Remote Sensing of Forest Ecosystem and Watershed Processes in the Eastern U.S.
Philip
A
Townsend, University of Wisconsin, ptownsend@wisc.edu
(Presenting)
Brenden
E
McNeil, University of Wisconsin, bmcneil@wisc.edu
Kirsten
M
de Beurs, Virginia Tech, kdebeurs@vt.edu
Suming
Jin, University of Wisconsin, sumingjin@hotmail.com
Peter
T
Wolter, University of Wisconsin, ptwolter@wisc.edu
Jane
R
Foster, University of Wisconsin, jrfoster@wisc.edu
David
P
Helmers, University of Wisconsin, helmers@wisc.edu
Clayton
C
Kingdon, University of Wisconsin, kingdon@wisc.edu
Remote sensing represents one of the best tools for understanding linkages between forest ecosystems and watershed processes. We provide an overview of our remote sensing efforts to characterize important components of forest dynamics related to insect disturbance (using Landsat and MODIS imagery), forest composition and structure (using multi-scale optical imagery, hyperspectral data and SAR), nutrient cycling (using hyperspectral imagery and MODIS), and effects of land cover change on nutrient export and flooding (using multiple sensors). We use all of these approaches as a template to develop new synthetic measures of forest function that can be used to understand a range of forest and ecosystem responses to environmental change.
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