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: Rasmus Houborg, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Seasonal decoupling between vegetation greenness and function over northern high latitude forests
Su-Jong Jeong1, David Schimel1, Christian Frankenberg1, Darren Drewry1, Joshua B Fisher1, Manish Verma1, Joseph A Berry2, Jung-Eun Lee3, Joanna Joiner4 and Luis Guanter5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Remote Sensing Forage Quality for Browsing Herbivores: A Case Study of Cutting Edge Koala Conservation
Kara Nicole Youngentob1,2, Jessie Au3, Andre Alexander Held4, William J Foley3 and Hugh P Possingham5, (1)University of Queensland, School of Biology, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (2)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, Australia, (3)Australian National University, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, (4)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (5)University of Queensland, School of Biology, St Lucia, Australia
A Synergistic Approach to Atmospheric Compensation of Neon's Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery Utilizing an Airborne Solar Spectral Irradiance Radiometer
Bryan Mills Karpowicz1, Logan Wright2, Bruce C Kindel3, Sebastian Schmidt4, Nathan Leisso5, Thomas U Kampe5 and Peter Pilewskie2, (1)NEON Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NEON, Boulder, CO, United States
Landscape and forest structural controls on wood density and aboveground biomass along a tropical elevation gradient in Costa Rica
Chelsea M Robinson1, Sassan S Saatchi2, David B. Clark3, Tom W Gillespie1 and Sandy Andelman4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Missouri St Louis, Biology, St Louis, MO, United States, (4)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States
Spectral Characteristics of Vegetation Functional Traits across a Range of Thaw Gradients on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula
Santonu Goswami1, Daniel J Hayes1, Victoria L Sloan2, Jennifer Anne Liebig3, Richard J Norby3 and Stan D Wullschleger1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)ORNL, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Development of a global LAI estimation algorithm for JAXA's new earth observation satellite sensor, GCOM-C/SGLI
Yuhsaku Ono1, Hiroshi Murakami1, Hideki Kobayashi2, Kenlo Nishida Nasahara3, Koji Kajiwara4 and Yoshiaki Honda4, (1)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (3)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Mapping tropical biodiversity using spectroscopic imagery : characterization of structural and chemical diversity with 3-D radiative transfer modeling
Jean-Baptiste Feret1,2, Jean Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry2, Marie-Jose Lefèvre-Fonollosa1, Christophe Proisy3 and Gregory Paul Asner4, (1)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (3)IRD Institute for Research and Development, AMAP, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (4)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
Characterization of Permafrost Degradation and Plant Communities Using Hyperspectral Reflectance
AJ Garnello1, Daniel Finnell2, Michael W Palace3, Jin Wu1, Lucie C Lepine4, Patrick M Crill5 and Ruth K Varner6, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Environmental Studies, Richmond, VA, United States, (3)Complex System Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Characterization of subarctic vegetation using ground based remote sensing methods
Daniel Finnell1, AJ Garnello2, Michael W Palace3, Franklin Sullivan3, Christina Herrick3, Samantha Marie Anderson3, Patrick M Crill4 and Ruth K Varner3, (1)Virginia Commonwealth University, Center for Environmental Studies, Richmond, VA, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, (4)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Use of High Resolution UAS Imagery to Classify Sub-Arctic Vegetation Types
Christina Herrick1, Michael W Palace1, Daniel R Finnell2, AJ Garnello3, Franklin Sullivan1, Samantha Marie Anderson1 and Ruth K Varner1, (1)University of New Hampshire (UNH), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), Durham, NH, United States, (2)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
A Contextual Classification Approach for Remote Sensing Image Classification of Hyperspatial Imagery
Yi Zou1, Carlos Ramirez2, Nathan Amboy3, Stephanie Mundis1 and Jonathan A Greenberg1, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Mcclellan Afb, CA, United States, (3)USDA FOREST SERVICE, Mcclellan Afb, CA, United States
Seasonal pattern of solar-induced fluorescence as a proxy for canopy photosynthesis in a temperate deciduous forest
Xi Yang1, Jianwu Tang2, John F Mustard1, Jung-Eun Lee1, Micol Rossini3, Joanna Joiner4, J William Munger5 and Andrew D Richardson5, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)The Ecosystems Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Remote Sensing of Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, DISAT, Milan, Italy, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Combined Use of Active and Passive Remote Sensing for Mapping Distribution and Biomass of Coastal Mangroves
Aslan Aslan, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Bloomington, IN, United States, Abdullah Faizur Rahman, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Coastal Studies Lab, South Padre Island, TX, United States, Matthew Warren, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States, Scott M Robeson, Indiana Univ--Dept Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States and Taryono Darusman, PT. Rimba Makmur Utama, Katingan Project, Jakarta, Indonesia
Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll Fluorescence by the Airborne Plant Fluorescence Sensor (APFS)
John Boldt1, Jeng-Hwa Yee1, William B Cook2, Frank Morgan II3, Robert Demajistre4, Bruce D Cook5 and Lawrence A Corp6, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
Ecosystem Mapping Approaches Based on Vegetation Structure Using NEON Prototype Airborne LiDAR and Field Data
Keith Krause1, William J Emery2, David Barnett1, Shelley Bougan Petroy1, Courtney L Meier1 and Carol Adele Wessman3, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado-CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, EBIO, Boulder, CO, United States
Climatic impacts on phenology of southern California native ecosystems using MODIS-derived time series
Katherine S Willis1, Tom W Gillespie1, Greg S Okin2 and Glen M MacDonald3, (1)UCLA-Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Continental-scale ICESat canopy height modelling sensitivity and random forest simulations in Australia and Canada
Craig Mahoney1, Chris Hopkinson1, Andre Alexander Held2 and Ron Hall3, (1)University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Using remote sensing to study mangroves spatial dynamics under increased nitrogen availability and lower salinity conditions
Sonia Silvestri1, Dennis Whigham2, Riks Laanbroek3,4, Mark Cable Rains5 and Jos Verhoeven2,6, (1)Duke University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (3)Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht University, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Univ South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States, (6)Utrecht University, Ecology and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Utrecht, Netherlands