B32B:
Novel Methods of Connecting Ecosystem Structure to Function with Remote Sensing I
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Session ID#: 59831
Session Description:
Remote sensing provides a critical link in understanding how ecological and biogeochemical processes scale to entire ecosystems. Advances in technology, techniques, and theory have led to novel applications across the biogeosciences. Passive (e.g. optical, multi- and hyperspectral, and thermal) and active (e.g. LiDAR and radar) sensors enable complementary measurements across a broad range of spatial scales. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS/UAV) allow for rapid and repeated measurements of smaller, targeted areas of interest, facilitating upscaling by bridging ground and spaceborne observation. Terrestrial LiDAR improves our ability to characterize vegetation structure and complexity, while imaging spectroscopy (e.g. hyperspectral) helps map plant species composition and measure plant function. Linking structure to function via remote sensing is an exciting research frontier. In this session, we invite submissions from all who are using innovative applications of remote sensing to understand structure-function connections, or who are working in novel environments.
Primary Convener: Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States
Conveners: Atticus Stovall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Washington, United States and Elizabeth LaRue, University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, United States
Primary Liaison: Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States
Chairs: Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States and Atticus Stovall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Washington, United States
OSPA Liaison: Elizabeth LaRue, University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Brady S Hardiman1, Elizabeth LaRue2, Jeff Atkins3, Christopher Michael Gough4, Robert Timothy Fahey5, Kyla Dahlin6, Franklin Wagner7 and Songlin Fei7, (1)Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, (2)University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, United States, (3)Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States, (4)Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, (5)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (6)Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (7)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, United States
Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD1, Andrew M McMahon2, Ran Meng3, Daryl Yang4, Wil Lieberman-Cribbin5, Kim S Ely6, Wouter Hantson7, Daniel J Hayes8, Alistair Rogers6 and Stan Wullschleger9, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Biological, Environmental & Climate Sciences, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Environmental and Climate Sciences, New York, United States, (5)Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Population Health Science and Policy and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, New York, NY, United States, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States, (7)University of Maine, School of Forest Resources, Orono, ME, United States, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (9)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, United States
Kyla Dahlin1, Aaron Kamoske1, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD2 and Scott C Stark3, (1)Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Forestry, East Lansing, United States
Youngkeun Song, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Douglas Newcomb, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Raleigh, DC, United States and Vaclav Petras, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, United States
Iryna Dronova, University of California Berkeley, Depts. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States, Sara H Knox, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sophie Taddeo, University of California Berkeley, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kyle Hemes, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States, Amy C Valach, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, LA1, United Kingdom; University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Patty Y Oikawa, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States and Dennis D Baldocchi, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
