WELCOME
Athens, Georgia
December 11-12, 2023
The University of Georgia and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources invite researchers and professionals in forestry and natural resource management to a conference devoted to issues and advances in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and related mapping and spatial technologies.
News
February 17, 2023
New Website Launched
February 26, 2023
Call for Presentations available!
February 27, 2023
June 21, 2023
December 19, 2023
Mapping
UAVs
Forest inventory
Geospatial technologies
Forest health
Natural hazards / fires in forestry
Forest economics and policy
Recreation
GPS
LiDAR
Biomass and bioenergy
GPS accuracy assessments
Remote sensing
Urban forestry
Forest sustainability
Invasive species
The conference has been approved for 12.0 (Category 1) Society of American Foresters Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) credits and 12.0 (Category B) Georgia Master Timber Harvester Continuing Logger Education (CLE) credits.
Keynote Speakers
Elizabeth Hunter
Elizabeth Hunter is the co-founder and COO of Treeswift, a forestry technology company producing transparent, verifiable forest inventories to scale for timber and carbon. As a technologist, she has innovated the tech stack driving the most accurate and actionable datasets on stem-level metrics for forests.
As a revenue and operations leader, she has worked with landowners in their adoption of Treeswift’s technology enabling them to unlock new forest insights to better manage and market their timberlands.
Prior to Treeswift, Elizabeth was an academic and imagined a world in which robots could work seamlessly with nature. She believes robots can fundamentally change the speed, scale, and potential of physical data collection, and can transform the resulting experiences and insights that data can bring through AI analytics.
Elizabeth received her M.S. in robotics and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an internationally recognized leader and expert in microrobotics and synthetic biology, specifically methods to fabricate, actuate, control, and sense biocompatible micrometer-scale to centimeter-scale robots (aka tiny robots).
Doug Jones
With over 20 years of experience, Doug leads the Remsoft team in providing intelligent forest planning solutions across the world. He plays a key role in the company's strategic direction and growth initiatives and works closely with long-term clients ensuring Remsoft's industry leading technology meets their demands.
Prior to joining Remsoft, Doug was Technical Lead involved in strategic forest and environmental planning with Weyerhaeuser and worked with The Forest Technology Group, a consultancy based out of Charleston, South Carolina.
Doug is a thought leader who brings a wealth of forest industry knowledge and deep understanding of technological trends to his community engagement and global speaking initiatives. He holds a Master of Forestry from the University of New Brunswick and Honours BA in Geography from the University of Western Ontario.
Conference Sponsors
Esri Forestry Group
See video from the 2021 conference on the SOFOR GIS YouTube Channel