B31K:
Forest Response to Extreme Events Using Remote Sensing II Posters


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Session ID#: 46552

Session Description:
Extreme events such as drought, flooding, hurricanes, and fires have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and will likely become even more influential under ongoing climate change. Short-term responses of forests to extreme events may include changes in carbon, water, and energy fluxes; medium- to long-term responses may include mortality, regeneration, and forest structure and composition changes. Extreme events often affect large areas, however the impacts of such events on ecosystems show large spatial variability that cannot be captured by in situ studies alone. Remote sensing provides an efficient way of assessing and monitoring the heterogeneous response of forest ecosystems to extreme events. This session welcomes studies investigating extreme forest disturbances at a variety of spatial scales using remote sensing, especially but not limited to lidar, radar, hyperspectral and satellite multispectral. This session accepts studies from all forest biomes, and studies that integrate remote sensing with field measurements and models.
Primary Convener:  Alexander S Antonarakis, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Marcos Longo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexander S Antonarakis, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Alexander S Antonarakis, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom, Marcos Longo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alexander S Antonarakis, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tropical forest structure modulates flammability and response to extreme droughts in the Amazon (427911)
Marcos Longo1, Sassan Saatchi2, Michael Keller3, Antonio Ferraz4, Kevin W Bowman2, A. Anthony Bloom4, Maiza Nara dos-Santos5, Victoria Meyer6 and Douglas C Morton7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil, (6)School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Impacts of drought-mediated fires and fragmentation on biophysical conditions and species composition in Amazon forests (465159)
Izaya Numata, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States and Sonaira Silva, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
Monitoring insect outbreaks following a drought event in southwest USA (406512)
Johanna Schweiger, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Ana Bastos, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany and Julia Pongratz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Using Landsat Time Series to Evaluate Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestation over Southern Appalachian Mountains (411278)
Mahsa Khodaee, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Taehee Hwang, Indiana University Bloomington, Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States, JiHyun Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, Sara Thompson, Colorado State university, Fort Collins, United States and Steven P Norman, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC, United States
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Post-Fire Vegetation Regrowth in Los Padres National Forest (412895)
Christopher Linscott Kibler1, Anne-Marie L. Parkinson2, Seth Peterson3, Dar A Roberts4 and Carla M. D'Antonio2, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Program, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Using edge to interior ratios to characterize disturbance: moving beyond the spatially explicit (433358)
Tempest Diana McCabe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Resprouting Responses of Schima superba Following a Severe Ice Storm in Early 2008 in Southern China: a Six-Year Study (430565)
Yonghui Cao1 and Benzhi Zhou1,2, (1)Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, (2)Research institute of subtropical forestry, Chinese academy of forestry, Hangzhou, China
Spatial Distribution, Intensity and Timing of Vegetation Browning Following Recent Hurricanes on the Coast of Georgia, United States (461337)
Sergio Bernardes1, Marguerite Madden1 and Thomas Jordan2, (1)Center for Geospatial Research - University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

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