Terrestrial Ecosystem, Carbon Cycle, Landuse Landcover Change, Biodiversity (TECLUB) Measurement Requirements for the Next Decade

Forrest G Hall, NASA GSFC/JCET, forrest.g.hall@nasa.gov (Presenter)
Scott J Goetz, Woods Hole Research Institute, scott goetz

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH

The objectives of the TECLUB workshop were to: (1) engage the carbon cycle (CC), Terrestrial Ecology & Biodiversity (TEBD), and Land cover/Land use Change (LCLUC), science communities to describe and prioritize measurements required to support priority research objectives, (2) identify technical approaches and analysis frameworks to acquire the needed measurements (MMT), (3) produce a white paper for science practitioners and science policy communities, including the 2015 Decadal Survey panel(s). Breakout sessions ensured the teams sequentially addressed: (1) the most important societal issues, (2) science questions, (3) analysis frameworks, (4) measurement needs. The teams integrated and summarized the requirements, ensuring needs were linked in a traceable way to societal issues. Finally, we worked together post-workshop to prioritize the integrated measurement needs across disciplines, and completed a draft report.

OUTCOMES

The TECLUB effort developed a consensus vision for the next decade that considered not only global and regional measurement needs, but also the analysis framework research needed to translate those measurements into the information required to address a broad array of societal issues and science questions. The workshop deliberations articulated needs for (1) continuity in the current global observational data and capabilities already in place, (2) improved temporal frequency and spatial resolution of those observations and (3) new kinds of observations now available using remote sensing technologies and approaches developed in the last decade. These broad categories of observations are needed to address key relevant science questions. The measurement needs require both the continuation of existing remote sensing assets, as well as new measurements that can only be acquired using new technologies developed in the last decade. The draft report is online until

Presentation Type:  Poster

Session:  Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Posters   (Mon 1:30 PM)

Associated Project(s): 

• Cook, Bruce: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Goetz, Scott: Continental scale modeling of bird diversity using canopy structure metrics of habitat heterogeneity ...details
• Goetz, Scott: Modeling Strategies for Adaptation to Linked Climate and Land Use Change in the United States ...details
• Goetz, Scott: Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System ...details
• Griffith, Peter: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Hall, Forrest: Multi-Sensor Retrieval of Vegetation 3-D Structure and Biomass using Physically-Based Algorithms ...details
• Hall, Forrest: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Leidner, Allison: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Masek, Jeff: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Nemani, Rama: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Saatchi, Sassan: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details
• Tucker, Compton: NASA CMS Pilot Projects: Biomass and Carbon Storage ...details

Poster Location ID: 152