Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Room 2123  

* 09:30 Introduction : Workshop Objectives (C. Justice)  

* 10:40 Coffee Break  

* 11:00 National Presentation (In-country Experts )  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 Remote Sensing State of the Art : data, processing methods, validation, operational applications   (M. Massart and Ph. Mayaux)  

* 14:30 GIS State of the Art : Definition, models, application fields (M. Massart and Ph. Mayaux)  

* 15:30 Coffee Break  

* 16:00 Open discussion and Technical questions 

Location :USDA 1099 14th St. NW Washington DC Suite 5500 West- Metro McPherson and World Bank between 17 and 19 h. Room J3-044  

* 08:00 Introduction (S. Huke)  

* 09:00 Ecosystems Monitoring and Planification (R. Bailey)  

* 10:00 Remote Sensing at USFS (C. Dull)  

* 11:00 The Resources Planification Act (RPA) (M. Delfs)  

* 12:00 Lunch  

* 13:00 Case Study : The evaluation of the upper watershed of the Colombia River (M. Blackwood)  

* 13:30 An example of landscape planification of the «Payette» national forest at local level (J. D. Greer)  

* 14:30 An example of a tropical forest monitoring in Puerto-Rico (P. Cruz)  

* 16:30 Discussions (M. Buccovich)  

* 17:00 World Bank Congo Basin Initiative and REIMP project (V. Ferrer and F. Rantrua) 

Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Room 2123  

* 09:30 Deforestation Models : overview (E. Lambin)  

* 11:15 Coffee Break  

* 11:30 Economical Models of Deforestation, Central Africa study (K. Chomitz)  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 Deforestation Models in South America and South-East Asia - State of the Art and Case Studies (D. Skole)  

* 14:30 Application in Africa / Case Studies (E. Lambin)  

* 15:30 Coffee Break  

* 16:00 Cameroon and Zaire Case Studies (N. Laporte)  

* 17:00 Discussion : General Framework for collaboration 

Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Room 2123  

* 9:30  

1. TREES Project : status and organization  

2. TREES 1 : Tropical forest inventory  

a) low resolution mapping  

b) low and high resolution data integration  

c) ecosystems seasonality  

d) modelization of the remote sensing signal  

e) TFIS data integration 

3. TREES 2 : Tropical Deforestation monitoring  

a) monitoring methodology  

b) case study  

c) fire monitoring 

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30  

1. ERS1 RADAR data : use, processing and interpretation  

2. TREES CD ROM presentation, training (Open Lab Room 1124) 

Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Room 2123 and INTERNET BSOS Laboratory  

* 09:30 Satellite Image Maps : Standards, methods and training (J-C. Thomas)  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 Metadatabase Development / REIMP Prototype Evaluation (B. Cosyn)  

* 14:30 INTERNET (Email, ftp, telnet, bulletin board, WWW) (J. Brunner)  

* 15:30 INTERNET Training (J. Brunner and Ph. Gerbe) 

Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Pathfinder Lab- #l158  

* 09:00 PATHFINDER Program Status (V. Bell)  

* 10:30 Coffee Break  

* 11:00 Methodology : data, processing, editing, validation (V. Bell, A. Desch and M. Blanchard)  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 Validation and Discussion (A. Desch)  

* 15:00 Central Africa GIS (M. Heinicke) 

Location: WWF Washington DC, Room 6B, 6 th Floor  

* 09:00 Local application of GIS and Remote sensing / Raster and Vector integration, databanks  

* 10:30 Coffee Break  

* 11:00 GIS CAMRIS Training (Central Africa examples)  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 CAMRIS software training (data processing) 

Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Room 2123  

* 09:30 Biomass Evaluation Methods, Continental Exercise (G. Gaston)  

* 10:15 GIS Based Biomass Evaluation (F. Borry)  

* 11:15 Coffee Break  

* 11:30 Discussion : Improvement / National collaborations  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 CARPE (USAID) / Program Status (F. Swartzendruber and D. Wilkie)  

* 14:30 IGBP / START Program (C. Justice and H. Virji)  

* 15:00 Coffee Break  

* 15:30 REIMP (World Bank) / Status and TimeTable (H. Ravenel)  

* 16:00 Discussion : Central Africa collaboration 

Location: WWF Washington DC, Room 6B, 6th. Floor  

* 09:00 Conservation Priority Setting Exercise (Objectives, site selection, evaluation of high risk areas, indicators..)  

* 10:30 Coffee Break  

* 11:00 Monitoring and Evaluation (South America and Africa)  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 Planification Tools and Conservation Areas Monitoring (data survey methods, remote sensing use, prediction models development, integration of remote sensing-GIS-GPS)  

* 14:30 Use of Remote Sensing and GIS in the GARAMBA National Park of Zaire (E. de Merode)  

* 16:00 Discussion 

Location : Univ. of Maryland - Lefrak Building - Geog. Department - Room 2123  

* 09:00 Biodiversity Network Management in Madagascar (J. Verdin)  

* 10:00 Lunch Break  

* 10:30 Systematic aerial surveys for Resources Management (G. Tappan)  

* 12:30 Lunch  

* 13:30 Videography for Natural Resources Evaluation and Management (J. Sidle) 

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