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U.S. Forest Disturbance History from 1986 to 2010 Observed from Landsat
Feng
Aron
Zhao, University of Maryland, fengbjfu@gmail.com
(Presenter)
Chengquan
Huang, University of Maryland, cqhuang@umd.edu
Samuel
N.
Goward, University of Maryland College Park, sgoward@umd.edu
Karen
Schleeweis, USFS RMRS, kgschleeweis@fs.fed.us
Khaldoun
Rishmawi, University of Maryland/College Park, rishmawi@umd.edu
Jeffrey
Masek, NASA GSFC, jeffrey.g.masek@nasa.gov
Jennifer
Dungan, NASA Ames Research Center, jennifer.l.dungan@nasa.gov
Warren
B.
Cohen, USDA Forest Service, warren.cohen@oregonstate.edu
Zhiqiang
Yang, Oregon State University, zhiqiang.yang@oregonstate.edu
As a core activity of the North American Carbon Program (NACP), the North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) project is designed to produce a detailed assessment of forest dynamics over the U.S in a quarter century from 1986 and 2010 to better understand how forest disturbance and recovery modulate biosphere-atmosphere carbon fluxes. The NAFD study is enabled by the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) collaborative computing facility, which provides massive computing and storage capacity, as well as convenient access to all required Landsat and ancillary datasets. This disturbance product provides detailed depictions of individual forest disturbance patches across the conterminous US for each year from 1986 to 2010. Over the 25 years analysis period (1986-2010), extensive regions of the US forests are disturbed one or more times. Nationally, the mean disturbance rate for the coterminous United States is calculated as 1.4+/-0.4% per year. The product has been validated using reference data derived using the TimeSync tool at sample locations selected from across the nation. Further analysis is being conducted to identify causal agent and to evaluate the impact of forest disturbance history on regional carbon budget.
Presentation Type: Poster
Session: Theme 1: Tracking habitat change through new integrative approaches and products
(Mon 1:30 PM)
Associated Project(s):
- Goward, Samuel: US Forest Disturbance History from Landsat ...details
- Huang, Cheng: Assessment of North American Industrial Forests: Disturbances, Biomass Extraction, and Growth Vigor ...details
Poster Location ID: 13
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