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
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
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
GOFC-GOLD Fire Office Activities - An Overview	Krishna Vadrevu	NASA Marshall
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
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
NASA-NEESPI Research Update	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
FAO Emissions Database Integrating national statistics with geospatial information	Francesco Tubiello	United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
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

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
HSegLearn – A Tool for Computer-Assisted Ground Reference Data Development	James Tilton	NASA GSFC
Application of fuzzy logic-based approach to the remote sensing	Andrey Dara	National Center of Space Research and Technologies
Linking perceptions of well-being to land cover change: Lessons from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
The Global Forest Cover Change Project: Global, Landsat-based records of forest cover and change from 1975-2005	Joseph Sexton	University of Maryland
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
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
Land Management Impacts on Water Quality in New Zealand across Political Boundaries	Jason Julian	University of Oklahoma