B42C:
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits III

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Joshua B Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Co-conveners:  Joshua B Fisher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andrew K Skidmore, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
OSPA Liaisons:  Joshua B Fisher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
The NDVI: Back to Basics
Caitriana M Steele, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Alistair MS Smith, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States and Dawn M Browning, USDA-ARS Jornada Exp. Range, Las Cruces, NM, United States
10:35 AM
 
Site-level Evaluation of Remote Sensing Based Terrestrial Gross Primary Production from New MODIS fAPARchl Product
Tian Yao1, Qingyuan Zhang1, Alexei Lyapustin2 and Yujie Wang3, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
10:50 AM
 
Measuring Bi-Directional Reflectance for Gross Primary Productivity with a Constellation of SmallSats
Sreeja Nag1, Charles K Gatebe2, Thomas Hilker3, Forrest G Hall4 and Olivier L de Weck1, (1)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:05 AM
 
Towards Using Radar to Detect Water Stress: Observations of an Agricultural Maize Canopy from the SnowScat Scatterometer
Susan C Steele-Dunne1, Charles L Werner2, Andreas Wiesmann2, Tim Hans Martin van Emmerik1 and Nick Van De Giesen1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (2)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland
11:20 AM
 
On Variability in Satellite Terrestrial Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements: Relationships with Phenology and Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange, Vegetation Structure, Clouds, and Sun-Satellite Geometry
Joanna Joiner1,2, Yasuko Yoshida3, Luis Guanter4, Yongguang Zhang5, Alexander P Vasilkov3, Kevin M Schaefer6, Karl F Huemmrich1, Elizabeth Middleton1, Philipp Koehler5, Martin Jung7, Compton J Tucker1, Alexei Lyapustin1, Yujie Wang8, Christian Frankenberg9, Joseph A Berry10, Randal D Koster2, Rolf H Reichle11, Jung-Eun Lee12, Stephan R Kawa2, George James Collatz2, Gregory K Walker3 and Christiaan Van der Tol13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)SSAI, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (5)Freie Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (6)University of Colorado, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (8)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (11)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (13)ITC, Enschede, Netherlands
11:35 AM
 
Remotely Measured Terrestrial Chlorophyll Fluorescence Using Airborne G-LiHT and APFS Sensors
William B Cook, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jeng-Hwa Yee, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, Lawrence A Corp, Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, Bruce D Cook, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Karl F Huemmrich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:50 AM
 
Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence
Kaiyu Guan1, David B Lobell2, Joe A Berry3, Joanna Joiner4, Luis Guanter5, Yongguang Zhang6 and Badgley Grayson1,3, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Institute for Space Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (6)Freie Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany
12:05 PM
 
Calculations for chlorophyll fluorescence incorporated into the Community Land Model
Jung-Eun Lee, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Joseph A Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Christiaan Van der Tol, ITC, Enschede, Netherlands, Luis Guanter, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Alexander Damm, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Ian T Baker, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Christian Frankenberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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