B31F:
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits I Posters

Session ID#: 4726

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (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:

 
Remote Sensing of Canopy Leaf Area Index in Non-Forested Wetlands (9843)
Iryna Dronova, University of California Berkeley, Depts. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kristin B Byrd, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Peng Gong, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Seasonal decoupling between vegetation greenness and function over northern high latitude forests (13241)
Su-Jong Jeong1, David Schimel2, Christian Frankenberg3, Darren Drewry1, Joshua B Fisher1, Manish Verma1, Joseph A Berry4, Jung-Eun Lee5, Joanna Joiner6 and Luis Guanter7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, (5)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (6)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 
Remote Monitoring of Giant Kelp Photosynthetic Condition: An Evaluation of the Potential for the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) Mission (13371)
Tom W. Bell, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Kyle C Cavanaugh, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and David Siegel, Univ of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Remote Sensing Forage Quality for Browsing Herbivores: A Case Study of Cutting Edge Koala Conservation (14310)
Kara Nicole Youngentob1,2, Jessie Au3, Andre Alexander Held4, William J Foley3 and Hugh P Possingham5, (1)University of Queensland, School of Biology, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, Australia, (3)Australian National University, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, (4)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (5)University of Queensland, School of Biology, St Lucia, Australia
 
A Synergistic Approach to Atmospheric Compensation of Neon's Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery Utilizing an Airborne Solar Spectral Irradiance Radiometer (8120)
Bryan Mills Karpowicz1, Logan Wright2, Bruce C Kindel3, Sebastian Schmidt4, Nathan Leisso5, Dr. Thomas U Kampe, PhD5 and Peter Pilewskie4, (1)NEON Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)NEON, Boulder, CO, United States
 
USE OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY TO ESTIMATE SOIL AND PLANT NITROGEN IN OATS (Avena sativa) (14672)
Manal ELarab1, Andres M Ticlavilca2, Alfonso F Torres-Rua3 and Mac McKee1, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah Water Research Laboratory, LOGAN, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, United States
 
Landscape and forest structural controls on wood density and aboveground biomass along a tropical elevation gradient in Costa Rica (19009)
Chelsea M Robinson, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, David B. Clark, University of Missouri St Louis, Biology, St Louis, MO, United States, Thomas W Gillespie, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States and Sandy Andelman, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States
 
Spectral Characteristics of Vegetation Functional Traits across a Range of Thaw Gradients on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula  (20252)
Santonu Goswami1, Daniel J Hayes2, Victoria L Sloan3, Jennifer Anne Liebig4, Richard J. Norby4 and Stan D Wullschleger5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 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
 
Development of a global LAI estimation algorithm for JAXA's new earth observation satellite sensor, GCOM-C/SGLI (21636)
Yuhsaku Ono1, Hiroshi Murakami2, Hideki Kobayashi3, Kenlo Nishida Nasahara4, Koji Kajiwara5 and Yoshiaki Honda5, (1)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (2)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, RIGC, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)University of Tsukuba, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
 
Plant Water Stress Detection Using Radar: The Influence Of Water Stress On Leaf Dielectric Properties (22070)
Tim H M van Emmerik1, Susan C Steele-Dunne1, Jasmeet Judge2 and Nick Van De Giesen1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Center for Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
 
Characterization of Permafrost Degradation and Plant Communities Using Hyperspectral Reflectance (24099)
Anthony Garnello, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, Daniel Finnell, Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Environmental Studies, Richmond, VA, United States, Michael W Palace, University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, Jin Wu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Lucie C Lepine, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, Patrick M Crill, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and Dr. Ruth K Varner, PhD, University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United States
 
Characterization of subarctic vegetation using ground based remote sensing methods (24997)
Daniel Finnell1, Anthony Garnello2, Michael W Palace3, Franklin Sullivan3, Christina Herrick3, Samantha Marie Anderson3, Patrick M Crill4 and Dr. Ruth K Varner, PhD5, (1)Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Environmental Studies, Richmond, VA, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, (4)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States
 
