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
Overview on the key findings of the IPCC WGIII report	Karen Seto	Yale University
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office in Europe: Priorities and Plans	Brice Mora	Wageningen University
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
A report on the NRC Report on Land Use Modeling	Daniel Brown	University of Washington
LCLUC Science Team Meeting focus on Urban LCLUC	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
Update on South Asia Research Initiative (SARI)	Ramakrishna Nemani	University of Maryland, College Park
Report on the Joint Workshop of NASA LCLUC and the EARSeL SIG on Land Use and Land Cover	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park
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
FAO Emissions Database Integrating national statistics with geospatial information	Francesco Tubiello	United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
NASA-NEESPI Research Update	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Urban cluster development and agricultural land loss in China and India: A multi-scale and multi-sensor analysis	Karen Seto	Yale University
GOFC-GOLD EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL LAND COVER MAPPING ACTIVITIES	Brice Mora	Wageningen University
Enhanced Detection of Inundation Below the Forest Canopy Using LiDAR Intensity	Megan Lang	US Fish and Wildlife Service
Understanding the Effect of Policy on Urban Growth: Cellular Automata Modeling Approach	Gargi Chaudhuri	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
A synthesis of remote-sensing studies, ground observations and modeling to understand the social-ecological consequences of climate change and resource development on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia, and relevance to the circumpolar Arctic?	Howard Epstein	University of Virginia
Estimating fractional land cover in the central Kalahari: The impact of vegetation morphology and sensor across three spatial scales	Niti Mishra	University of Texas-Austin
Land Management Impacts on Water Quality in New Zealand across Political Boundaries	Jason Julian	University of Oklahoma
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
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
UMd advancement of crop-type area estimates - soybeans	Mary King	University of Maryland, College Park