B41N:
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
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 Conveners:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Co-conveners:  Joshua B Fisher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andrew K Skidmore, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
OSPA Liaisons:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
B41N-01
 
Towards a Handshake of Ground-Based Measurements and Remote-Sensing of Vegetation Traits at Global Scale?
Jens Kattge1, Sandra Díaz2, Sandra Lavorel3, Iain Colin Prentice4, Paul Leadley5, Peter B. Reich6, Arindam Banerjee7, Farideh Fazayeli7, Franziska I Schrodt1, Julia Joswig1, Miguel D Mahecha1 and Christian Wirth8, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (2)Universidad Nacionalde Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA), CNRS, Grenoble, France, (4)Imperial College London, Grantham Institute and Division of Biology, London, United Kingdom, (5)Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique, Evolution, Orsay, France, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (8)University of Leipzig, Institute for Special Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig, Germany
8:15 AM
B41N-02
 
Clustering of Leaf and Canopy Spectra: How Do They Correspond to Functional Traits and Types?
Keely L Roth, Margarita Huesca, Spencer Mathews, Ángeles Casas Planes, Maria Mar Alsina, Mariano Garcia-Alonso and Susan Ustin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
8:30 AM
B41N-03
 
Remote Sensing of Mycorrhizae? Detection of Mycorrhizal Association from Canopy Spectral Properties.
Joshua B Fisher1, Sean Sweeney2, Edward R Brzostek3, Tom P Evans4, Norman A Bourg5 and Richard Phillips3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Indiana University Bloomington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) and Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States, (5)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States
8:45 AM
B41N-04
 
Linking Seasonal Foliar Chemistry to VSWIR-TIR Spectroscopy Across California Ecosystems
Susan Meerdink1, Dar A Roberts2, Jennifer Y King1, Keely L Roth3, Cibele H Amaral4 and Simon J Hook5, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (4)University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Geosciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
9:00 AM
B41N-05
 
Mapping Amazonian Canopy Foliar Traits with Imaging Spectroscopy
Gregory Paul Asner, Roberta Martin, Christopher Benjamin Anderson and David E Knapp, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
9:15 AM
B41N-06
 
Hyperspectral data for scaling ecosystem traits from point to landscape
Enrico Tomelleri, Sarah Asam and Claudia Notarnicola, EUR.AC, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
9:30 AM
B41N-07
 
Fresh Biomass Estimation in Heterogeneous Grassland Using Hyperspectral Measurements and Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Roshanak Darvishzadeh, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands, Andrew K Skidmore, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, Mojgan Mirzaie, researcher, Tehran, Iran, Clement Atzberger, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria and Martin Schlerf, CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg
9:45 AM
B41N-08
 
Thermal Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Plant Species and Stress Detection
Martin Schlerf1, Gilles Rock2, Saleem Ullah3, Max Gerhards1, Thomas Udelhoven2 and Andrew K Skidmore3, (1)CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg, (2)University of Trier, Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics Department, Trier, Germany, (3)University of Twente, ITC, Enschede, Netherlands
 
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