B53I:
Remote Sensing to Support Investigations in Plant-Climate Interactions II

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States and Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Co-conveners:  Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
On the use of remotely sensed data to constrain process modeling and ecological forecasting
Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
1:55 PM
 
Filling Gaps in Global Data Sets: The Role of New Vegetation Remote Sensing Data Products
David Schimel1, Joshua B Fisher2, Ryan Pavlick1, Sassan S Saatchi2, Gregory Paul Asner3, Christian Frankenberg2 and Philip A Townsend4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
2:10 PM
 
Remote sensing to inform Plant Functional Type (PFT) distributions in the Community Land Model
Jitendra Kumar1, Zachary Langford1, Fengming Yuan2 and Forrest M Hoffman3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
2:25 PM
 
Remote sensing in support of high-resolution terrestrial carbon monitoring and modeling
George C Hurtt1, Maosheng Zhao1, Ralph Dubayah1, Chengquan Huang1, Anu Swatantran1, Jarlath ONeil-Dunne2, Kristofer D Johnson3, Richard Birdsey3, Justin Fisk1, Steve Flanagan1, Ritvik Sahajpal1, Wenli Huang1, Hao Tang1 and Amanda Hildt Armstrong4, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service Northern Research Statiuon, Newtown Square, PA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
2:40 PM
 
Seasonal greenness variations in Amazon transitional forests in response to light, moisture, and land use
Piyachat Ratana, Alfredo R Huete, Kevin Davies and Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, University of Technology Sydney, Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change, Ultimo, Australia
2:55 PM
 
Mapping Distribution and Forecasting Invasion of Prosopis juliflora in Ethiopia's Afar Region
Amanda M West, Tewodros Wakie, Matt Luizza and Paul Evangelista, NASA DEVELOP National Program, USGS Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
3:10 PM
 
Integrating satellite and tower phenology: a case-study in real-time ecological forecasting
Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
3:25 PM
 
Can vegetation optical types help address plant-climate interactions?
John Arthur Gamon, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
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