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
4-D Modeling of the Regional Carbon Cycle in & Around Urban Environments: An Interdisciplinary Study to Advance Observational & Modeling Foundations	Mark Friedl	Boston University
A report on the NRC Report on Land Use Modeling	Daniel Brown	University of Washington
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
FAO Emissions Database Integrating national statistics with geospatial information	Francesco Tubiello	United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization
GOFC-GOLD Fire Office Activities - An Overview	Krishna Vadrevu	NASA Marshall
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office in Europe: Priorities and Plans	Brice Mora	Wageningen University
GOFC-GOLD: Future Directions for International Cooperation and Coordination of Land Earth Observations	Anthony Janetos	BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
Investigating the land-use/cover changes along the East-West Economic Corridor in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand	Stephen Leisz	Colorado State University
Landsat-8 Update and collaboration with Sentinel-2 Program	Jeffrey Masek	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
LCLUC Science Team Meeting focus on Urban LCLUC	Christopher Justice	University of Maryland, College Park

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
Wheat Mapping Within Major Producer Countries in the Context of Exploring Linkages Between Production Forecasts and Conflict	Brian Barker	University of Maryland, College Park
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
Combining Satellite Data and Models to Assess the Impacts of Urbanization on the Continental US Surface Climate	Lahouari Bounoua	NASA GSFC
Understanding the Effect of Policy on Urban Growth: Cellular Automata Modeling Approach	Gargi Chaudhuri	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Application of fuzzy logic-based approach to the remote sensing	Andrey Dara	National Center of Space Research and Technologies
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
Exposure of US National Parks to Land Use and Climate Change 1900-2100	Andrew Hansen	Montana State University
Quantifying Cropland Loss to Urban Growth in China using MODIS Time Series and Nighttime Lights Data	Xiaoman Huang	Boston University
Land Management Impacts on Water Quality in New Zealand across Political Boundaries	Jason Julian	University of Oklahoma