GC41F:
Fingerprinting the Anthropocene: Observing and Understanding Social Change Across Earth's Landscapes Posters


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Session ID#: 50793

Session Description:
Human transformation of landscapes is both ancient and accelerating across most of Earth's land surface. Mass urbanization and rising per capita resource use are driving agricultural intensification, large-scale land acquisitions and global supply chain demands that are reshaping landscapes globally. The large-scale impacts of globalizing societies are profoundly altering Earth’s topography, climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, soil physical and chemical properties, and associated earth surface processes. Remote sensing is essential for monitoring these social dynamics in landscape form and functioning, towards understanding and addressing their causes and consequences for both societies and non-human nature. This session focuses on research aimed at advancing technologies for observing and understanding socially-driven changes in landscapes from local to global scale, from prehistory to present, including remote sensing, machine learning, big data analytics and other empirical and modelling approaches. Technological advances are critical if societies are to recognize, assess and address rapid social changes in Earth's surface.
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Conveners:  Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States, Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Damian Evans, École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Chairs:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy and Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Global Assessment of Anthropogenic Geomorphology (382976)
Wenfang Cao, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Padova, Italy, Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States, Wenwu Zhao, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China and Prof. Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Research on Dynamic Monitoring of Geological Environment in Open-Pit Mine (356331)
Jianping Chen, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Beijing, China
A quantitative assessment for the driving forces of changes in sediment fluxes to ocean from major rivers in China: comparison with the United States (381419)
Tong Li1, Shuai Wang1, Yanxu Liu1, Bojie Fu2 and Wenwu Zhao3, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Beijing, China, (3)Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China
The effects of climate change and grazing activities on grassland yield in the Tibetan Plateau, China (449156)
Jiangwen Fan and Zhang HaiYan, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
Reversed pattern of paddy rice planting area in northern and southern China during the 21st century (430127)
Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Xiangming Xiao, School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Geli Zhang, China Agricultural University, College of Land Science and Technology, Beijing, China, Yuanwei Qin, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Jie Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology,China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Cui Jin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Yuting Zhou, Oklahoma State University, Department of Geography, Stillwater, OK, United States
Annual Wide-Area Estimates of Consumptive Use of Water by Irrigation and Area Actually Irrigated (445409)
Jonathan Wayd Boright1, Samuel T. Aden2, Daniel P Baston2, Erwin J Villiger3, Thomas M Parris4, Christopher Hain5 and Patrick Wheatley6, (1)ISciences LLC, Burllington, VT, United States, (2)ISciences, L.L.C., Burlington, VT, United States, (3)ISciences, L.L.C., Darnestown, MD, United States, (4)ISciences, LLC, Burlington, VT, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Research, Environment and Culture Pod, Springfield, VA, United States
Inferring vegetation-infiltration relationships from multitemporal land surface reflectance across gradients of management intensity and forest regeneration in the humid highlands of Veracruz, Mexico (450611)
Nathaniel Thomas Looker, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, United States, Randy Kolka, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, United States, Mariana Quetzalli Vizcaíno Bravo, Instituto de Ecología, Ecología Funcional, Xalapa, Mexico and Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Dramatic expansion of marine aquaculture in China: the case of Ningde City (407688)
Wu Yang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Water Level Changes of Hulun Lake in Inner Mongolia Derived from Jason Satellite Data (356354)
Shi Li, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), School of Earth Sciences and Resources, Beijing, China
Metacoupling supply and demand for soil conservation service (368516)
Wenwu Zhao1, Yue Liu2, Stefani Daryanto2, Bojie Fu3, Shuai Wang2 and Yanxu Liu2, (1)Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (3)Beijing Normal University, Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Beijing, China
Effects of Reforestation on Plant Species Diversity on the Loess Plateau of China: A Case Study in Danangou Catchment (385293)
Jing Wang1, Wenwu Zhao2, Xiao Zhang1, Yue Liu1, Shuai Wang1 and Yanxu Liu1, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China
A population Census of large herbivore based on UAV remote sensing and its effect on the Forage-Livestock Balance—A case study in the Source Region of the Yellow River (424022)
Fan Yang and Quanqin Shao, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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