B51L:
Remote Sensing of Forests and Plantations in the Tropical and Subtropical Zones I


Session ID#: 9045

Session Description:
Forests and plantations in the tropical and sub-tropical zones play an important role in regional and global carbon cycle. In this session we highlight recent progress in our understanding of spatial-temporal dynamics of forests and plantations in the tropical and subtropical zones through remote sensing. We welcome contributions that use remote sensing (e.g., optical, synthetic aperture radar, LiDAR) to quantify (1) area and spatial distribution of forests and plantations, (2) carbon fluxes of forests and plantations, and (3) carbon stock (aboveground biomass) of forests and plantations. We also welcome contributions that combine both remote sensing data products and models to estimate carbon fluxes and stocks of forests and plantations.
Primary Convener:  Xiangming Xiao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States
Convener:  Jinwei Dong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Chairs:  Xiangming Xiao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States, Jinwei Dong, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Yuanwei Qin, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xiangming Xiao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Chengquan Huang1, Xin Tao2, Feng Zhao3, Karen Schleeweis4, Pui Yu Ling3, Samuel N Goward1, Jeffrey G Masek5, Andrew Michaelis6 and NAF-C team, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
Jinwei Dong1, Xiangming Xiao2, Yuanwei Qin3, Bangqian Chen4, Weili Kou5, Deli Zhai6, Geli Zhang7, Yao Zhang1, Yuting Zhou8 and Jie Wang1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States, (3)Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (4)Organization Not Listed, Danzhou, China, (5)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (6)Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, (7)University of Oklahoma, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States, (8)Oklahoma State University, Geography, Stillwater, OK, United States
Robert N Treuhaft1, Maxim Neumann1, Michael Maier Keller2, Fabio G Goncalves3 and João Roberto Santos4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, (3)Canopy Remote Sensing Solutions, Florianopolis, Brazil, (4)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Chris Balzotti1,2, Gregory Paul Asner1,2, Phillip R Taylor3, Rebecca J Cole4, Brooke Bossert Osborne5, Cory C. Cleveland6, Stephen Porder7 and Alan R Townsend3, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Brown University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, (6)University of Montana, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (7)Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States
Loïc Dutrieux1, Catarina C Jakovac2, Latifah H Siti2 and Lammert Kooistra2, (1)National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Alison Nicole Thieme1, Sean McCartney2, John Rogan3, Florencia Sangermano1 and David Wilkie4, (1)Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, (2)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States, (4)Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, United States
Liangyun Liu, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Yanhong Wu, CEODE Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Beijing, China

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