The 1^st International Workshop on Digital Forestry will focus on the State-of-the-Art applications of digital disciplines in forestry, including Forest Inventory, Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems, and Biometrics. The purpose of the workshop is to bring people together and discuss the future development of digital forestry as a new and working discipline in the 21^st century.

The workshop is sponsored jointly by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Jilin Yanbian Forestry Group, China's Ministry of Science and Technology, Purdue University, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), Society of American Foresters, and China's Natural Science Foundation (NSF).