B51L:
Remote Sensing of Forest Disturbance: Pushing the Frontier I

Session ID#: 1827

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States and Warren B. Cohen, US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Convener:  Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States
Co-conveners:  Warren B. Cohen, US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States, Alexander J Hernandez, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and David P Turner, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Change Detection Around the Country (and the World) (Invited) (3826)
Evan Brooks1, Randolph Hamilton Wynne2, Valerie A Thomas2, Christine E Blinn1 and John Coulston3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, United States, (3)United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States
30 Years of Forest Change in the Eastern United States Highlands (Invited) (5493)
Michael Joseph Hughes1, Steven Douglas Kaylor1 and Daniel J Hayes2, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
Annual South American Forest Loss Estimates (1989-2011) Based on Passive Microwave Remote Sensing (16173)
Margreet van Marle1, Guido van der Werf1, Richard de Jeu1 and Yi Liu2, (1)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Applying shape selection methods to Landsat time series for mapping forest disturbance history and cause (18670)
Gretchen Moisen1, Mary C Meyer2, Todd A Schroeder1, Chris Toney1, Xiyue Liao2, Karen Schleeweis1, Warren B. Cohen3 and Sean P Healey4, (1)US Forest Service Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States
A Quarter-Century U.S. Forest Disturbance History Mapped from Landsat (25217)
Chengquan Huang1, Samuel N Goward2, Feng Zhao2, Karen Schleeweis3, Khaldoun Rishmawi2, Jeffrey G Masek4, Warren B. Cohen5, Zhiqiang Yang6, Jennifer L Dungan7, Gretchen Moisen3 and Ramakrishna R Nemani8, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)US Forest Service Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)NASA Ames Research Center (retired), Moffett Field, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Using NASA Earth Observing Satellites and Statistical Model Analysis to Monitor Vegetation and Habitat Rehabilitation in Southwest Virginia’s Reclaimed Mine Lands (30298)
Zachary Tate1, Dieudonne Dusenge2, Talia S Elliot1, Patrick Hafashimana2, Sarah Medley1, Ryan P Porter3, Rajkishan Rajappan4, Pedro Rodriguez5, Julie Spangler1, Rohini S Swaminathan5 and Robert Daniel VanGundy1, (1)University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, VA, United States, (2)Oklahoma Christian Univeristy, Edmond, OK, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (5)Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone Gap, VA, United States
Landsat Based Woody Vegetation Loss Detection in Queensland, Australia Using the Google Earth Engine (31350)
Kasper Johansen, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, Stuart R Phinn, University of Queensland, Remote Sensing Research Centre, St Lucia, QLD, Australia and Martin Taylor, WWF-Australia, Brisbane, Australia
Ensemble Integration of Forest Disturbance Maps for the Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) (12960)
Warren B. Cohen, US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States, Sean P Healey, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States, Zhiqiang Yang, USDA Forest Service, Ogden, UT, United States, Zhe Zhu, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, Curtis E Woodcock, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, Robert E Kennedy, Boston University, Boston, United States, Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, Daniel Steinwand, USGS, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, James E Vogelmann, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Stephen V. Stehman, State University of New York, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, Syracuse, United States and Thomas R Loveland, USGS EROS Data Ctr, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
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