B42C:
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits III

Session ID#: 4725

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
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:  Joshua B Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
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:

The NDVI: Back to Basics (25939)
Caitriana M Steele, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Alistair MS Smith, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States and Dawn M Browning, USDA Agriculture Research Service, Las Cruces, United States
Site-level Evaluation of Remote Sensing Based Terrestrial Gross Primary Production from New MODIS fAPARchl Product (23334)
Tian Yao1, Qingyuan Zhang1, Alexei Lyapustin2 and Yujie Wang3, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Measuring Bi-Directional Reflectance for Gross Primary Productivity with a Constellation of SmallSats (29972)
Sreeja Nag, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, Charles K Gatebe, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Thomas Hilker, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Forrest G Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Olivier L de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Towards Using Radar to Detect Water Stress: Observations of an Agricultural Maize Canopy from the SnowScat Scatterometer (21604)
Susan C Steele-Dunne1, Charles L Werner2, Andreas Wiesmann2, Tim H M van Emmerik1 and Nick Van De Giesen1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland
On Variability in Satellite Terrestrial Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements: Relationships with Phenology and Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange, Vegetation Structure, Clouds, and Sun-Satellite Geometry (Invited) (3495)
Joanna Joiner1,2, Yasuko Yoshida3, Luis Guanter4, Yongguang Zhang5, Alexander P Vasilkov6, Kevin M Schaefer7, Karl F Huemmrich8, Elizabeth Middleton1, Philipp Koehler5, Martin Jung9, Compton J Tucker10, Alexei Lyapustin11, Yujie Wang12, Christian Frankenberg13, Joseph A Berry14, Randal D Koster15, Rolf H Reichle11, Jung-Eun Lee16, Stephan R Kawa11, George James Collatz17, Gregory K Walker3 and Christiaan Van der Tol18, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (5)Freie Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (6)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (7)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, United States, (9)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (14)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, (15)NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (16)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (17)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (18)ITC, Enschede, Netherlands
Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence (27109)
Kaiyu Guan, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, David B Lobell, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science & Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, United States, Joe A Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, Joanna Joiner, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Luis Guanter, Institute for Space Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Yongguang Zhang, Freie Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Badgley Grayson, CarbonPlan, San Francisco, CA, United States; Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States
Calculations for chlorophyll fluorescence incorporated into the Community Land Model (29630)
Jung-Eun Lee, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Joseph A Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Christiaan Van der Tol, ITC, Enschede, Netherlands, Luis Guanter, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Alexander Damm, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, Ian T Baker, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States and Christian Frankenberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
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