The 2013 LCLUC Annual Spring Science Team meeting had a focus on Wetlands. Presentations at the meeting included project status updates, including methods being adopted for wetland studies and analysis. LCLUC scientists reaching their third year of funding cycle provided a summary of their project findings. PI’s from newly funded projects presented posters of their planned research including Early Career Scientist (ECS) and Inter-disciplinary (IDS) projects. An exciting update on the LDCM Mission that launched in February 2013 and a show casing of the use of high resolution data for LCLUC studies. The meeting completed with a discussion of programmatic issues and the emerging science directions and a discussion on forming a South Asia Initiative.

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
An Evaluation of the Impact of Conservation Strategies on LCLUC at a Transboundary Site in Mesoamerica	Kelly W. Jones	Colorado State University
4-D Modeling of the Regional Carbon Cycle in & Around Urban Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study to Advance Observational & Modeling Foundations	Mark Friedl	Boston University
A Satellite Supported Inverse Biophysical Modeling Approach for the Detection of Irrigated Agricultural Land and the Determination of the Amount of Irrigation in Arid and Semi Arid Regions.	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC
Assessment of Mangrove Vulnerability in the Americas	Marc Simard	Caltech/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth Observation Capacity Building Activities Scerin, TAT and GeoNetCab	Premysl Štych	Charles University
Examining the Links between Agriculture and Human Health in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Three West African Countries - Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger	Kathryn Grace	University of Utah
Increased Accessibility, Landscape Changes, Rural Transportation, and Urbanization: Impacts of the East-West Economic Corridor from Da Nang, Vietnam to Khon Kaen, Thailand	Stephen Leisz	Center For Cultural And Technical Interchange Between East and West
Land and resource use on the Amazon floodplain under evolving management systems and environmental change: Fish, forests, cattle, and settlements	Laura Hess
Landsat & Sentinel-2 Synergy	Jeffrey Masek	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
LCLUC and High-resolution data update.	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
LCLUC South Asia Regional Workshop, 2013 Meeting Summary	Krishna Vadrevu	NASA Marshall
LCLUC Synthesis: Forested Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Far East of Northern Eurasia Under the Combined Drivers Of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation	Kathleen Bergen	University of Michigan
Linking Historical and Future Land-Use Change to the Economic Drivers and Biophysical Limitations of Agricultural Expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado	Michael Coe	The Woods Hole Research Center
Multi-sensor Fusion to Determine Agricultural Sensitivity to Climate Variability in South Asia	Ruth DeFries	Columbia University
NASA's Land-Cover/Land Use Change Program: An Update	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
NASA's Land-Cover/Land Use Change Program: Wrap-Up	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
Needs and Research Requirements for Land-Change Modeling	Daniel Brown	University of Michigan
Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) Status: An update of the recent activities and near-term plans	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
Objectives for the Meeting	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
Quantifying Changes in Agricultural Intensification, Expansion and Loss in Monsoon Asia in 2000-2010	Xiangming Xiao	University of Oklahoma
Rates and Drivers of Land Use Land Cover Change in the Agricultural Frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil	John Mustard	Brown University
Remote Sensing of Inland Valley Wetlands of Africa their Pivotal Role in Africa’s Green and Blue Revolution	Prasad Thenkabail	USGS (attn.: Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail)
Status of Landsat Data Continuity Mission	James Irons	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model	Herman Shugart	University of Virginia
Synthesis of studies on institutional change and LCLUC effects on carbon, biodiversity, and agriculture after the collapse of the Soviet Union	Volker Radeloff	University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Impact of Disappearing Tropical Andean Glaciers on Pastoral Agriculture: A Few Surprises	Daniel Slayback	SSAI
Threatened River Delta Systems: Connections between continental land mass and ocean	Kyle McDonald	The City College of New York
Vulnerability and Adaptive Management of Tropical Coastal Wetlands in the context of Land Use and climate Changes	Mei Yu	Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies
Water Institutions and Agricultural Land–Use Change in the Western U.S.	Kelly Cobourn	Virginia Tech

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Error Estimation and Validation of Global Tree Cover Continuous Fields using Lidar Remote Sensing	Anupam Anand	University of Maryland, College Park
Food, Price and Conflict: Earth observations-based agricultural production forecasting to assess potential impacts on grain markets and civil unrest	Inbal Becker-Reshef	University of Maryland
Combining Satellite Data and Models to Assess the Impacts of Urbanization on the Continental US Surface Climate	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC
Land use change after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its effect on protected areas and large mamal populations.	Eugenia Bragina	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Progress towards global impervious cover data sets using GLS 2010 Data	Eric Brown de Colstoun
