Monitoring land cover and land use in boreal and temperate natural biomes
The Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team meeting will be held jointly with the GOFC-GOLD Northern Eurasia Regional Information Network (NERIN) and the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) in Tartu, Estonia.
The focus of this meeting is on monitoring processes related to land-cover and land-use change in boreal and temperate regions of central, eastern and northern Europe. Forests and other biomes in boreal and temperate zones comprise about a half of the world vegetation cover. To study processes in the boreal and temperate ecosystems as related to climate, the workshop is organized around 4 themes:
- Changes in ecosystems, their composition and structure
- Carbon Cycle
- Water Cycle
- Human dimensions of land-cover and land-use change
Meeting Presentations
| Title | Presenter | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| A Database for the Validation of Forest Reflectance Models | Andres Kuusk | University of Tartu |
| A Global Map of Current Hotspots of Land-cover and Land-use Change | Chengquan Huang | University of Maryland |
| Accuracy of Built-up Area Mapping in Europe at Varying Scales and Thresholds | Robert Pazur | Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Airborne Estimation of Boreal Forest LAI in Winter Conditions: Comparison with Summer and Winter Ground Truthing | Terhikki Manninen | Finnish Meteorological Institute |
| BACC II- Second BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin: 2009 - 2014 | Marcus Reckermann | BALTEX |
| BALTEX- The Baltic Sea Experiment | Marcus Reckermann | BALTEX |
| Bulgarian contribution to the EnviroGRIDS project “Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development" | Georgi Kortchev | National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| Classification Training Material | Gregory Taff | University of Memphis |
| Computer Tutorial on MISR Satellite Image Data Products | Brian Rheingans | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Detecting agricultural land abandonment and understanding its drivers in post-Soviet Eastern Europe | Alexander Prishchepov | Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe |
Quantitative research methods in Human Dimensions of Environmental Change within Eastern Europe