B54D:
Scaling from Points to Pixels: Remote Sensing Estimates of Ecosystem Characteristics across Space and Time II
Session ID#: 8815
Session Description:
Remote sensing (RS) data provide spatially explicit approaches for scaling measurements of ecosystem structure and function (e.g., biochemistry, physiology, LAI, biomass) and are critical for regional to global monitoring and process modeling. Consistent, long-term in situ and RS data that are used to refine techniques for characterizing ecosystems are increasingly becoming available from efforts by NSF, NASA and similar international agencies. However, measurements are often spatially distributed across large, heterogeneous areas, making it challenging to 1) scale leaf and plot level measurements to pixel based estimates and 2) model estimates in areas where leaf- and plot level data do not exist. This session will explore scaling methods to quantify ecosystem characteristics and derive RS products and associated uncertainties. Topics may include use of passive or active sensor data to estimate ecosystem characteristics across multiple scales, scaling between multi-resolution RS pixels, or scaling in situ point measurements over broad areas.
Primary Convener: Leah A Wasser, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab Earth Analytics Education Initiative - CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Shawn Serbin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States, Keely L Roth, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Scott V Ollinger, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Chairs: Keely L Roth, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Leah A Wasser, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab Earth Analytics Education Initiative - CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison: Keely L Roth, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Philip A Townsend1, John J Couture2, Eric L Kruger2, Shawn Serbin3 and Aditya Singh2, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States
Karine Adeline1, Susan Ustin1, Keely L Roth1, Margarita Huesca Martinez1, Crystal Schaaf2, Dennis D Baldocchi3 and Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry4, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Liane S Guild, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Stanford B Hooker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Raphael Martin Kudela, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, John H Morrow, Biospherical Instruments Inc, San Diego, CA, United States, Juan Luis Torres-Perez, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, United States, Sherry L. Palacios, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Kendra Negrey, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Jennifer L Dungan, NASA Ames Research Center (retired), Moffett Field, United States
Darren Drewry1, Christian Frankenberg2, Manish Verma1, Joe A Berry3, David Schimel4, Sven Geier5, Mark Schwochert6 and CFIS Team, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Ran Wang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States, Abby Stilwell, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, John Arthur Gamon, University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Nature Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States, Arthur I Zygielbaum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, Lincoln, NE, United States, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States and Philip A Townsend, University of Wisconsin Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States
Martin van Leeuwen1, Jan A van Aardt1, David Kelbe2, Thomas Kampe3 and Keith Krause3, (1)Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)NEON, Boulder, CO, United States
Rebecca L. Powell, University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Michael Goulden, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, Seth Peterson, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, United States
Scott C Stark, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States
