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
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
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD Central Asia (CARIN) network activities	Jiaguo Qi	Michigan State University
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD East European (SCERIN) network activities	Jana Albrechtova	Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
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 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
Update on South Asia Research Initiative (SARI)	Ramakrishna Nemani	University of Maryland, College Park
Using Global Land Survey Data to Measure and Monitor Worldwide Urbanization	Eric Brown de Colstoun	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Training Data Development for Mapping Global Impervious Surfaces Using Landsat Data	Jackie Phillips	NASA
UMd advancement of crop-type area estimates - soybeans	Mary King	University of Maryland, College Park
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
Understanding the Effect of Policy on Urban Growth: Cellular Automata Modeling Approach	Gargi Chaudhuri	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Urban cluster development and agricultural land loss in China and India: A multi-scale and multi-sensor analysis	Karen Seto	Yale University
Wheat Mapping Within Major Producer Countries in the Context of Exploring Linkages Between Production Forecasts and Conflict	Brian Barker	University of Maryland, College Park