B43A:
Advancing Understanding of Ecosystem Structure and Function through Remote Sensing I Posters

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Session ID#: 15030

Session Description:
Remote sensing technologies - applied at different spatial and temporal scales, and using a variety of sensors – are transforming the biogeosciences by producing previously unattainable ecosystem structural and functional information. For example, full-waveform lidar and hyperspectral data products provide new capabilities to link, in novel ways, ecosystem structure and foliar chemistry with biogeochemical processes at scales from leaves to biomes. Moving forward, a variety of emerging remote sensing technologies are poised to dramatically improve understanding of ecosystem structure-function, helping to resolve long-standing fundamental questions within the biogeosciences. We seek submissions from researchers using remote sensing to advance understanding of ecosystem structure and function. This interdisciplinary session will be broad in scope, with submissions highlighting an array of experimental, observational, and modeling studies using remote sensing to address questions in the biogeosciences.
Primary Convener:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain and Javier Cabello, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain
Chairs:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain and Javier Cabello, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain
OSPA Liaison:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Spatial-temporal eco-environmental vulnerability assessment and its influential factors based on Landsat data (120007)
Kim-Anh Nguyen, VietNam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, Prof. Yuei-An Liou, PhD, National Central University, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Kanagawa, Japan and Li Ming-Hsu, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, The Graduate Institute of Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences, Jhongli, Taiwan
Rapid assessment and mapping of tree cover in southern African savanna woodlands using a new iPhone App and Landsat 8 imagery (120731)
Douglas O Fuller, Univ of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, United States
Beyond Forest Classification: Continuous Mapping of Forest Species Composition, Mortality, and Sub-Canopy Using Landsat Imagery and Agnostic Analysis (126500)
Rick L Lawrence1, Shannon Savage1, John Long2, Emma Bode1, John Squires3 and Lucretia Olson3, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD, United States, (3)US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, United States
Evaluation of practical schemes for correcting multiple scattering effects on gap fraction measurements by plant canopy analyzer LAI-2000/2200: implications for hemispherical photography and terrestrial laser scanners (127645)
Jan Pisek, University of Tartu, Tartu Observatory, Tartu, Estonia, Hideki Kobayashi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Andres Kuusk, University of Tartu, Tartu Observatory, Tõravere, Estonia
Classification of high-resolution multi-swath hyperspectral data using Landsat 8 surface reflectance data as a calibration target and a novel histogram based unsupervised classification technique to determine natural classes from biophysically relevant fit parameters (128673)
Cooper McCann1, Kevin S Repasky1, Mikindra Morin1, Rick L Lawrence1 and Scott L Powell2, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, United States
Remote Diagnosis of Nitrogen Status in Winter Oilseed Rape (128881)
Shishi Liu, Huazhong Agricultural University, College of Resources and Environment, Wuhan, China
Predicting Potential Habitat of Conifer and Broad-leaved Tree Using Environmental Variables and Seed Dispersal Ability (130108)
Han Kyul Heo1, Dong Kun Lee2, Yongwon Mo3 and Ho Gul Kim3, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Mapping Deforestation area in North Korea Using Phenology-based Multi-Index and Random Forest (132319)
Yihua Jin1, Sunyong Sung1, Dong Kun Lee2 and Seunggyu Jeong1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Evaluating the capacity of GF-4 satellite data for estimating fractional vegetation cover (132354)
Chengye Zhang1, Qiming Qin1, Huazhong Ren1, Tianyuan Zhang1 and Yuanheng Sun2, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Peking University, Earth and Space Science, Beijing, China
Improving Lidar-based Aboveground Biomass Estimation with Site Productivity for Central Hardwood Forests, USA (134840)
Gang Shao1, Guofan Shao1, Joey Gallion2 and Songlin Fei3, (1)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Brownstown, IN, United States, (3)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, United States
Water clarity of the Upper Great Lakes: tracking changes between 1998-2012 (135667)
Foad Yousef1, Robert A Shuchman2, Mike Sayers2, Gary Fahnenstiel2 and Azad Henareh Khalyani3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Michigan Tech Research Inst, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Evaluating Landscape and Vegetation Change in Ventura River Watershed, California Using Remote Sensing (140878)
Lauren Brunsdale and Jane E Dmochowski, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Developing a Model to Estimate Freshwater Gross Primary Production Using MODIS Surface Temperature Observations (141430)
Saba Juliet Saberi1, Kathleen C Weathers1, Hamid Norouzi2, Satya Prakash2, Chris Solomon1 and Jonah Matthew Boucher1, (1)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States, (2)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Assessing the Effectiveness of Landsat 8 Chlorophyll-a Retrieval Algorithms for Regional Freshwater Management (141437)
Jonah Matthew Boucher1, Kathleen C Weathers1, Hamid Norouzi2, Satya Prakash2 and Saba Juliet Saberi1, (1)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States, (2)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Potential for Water Savings by Defoliation of Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) by Saltcedar Beetles (Diorhabda carinulata) in the Upper Colorado River Basin (142885)
Pamela L Nagler1, Uyen Nguyen2, Heather L. Bateman3, Chris Jarchow4, Charles van Riper III1, William Waugh5 and Edward Glenn2, (1)USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, College of Letters and Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Navarro Research and Engineering, Grand Junction, CO, United States
Detecting Montane Meadows in the Tahoe National Forest Using LiDAR and ASTER Imagery (151688)
