B52A
Characterizing Vegetation Structure with Remote Sensing III

Friday, 18 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2004 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael J Falkowski1, Jon Ranson2 and Temilola E Fatoyinbo2, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Paul M Montesano1, Laura Duncanson2, Michael J Falkowski3 and Temilola E Fatoyinbo1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States(3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael J Falkowski, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
10:20
Towards a Better Understanding of Forest Biophysical Parameters - Combining High Fidelity Simulations, Airborne Waveform Lidar, and Terrestrial Lidar Sensing (Invited) (71598)
Jan A van Aardt1, David Kelbe1,2, Paul Romanczyk1,3, Martin van Leeuwen1,4, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson1,5, Keith Krause6 and Thomas U Kampe6, (1)Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Aerospace Corporation Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)GeoSpectral Imaging, Johannesburg, South Africa, (6)NEON, Boulder, CO, United States
10:35
Measuring Complete 3D Vegetation Structure With Airborne Waveform Lidar: A Calibration and Validation With Terrestrial Lidar Derived Voxels (81214)
Steven Hancock1, Karen Anderson1, Mathias Disney2, Kevin J Gaston1 and BESS-F3UES, (1)University of Exeter, Environment and Sustainability Institute, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Geography, London, United Kingdom
10:50
Tropical forest structure characterization using airborne lidar data: an individual tree level approach (75802)
Antonio Ferraz and Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:05
Mapping Forest Carbon by Fusing Terrestrial and Airborne LiDAR Datasets (73159)
Atticus E Stovall, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
11:20
Applying Individual Tree Structure From Lidar to Address the Sensitivity of Allometric Equations to Small Sample Sizes. (67497)
Laura Duncanson and Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
11:35
THE BIAS EFFECTS OF EVEN MINOR GPS ERROR (66327)
Ronald E McRoberts, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, United States, Qi Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Grant M Domke, US Forest Service St. Paul, St. Paul, MN, United States
11:50
Increasing the Efficiency of LiDAR Based Forest Inventories: A Novel Approach for Integrating Variable Radius Inventory Plots with LiDAR Data. (70590)
Michael J Falkowski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Patrick Fekety, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Carlos Alberto Silva, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Andrew T Hudak, Rocky Mountain Research Station Moscow, Moscow, ID, United States
12:05
Statewide Mapping of Aboveground Biomass by Integrating Airborne Lidar Data and National Forestry Inventory Plots (66523)
Qi Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Ronald E McRoberts, USDA Forest Service, St. Paul, MN, United States
 
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