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International LCLUC Regional Science Meeting in South Asia

The purpose of this international meeting is to provide an international forum to bring scientists together to discuss land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC) and its impacts, with a regional focus on South Asia. This science meeting is organized as a joint effort of the NASA’s LCLUC Program, the Global Observation for Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) Program, the International System for Analysis Research and Training (START) Program, the Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies Program (MAIRS), the University of Maryland, the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM, Calicut, Kerala), Karunya University (Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu). The meeting serves as regional Science Team meeting for the NASA LCLUC Program. It is organized around 5 themes: (1) agriculture and water resources, 2) biomass burning, including land-atmosphere interactions, including biomass burning, 3) urbanization, and 4) land use in coastal zones and estuaries, and 5) land use in mountains. Overview presentations will present recent research accomplishments and the state of the art on these topics in South Asia, and formulate future research directions and applications development needs for the region. The meeting will explore opportunities for coordination and collaboration among research scientists and teams and ongoing projects aimed to advance our understanding of the spatial extent, intensity, social consequences, and feedback to regional climate, of the large-scale land-cover changes underway in South Asia.

Meeting Presentations

Title Presenter Institution
Application of Geospatial Technology for Drought Risk Mapping in Northern Malabar District, Kerala, India Girish Gopinath Centre for Water Resources Development and Management
Characterizing the Physical Environment of Kolkata by Spectral Unmixing of Landsat TM Niti Mishra University of Texas-Austin
Cropland Mapping in South Asia Advances in Earth Observation Data, Methods, and Approaches Prasad Thenkabail USGS (attn.: Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail)
EO Sensors : ISRO Past, Current & Future Vinay Kmar Dadhwal Department of Space, National Remote Sensing Centre
GEO Agricultural and Land Use Change Christopher Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Geospatial data and web based dissemination system for India datasets P.S. Acharya National Resources Data Management System (NRDMS)
Global Agricultural Crop Intensity and Calendar Mapping with Sub-Pixel Land Cover Characterization Wataru Takeuchi The University of Tokyo
Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics: Overview of GOFC-GOLD Regional Networks Olga Krankina Oregon State University
Habitat Utilisation of Lion-Tailed Macaques Using Remote Sensing and GIS James Erinjery Joseph University of Mysore
Impacts of LCLUC on Water Management in India R.D. Singh National Institute of Hydrology