Oral Session #64: Remote Sensing.

Presiding: S. Bohlman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
1:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Superior Room - Cliff Lodge

1:30 PM	New land cover dataset for supporting regional and national scale landscape analyses in the conterminous U.S. GALLANT, A.L.
1:45 PM	Net carbon exchange from a tropical wet forest. OBERBAUER, S.F. , H.W. LOESCHER and D.B. CLARK, D.A. CLARK
2:00 PM	Lessons learned in applying a satellite-driven model (3-PGS) to map forest growth capacity across southwestern Oregon WARING, R.H. , N.C. COOPS and J.J. LANDSBERG
2:15 PM	Primary and secondary controls on measurements of forest height using large-footprint lidar at the Hubbard Brook LTER. KNOX, R.G. , J.B. BAIR and P.A. SCHWARZ, M.A. HOFTON, R. DUBAYAH
2:30 PM	Documenting the impacts of changing land use and land holding trends on vegetation patterns in the California Sierra Nevada using a geographic information system (GIS). SAAH, D. , T. BENNING and L. FORTMANN
2:45 PM	Modeling the spatial patterns of forest fuels in the Los Alamos region. BALICE, R.G. , S.W. KOCH and S.R. YOOL
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Modeling lidar waveforms using a geometric and optical radiative tranfer model for discontinuous plant canopies. NI, W. , R. DUBAYAH and J.B. BLAIR
3:45 PM	The optics, pigments and phenology of water lily leaves. WHITMAN, K.J. , J.F. SCHALLES
4:00 PM	Spatial scaling issues in hyperspectral remote sensing of grass and chaparral ecosystems. RAHMAN, A.F. , J.A. GAMON and D.A. SIMS, D.A. FUENTES, H. QIU
4:15 PM	Characterizing ecosystem stability of northern China steppes using onset of green-up derived from time-series AVHRR NDVI data. PRICE, K.P. , F. YU and R. LEE, J. ELLIS, P. SHI
4:30 PM	Fossil pollen records and AVHRR: Complementary sensors of the vegetation. WILLIAMS, J.W , S.T JACKSON
4:45 PM	Seasonal patterns of NOAA-AVHRR derived NDVI in Arctic tundra vegetations of the North Slope of Alaska JIA, J. , H.E. EPSTEIN and D.A. WALKER