B51I
Characterizing Vegetation Structure with Remote Sensing II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2004 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Michael J Falkowski1, Temilola E Fatoyinbo2 and Paul M Montesano2, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Laura Duncanson1, Paul M Montesano2, Michael J Falkowski3 and Temilola E Fatoyinbo2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 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
08:00
B51I-01
Potential performance characteristics of ICESat-2/ATLAS for canopy height retrievals in different ecosystems (Invited) (79426)
Amy L Neuenschwander, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
08:15
B51I-02
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 GEDI Science Team
08:30
B51I-03
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
08:45
B51I-04
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
09:00
B51I-05
Quantifying Ecosystem Structural Components with Highly Portable Lidar (79665)
Crystal Schaaf, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States
09:15
B51I-06
The 2014 Tanana Inventory Pilot: A USFS­NASA partnership to leverage advanced remote sensing technologies for forest inventory (58594)
Hans-Erik Andersen1, Chad Ryan Babcock2, Bruce Cook3, Douglas C Morton3, Robert Pattison4 and Andrew Finley5, (1)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Anchorage, AK, United States, (5)Michigan State University, Department of Forestry and Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
09:30
B51I-07
Global trends and vulnerabilities of mangrove forests (85771)
Marc Simard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
09:45
B51I-08
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 Krylov3, Svetlana Turubanova3 and Scott J Goetz5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, (5)Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States
 
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