport

       8:30                     Check in Beijing International Hotel (by taxi)

The workshop will reserve and pay rooms for one night for participants

                            Keep receipts of transportation and meals for reimbursement

June 19, 2004

       Check out before 12:00.

       Depart from Beijing

A convenient way to go to the airport is to use the Airport Shuttle Bus. The beginning stop is located on the west side of Beijing International Hotel.

If people want to stay in Beijing longer, the workshop can help them to reserve hotels.