Use of High Resolution UAS Imagery to Classify Sub-Arctic Vegetation Types (25134)
Christina Herrick1, Michael W Palace2, Daniel R Finnell3, Anthony Garnello4, Franklin Sullivan1, Samantha Marie Anderson1 and Dr. Ruth K Varner, PhD2, (1)University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, (3)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
A Contextual Classification Approach for Remote Sensing Image Classification of Hyperspatial Imagery (25840)
Yi Zou1, Carlos Ramirez2, Nathan Amboy3, Stephanie Mundis1 and Jonathan A Greenberg4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region Remote Sensing Lab, McClellan, CA, United States, (3)USDA FOREST SERVICE, Mcclellan Afb, CA, United States, (4)University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States
 
Forest productivity and drought in tropical Africa: observations from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (27406)
Eugene Samuel Robinson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Jung-Eun Lee, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Xi Yang, Brown University, Providence, United States
 
Seasonal pattern of solar-induced fluorescence as a proxy for canopy photosynthesis in a temperate deciduous forest (27875)
Xi Yang, Brown University, Providence, United States, Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, John F Mustard, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, Jung-Eun Lee, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Micol Rossini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, Joanna Joiner, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, J William Munger, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andrew D Richardson, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA; Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, Cambridge, United States
 
Combined Use of Active and Passive Remote Sensing for Mapping Distribution and Biomass of Coastal Mangroves (28291)
Aslan Aslan, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Bloomington, IN, United States, Abdullah Faizur Rahman, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Coastal Studies Lab, Edinburg, TX, United States, Matthew Warren, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States, Scott M Robeson, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States and Taryono Darusman, PT. Rimba Makmur Utama, Katingan Project, Jakarta, Indonesia
 
Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll Fluorescence by the Airborne Plant Fluorescence Sensor (APFS) (29143)
John Boldt, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Jeng-Hwa Yee, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, William B Cook, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Frank Morgan, JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States, Robert Demajistre, JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, Bruce D Cook, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lawrence A Corp, Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
 
Ecosystem Mapping Approaches Based on Vegetation Structure Using NEON Prototype Airborne LiDAR and Field Data (30128)
Keith Krause1, William J Emery2, David Barnett1, Shelley Bougan Petroy1, Courtney L Meier1 and Carol Adele Wessman3, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado-CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, EBIO, Boulder, United States
 
Effects Of Topographic Corrections On Landsat-derived Phenology of Southern California Ecosystems (30157)
George Azzari, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Michael Goulden, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States
 
Climatic impacts on phenology of southern California native ecosystems using MODIS-derived time series (30901)
Katherine S Willis1, Thomas W Gillespie1, Greg S Okin2 and Glen M MacDonald3, (1)UCLA-Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
 
Automated Processing of MABEL and mATLAS Photon Counting Lidar Data: Initial Steps Toward Global-Scale Forest Measurements From ICESat-2 (31000)
Ryan Sheridan, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, Sorin C Popescu, Texas A&M University, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, College Station, United States and Ross Nelson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Continental-scale ICESat canopy height modelling sensitivity and random forest simulations in Australia and Canada (31143)
Craig Mahoney1, Chris Hopkinson1, Andre Alexander Held2 and Ron Hall3, (1)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
Using remote sensing to study mangroves spatial dynamics under increased nitrogen availability and lower salinity conditions (31298)
Sonia Silvestri, PhD1, Dennis Whigham2, Riks Laanbroek3,4, Mark Cable Rains5 and Jos Verhoeven2,6, (1)University of Bologna, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (3)Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht University, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)University of South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, United States, (6)Utrecht University, Ecology and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
A Satellite Based Modeling Framework for Estimating Seasonal Carbon Fluxes Over Agricultural Lands (32006)
Varaprasad Bandaru, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Roberto C Izaurralde, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
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