B44C:
Mapping, Methods, Modeling, and Monitoring: Agriculture’s Four Means of Global Change Assessment II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Rick Mueller, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jessica L McCarty, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
Co-conveners:  Rick Mueller, USDA NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section, Fairfax, VA, United States, Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Rick Mueller, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
A Multi-Sensor Approach for Satellite Soil Moisture Monitoring for Agricultural Climate Risk Assessment
Catherine Champagne, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, National AgroClimate Information Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Patrick Cherneski, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, National AgroClimate Information Service, Regina, SK, Canada, Trevor A Hadwen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Regina, Canada and Andrew Davidson, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
4:15 PM
 
Monitoring Crop Phenology and Growth Stages from Space: Opportunities and Challenges
Feng Gao, Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Beltsville, MD, United States, Martha C. Anderson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States, William P Kustas, USDA ARS HRSL, Beltsvillle, MD, United States and Joseph G Alfieri, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
4:30 PM
 
Mapping Agricultural Land-Use Change in the U.S. 2008-2012
Tyler Lark, Meghan Salmon and Holly Gibbs, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
4:45 PM
 
Profiling Fallow Land in California’s Drought Conditions Using the Cropland Data Layer
Audra Zakzeski, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
5:00 PM
 
Mapping Agricultural Fields in Sub-Saharan Africa with a Computer Vision Approach
Stephanie R Debats1, Dee Luo1, Lyndon D Estes1, Thomas Fuchs2 and Kelly K Caylor1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:15 PM
 
Providing a Spatial Context for Crop Insurance in Ethiopia: Multiscale Comparisons of Vegetation Metrics in Tigray
Bristol F. Mann, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Christopher Small, Lamont Doherty Earth Obs., Palisades, NY, United States
5:30 PM
 
Biogenic carbon fluxes from global agricultural production and consumption: Gridded, annual estimates of net ecosystem carbon exchange
Julie Wolf1, Tristram O West2, Yannick le Page1 and Allison M Thomson3, (1)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Res. Inst., College Park, MD, United States, (3)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States
5:45 PM
 
Identification of Arctic transport potential within the Northern Hemisphere based on an analysis of trajectories, 1979-2009
Narasimhan K Larkin1, Jennifer L DeWinter2, Sean M Raffuse2, Tara Strand3, Steven G Brown4, Ken Craig4 and Robert C Solomon5, (1)US Forest Service Research, PNW AirFire Team, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA, United States, (3)Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park, Rotorua, New Zealand, (4)Sonoma Technology Inc, Petaluma, CA, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
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