GC13I
Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications II

Monday, 14 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3008 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
13:40
The NASA Carbon Monitoring System (81296)
George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and NASA-CMS Science Team
13:55
A Symbiosis: Carbon Monitoring and Carbon Management (Invited) (79621)
Molly Macauley, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, United States
14:10
Applications of Advanced Technology for Monitoring Forest Carbon to Support Climate Change Mitigation (Invited) (66051)
Richard Birdsey, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Statiuon, Newtown Square, PA, United States
14:25
Magnitude and Uncertainty of Carbon Pools and Fluxes in the US Forests (Invited) (74925)
Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
14:40
Improving estimates of surface carbon fluxes to support emissions monitoring, reporting and verification at local and regional scales: quantifying uncertainty and the effects of spatial scaling. (Invited) (60982)
Conor Gately1, Lucy Hutyra1, Stephen Wofsy2, Thomas Nehrkorn3 and Ian Sue Wing1, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
14:55
Supporting Indonesia's National Forest Monitoring System with LiDAR Observations (79143)
Stephen C Hagen, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, Durham, NH, United States
15:10
A cost effective and operational methodology for wall to wall Above Ground Biomass (AGB) and carbon stocks estimation and mapping: Nepal REDD+ (71938)
Hammad Gilani Sr1, Sangram Ganguly2, Gong Zhang2, Upama Ashish Koju1, M.S.R Murthy1, Ramakrishna R Nemani2, Ugan Manandhar3 and Gokarna Jung Thapa3, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)WWF-Nepal, Nepal, Nepal
15:25
A gridded version of the US EPA inventory of methane emissions for use as a priori and reference in methane source inversions (83495)
Joannes D Maasakkers1, Daniel J. Jacob1, Melissa Payer Sulprizio1, Alexander J. Turner1, Melissa Weitz2, Thomas Charles Wirth2, Cate Hight2, Mark DeFigueiredo2, Mausami Desai2, Rachel Schmeltz2, Leif Hockstad2, Anthony A Bloom3 and Kevin W Bowman4, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)JPL / Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States