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
Investigating the land-use/cover changes along the East-West Economic Corridor in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand	Stephen Leisz	Colorado State University
GOFC-GOLD: Future Directions for International Cooperation and Coordination of Land Earth Observations	Anthony Janetos	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
4-D Modeling of the Regional Carbon Cycle in & Around Urban Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study to Advance Observational & Modeling Foundations	Mark Friedl	Boston University
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD East European (SCERIN) network activities	Jana Albrechtova	Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
Mapping Global Urban Area from DMSP/OLS Nightlights using a Cluster-based Method	Yuyu Zhou	Iowa State University
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD Central Asia (CARIN) network activities	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
Overview of Urbanisation in China Studies	Peilei Fan	Michigan State University
NASA-MAIRS Research Update	Jiaguo Qi	Michigan State University
Mapping Of Urban Expansion Using Multi-Decadal Landsat And Nightlights Data Over North America	Cristina Milesi	NASA Ames Research Center

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
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
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
Cropping Frequency, Expansion, and Abandonment in Mato Grosso, Brazil Had Selective Land Characteristics	Stephanie Spera	Brown University
Land Cover Change Detection in Urban Siberia: Arctic Application of Landsat Dense Time Stacks using Decision Trees	Kelsey Nyland	George Washington University
Mega Urban Changes and Impacts in the Decade of the 2000s	Son Nghiem	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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
Exposure of US National Parks to Land Use and Climate Change 1900-2100	Andrew Hansen	Montana State University
Training Data Development for Mapping Global Impervious Surfaces Using Landsat Data	Jackie Phillips	NASA
Combining Satellite Data and Models to Assess the Impacts of Urbanization on the Continental US Surface Climate	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC