NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Science Team Meeting

Bethesda North Marriott, Bethesda, MD

Meeting Date:

03/31/2009 to 04/02/2009

Agenda Title:

Spring NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting

Agenda File:

_agenda_lcluc_apr2009.pdf

Meeting Report:

2009_March_LCLUC.pdf

Attendees List

Alyssa Whitcraft

Anatoly Gitelson

Anthony Janetos

Chandrashekhar Biradar

Chengquan Huang

Christopher Justice

Christopher Small

Curtis Woodcock

Enrique Montano

Geoffrey Henebry

Gyanesh Chander

Jacquelyn Shuman

Lahouari Bounoua

Luigi Boschetti

Michael Freilich

Nancy Cavallaro

Patrick Coronado

Pontus Olofsson

Richard Lammers

Stefania Korontzi

Viacheslav Kharuk

Volker Radeloff

Meeting Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Landsat science team: Issues and priorities	Curtis Woodcock	Boston University
LCLUC impacts in the urban environment	Christopher Small	Columbia University
EO-1 Mission	Elizabeth M Middleton	Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
CEOS WGCV land product validation update	Joanne Nightingale	Innovim LLC
LCLUC impacts on hydrology in central Asia	Geoffrey Henebry	Michigan State University
The earth system science endeavor	Michael Freilich	NASA
Critical land climate observations	Compton Tucker	NASA
The road to launching the Lansat Data Continuity Mission	James Irons	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global land surveys 1975-2010	Jeffrey Masek	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Large Scale Urbanization for Climate Studies	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Decadal changes of phenological patterns over arctic tundra biomes	Gensuo Jia	Chinese Acadamy of Sciences
Support vector machines and chain classification for large area forest disturbance mapping in the Carpathians	Tobias Kuemmerle	Humboldt University
Irrigation Requirement Estimation Using MODIS Vegetation Indices and Inverse Biophysical Modeling	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC
Distribution and dynamics of mangrove forests of the world (1990-2005)	Chandra Giri	U.S. EPA
Anthropogenic biomes: A new model for an old biosphere	Erle Ellis	UMBC
Vegetation greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Disturbance–climate-change interactions	Donald Walker	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Modeling the distribution of circumpolar arctic vegetation	Martha Raynolds	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Greening of Arctic tundra is linked to warming summer land temperatures and sea-ice declines	Uma Bhatt	University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Climate and Snow/Glacier Water Resources Changes in central Asia in the last 50 years based on remote sensed and in-situ data	Vladimir Aizen	University of Idaho
Inpacts of conflict on land cover, land use, fire dynamics and biodiversity potential in the Imatong Mountains of Sothern Sudan	Virginia Gorsevski	University of Maryland, College Park