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
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
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD Central Asia (CARIN) network activities	Jiaguo Qi	Michigan State University
Summary of the GOFC-GOLD East European (SCERIN) network activities	Jana Albrechtova	Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
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
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
Update on South Asia Research Initiative (SARI)	Ramakrishna Nemani	University of Maryland, College Park
Using Global Land Survey Data to Measure and Monitor Worldwide Urbanization	Eric Brown de Colstoun	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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
The Global Forest Cover Change Project: Global, Landsat-based records of forest cover and change from 1975-2005	Joseph Sexton	University of Maryland
Cropping Frequency, Expansion, and Abandonment in Mato Grosso, Brazil Had Selective Land Characteristics	Stephanie Spera	Brown University
Lidar Remote Sensing of Vertical Foliage Profile (VFP) and Leaf Area Index (LAI)	Hao Tang	University of Maryland, College Park
HSegLearn – A Tool for Computer-Assisted Ground Reference Data Development	James Tilton	NASA GSFC
Monitoring Land Cover Through Big Data: Finding Buried Treasure in Landsat Data	Zhe Zhu	Boston University