PA34A:
Integration of Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data for Interdisciplinary Research and Applications II

Session ID#: 3385

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
307 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States and Sara J Graves, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
Primary Convener:  Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
Co-conveners:  Alexander M de Sherbinin, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States and Sara J Graves, Univ. of Alabama/Huntsville, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alexander M de Sherbinin, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ED - Education
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
4337 Remote sensing and disasters [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Global Change: Science Literacy, Societal Impacts, and Response Strategies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PA34A-01
The Integration of Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data: Lessons from the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (22978)
Alexander M de Sherbinin, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States and Robert S Chen, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
PA34A-02
Monitoring population and land use change in tropical forest protected areas (30335)
Alex Ivan Zvoleff1, Melissa Rosa2 and Jorge A. Ahumada1, (1)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)The Baldwin Group at NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Applied Sciences and Geospatial Solutions, Oakland, CA, United States
PA34A-03
Why are some vulnerable children healthy and others stunted? A case study of vulnerability and resilience among very young children in West Africa (26549)
Kathryn Grace, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States and Nicholas Nagle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
PA34A-04
Mapping Spatial Variability in Health and Wealth Indicators in Accra, Ghana Using High Spatial Resolution Imagery (10240)
Ryan Engstrom, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States and Eric Ashcroft, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC, United States
PA34A-06
A global assessment of transboundary watersheds for potential hydro-political tensions using environmental, political, and economic indicators (12686)
Eric A Sproles1,2, Lucia De Stefano3, Jacob Petersen-Perlman4, Jim Eynard2 and Aaron Wolf2, (1)Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), La Serena, Chile, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (4)East Carolina University, Dept. of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Greenville, United States
PA34A-07
On building methodological and theoretical frameworks to examine the interrelationships between environmental change and armed conflict (14687)
Jamon Van Den Hoek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
PA34A-08
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urbanization in China: Historical and Future (18016)
Yuyu Zhou1, Steven Smith2, Kaiguang Zhao3, Marc Lee Imhoff4, Allison M Thomson5, Jiyong Eom6, Sha Yu2 and Ben P Bond-Lamberty7, (1)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (3)The Ohio State University, Environmental Science Graduate Program, Columbus, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Lab, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (6)KAIST Business School, Graduate School of Green Growth, Yuseong, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South), (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
PA34A-09
The Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring (JECAM) Initiative: Developing methods and best practices for global agricultural monitoring (29632)
Catherine Champagne, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, National AgroClimate Information Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ian Jarvis, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agroclimate, Geomatics and Earth Observation Division, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Pierre Defourny, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium and Andrew Davidson, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
PA34A-10
Measuring the Value of Earth Observation Information with the Gravity Research and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Satellite (25563)
Richard Bernknopf1, Yusuke Kuwayama2, David Brookshire1, Molly Macauley3, Ben Zaitchik4, Sara Pesko1 and Peter Vail3, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Resources for the Future, Washington, United States, (3)Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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