B13I:
Remote Sensing in the Biogeosciences: Earth Observation Requirements, Capabilities, and Plant-Climate Interaction Applications II

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Session ID#: 35555

Session Description:
We make observations of the Earth’s surface in many ways. The USGS is partnering with NOAA and OSTP and other Federal agencies to document current usage and benefits, and future user needs for Earth observation data, promoting a requirements-driven, prioritized investment decision process for Earth observation systems and products. In biogeosciences, the response of terrestrial vegetation to climate change is an active area of research, including changes in species distributions, phenology, physiology, and carbon, water, and energy cycling. Remote sensing provides important descriptions of vegetation state and dynamics, it is also a key dataset in environmental and ecological analyses of plant-climate interactions. This session will provide an overview of the current landscape of U.S. EO usage, user needs for future EO systems, and the future of commercial remote sensing. This session will highlight applications that seek to utilize terrestrial remote sensing observations as primary datasets in analyses of plant-climate interactions.
Primary Convener:  Zhuoting Wu, USGS National Land Imaging Program, Flagstaff, United States
Convener:  Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States
Chairs:  Gregory Lee Stensaas, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Zhuoting Wu, USGS National Land Imaging Program, Flagstaff, United States and Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Requirements, Science, and Measurements for Landsat 10 and Beyond: Perspectives from the Landsat Science Team (Invited) (274469)
Christopher J Crawford, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, United States, Jeffrey G Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David P Roy, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, Curtis E Woodcock, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States and Mike A Wulder, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Sustainable Land Imaging User Requirements (216164)
Zhuoting Wu, USGS National Land Imaging Program, Flagstaff, United States, Greg Snyder, USGS Headquarters, Reston, United States and Carolyn M Vadnais, Integrity Applications Incorporated, Chantilly, VA, United States
Elicitation of State and Local User Needs for Future Moderate Resolution Earth Observations: The AmericaView Contribution (279903)
Rick L Lawrence, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and Nancy H F French, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
Decision-making contexts involving Earth observations in federal and state government agencies (262485)
Yusuke Kuwayama and Alexandra Thompson, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, United States
Empirically Derived and Simulated Sensitivity of Vegetation to Climate Across Global Gradients of Temperature and Precipitation (Invited) (258379)
Gregory Ross Quetin, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States
Landsat Time-series for the Masses: Predicting Wood Biomass Growth from Tree-rings Using Departures from Mean Phenology in Google Earth Engine (Invited) (254507)
Jane R Foster, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States; University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT, United States, Anthony W D'Amato, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, Malcolm Itter, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES, Michael Reinikainen, Department of Natural Resources Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States and Miranda Curzon, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Tundra plant biomass distribution and environmental constraints on the North Slope of Alaska (240953)
Logan T. Berner1, Patrick Jantz2 and Scott J. Goetz1, (1)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, United States
Direct Scaling of Leaf-Resolving Biophysical Models from Leaves to Canopies (284075)
Brian Bailey, University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, Davis, United States, Walter Mahaffee, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States and Miguel Hernandez Ochoa, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States

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