Vegetation response to extreme climate events and grazing on the Mongolian plateau from 2000-2010	Jiquan Chen	University of Toledo
Water Institutions and Agricultural Land-Use Change in the Western U.S.	Kelly Cobourn	Virginia Tech
Coquí Llanero SLAMM: Vulnerability of the coquí llanero, Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi, habitat to Sea Level Rise	Daniel Davila	University of Puerto Rico
A simple and robust automated approach to map rubber plantations from PALSAR, Landsat and MODIS	Jinwei Dong	University of Oklahoma
Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica	Matthew Fagan	University of Maryland Baltimore County
Enhancing Tools and Geospatial Data to Support Operational Forest Management and Regional Forest Planning in the Face of Climate Change	Michael Falkowski	michigan Technological University
Environmental and socioeconomic outcomes of the new African Green Revolution	Gillian Galford	Woods Hole Research Center
Examining the links between agriculture and human health in the context of climate change	Kathryn Grace	University of Utah
Storms, Forms, and Complexity of the Urban Canopy: How Land Use, Settlement Patterns, and the Shapes of Cities Influence Severe Weather	Geoffrey Henebry	South Dakota State University
Distance metric-based forest cover change detection using MODIS time series	Xiaoman Huang	Boston University
Mapping Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms in South Asia	Meha Jain	University of Michigan
An evaluation of the impact of conservation strategies on land cover/land use change at a transboundary site in Mesoamerica	Kelly W. Jones	Colorado State University
Land Management Impacts on Water Quality in New Zealand across Political Boundaries	Jason Julian	University of Oklahoma
Improved yield estimation through assimilation of remotely sensed data into crop growth models	Yanghui Kang	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Using remotely sensed data to bridge empirical and physical approaches for landslide monitoring and early warning	Dalia Kirschbaum	NASA
Increased Accessibility, Landscape Changes, Rural Transformations, and UrbanizationImpacts of the East-West Economic Corridor from Da Nang, Vietnam to Khon Kaen, Thailand	Stephen Leisz	Center For Cultural And Technical Interchange Between East and West
Social drivers of land cover change around African transboundary Peace Parks	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
Linking land-use change to economic drivers and the biophysical limits of agricultural expansion in the Cerrado	Marcia Macedo	Woods Hole Research Center
Using Time Series Remote Sensing Datasets for Mapping Indonesia Forests	Belinda Margono	University of Maryland, College Park
The role of environmental, socioeconomic, institutional, and land-cover/ land-use change factors to explain the pattern and drivers of anthropogenic fires in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: a case study comparison of Belarus, European Russia, and Lithuania	Jessica McCarty	Miami University
Linking Atmospheric Carbon, Surface Water, and Water Storage using Multiple Satellite Remote Sensing Datasets	Kyle McDonald	The City College of New York
Validation of Landsat Fractional Vegetation Cover Estimates from a Standardized Spectral Mixture Model	Cristina Milesi	NASA Ames Research Center
Agricultural susceptibility to climate variability: Insight from two Indian agro-ecoregions	Pinki Mondal	Columbia University
250 years of land use history in the Carpathian Region	Catalina Munteanu	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Understanding Impacts of Desert Urbanization on Climate and Surrounding Environments to Foster Sustainable Cities Using Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling	Soe Myint	Arizona State University
High-Resolution Satellite Data Open for LCLUC Scientists	Christopher Neigh	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mega Urban Changes and Impacts in the Decade of the 2000s	Son Nghiem	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Monitoring deforestation to evaluate Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services and assess land use change effects on jaguar habitat	Carlos Ramirez Reyes	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Synthesis and Integration of Recent Research Characterizing the Carbon Cycle of Northern Eurasia	Michael Rawlins	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Visualization and Analysis of Multi-scale Land Surface Products via Giovanni Portals	Suhung Shen	NASA
Beyond precipitation: Physiographic thresholds dictate the relative importance of environmental drivers on savanna vegetation	Jane Southworth	University of Florida
The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change Through Analysis of Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Satellite Image Data	Douglas Stow	San Diego State University
3D reconstruction of abandoned landscape	Premysl Štych	Charles University
Deriving Leaf Area Index (LAI) from Multiple LiDAR Remote Sensing Systems	Hao Tang	University of Maryland, College Park
Changes in Vegetative Wetland and Coastal Forest Cover in the Northeast Ecological Cooridor after Agriculture Decline in Puerto Rico	Luis Villanueva	University of Puerto Rico
Guiding an Image Acquisition Strategy: MODIS-derived growing season timing and cloud cover probability as inputs to a global agriculture monitoring (GEO-GLAM) system of systems	Alyssa Whitcraft	University of Maryland, College Park
Mapping and Monitoring of Wetland Dynamics for Improved Resilience and Delivery of Ecosystem Services in the Mid-Atlantic Region	In-Young Yeo	University of Maryland, College Park
Understanding and Simulating Spatially Explicit Global Urban Expansion in the Context of Climate Change	Yuyu Zhou	Joint Global Change Research Institute