B53I
Characterizing Vegetation Structure with Remote Sensing IV

Friday, 18 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
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:  Michael J Falkowski1, Paul M Montesano2, Laura Duncanson3 and Temilola E Fatoyinbo2, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael J Falkowski, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
13:40
Characterizing Tropical Forest Structure using Field-based Measurements and a Terrestrial Lidar (85354)
Michael W Palace1, Franklin Sullivan1, Mark J Ducey2 and Christina Herrick1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire (UNH), Department of Natural Resources & Environment, Durham, NH, United States
13:55
Tracking the Creation of Tropical Forest Canopy Gaps with UAV Computer Vision Remote Sensing (64850)
Jonathan P Dandois, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, United States; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
14:10
Three-dimensional estimates of tree canopies: Scaling from high-resolution UAV data to satellite observations (83299)
Temuulen Sankey, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
14:25
Combining Lidar and Stereo Imagery for Mapping Forest Structure Prior to Wildfire (84651)
Steven Filippelli, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Michael A Lefsky, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States
14:40
Towards capturing detailed patterns of taiga-tundra ecotone forests from space (72611)
Paul M Montesano1, Christopher S R Neigh1, Guoqing Sun2 and Kenneth Ranson1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
14:55
Large Scale Mapping of Vegetation Structure and Terrain Surface using Single Photon Lidar (SPL) (83716)
Hao Tang1, Ralph Dubayah1, Anu Swatantran2, Terence C Barrett3 and Phil Decola3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
15:10
Understanding species composition from NEON high resolution hyperspectral-LIDAR data across a heterogeneous landscape: Effects of land use, fire regime and topography (Invited) (85945)
Stephanie Bohlman, Sarah Graves, Morteza Shahriari Nia, Gader Paul, Kalantari Leila and Daisy Zhe Wang, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
15:25
Advances in animal ecology from 3D ecosystem mapping with LiDAR (76122)
Andrew Davies and Gregory Paul Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States
 
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