Forestry Remote
Sensing Outreach
History and Scope of ForestPARC:
In 2003, The Forest Public
Access Resource Center (ForestPARC) was formed by the
Upper Midwest Aerospace
Consortium (UMAC), which focuses on the dissemination of remote
sensing to regional stakeholders, through cutting-edge research,
education, products, and extension activities. The UMAC region covers
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and North Dakota and contains
large areas of forest, rangeland, and wilderness areas. The focus of
ForestPARC is on using remote sensing to evaluate forest and wildland
ecology applications.
ForestPARC is set apart form other research collaborations due to its
rich diversity of both technical expertise and access to different
experimental field sites.
The lead institutions are located in a geographical
transect that incorporates several natural gradients that include
species composition, topology, and elevation. Technical expertise covers
the acquisition and analysis of Lidar, TIR data, hyperspectral data, and
of numerous broadband satellite sensors.
 ForestPARC:
Courses and Workshops for Managers
Online:
Joint Fire Sciences Program Fire Synthesis Project
Online: Joint Fire Sciences Program 401 Series
project
Online Lidar Tutorial:
Regional Lidar Research
April 2006:
USDA FS Remote Sensing
Applications Center (RSAC)
National Conference and 3rd Annual
ForestPARC Workshop:
ForestPARC coordinated with RSAC and hosted a half-day session on 'The
Remote Sensing of Post-fire Effects'. This session was followed by an
expert panel question and answer session. The panel of national experts
and included: Caty Clifton, Colin Hardy, Randy McKinley, Annette
Parsons, Peter Robichaud , Brian Schwind, Henry Shovic, and Dean Sirucek.
May 2005: 2nd
Annual ForestPARC Workshop:
Lidar Concepts &
Resource Applications, held on 17-19th May 2005 at the Salt Lake City
Public Library.
To encourage more national participation, ForestPARC co-sponsored this
workshop with the USDA Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC)
in Salt Lake City. The workshop involved over 100 persons, including
university researchers, forest service managers and researchers,
students, and lidar vendors.
 May
2004: 1st Annual ForestPARC Workshop: Lidar Users and
Researchers Workshop, held 17-19th
May in Moscow, Idaho.
These workshops included Expert Panel Discussion,
Vendor presentations, and Breakout sessions. The presentations of the
2005 workshop are available on CD-ROM from RSAC.
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