U14A:
New Frontiers in Ecosystem, Solid Earth, Cryosphere, and Natural Hazards

Session ID#: 3651

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
103 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Paul Alan Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States and Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Primary Convener:  Paul Alan Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-conveners:  Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States and Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
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Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission Concept (Invited) (5822)
Gerald W Bawden, US Geological Survey, Sacramento, United States, Paul Alan Rosen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States and DESDynI-R Science Definition Team
Large-Scale Mapping and Monitoring of Terrestrial Ecosystems with the NISAR Mission (Invited) (12858)
Josef M Kellndorfer1, Ralph Dubayah2, Paul Siqueira3, Sassan S Saatchi4, Bruce D Chapman5 and Paul Alan Rosen4, (1)Earth Big Data LLC, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Importance of Nisar Mission for Ice Sheet Studies (Invited) (6257)
Bernd Scheuchl1, Eric J Rignot1, Jeremie Mouginot2 and Prof. Mathieu Morlighem2, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Forecasting and Managing Groundwater Resources Using InSAR (Invited) (6212)
Howard A Zebker, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Rosemary J Knight, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, United States and Jingyi Chen, The University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, United States
Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics: The Helmholtz Alliance (Invited) (5746)
Irena Hajnsek1, Michael Eineder2, Thomas R Walter3, Anke Maria Friedrich4, Peter Bieber5, Andreas Huth6, Konstantinos Papathanassiou7, Carsten Montzka8, Ute Wollschläger9, Boris Thies10, Angelika Humbert11, Mathias Braun12, Gerhard Krieger13 and Alberto Moreira13, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany, (3)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (4)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, (5)Technical University of Munich - TUM, Munich, Germany, (6)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany, (7)German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (8)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio and Geosciences (Agrosphere, IBG-3), Jülich, Germany, (9)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany, (10)Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, (11)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Glaciology Section, Bremerhaven, Germany, (12)Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany, (13)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Global Earth Monitoring Using ALOS-2/Palsar-2: Initial Status of the ALOS-2 Calibration Phase (Invited) (10997)
Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Kanagawa, Japan and JAXA/EORC/ALOS
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (26237)
Ralph Dubayah1, Scott J Goetz2, James Bryan Blair3, Temilola Fatoyinbo4, Matthew Hansen5, Sean P Healey6, Michelle A Hofton1, George C Hurtt1, James R Kellner7, Scott B Luthcke8, Anu Swatantran9 and The GEDI Lidar Science Team, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (6)Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States, (7)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (9)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Preparing for Routine Satellite Global Volcano Deformation Observations: The Volcano Deformation Database Task Force (25109)
Jennifer Jay1, Benjamin James Andrews2, Matthew E Pritchard3, Jennifer Cooper4, Scott T Henderson5, Francisco Delgado4, Juliet Biggs6 and Susanna K Ebmeier7, (1)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (2)National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Mineral Sciences, Washington, United States, (3)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)University of Washington, eScience Institute, Seattle, United States, (6)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (7)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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