B42A:
Analysis of Land Cover Change in Response to Climate Variability and Change Using Remote Sensing II

Session ID#: 2393

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  George Z Xian, USGS, ISAB, Sioux Falls, United States and Thomas R Loveland, USGS EROS Data Ctr, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Primary Convener:  George Z Xian, USGS, ISAB, Sioux Falls, United States
Co-conveners:  James E Vogelmann, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Thomas R Loveland, USGS EROS Data Ctr, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  George Z Xian, USGS, ISAB, Sioux Falls, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0416 Biogeophysics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Welcoming Remarks
Introductory Remarks
B42A-01
A New Global LAI Product and Its Use for Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Estimation (Invited) (2414)
Jing Ming Chen, University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, Toronto, Canada, Ronggao Liu, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China, Weimin Ju, Nanjing University, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing, China and Yang Liu, IGSNRR,CAS, Beijing, China
B42A-02
Using Time Series of Landsat Data to Improve Understanding of Short- and Long-Term Changes to Vegetation Phenology in Response to Climate Change (Invited) (14091)
Mark A Friedl1, Eli K Melaas2, Damien J Sulla-Menashe1 and Josh Gray3, (1)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (3)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
B42A-03
Land Cover / Climate Interaction at Global and Regional Scales (Invited) (2803)
Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
B42A-04
Effects of Land Use and Climate on Ecosystem Carbon Balance from a Recent National Assessment (19932)
Zhiliang Zhu, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, Shuguang Liu, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Dominique M Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States, Benjamin M Sleeter, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS, Denver, CO, United States, Todd J Hawbaker, US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, United States, Timothy Larson, USGS, Reston, VA, United States and Bradley Reed, USGS Land Change Science Program, Reston, United States
B42A-05
Evaluating Current and Future Rangeland Health in the Great Basin Ecoregion Using NASA Earth Observing Systems (14299)
Katie Wilson1,2, Jeffry Ely1,3, Esther Essoudry1,4, Neeshi Patadia1,5, Brittany N Zajic6,7, Juan Luis Torres-Perez1,8 and Cindy Schmidt9, (1)NASA DEVELOP National Program, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Gloucester, VA, United States, (4)University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Planet Labs, San Francisco, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (9)NASA DEVELOP National Program, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
B42A-06
Characterization of the Regional Distribution Patterns of Shrubland Ecosystems from Responses to Climatic Controls using Multi-scale Remote Sensing Data in the Western United States (13657)
George Z Xian, USGS, ISAB, Sioux Falls, United States, Collin Homer, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and James E Vogelmann, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
B42A-07
Spatio-temporal Trends in Seasonal Vegetation Photosynthetic Activity Across Uttarakhand Himalayas, 2000-2014 (2389)
Niti B. Mishra, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Gargi Chaudhuri, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, Geography & Earth Sciences, La Crosse, WI, United States
B42A-08
The Vegetation Greenness Trend in the Arctic and Subarctic of North America from Landsat Data Record (17556)
Junchang Ju, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States; Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, Jeffrey G Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mark Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States
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