B31B:
Monitoring Forest Structure, Productivity, and Change at the Intersection of Forest Modeling, Remote Sensing, and Field Measurements I


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Session ID#: 59797

Session Description:
Characterization and monitoring of forest productivity, structure, and composition are crucial for understanding current and future forest conditions and carbon stocks. Recent strides in the capabilities of remote sensing products and upgrades in computing power offer a new synergy with high-resolution forest models. When used in conjunction with fine-scale remote sensing measurements of forest characteristics, forest models provide a deeper understanding of the state of the forest through time. This remote sensing-modeling interface allows for more accurate estimates of forest biophysical parameters, updated forest allometric equations, improved remote sensing calibration algorithms, as well as increased confidence in modeling predictions. We seek studies that integrate high-resolution forest models with remote sensing observations to improve estimates of current ecosystem dynamics and state, including studies that predict forest response to environmental change.
Primary Convener:  Adrianna Foster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adrianna Foster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Adrianna Foster, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, United States and Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States
Index Terms:

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate change and tree harvest interact to affect future tree species distribution changes (447601)
Wenjuan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Beijing, China, Frank Thompson, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Columbia, MO, United States, Hong S. He, University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, MO, United States, Jacob S Fraser, University of Missouri Columbia, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, MO, United States and William D. Dijak, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Columbia, MO, United States
Spatially Explicit Forest Modeling and Connection with Remote Sensing (356360)
Jon Ranson1, Amanda Hildt Armstrong2, Guoqing Sun1 and Batuhan Osmanoglu3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Some Comments on the a priori Application of Ecological Models to Remote Sensing (Invited) (386394)
Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Demographic modeling and Landsat sensitivity to forest recovery following tropical clear-cuts and boreal heat-driven forest mortality events (468896)
Jennifer A. Holm1, Robinson I Negron Juarez2, Ryan G Knox3, Charles Koven4, Rosie Fisher5, William J Riley6, Boris Faybishenko1 and Jeffrey Q Chambers7, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States
Fire, climate change and carbon balance of the miombo woodlands of Niassa National Reserve, northern Mozambique. (433346)
Natasha Sofia Ribeiro, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique, Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, Rico Fischer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany and Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Forecasting forest responses in real-time: How close are we and how do we get there? (Invited) (345806)
Michael Dietze1, Ankur R Desai2, Hamze Dokoohaki3, Luke Dramko4, Istem Fer5, Ann Raiho6, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD7, Alexey N Shiklomanov1, Toni Viskari8, Kathryn Isabel Wheeler5 and Katherine Zarada1, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (5)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (6)Funga PBC, Austin, United States, (7)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (8)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
NASA Goddard’s G-LiHT Airborne Remote Sensing System for Forestry Applications (463651)
Lawrence A Corp, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bruce Cook, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Hans-Erik Andersen, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States and Hank A Margolis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
The relationship between simulated and remotely sensed forest parameters (369629)
Emanuelle A Feliciano1, Batuhan Osmanoglu2, Amanda Hildt Armstrong3, Guoqing Sun1, Paul M Montesano4 and Kenneth Ranson1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (4)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States

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