Oral Presentation by Session
| NASA-MSU Golley-Odum Symposium: Integrating remote sensing of forest disturbances with models at broad scales | |
| Moderator(s): | Robert Scheller |
| Day: | Tuesday |
| Abstract: Satellite imagery provided by NASA is now regularly used to detect forest disturbances, including land use change, insect defoliation, fire, wind storms, and harvesting. The difficulty lies in extrapolating these results beyond the relatively brief temporal scale of available satellite measurements. In our symposium, we will introduce research efforts aimed at detecting forest disturbance events via remote sensing and projecting disturbance regimes and (or) their long-term consequences of forest disturbances. Our symposium will represent research efforts from throughout the U.S., including diverse forest disturbance types. A new integrated approach to estimating forest disturbance rates and the consequences for ecosystems and landscapes is emerging from these diverse efforts. | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Robert Scheller |
| Simulation of fire management and forest successional dynamics in the New Jersey pine barrens: Sensitivity to remotely sensed initial landscape configuration | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Richard Lathrop |
| Integrating landscape change and ecosystem modeling of the wildland/urban interface of the New Jersey Pinelands | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Jian Yang |
| Simulating landscape influences on occurrence and spread of forest wildfires in a modern surface fire regime | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Jane Foster |
| Geostatistical analysis of satellite mapped defoliation intensity: Integrating results and modeling defoliation effects on above-ground biomass | |
| 11:20-11:40 | Kirsten de Beurs |
| Modeling the consequences of forest disturbance in multiple ecosystems using MODIS | |
| 11:40-12:00 | Open |
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