LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting 2014- Focus on Urban LCLUC

Rockville, MD

Meeting Date:

04/23/2014 to 04/25/2014

Agenda Title:

NASA LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting 2014 -(Focus-Urban LCLUC)

Agenda File:

NASA LCLUC Spring Science Team Meeting 2014_March_23docx.pdf

Meeting Report:

2014_Rockville_MD.pdf

Meeting Focus:

The 2014 LCLUC Annual Spring Science Team meeting focused on Urban Land Use and Land Cover Change. Presentations at the meeting included project status updates, including methods being adopted for Urban LCLUC studies and analysis. The meeting also included discussions and updates on LCLUC international initiatives that include NASA-NEESPI, NASA-MAIRS, and GOFC-GOLD networks (SCERIN and CARIN).

Attendees List

Alexander Krylov

Alexandra Tyukavina

Andrea Melchiorre

Caitlin Kontgis

Catherine Nakalembe

Charles Kauffman

Charles Vorosmarty

Chengquan Huang

Christopher Justice

Christopher Neigh

Cristina Milesi

Eric Brown de Colstoun

Francesco Tubiello

Gargi Chaudhuri

Geoffrey Henebry

Jana Albrechtova

Jessica McCarty

Katie McGaughey

Krishna Vadrevu

Kristofer Lasko

Luigi Boschetti

Magdalena Benza

Saurabh Channan

Senay Habtezion

Stephanie Spera

Sumalika Biswas

Svetlana Turubanova

Volker Radeloff

Zachary Tessler

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Overview on the key findings of the IPCC WGIII report	Karen Seto	Yale University
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office in Europe: Priorities and Plans	Brice Mora	Wageningen University
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
A report on the NRC Report on Land Use Modeling	Daniel Brown	University of Michigan
LCLUC Science Team Meeting focus on Urban LCLUC	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
Update on South Asia Research Initiative (SARI)	Ramakrishna Nemani	University of Maryland, College Park
Report on the Joint Workshop of NASA LCLUC and the EARSeL SIG on Land Use and Land Cover	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
LCLUC Synthesis: Forested Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Russian Far East & Central Siberia Under the Combined Drivers Of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
FAO Emissions Database Integrating national statistics with geospatial information	Francesco Tubiello	United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
NASA-NEESPI Research Update	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
Coastal Funnels: Upstream and Coastal Land Cover/Land Use Change and Impacts on Highly Urbanized River Delta Systems	Charles Vorosmarty	The City College of New York, City University of New York
The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) Through Analysis of Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Satellite Image Data	Douglas Stow	San Diego State University
GOFC-GOLD Fire Office Activities - An Overview	Krishna Vadrevu	NASA Marshall
NASA's Land-Cover/Land Use Change Program: Wrap-up, Future Plans, Final Remarks	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
NASA's Land-Cover/Land Use Change Program: An Update	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
Using Global Land Survey Data to Measure and Monitor Worldwide Urbanization	Eric Brown de Colstoun	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Landsat-8 Update and collaboration with Sentinel-2 Program	Jeffrey Masek	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mapping Of Urban Expansion Using Multi-Decadal Landsat And Nightlights Data Over North America	Cristina Milesi	NASA Ames Research Center
Overview of Urbanisation in China Studies	Peilei Fan	Michigan State University
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD Central Asia (CARIN) network activities	Jiaguo Qi	Michigan State University
NASA-MAIRS Research Update	Jiaguo Qi	Michigan State University
Storms,Forms, and Complexity of the Urban Canopy: How Land Use , Settlement Patterns, and the Shapes of Cities Influence Severe Weather	Geoffrey Henebry	Michigan State University
Mapping Global Urban Area from DMSP/OLS Nightlights using a Cluster-based Method	Yuyu Zhou	Joint Global Change Research Institute
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD East European (SCERIN) network activities	Jana Albrechtova	Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
Investigating the land-use/cover changes along the East-West Economic Corridor in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand	Stephen Leisz	Center For Cultural And Technical Interchange Between East and West
4-D Modeling of the Regional Carbon Cycle in & Around Urban Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study to Advance Observational & Modeling Foundations	Mark Friedl	Boston University
GOFC-GOLD: Future Directions for International Cooperation and Coordination of Land Earth Observations	Anthony Janetos	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Urban cluster development and agricultural land loss in China and India: A multi-scale and multi-sensor analysis	Karen Seto	Yale University
GOFC-GOLD EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL LAND COVER MAPPING ACTIVITIES	Brice Mora	Wageningen University
Enhanced Detection of Inundation Below the Forest Canopy Using LiDAR Intensity	Megan Lang	US Fish and Wildlife Service
Understanding the Effect of Policy on Urban Growth: Cellular Automata Modeling Approach	Gargi Chaudhuri	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
A synthesis of remote-sensing studies, ground observations and modeling to understand the social-ecological consequences of climate change and resource development on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia, and relevance to the circumpolar Arctic?	Howard Epstein	University of Virginia
Estimating fractional land cover in the central Kalahari: The impact of vegetation morphology and sensor across three spatial scales	Niti Mishra	University of Texas-Austin
Land Management Impacts on Water Quality in New Zealand across Political Boundaries	Jason Julian	University of Oklahoma
LINKING PEOPLE AND PIXELS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: An Integrated Look at Harvesting of a Non-Timber Forest Product in Central Kamchatka	Kathleen Bergen	University of Michigan
LONG-TERM DATASETS AND SYNTHESIS OF TRENDS AND VARIATION IN LANDSCAPE LCLUC ACROSS THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND CENTRAL SIBERIA	Kathleen Bergen	University of Michigan
Lidar Remote Sensing of Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP) and Leaf Area Index (LAI)	Hao Tang	University of Maryland, College Park
UMd advancement of crop-type area estimates - soybeans	Mary King	University of Maryland, College Park
Wheat Mapping Within Major Producer Countries in the Context of Exploring Linkages Between Production Forecasts and Conflict	Brian Barker	University of Maryland, College Park
The Global Forest Cover Change Project: Global, Landsat-based records of forest cover and change from 1975-2005	Joseph Sexton	University of Maryland
Linking perceptions of well-being to land cover change: Lessons from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
Application of fuzzy logic-based approach to the remote sensing	Andrey Dara	National Center of Space Research and Technologies
HSegLearn – A Tool for Computer-Assisted Ground Reference Data Development	James Tilton	NASA GSFC
Combining Satellite Data and Models to Assess the Impacts of Urbanization on the Continental US Surface Climate	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC
Training Data Development for Mapping Global Impervious Surfaces Using Landsat Data	Jackie Phillips	NASA
Exposure of US National Parks to Land Use and Climate Change 1900-2100	Andrew Hansen	Montana State University
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
Mega Urban Changes and Impacts in the Decade of the 2000s	Son Nghiem	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Land Cover Change Detection in Urban Siberia: Arctic Application of Landsat Dense Time Stacks using Decision Trees	Kelsey Nyland	George Washington University
Cropping Frequency, Expansion, and Abandonment in Mato Grosso, Brazil Had Selective Land Characteristics	Stephanie Spera	Brown University
Quantifying Cropland Loss to Urban Growth in China using MODIS Time Series and Nighttime Lights Data	Xiaoman Huang	Boston University
Monitoring Land Cover Through Big Data: Finding Buried Treasure in Landsat Data	Zhe Zhu	Boston University
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