B41I:
Remote Sensing of Northern High-Latitude Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners:  Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and Benjamin M Jones, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

0162
 
Timing of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Initiation in the Noatak Basin, Northwest Alaska, USA
Andrew Balser1, Jeremy Jones1 and Rudiger Gens1,2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK, United States
0163
 
A Comparison of Satellite and Aircraft-Mounted Thermal Observations of Freeze/Thaw Cycling of the Alaska Tundra and Boreal Forests during the Carbon in the Arctic Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE)
Nicholas Steiner1, Kyle C McDonald1,2, Charles E Miller2 and Steven J Dinardo2, (1)CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Science, New York, NY, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
0164
 
Thermokarst Lake Gyre Flow Speed and Direction Derivation Using Image Matching from Sequential Satellite Images
Shengan Zhan, Shujie Wang, Richard A Beck, Hongxing Liu and Kenneth M Hinkel, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States
0165
 
Using Discriminant Analysis to Examine Spectral Differences Among Four Tundra Vegetation Communities at Ivotuk, Alaska
Sara Bratsch, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Howard E Epstein, University of Virginia Main Campus, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States
0166
 
Mapping plant functional type distributions in Arctic ecosystems using WorldView-2 satellite imagery and unsupervised clustering
Zachary Langford1, Jitendra Kumar1, Forrest M Hoffman2, Victoria L Sloan3, Richard J Norby4 and Stan D Wullschleger1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)ORNL, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
0167
 
Using geomorphology to map plant community distribution in complex polygonal tundra landscapes
Victoria L Sloan1, Chandana Gangodagamage2, Colleen M. Iversen3, Richard J Norby3 and Stan D Wullschleger3, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
0168
 
Estimating aboveground biomass of low-stature Arctic shrubs with terrestrial LiDAR
Heather Greaves1, Lee Alexander Vierling1, Jan Eitel2, Natalie Boelman3, Kevin L Griffin3 and Troy Sehlin Magney1, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)University of Idaho, McCall, ID, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ., Palisades, NY, United States
0169
 
Wetland Maps of Central Canada based on L-band SAR Imagery
Jane Whitcomb1, Daniel Clewley1, Mahta Moghaddam1 and Kyle C McDonald2,3, (1)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)CCNY-Earth & Atmos Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
0170
 
Retrieval of Understory NDVI in Sparse Boreal Forests By MODIS Brdf Data
Wei Yang1, Hideki Koayashi1, Rikie Suzuki1 and Kenlo Nishida Nasahara2, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
0171
 
Forest patch height uncertainty from spaceborne data in the taiga-tundra ecotone
Paul M Montesano1,2, Guoqing Sun1, Jon Ranson3 and Ralph Dubayah2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
0172
 
Using Image Segmentation to Identify Tundra Vegetation Variability in High Resolution Satellite Images
Zachary Lazow, Lauren Roemke and Michael M Loranty, Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States
0173
 
Systematic High-Resolution (30 meter) Inventory of Global Lakes: Pan-Arctic and Beyond
Yongwei Sheng1, Jida Wang2, Laurence C Smith1, Evan A Lyons1, Gary Te1, Jordan Woods1, Dorian Garibay1 and Benjamin Knox1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
0174
 
Assessing Rates of Biological and Morphological Change in Northern Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing Time Series Data, LiDAR, and Gridded Climate Records
Laura Chasmer1, Chris Hopkinson1 and Richard M Petrone2, (1)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
0175
 
Quantitative Interpretation of Arctic Tundra Attributes Using Remote Sensing: Leveraging Field Data, Modern- and Legacy Landsat Data, and Commercial Imagery in Northern Alaska
Gerald V Frost Jr, Matthew J Macander and Peter R Nelson, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States
0176
 
Calibration, Compositing, and Classification of Landsat Datasets and High-Resolution Imagery in Arctic Alaska
Matthew J Macander and Gerald V Frost Jr, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
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