U14A:
New Frontiers in Ecosystem, Solid Earth, Cryosphere, and Natural Hazards

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Primary Convener:  Paul Alan Rosen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Ralph Dubayah, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission Concept
Gerald W Bawden, US Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States, Paul Alan Rosen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ralph Dubayah, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Bradford H Hager, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
4:15 PM
 
Large-Scale Mapping and Monitoring of Terrestrial Ecosystems with the NISAR Mission
Josef M Kellndorfer1, Ralph Dubayah2, Paul Siqueira3, Sassan S Saatchi4, Bruce D Chapman4 and Paul Alan Rosen4, (1)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:30 PM
 
Importance of Nisar Mission for Ice Sheet Studies
Bernd Scheuchl, Eric J Rignot, Jeremie Mouginot and Mathieu Morlighem, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
4:45 PM
 
Forecasting and Managing Groundwater Resources Using InSAR
Howard A Zebker1, Rosemary J Knight2 and Jingyi Chen2, (1)Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
5:00 PM
 
Remote Sensing and Earth System Dynamics: The Helmholtz Alliance
Irena Hajnsek1, Michael Eineder2, Thomas R Walter3, Anke Maria Friedrich4, Peter Bieber5, Andreas Huth6, Konstantinos Papathanassiou2, Carsten Montzka7, Ute Wollschläger6, Boris Thies8, Angelika Humbert9, Mathias Braun10, Gerhard Krieger2 and Alberto Moreira2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (4)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - LMU, Munich, Germany, (5)Technical University of Munich - TUM, Munich, Germany, (6)Umweltforschungszentrum Leibzig -UFZ, Leibzig, Germany, (7)Forschungszentrum Julich - IBG-3, Julich, Germany, (8)Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, (9)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (10)Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
5:15 PM
 
Global Earth Monitoring Using ALOS-2/Palsar-2: Initial Status of the ALOS-2 Calibration Phase
Masanobu Shimada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Kanagawa, Japan
5:30 PM
 
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation
Ralph Dubayah1, Scott J Goetz2, James Bryan Blair3, Temilola E Fatoyinbo3, Matthew Hansen1, Sean P Healey4, Michelle A Hofton1, George C Hurtt1, James Kellner5, Scott B Luthcke6 and Anu Swatantran1, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Rocky Mountain Research Statio, Ogden, UT, United States, (5)Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, (6)Goddard Space Flight Center, Severna Park, MD, United States
5:45 PM
 
Preparing for Routine Satellite Global Volcano Deformation Observations: The Volcano Deformation Database Task Force
Jennifer Jay1, Benjamin James Andrews1, Matthew E Pritchard2, Jennifer Cooper2, Scott T Henderson2, Francisco Delgado2, Juliet Biggs3 and Susanna K Ebmeier3, (1)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
 
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