B51I:
Characterizing Vegetation Structure with Remote Sensing II


Session ID#: 9182

Session Description:
Vegetation structure is a key element of ecosystems that impacts many aspects of ecosystem function, such as carbon cycling, habitat suitability and biodiversity, among others. Technological advances in remote sensing including interferometric radar, lidar, high-resolution stereo, and multi-angle sensor approaches are revolutionizing our ability to characterize the horizontal and vertical structure of vegetation with unprecedented detail. We invite papers that present results from novel methods or datasets to characterize vegetation structure across multiple scales. Submissions presenting a comparison of techniques and/or data fusion are particularly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael Falkowski, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Temilola Fatoyinbo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Paul M Montesano, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Paul M Montesano, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael Falkowski, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Temilola Fatoyinbo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael Falkowski, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Potential performance characteristics of ICESat-2/ATLAS for canopy height retrievals in different ecosystems (Invited) (79426)
Amy L Neuenschwander, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States and Katherine Pitts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Crowd-Sourced Calibration: The GEDI Strategy for Empirical Biomass Estimation Using Spaceborne Lidar (Invited) (59978)
Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and The GEDI Science Team
The Biomass mission: a step forward in quantifying forest biomass and  structure (Invited) (68241)
Thuy LE Toan, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and The Biomass Mission Advisory Group
Forest and Shrub Canopy Structure from Multiangle and High Resolution Passive Remote Sensing (Invited) (73089)
Mark J Chopping, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States, Zhuosen Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Michael A Bull, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Rocio Duchesne, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Geography & Geology, Whitewater, United States and Malcolm North, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA, United States
Quantifying Ecosystem Structural Components with Highly Portable Lidar (79665)
Crystal Schaaf1, Ian Paynter2, Francesco Peri1, Edward Joseph Saenz2, Daniel Genest2, Alan H Strahler3 and Zhan Li4, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States, (3)Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
The 2014 Tanana Inventory Pilot: A USFS­NASA partnership to leverage advanced remote sensing technologies for forest inventory (58594)
Hans-Erik Andersen, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States, Chad Ryan Babcock, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Bruce Cook, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Robert Pattison, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Anchorage, AK, United States and Andrew O Finley, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry and Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
Global trends and vulnerabilities of mangrove forests (85771)
Marc Simard1, Temilola Fatoyinbo2, Victor H Rivera-Monroy3, Edward Castaneda3 and Rinku Roy Chowdhury4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, School of the Coast and the Enivronment, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Clark University, Geography, Worcester, MA, United States
A new pan-tropical estimate of carbon loss in natural and managed forests in 2000-2012 (70056)
Alexandra Tyukavina1, Alessandro Baccini2, Matthew Hansen3, Peter Potapov3, Stephen V. Stehman4, Richard A Houghton2, Alexander Krylov5, Svetlana Turubanova3 and Scott J Goetz6, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (4)State University of New York, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, Syracuse, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States

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