B44C:
Remote Sensing of Vegetation Biomass I
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Session ID#: 15280
Session Description:
Vegetation biomass mapping at multiple scales is important for carbon inventory and monitoring. Biomass models and maps are also relevant to forest and rangeland vegetation science and management applications. Relevant remote sensing technologies range from passive optical multi- or hyperspectral imaging, to active remote sensing techniques using radar or lidar, to structure from motion methods using photogrammetric data collected from airborne platforms including unmanned autonomous systems. Best results may be obtained through data integration across multiple platforms and scales. We welcome submissions that present original approaches to aboveground biomass mapping in terrestrial ecosystems. We particularly seek carbon monitoring systems that are accurate, objective, repeatable and transparent, that are needed for monitoring, reporting, and verification, and that could contribute to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Primary Convener: Andrew T Hudak, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States
Conveners: Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States and Alistair MS Smith, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States
Chairs: Andrew T Hudak, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States and Sangram Ganguly, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Urbana, IL, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Andrew T Hudak1, Patrick Fekety2, Michael Falkowski3, Robert E Kennedy4, Nicholas Crookston5, Alistair MS Smith6, Patrick Mahoney6, Nancy F Glenn7, Jinwei Dong8, Van R Kane9 and Christopher W Woodall10, (1)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Private Forestry Consultant, Moscow, ID, United States, (6)University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, (7)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (8)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (9)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, United States, (10)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, United States
Robert E Kennedy1, Dr. Joseph Hughes, PhD2, Neeti Neeti3, Zhiqiang Yang1, Matt Gregory1, Heather Roberts1, Van r Kane4, Scott L Powell5 and Janet Ohmann1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, United States, (3)TERI University, Department of Natural Resources, Delhi, India, (4)University of Washington, Redmond, WA, United States, (5)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, United States
Sassan S Saatchi1,2, Liang Xu1, Victoria Meyer3, Antonio Ferraz1, Yan Yang4, Aurelie Shapiro5 and Jean-Froncois Bastin6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carbon and Climate Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (5)WWF, Remote Sensing, Berlin, Germany, (6)Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome, Italy
Qing Xu1, Albert Man1, Mark M Fredrickson1, James Joseph Balamuta1, Juho Pitkänen2, Zewei Xu1, Carlos Ramirez3, Kirk Evans4, Brian Wing5, Bo Li6 and Jonathan A Greenberg7, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Natural Resources Institute Finland, METLA, Joensuu, Finland, (3)USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region Remote Sensing Lab, McClellan, CA, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redding, CA, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (7)University of Nevada, Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Carlos Alberto Silva1, Andrew T Hudak2, Lee Alexander Vierling1, Carine Klauberg Silva2, Antonio Ferraz3, Mariano Garcia Alonso3, Michael Maier Keller4 and Sassan S Saatchi3, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States
Laura Duncanson1, Steven Hancock2, Suzanne Marselis2, John David Armston2, James R Kellner3, Hao Tang2, Temilola Fatoyinbo4 and Ralph Dubayah2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Wenge Ni-Meister, CUNY Hunter College, New York, United States and Shihyan Lee, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Hammad Gilani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States and Atul K Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
