GC31A:
Assessing the State of the Art in Change Detection and Analysis for Geophysical Time Series I Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kirsten de Beurs, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kirsten de Beurs, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Co-conveners:  Jan Verbesselt, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands and Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Kirsten de Beurs, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Tracking the Effect of Algal Mats on Coral Bleaching Using Remote Sensing
Sawyer H Johnson1, Nehal Idris1, Hesham Mohamed El-Askary2 and Mohammed Ali B Qurban3, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman Univ, Orange, CA, United States, (3)King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Manager, Marine Studies Section Center for Environment and Water, Dhanran, Saudi Arabia
 
Change Detection Analysis of Costal Habitat Using Remote Sensing Technologies in the Western Arabian Gulf (Saudi Arabian Coast) over a Thirty-Year Period.
Nehal Idris1, Sawyer H Johnson1, Hesham Mohamed El-Askary2 and Mohammed Ali B Qurban3, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman Univ, Orange, CA, United States, (3)King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Manager, Marine Studies Section Center for Environment and Water, Dhanran, Saudi Arabia
 
MODIS NDVI Change Detection Techniques and Products Used in the Near Real Time Forwarn System for Detecting, Monitoring, and Analyzing Regional Forest Disturbances
Joseph Spruce1, William Walter Hargrove2, Jerry Gasser3, James Smoot1 and Philip Kuper1, (1)Computer Sciences Corporation, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Asheville, NC, United States, (3)Lockheed Martin Civil Programs, Mississippi Space & Technology Center, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
A Global Classification of Contemporary Fire Regimes
Steven P Norman1, Jitendra Kumar2, William Walter Hargrove3 and Forrest M Hoffman2, (1)USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Vallejo, CA, United States
 
UNSUPERVISED LAND COVER CHANGE DETECTION USING BIWEEKLY MODIS NDVI DATA
Nagendra Singh1 and Ranga Raju Vatsavai1,2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, NC, United States
 
A Unified Disturbance Analysis for Forests and Grasslands in New Zealand
Braden Owsley1,2, Kirsten de Beurs1 and Jason Julian2, (1)University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Texas State University, Geography, San Marcos, TX, United States
 
Trend detection and analysis in Eastern Europe and European Russia
Kirsten de Beurs, University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States and Braden Owsley, Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX, United States
 
Documenting 35 Years of Land Cover Change: Lago Cachet Dos Drainage, Chile
Beverly Friesen1, David Nimick2, Daniel McGrath3 and Christopher Cole1, (1)USGS, Special Applications Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS, WY - MT Water Science Center, Helena, MT, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Unified Methodology for Detecting Trend Changes and Outliers in Time Series: application to Ground Deformation in the Virunga Volcanic Province.
Nicolas d'Oreye and Alicia Arjona, European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Walferdange, Luxembourg
 
Annual land cover change mapping using MODIS time series to improve emissions inventories.
Gerardo López Saldaña1, Tristan L Quaife2 and Deborah Clifford2, (1)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
 
Assessing the Uncertainty of Raman Lidar Independent Water Vapor Calibration Means for Long Term Water Vapor Trend Studies
Monique N Walker1, David N Whiteman1 and Demetrius D Venable2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Howard University, Physics, Washington, DC, United States
 
Urban Growth Detection Using Filtered Landsat Dense Time Trajectory in an Arid City
Zhiwei Ye and Annemarie Schneider, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Madison, WI, United States
 
Characterizing continuous urban growth using composited time-series Landsat data
Xiao-Peng Song1, Joseph O Sexton1, Chengquan Huang1, Min Feng1, Saurabh Channan1, Matthew E. Baker2 and John R Townshend1, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Analyzing the Variability and Teleconnection of Seasonal Precipitation over Western U.S. Using Empirical Orthogonal Function and Nonlinear Mode Decomposition
Hao Liu, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Xiaogang Gao, Univ California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States