Friday 26 August 2005

EUROPEAN SESSION (Chairs: Keith Rennolls & Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz)
10.30-11.10
Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz &, G. Schmuck, IES, EC JRC, Ispra, Italy
R. Flies & E. Schulte, EC-DG Environment
I. Seoane, EC DG Agriculture and rural Development

KEYNOTE Towards a Forest Information System for Europe
11.10-11.40
Erkki Tomppo, Metla, Finland
Harmonisation of National Forest Inventories in Europe

11.40-12.10
Andreas Schuck & Tim Green, EFI, Finland
Network for a European Forest Information Service – developing a metadata schema as a collaborative action of data providers, users and system developers

12.10-12.30
Keith Rennolls, University of Greenwich, UK
A Partial Ontology for Forest Inventory and Mensuration

12.30-13.00
Keith Rennolls & Alex Fedorec, University of Greenwich, UK
An Architectural Design for a Forest Information and Communications Portal (FICP)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

AMERICAN SESSION (Chairs: Ron McRoberts & Elder Bonfin)
14.00-14.30
Keith W. Moser, Mark H. Hansen, Patrick D Miles, Barbara Johnson, Ronald E. McRoberts, USDA FS FIA
The Virtual Analyst Program: An Automated Data-Mining, Error-Analysis, and Reporting System

14.30-15.00
Elder Bomfim, Jonice Oliveira, Jano M. de Souza, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Improving Experiences Reuse in Environmental Decision Process

15.00-15.30
Ronald McRoberts and Patrick D. Miles, USDA Forest Service
Online, Map-based Estimation of Forest Attributes

15.30-16.00
B. Tyler Wilson & Wim S. Ibes (USDA FS & Pillar …Inc.)

INVITED Forest Inventory and Analysis Information Delivery Architecture

16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea

16.30 -17.30
Panel & Open Discussion. (Chair: Keith Rennolls)

Jesús San Miguel & Ron McRoberts

Five-Minute Overviews and Challenges

Open Discussion

19.30-late FEIDSS’05 Dinner