2020 NASA LCLUC Annual Science Team Meeting

Virtual

Meeting Date:

10/19/2020 to 10/21/2020

Venue:

Virtual

Agenda File:

LCLUC STM 2020 Agenda_Oct15.pdf

Meeting Report:

LCLUC_STM2020.pdf

Meeting Photos Link:

Meeting Photos

Meeting Focus:

The LCLUC 2020 Science Team Meeting consists of three parts:

• Day 1(MusLI): Introduction from HQ and LCLUC Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) Projects updates.

• Day 2 (SARI): Presentations from national Space Agencies in Asia, two overviews of NASA South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SARI) achievements and a panel discussion.

• Day 3 Early Career Scientists: Project introductions from the recent selections of the Early Career Scientists (ECS) 2019 LCLUC round followed by a discussion on LCLUC program future directions.

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Moving Multi-Source Land Imaging of Seasonal Dynamics in Land Surface to Production	Mark Friedl	Boston University
MuSLI Program and Updates	Jeffrey Masek	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Overview: SE Asia LCLUC overview, trends and ongoing issues	Jefferson Fox	East-West Center
Overview: South Asia LCLUC overview, trends and ongoing issues	Ruth DeFries	Columbia University
Philippines Space Agency LCLUC Activities	Gay Perez	University of the Philippines
Policy, market, and climate change impacts on maize production in Mexico	Meha Jain	University of Michigan
SARI LCLUC Research Updates	Krishna Vadrevu	NASA Marshall
Soybean Expansion in South America: Quantifying Historical Land-Use Change, Modeling Socioeconomic Drivers and Projecting Future Trajectories	Xiao-Peng Song	University of Maryland, College Park
Thailand - Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) LCLUC Activities	Tatiya Chuentragun	Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency
Understanding the socioeconomic drivers of agricultural land abandonment and associated fire risk in Greece	Aaron Sparks	University of Idaho