Project Funding: 2011 - 2014

NRA: 2010 NASA: Carbon Cycle Science   

Funded by NASA

Abstract:
At the time, sampling was imperative because processing the whole US Landsat archive was cost prohibitive. However, given that Landsat data are now freely available, and that we can now accurately process large numbers of LTSS for disturbance characterization, we have the opportunity to extend NAFD results and more fully meet the information needs of the NACP in two critical ways. First, we can completely eliminate sampling error from our initial estimates of national disturbance rates by processing all Landsat scenes in annual time steps for the conterminous US. Second, we can provide a high-quality wall-to-wall disturbance map at Landsat spatial resolution needed for comprehensive carbon flux modeling nationwide. at NASA Ames Research Center to process the entire archive of Landsat observations acquired for the US from 1982 to present.

Publications:

Campbell, J. L., Kennedy, R. E., Cohen, W. B., Miller, R. F. 2012. Assessing the Carbon Consequences of Western Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) Encroachment Across Oregon, USA. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 65(3), 223-231. DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00012.1

Cohen, W. B., Yang, Z., Stehman, S. V., Schroeder, T. A., Bell, D. M., Masek, J. G., Huang, C., Meigs, G. W. 2016. Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985-2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline. Forest Ecology and Management. 360, 242-252. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.042

Moisen, G. G., Meyer, M. C., Schroeder, T. A., Liao, X., Schleeweis, K. G., Freeman, E. A., Toney, C. 2016. Shape selection in Landsat time series: a tool for monitoring forest dynamics. Global Change Biology. 22(10), 3518-3528. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13358

Schleeweis, K. G., Moisen, G. G., Schroeder, T. A., Toney, C., Freeman, E. A., Goward, S. N., Huang, C., Dungan, J. L. 2020. US National Maps Attributing Forest Change: 1986-2010. Forests. 11(6), 653. DOI: 10.3390/f11060653

Schroeder, T. A., Healey, S. P., Moisen, G. G., Frescino, T. S., Cohen, W. B., Huang, C., Kennedy, R. E., Yang, Z. 2014. Improving estimates of forest disturbance by combining observations from Landsat time series with U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 154, 61-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.08.005

Schroeder, T. A., Schleeweis, K. G., Moisen, G. G., Toney, C., Cohen, W. B., Freeman, E. A., Yang, Z., Huang, C. 2017. Testing a Landsat-based approach for mapping disturbance causality in U.S. forests. Remote Sensing of Environment. 195, 230-243. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.03.033

Zhao, F., Huang, C., Goward, S. N., Schleeweis, K., Rishmawi, K., Lindsey, M. A., Denning, E., Keddell, L., Cohen, W. B., Yang, Z., Dungan, J. L., Michaelis, A. 2018. Development of Landsat-based annual US forest disturbance history maps (1986-2010) in support of the North American Carbon Program (NACP). Remote Sensing of Environment. 209, 312-326. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.035

Schleeweis, K., Goward, S. N., Huang, C., Dwyer, J. L., Dungan, J. L., Lindsey, M. A., Michaelis, A., Rishmawi, K., Masek, J. G. 2016. Selection and quality assessment of Landsat data for the North American forest dynamics forest history maps of the US. International Journal of Digital Earth. 9(10), 963-980. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2016.1158876

Williams, C. A., Collatz, G. J., Masek, J., Huang, C., Goward, S. N. 2014. Impacts of disturbance history on forest carbon stocks and fluxes: Merging satellite disturbance mapping with forest inventory data in a carbon cycle model framework. Remote Sensing of Environment. 151, 57-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.034

Schleeweis, K., Goward, S. N., Huang, C., Masek, J. G., Moisen, G., Kennedy, R. E., Thomas, N. E. 2013. Regional dynamics of forest canopy change and underlying causal processes in the contiguous U.S. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 118(3), 1035-1053. DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20076

Powell, S. L., Cohen, W. B., Kennedy, R. E., Healey, S. P., Huang, C. 2013. Observation of Trends in Biomass Loss as a Result of Disturbance in the Conterminous U.S.: 1986-2004. Ecosystems. 17(1), 142-157. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9713-9

Powell, S.L, R.L. Lawrence, C. Sommers Austin, S. Wood. (2010). A flexible approach to help overcome limitations of moderate resolution satellite imagery for mapping invasive saltcedar on the Bighorn River, Montana. Journal of Terrestrial Observation 2(2): 9-22. ISSN 1946-1143

Goward, S. N., Chander, G., Pagnutti, M., Marx, A., Ryan, R., Thomas, N., Tetrault, R. 2012. Complementarity of ResourceSat-1 AWiFS and Landsat TM/ETM+ sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment. 123, 41-56. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.002

Healey, S. P., Lapoint, E., Moisen, G. G., Powell, S. L. 2011. Maintaining the confidentiality of plot locations by exploiting the low sensitivity of forest structure models to different spectral extraction kernels. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 32(1), 287-297. DOI: 10.1080/01431160903464120

Masek, J. G., Goward, S. N., Kennedy, R. E., Cohen, W. B., Moisen, G. G., Schleeweis, K., Huang, C. 2013. United States Forest Disturbance Trends Observed Using Landsat Time Series. Ecosystems. 16(6), 1087-1104. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9669-9

Moisen, G.G. , T. Schroeder, K. Schleeweis, C. Toney, W. Cohen, S. Goward. 2012. Attributing causal agents to nationwide maps of forest disturbance. Proceedings of the 2012 FIA Symposium. In: Morin, Randall S.; Liknes, Greg C., comps. Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012; 2012 December 4-6; Baltimore, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.[CD-ROM]:61-64.

Schleeweis, K., S.N. Goward, C. Huang, J.G. Masek, G.G. Moisen. 2012. Understanding trends in observations of forest disturbance and their underlying causal processes. In: Morin, Randall S.; Liknes, Greg C., comps. Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012; 2012 December 4-6; Baltimore, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.[CD-ROM]: 131-136.

Schroeder, T.A., G.G. Moisen, S.P. Healey, and W.B. Cohen.. 2012. Adding value to the FIA inventory: combining FIA data and satellite observations to estimate forest disturbance. In: Morin, Randall S.; Liknes, Greg C., comps. Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012; 2012 December 4-6; Baltimore, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station.[CD-ROM]: 143-148.

2015 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

• U.S. Forest Disturbance History from 1986 to 2010 Observed from Landsat   --   (Feng Aron Zhao, Chengquan Huang, Samuel N. Goward, Karen Schleeweis, Khaldoun Rishmawi, Jeffrey Masek, Jennifer Dungan, Warren B. Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang)   [abstract]
• Impact of Forest Harvest Regimes on the Tradeoff between Roundwood Production and Carbon Sequestration   --   (Pui-Yu Ling, Caren Dymond, Weimin Xi)   [abstract]
• Measuring post-disturbance forest regrowth in North and South Carolina using 28-years of Landsat data.   --   (Khaldoun Rishmawi, Jeffrey Masek, Feng Aron Zhao, Christopher Neigh, Chengquan Huang)   [abstract]

2013 NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting Poster(s)

• Forest Structure and Biomass Mapping Using Time Series Landsat Observations, Small Footprint Lidar, and Field Inventory Data in North Carolina   --   (Chengquan Huang)   [abstract]

More details may be found in the following project profile(s):

• NASA Terrestrial Ecology (TE) Project Profile
• North American Carbon Program (NACP) Project Profile