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
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
Mapping Global Urban Area from DMSP/OLS Nightlights using a Cluster-based Method	Yuyu Zhou	Iowa State University
Mapping Of Urban Expansion Using Multi-Decadal Landsat And Nightlights Data Over North America	Cristina Milesi	NASA Ames Research Center
NASA's Land-Cover/Land Use Change Program: An Update	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
NASA's Land-Cover/Land Use Change Program: Wrap-up, Future Plans, Final Remarks	Garik Gutman	NASA Headquarters
NASA-MAIRS Research Update	Jiaguo Qi	Michigan State University
NASA-NEESPI Research Update	Pavel Groisman	UCAR Project Scientist at NCDC
Overview of Urbanisation in China Studies	Peilei Fan	Tufts University
Overview on the key findings of the IPCC WGIII report	Karen Seto	Yale University
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

Poster Presentations

Title	Presenter	Institution
UMd advancement of crop-type area estimates - soybeans	Mary King	University of Maryland, College Park
Enhanced Detection of Inundation Below the Forest Canopy Using LiDAR Intensity	Megan Lang	US Fish and Wildlife Service
Linking perceptions of well-being to land cover change: Lessons from the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique	Tatiana Loboda	University of Maryland
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
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
GOFC-GOLD EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF GLOBAL LAND COVER MAPPING ACTIVITIES	Brice Mora	Wageningen University
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
Mega Urban Changes and Impacts in the Decade of the 2000s	Son Nghiem	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Land Cover Change Detection in Urban Siberia: Arctic Application of Landsat Dense Time Stacks using Decision Trees	Kelsey Nyland	George Washington University
Training Data Development for Mapping Global Impervious Surfaces Using Landsat Data	Jackie Phillips	NASA