1. Drought Effects on Forests and Forest Fires 1.What current remote sensing approaches are available to estimate the effects of drought and fire of forest ecosystems? 2.What are the limitations of these approaches? 3.How can they be improved? What innovations are necessary?

2. Modis Burned Area Lidar/struct ural

3. Drought Effects on Forests and Forest Fires 1.Multi-temporal datasets are really important for understanding drought 2.Small scale processes and mechanisms to regional phenomena 3.Fusion of multiple platforms 4.Field studies that link remote sensing studies