Austen Lorenz, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, Leonhard Blesius, San Francisco State University, School of the Environment, San Francisco, United States and Jerry D Davis, San Francisco State University, School of the Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States
Monitoring wetland distribution in Tumen river basin using Landsat and MODIS images (153184)
Zhu Jingrong1, Dong Kun Lee2 and Yihua Jin1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Regional Inversion of the Maximum Carboxylation Rate (Vcmax) through the Sunlit Light Use Efficiency Estimated Using the Corrected Photochemical Reflectance Ratio Derived from MODIS Data (167018)
Ting Zheng, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States and Jing Ming Chen, University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, Toronto, ON, Canada
A hybrid HDRF model of GOMS and SAIL: GOSAIL (167606)
Shengbiao Wu1, Jianguang Wen1 and Baocheng Dou2, (1)RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Evaluating the effect of restoration practices on riparian vegetation using remote sensing data (167777)
Mark B Hausner1, Daniel McEvoy2, Charles Morton1, Guy Smith3, Kurt Fesenmyer4 and Justin L Huntington1, (1)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Trout Unlimited, Boise, ID, United States
Satellite Remote Sensing with Artificial Neural Network Modeling Techniques for Water Quality Monitoring (171923)
Yao-CHENG Kuo and Chi-Farn Chen, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Jhongli, Taiwan
A Research Coordination Network for Ecological Applications of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (176883)
Alan H Strahler, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, United States and Timothy D Condon, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Topographic and physicochemical controls on soil denitrification potential in prior converted croplands located on the Delmarva Peninsula, USA (179350)
Xia Li1, Greg Mccarty2, Megan W Lang3, Thomas Ducey4, Patrick Hunt4 and Jarrod Miller5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)United States Fish and Wildlife Survey, National Wetlands Inventory Program, Falls Church, VA, United States, (4)USDA ARS, Coastal Plain Soil, Water and Plant Conservation Research Laboratory, Florence, SC, United States, (5)University of Maryland Extension, Princess Anne, MD, United States
Impacts of climate extremes on gross primary productivity of terrestrial ecosystems in conterminous USA (181957)
Xiaocui Wu1, Xiangming Xiao2,3, Yao Zhang4 and Geli Zhang4, (1)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Mapping Spruce Beetle Outbreak Severity and Distribution in Colorado Using Landsat and Integrative Spatial Modelling (182497)
Brian David Woodward, Eric Rounds, Sarah Carroll, Peder Engelstad and Oliver Miltenberger, NASA DEVELOP Program, USGS - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
ASSESSMENT OF SHORELINE VEGETATION IN THE WESTERN BASIN OF LAKE ERIE USING AIRBORNE HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY (186163)
Prabha Amali Rupasinghe1, Anita Simic1, Martin Albert Simonson2, Christine Mayer2 and Kristin Arend3, (1)Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, United States, (2)University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences and Lake Erie Center, Toledo, OH, United States, (3)Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Huron, OH, United States
Parameterization of Shape and Compactness in Object-based Image Classification Using Quickbird-2 Imagery (186332)
Hasan Tonbul, Gebze Technical University, Department of Geomatics, Kocaeli, Turkey and Prof. Taskin Kavzoglu, PhD, Gebze Technical University, Geomatics Engineering, Kocaeli, Turkey
Recreational-Grade Sidescan Sonar: Transforming a Low-Cost Leisure Gadget into a High Resolution Riverbed Remote Sensing Tool (186343)
Daniel Deneccochea Hamill1, Daniel Buscombe2, Joseph M Wheaton1 and Peter R Wilcock3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)Utah State University, Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Recovery from Disturbance in Drylands (186885)
Travis B Poitras, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Miguel L Villarreal, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, Eric Waller, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Michael Duniway, USGS, Baltimore, United States and Travis Nauman, Southwest Biological Science Center Moab, Lincoln, United States
Managed Clearings: an Unaccounted Land-cover in Urbanizing Regions (186972)
Kunwar K. Singh, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Marguerite Madden, University of Georgia, Geography, Athens, GA, United States and Ross Kendall Meentemeyer, North Carolina State University, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States
Detecting Vegetation Changes Induced by Government Policy in China Using Multiple Satellite Products (187052)
Kazuhito Ichii1,2, Yuji Yanagi1 and Jingfeng Xiao3, (1)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research, Yokohama, Japan, (2)National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States
Observing Red Tide Algal Blooms From Satellite Ocean Color Imagery: West Florida Shelf (189147)
Erica Terese Krueger, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, United States and Felix Jose, Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Marine & Earth Sciences, Fort Myers, United States
Using Remote Sensing Technologies to Quantify the Effects of Beech Bark Disease on the Structure, Composition, and Function of a Late-Successional Forest (194890)
Ellen JoAnne Stuart-Haëntjens1, Raleigh D Ricart2, Robert Timothy Fahey3, Alex Theodore Fotis2 and Christopher Michael Gough4, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (4)Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
Estimation of Biomass in Headwater Forest Using Radar and Optical Imagery (198689)
Nga Nguyen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
An analytical radiative transfer model for ectones based on stochastic radiative transfer theory (198926)
Yelu Zeng1, Li Jing2, Liu Qinhuo2 and Alfredo R Huete3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (2)RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
A 3D Joint Simulation Platform for Multiband_A Case Study in the Huailai Soybean and Maize Field (199291)
Yang Zhang1, Liu Qinhuo1, Yang Du2 and Huaguo Huang3, (1)RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (3)Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Mapping Soils Through the Trees: A Mixed Methods Approach for Small Low Islands (200004)
Mary Engels and Robert Heinse, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States

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