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
Mapping Urban Forest Leaf Area Index Using Lidar: A Comparison of Gap Fraction Inversion and Allometric Methods
Michael Alonzo1, Bodo Bookhagen2, Joseph P McFadden1, Alex Sun1 and Dar A Roberts3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Structure Measurements of Leaf and Woody Components of Forests with Dual-Wavelength Lidar Scanning Data
Zhan Li1, Alan H Strahler1, Crystal Schaaf2, Glenn Howe3, Jason Martel3, Kuravi Hewawasam3, Ewan S Douglas1, Supriya Chakrabarti3, Timothy Cook3, Ian Paynter2, Edward Joseph Saenz2, Zhuosen Wang4, Curtis E Woodcock1, David L. B. Jupp5, Michael Schaefer5 and Glenn Newnham6, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Canberra, Australia, (6)CSIRO Land and Water, Clayton South, Australia
Mapping standing dead trees (snags) in the aftermath of the 2013 Rim Fire using airborne LiDAR data.
Ángeles Casas Planes1, Mariano Garcia-Alonso1, Alexander Koltunov1,2, Susan Ustin1, Matthias Falk1, Carlos Ramirez2 and Rodney Siegel3, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Mcclellan Afb, CA, United States, (3)The Institute for Bird Populations, Point Reyes Station, CA, United States