IN14A:
Assessment of Satellite-Derived Essential Climate Variables in the Terrestrial Domain II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Crystal Schaaf, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Co-conveners:  Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Assessment of Satellite-Derived Essential Climate Variables in the Terrestrial Domain: An Overview of the Ceos Lpv Subgroup
Jaime E Nickeson, Sigma Space/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Miguel O Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
4:15 PM
 
NEON Data Products: Supporting the Validation of GCOS Essential Climate Variables
Shelley Bougan Petroy1, Andrew M Fox2, Stefan Metzger3, Andrea Thorpe4 and Courtney L Meier4, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NEON, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NEON, Fundamental Instrument Unit, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NEON Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
4:30 PM
 
FOREST BIOMASS MAPPING FROM PRISM TRIPLET, PALSAR AND LANDSAT DATA
Guoqing Sun1, Jon Ranson2 and Wenjian Ni1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
4:45 PM
 
Aboveground Biomass Monitoring over Siberian Boreal Forest Using Radar Remote Sensing Data
Martyna Anna Stelmaszczuk-Gorska, Christian Joachim Thiel and Christiane Schmullius, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
5:00 PM
 
Validation of Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperature Products – Methods and Good Practice
Pierre C Guillevic1, Glynn C Hulley2, Simon J Hook1, Jim Biard3 and Darren Ghent4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellite North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, United States, (4)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
5:15 PM
 
Evaluation of MODIS and VIIRS Albedo Products Using Ground and Airborne Measurements and Development of Ceos/Wgcv/Lpv Albedo Ecv Protocols
Zhuosen Wang1,2, Miguel O Roman1, Crystal Schaaf3, Qingsong Sun4, Yan Liu3, Edward Joseph Saenz3 and Charles K Gatebe5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
5:30 PM
 
Comparative Accuracy Assessment of Global Land Cover Datasets Using Existing Reference Data
Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Sytze de Bruin, Brice Mora and Martin Herold, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
5:45 PM
 
Validating Long-term Consistency of MODIS EVI Time Series Using Ground-based Radiation Flux Data
Anna Kato and Tomoaki Miura, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States