GC51H:
Earth Science Results from New Imaging Spectroscopy Measurements around the Globe I

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Session ID#: 15800

Session Description:
In 2015/16, advanced airborne imaging spectrometers operated by NASA and other agencies pursued science campaigns spanning new and diverse environments worldwide. Regions included Greenland, India, the Southern Ocean, the South Pacific, United States, Europe and elsewhere. This session will present salient new results from these diverse investigations.  It will highlight algorithmic advances, challenges and opportunities related to regional diversity, preparing for new capabilities from orbital imaging spectrometers such as EnMAP and future missions with full global coverage.  Submissions will demonstrate new measurements for land, ocean, cryosphere, and atmosphere science. Examples include: terrestrial ecosystem function, health, and biodiversity; ocean, coastal, benthic and inland water properties; urban land cover condition; snow and ice climate and water resource factors; measurement of the atmosphere including local methane sources; and surface geology related to resources, soils, and hazards. We will also examine calibration, algorithms, and field methodology ensuring continued consistency in global Earth system science.
Primary Convener:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Robert O Green, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Robert O Green, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Elizabeth Middleton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

URGENT AND COMPELLING NEED FOR COASTAL AND INLAND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH USING SPACE-BASED SENSORS (178903)
Daniel Brooks Otis, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, United States, Erin Hestir, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Kevin Ross Turpie, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Baltimore, MD, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Robert J Frouin, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, James Goodman, HySpeed Computing, Miami, FL, United States, Blake A Schaeffer, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States, Bryan A Franz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and David C Humm, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Imaging spectroscopy calibration and applications for coastal wetland species composition and biomass mapping in the Mississippi Delta (152385)
Daniel Jensen1,2, Kyle C Cavanaugh1 and Marc Simard2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Linking Terrestrial Biosphere Models with Imaging Spectrometry Measurements of Ecosystem Composition (144683)
Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Mapping Foliar Traits Across Biomes Using Imaging Spectroscopy: A Synthesis (196770)
Philip A Townsend, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, Aditya Singh, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Zhihui Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
Seeing global biodiversity in a new light (193396)
Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States
Using Multi-Temporal Imaging Spectroscopy Data to Detect Drought and Bark Beetle Related Conifer Mortality across the Central Sierra Nevada, California, USA (122823)
Zachary Tane, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Carlos Ramirez, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region Remote Sensing Lab, McClellan, CA, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Alexander Koltunov, University of California, Davis, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), Davis, United States and Stuart Sweeney, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
Global sampling of the seasonal changes in vegetation biophysical properties and associated carbon flux dynamics: using the synergy of information captured by spectral time series (185707)
Petya K. E. Campbell1, Karl F Huemmrich2, Elizabeth Middleton3, Sarah Voorhis3,4, David Landis5 and EO1 Spectral Time Series, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States

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