B43H:
Ecosystem Structure: Remote Sensing Observations and Modeling of Its Influence on Radiation Regimes and Gas Exchanges II

Session ID#: 1919

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Martin Beland, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Hideki Kobayashi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, RIGC, Kanagawa, Japan and Brady S Hardiman, Boston University, Boston, United States
Primary Convener:  Martin Beland, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Co-conveners:  Hideki Kobayashi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Research Institute for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan and Brady S Hardiman, Boston University, Boston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Martin Beland, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0416 Biogeophysics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

B43H-01
Prognostic land surface albedo from a dynamic global vegetation model clumped canopy radiative transfer scheme and satellite-derived geographic forest heights (31259)
Nancy Y Kiang1, Wenze Yang2, Wenge Ni-Meister3, Igor D Aleinov4,5 and Jeffrey Jonas1,6, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)CUNY Hunter College, New York, United States, (4)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (6)Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States
B43H-02
Canopy structure and compensating biases in models of ecosystem function (Invited) (12533)
Tristan L Quaife, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
B43H-03
First Near-Continental Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP) Product from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) (12759)
Hao Tang1, Ralph Dubayah1, Sangram Ganguly2 and Gong Zhang2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
B43H-04
Ground based remote sensing and physiological measurements provide novel insights into canopy photosynthetic optimization in arctic shrubs (31229)
Troy Sehlin Magney1, Kevin Lee Griffin2, Natalie Boelman3, Jan Eitel4, Heather Greaves4, Case Prager5, Barry A Logan6, Ruth Oliver5, Libby Fortin7 and Lee Alexander Vierling4, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, CA, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, New York, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Bowdoin College, Biology, Brunswick, United States, (7)Barnard College, New York, NY, United States
B43H-05
Beyond Fapar: Modeling Light Utilization in Tropical Forests (Invited) (10253)
Douglas C Morton1, Jeremy Rubio2,3, Bruce D Cook2, Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry3 and Michael Maier Keller4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (4)Usda Forest Service C/o Gisel, Campinas, Brazil
B43H-06
Spatio-Temporal Canopy Complexity and Leaf Acclimation to Variable Canopy Microhabitats. (11733)
Alex Theodore Fotis, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
B43H-07
Comparing Individual Tree Segmentation Based on High Resolution Multispectral Image and Lidar Data (8269)
Pengfeng Xiao1, Maggi Kelly1 and Qinghua Guo2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, School of Engineering, Merced, CA, United States
B43H-08
Voxel-Based 3-D Tree Modeling from Lidar Images for Extracting Tree Structual Information (Invited) (8358)
Fumiki Hosoi, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
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