Poster # 34. Claudio, Helen^*,1, Gamon, John¹, Cheng, Yufu¹, Fuentes, David¹, Sims, Daniel², Qiu, Hong-lie¹, Luo, Hongyan³, Oechel, Walter³, ¹ California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA² Ball State University, Muncie, IN³ California State University, San Diego, San Diego, CA Can optical remote sensing be used to monitor drought effects on ecosystem water status and fluxes?

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Poster # 35. Cano, Jose^*,1, MacKinney, Loren¹, Cheng, Yufu¹, Gamon, John¹, ¹ California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA Non-invasive sampling of ecosystems using automated optical sampling.

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Poster # 36. Ribeiro da Luz, Beatriz^*,1, Crowley, James², ¹ University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil² U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA Thermal infrared spectroscopy of plant leaves: A tool for species identification.

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Poster # 37. Henshaw, Donald^*,1, Remillard, Suzanne¹, Valentine, Theresa¹, ¹ U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA Climate (ClimDB) and Hydrology (HydroDB) Database Project: Facilitating synthetic research.

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Poster # 38. Landenberger, Rick^*,1, McGraw, James¹, Warner, Timothy², ¹ Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, USA² Department of Geology and Geography, Morgantown, WV, USA Aerial detection of female Ailanthus altissima using high resolution color imagery.

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Poster # 39. Millward, Andrew¹, ¹ Department of Natural Resources, Ithaca, NY, USA Characterization of urban greenspace using landscape analysis techniques with IKONOS-2 satellite data.

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Poster # 40. Rae, Charlene^*,1, Rothley, Kristina^*,1, ¹ Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada Effect of uncertainty in spatial datasets on reliability of connectivity analysis for protected area networks.

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Poster # 41. Ralston, Barbara^*,1, Davis, Philip^*,1, Rundall, Jill^*,2, Weber, Robert ^*,3, ¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.² Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.³ Pinnacle Mapping Technologies Inc., Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A A GIS vegetation database of the Colorado River ecosystem in Arizona for multi-scale change detection.

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Poster # 42. Tomas, Kathryn^*,1, Vogel, John², Gass, Leila², ¹ U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona² U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Geographic Science Team, Tucson, Az Two scales of remote sensing methods for monitoring surface and vegetation change in the arid Mojave National Preserve.

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Poster # 43. Brown, Sandra^*,1, Pearson, Tim¹, Slaymaker, Dana¹, Ambagis, Stephen¹, Moore, Nathan¹, Novelo, Darrell², Sabido, Wilbur², ¹ Winrock International, Arlington, VA, USA² Programme for Belize, Belize City, Belize Estimating the carbon stocks of a tropical savanna using a 3D aerial digital imagery system.

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Poster # 44. Wolosin, Michael^*,1, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Three dimensional tree crown structure from aerial imagery.

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Poster # 45. Pearson, Tim^*,1, Brown, Sandra¹, Vaca, Richard², Quispe, Jaime², Slaymaker, Dana¹, Moore, Nathan¹, ¹ Winrock International, Arlington, VA, USA² Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia The use of multispectral 3D imagery and ground measurements to assess the carbon impacts of logging in tropical forests.

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Poster # 46. McHale, Melissa^*,1, Lefsky, Michael¹, Burke, Ingrid¹, ¹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Measurements of tree volume from optical dendrometer, stereo photogrammetry, and ground based LiDAR.

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Poster # 47. Walker, Jason^*,1, Briggs, John¹, ¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Hierarchical image analysis of Phoenix's urban forest structure.

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Poster # 48. Baum, Ryan^*,1, Germino, Matthew^*,1, ¹ Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID Multiple stressors and landscape variations in remotely sensed vegetation indices of sagebrush-steppe over the past ca. 20 years.

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Poster # 50. Buyantuyev, Alexander^*,1, Wu, Jianguo¹, ¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Remotely sensed estimation of vegetation cover in Central Arizona Phoenix LTER (CAPLTER).

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Poster # 51. Reed, Denne'^*,1, Anderson, Michael², Dempewolf, Jan³, Metzger, Kristine⁴, Serneels, Suzanne⁵, ¹ Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC^{2 3 4 5} Vegetation patterns of the Serengeti-Masai Mara ecosystem, Tanzania.

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Poster # 52. Dora, Cathleen^*,1, Lytle, D¹, Jolles, A¹, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Mapping habitat structure and African buffalo home range areas in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa.

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