B43H:
Ecosystem Structure: Remote Sensing Observations and Modeling of Its Influence on Radiation Regimes and Gas Exchanges II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Martin Beland, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Hideki Kobayashi, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan and Brady S Hardiman, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Martin Beland, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Hideki Koayashi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Brady S Hardiman, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Martin Beland, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
B43H-01
 
Prognostic land surface albedo from a dynamic global vegetation model clumped canopy radiative transfer scheme and satellite-derived geographic forest heights
Nancy Y Kiang1, Wenze Yang2, Wenge Ni-Meister3, Igor D Aleinov1,4 and Jeffrey Jonas1,4, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY, United States, (4)Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States
1:55 PM
B43H-02
 
Canopy structure and compensating biases in models of ecosystem function
Tristan L Quaife, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
2:10 PM
B43H-03
 
First Near-Continental Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP) Product from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
Hao Tang1, Ralph Dubayah1, Sangram Ganguly2 and Gong Zhang2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
2:25 PM
B43H-04
 
Ground based remote sensing and physiological measurements provide novel insights into canopy photosynthetic optimization in arctic shrubs
Troy Sehlin Magney1, Kevin L Griffin2, Natalie Boelman3, Jan Eitel4, Heather Greaves1, Case Prager2, Barry Logan5, Ruth Oliver2, Libby Fortin6 and Lee Alexander Vierling1, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States, (4)University of Idaho, McCall, ID, United States, (5)Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, United States, (6)Barnard College, New York, NY, United States
2:40 PM
B43H-05
 
Beyond Fapar: Modeling Light Utilization in Tropical Forests
Douglas C Morton1, Jeremy Rubio1,2, Bruce D Cook1, Jean Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry2 and Michael Maier Keller3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (3)Usda Forest Service C/o Gisel, Campinas, Brazil
2:55 PM
B43H-06
 
Spatio-Temporal Canopy Complexity and Leaf Acclimation to Variable Canopy Microhabitats.
Alex Theodore Fotis, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
3:10 PM
B43H-07
 
Comparing Individual Tree Segmentation Based on High Resolution Multispectral Image and Lidar Data
Pengfeng Xiao1, Maggi Kelly1 and Qinghua Guo2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Merced, School of Engineering, Merced, CA, United States
3:25 PM
B43H-08
 
Voxel-Based 3-D Tree Modeling from Lidar Images for Extracting Tree Structual Information
Fumiki Hosoi, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
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