B41N:
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits II

Session ID#: 2468

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2002 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Joshua B Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Co-conveners:  Joshua B Fisher, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States and Andrew K Skidmore, University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1818 Evapotranspiration [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Towards a Handshake of Ground-Based Measurements and Remote-Sensing of Vegetation Traits at Global Scale? (23447)
Jens Kattge1, Sandra Díaz2, Sandra Lavorel3, Iain Colin Prentice4, Paul Leadley5, Peter B. Reich6, Arindam Banerjee7, Farideh Fazayeli7, Franziska I Schrodt1, Julia S Joswig1, Miguel Mahecha8, Christian Wirth9 and The TRY Consortium, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (2)Universidad Nacionalde Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), CNRS, Grenoble, France, (4)Imperial College London, Grantham Institute and Division of Biology, London, United Kingdom, (5)Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique, Evolution, Orsay, France, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (8)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany, (9)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Clustering of Leaf and Canopy Spectra: How Do They Correspond to Functional Traits and Types? (31521)
Keely L Roth1, Margarita Huesca Martinez1, Spencer Mathews1, Ángeles Casas Planes1, Maria Mar Alsina2, Mariano Garcia-Alonso3 and Susan Ustin4, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)E & J Gallo Winery, Viticulture Research, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of Alcala, Department of Geology, Geography and Environment, Madrid, Spain, (4)University of California Davis, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), Davis, United States
Remote Sensing of Mycorrhizae? Detection of Mycorrhizal Association from Canopy Spectral Properties. (10812)
Joshua B Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sean Sweeney, Indiana University Bloomington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Bloomington, IN, United States, Edward R Brzostek, West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States, Tom P Evans, Indiana University Bloomington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) and Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States, Norman A Bourg, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States and Richard P Phillips, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States
Linking Seasonal Foliar Chemistry to VSWIR-TIR Spectroscopy Across California Ecosystems (25911)
Susan Meerdink, University of Iowa, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Iowa City, IA, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, Jennifer Y King, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Keely L Roth, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Cibele H Amaral, University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Geosciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Simon J Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Mapping Amazonian Canopy Foliar Traits with Imaging Spectroscopy (Invited) (28144)
Gregory Paul Asner1, Roberta Martin2, Christopher Benjamin Anderson2 and David E Knapp2, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
Thermal Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Plant Species and Stress Detection (Invited) (4697)
Martin Schlerf1, Gilles Rock2, Saleem Ullah3, Max Gerhards1, Thomas Udelhoven2 and Andrew K Skidmore3, (1)CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg, (2)University of Trier, Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics Department, Trier, Germany, (3)University of Twente, ITC, Enschede, Netherlands
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