B41I:
Remote Sensing of Northern High-Latitude Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems I Posters

Session ID#: 4723

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
Primary Convener:  Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners:  Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany and Benjamin M Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0475 Permafrost, cryosphere, and high-latitude processes [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
B41I-0162
Timing of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Initiation in the Noatak Basin, Northwest Alaska, USA (2478)
Andrew Balser1, Jeremy Jones Jr.2 and Rudiger Gens1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
 
B41I-0163
A Comparison of Satellite and Aircraft-Mounted Thermal Observations of Freeze/Thaw Cycling of the Alaska Tundra and Boreal Forests during the Carbon in the Arctic Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) (21214)
Nick Steiner1, Kyle C McDonald2,3, Charles E Miller4 and Steven J Dinardo4, (1)City College of New York, New York. NY, USA, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States, (2)CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
B41I-0164
Thermokarst Lake Gyre Flow Speed and Direction Derivation Using Image Matching from Sequential Satellite Images (10598)
Shengan Zhan1, Shujie Wang1, Richard A Beck2, Hongxing Liu1 and Kenneth M Hinkel1, (1)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (2)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Cincinnati, United States
 
B41I-0165
Using Discriminant Analysis to Examine Spectral Differences Among Four Tundra Vegetation Communities at Ivotuk, Alaska (11160)
Sara Bratsch, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Howard E Epstein, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States
 
B41I-0166
Mapping plant functional type distributions in Arctic ecosystems using WorldView-2 satellite imagery and unsupervised clustering (16281)
Zachary Langford1, Jitendra Kumar1, Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD2, Victoria L Sloan3, Richard J. Norby4 and Stan D Wullschleger5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)ORNL, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
B41I-0167
Using geomorphology to map plant community distribution in complex polygonal tundra landscapes (21493)
Victoria L Sloan, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Chandana Gangodagamage, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Colleen M. Iversen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Stan D Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
B41I-0168
Estimating aboveground biomass of low-stature Arctic shrubs with terrestrial LiDAR (20586)
Heather Greaves1, Lee Alexander Vierling1, Jan Eitel1, Natalie Boelman2, Kevin Lee Griffin2 and Troy Sehlin Magney3, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Idaho, Moscow, CA, United States
 
B41I-0169
Wetland Maps of Central Canada based on L-band SAR Imagery (20830)
Jane Whitcomb1, Daniel Clewley1, Mahta Moghaddam1 and Kyle C McDonald2,3, (1)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)City University of New York - City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
B41I-0170
Retrieval of Understory NDVI in Sparse Boreal Forests By MODIS Brdf Data (9169)
Wei Yang1, Hideki Kobayashi2, Rikie Suzuki2 and Kenlo Nishida Nasahara3, (1)Chiba University, Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)University of Tsukuba, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
 
B41I-0172
Using Image Segmentation to Identify Tundra Vegetation Variability in High Resolution Satellite Images (26125)
Zachary Lazow, Lauren Roemke and Michael M Loranty, Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States
 
B41I-0173
Systematic High-Resolution (30 meter) Inventory of Global Lakes: Pan-Arctic and Beyond (27988)
Yongwei Sheng1, Dr. Jida Wang2, Laurence C Smith3, Evan A Lyons4, Gary Te4, Jordan Woods4, Dorian Garibay4 and Benjamin Knox4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Manhattan, United States, (3)Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES); Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, RI, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
B41I-0174
Assessing Rates of Biological and Morphological Change in Northern Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing Time Series Data, LiDAR, and Gridded Climate Records (28290)
Laura Chasmer1, Chris Hopkinson1 and Richard M Petrone2, (1)University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
B41I-0175
Quantitative Interpretation of Arctic Tundra Attributes Using Remote Sensing: Leveraging Field Data, Modern- and Legacy Landsat Data, and Commercial Imagery in Northern Alaska (28595)
Gerald V Frost Jr, Matthew J Macander and Peter R Nelson, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
B41I-0176
Calibration, Compositing, and Classification of Landsat Datasets and High-Resolution Imagery in Arctic Alaska (31135)
Matthew J Macander and Gerald V Frost Jr, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States
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