Chairs: Rick Mueller, USDA NASS, Spatial Analysis Research Section, Fairfax, VA, United States and Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Primary Conveners: Jessica L McCarty, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
Co-conveners: Tatiana V Loboda, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Using satellite image-based maps to improve sugarcane straw burning emission estimates in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
Daniela França1,2, Karla Longo1,2, Bernardo Rudorff3, Daniel Aguiar3, Saulo R Freitas1,2, Rafael Stockler1,2 and Gabriel Pereira4, (1)CPTEC Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Research, Grupo de Modelagem da Atmosfera e Interfaces - GMAI, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Agrosatélite Geotecnologia Aplicada Ltda., Florianópolis, Brazil, (4)Federal University of São João Del Rei, São João Del Rei, Brazil
Land Use and Land Cover Change Modeling Using Remote Sensing and Soft Computing Approach to Assess Sugarcane Expansion Impacts in Tropical Agriculture
Luiz Eduardo Vicente1, Andrea Koga-Vicente2, Michael J Friedel3, Daniel Victoria1, Jurandir Zullo Jr.2, Daniel Gomes1 and Gustavo Bayma-Silva1, (1)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas, Brazil, (2)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Centre for Meteorological and Climatological Researches in Agriculture - CEPAGRI, Campinas, Brazil, (3)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
The Future Potential of Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol with respect to Land Availability and Climate Change
Deepak Jaiswal1, Fernando Miguez2, German Bollero1 and Stephen Long3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (3)University of Illinois, Department of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Impact of Climate Change on Sugarcane Crop at Regional Scale: A Study with Remote Sensing and GIS
Shruti Y1, Krushna Chandra Gouda2, Nageswara Rao P P1 and Nagaraj Bhat3, (1)Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications center, Bangalore, India, (2)CSIR CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT MODELLING, BANGALORE, India, (3)Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management, Computer science & Engineering, UDUPI, India
Retrievals of Chlorophyll Fapar for Improved Crop Gpp Modeling
Qingyuan Zhang1, Yen-Ben Cheng2, Yujie Wang3, Alexei Lyapustin4 and Tian Yao1, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Contributions to Strengthening Resilience and Sustainability for the East African Community
Michael E Budde1, Gideon Galu2, Chris C Funk3, James P Verdin4 and James Rowland1, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (2)FEWS NET, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States
Facilitating Synergies Between Free EO Datasets for Precision Farming
Przemyslaw Zelazowski, University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, Artur Nowakowski, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Space Reseach Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland and Robert Szczepanek, Cracow University of Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Cracow, Poland
Mapping changes in agricultural cropping frequency across Zimbabwe using cross-scale time-series remote sensing data and a novel signal decomposition method
Ankush Khandelwal1, Jamon Van Den Hoek2, Fernando Sedano3, Vipin Kumar1 and Compton J Tucker4, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Advancing Methods for Estimating Cropland Area
LeeAnn King1, Matthew Hansen1, Stephen V. Stehman2, Bernard Adusei1, Peter Potapov1 and Alexander Krylov1, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States
