Category: News
Jon Wang successfully defends his dissertation!
After six years in the LCSC group at Boston University, Jon defended his dissertation, which is entitled “Interactions Among Land Cover, Disturbance, and Productivity Across Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems of Northwestern North America from Remote Sensing” on May 28. Jon gave a great presentation, followed by a lively question and answer period.
Jon is moving to the next stage of his life, starting with a post-doc in the Department of Earth Systems Science at the University of California, Irvine under the supervision of Jim Randerson. Jon will be missed, but we wish him the best and expect big things from him in the coming years!
Note the cartographic cake in the shape of the ABoVE domain :)
Congrats Jon!!!!!!
Jon Wang to present at ABoVE Science Team Meeting
PhD Candidate Jon Wang will present a poster at the ABoVE Science Team Meeting, taking place in La Jolla, CA from May 20th to the 23rd. His poster is titled: "Landsat-based Land Cover Change and its implications for Greening and Aboveground Biomass changes across the ABoVE Core Domain." The talk will showcase recent work from the NASA ABoVE project.
LCSC presentations at Living Planet Symposium in May 2019
Mark Friedl (PI), Doug Bolton (Postdoc), and LCSC alumnus, Josh Gray, will present their research at the European Space Agency's Living Planet Symposium in Milan, Italy. All three speakers will present updates from the Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) project funded by NASA’s Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program.
Mark Friedl
Session: Multi-Source Data for Next Generation Land Monitoring (2)
Talk: Continental Monitoring of Land Surface Phenology From Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 Imagery
Time: Thursday, 16 May 2019 15:40 – 17:20
Douglas Bolton
Session: Advances in Monitoring Land Surface Phenology (1)
Talk: Investigating the drivers of autumn phenology in a temperate broadleaf forest using in situ observations, phenoCam data, and a dense time-series of Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery
Time: Thursday, 16 May 2019 10:40 – 12:20
Josh Gray
Session: Advances in Monitoring Land Surface Phenology (1)
Talk: The Ecological Significance of Moderate Resolution Land Surface Phenology Observations
Time: Thursday, 16 May 2019 10:40 – 12:20
Radost Stanimirova and Jordan Graesser will present at Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting
Radost Stanimirova, PhD candidate, and Jordan Graesser, LCSC alum, will present at the upcoming Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting in Bern, Switzerland. On Thursday April 25th, Jordan will give a talk titled "Commodity crops and frontier agricultural dynamics in central South America." Radost will present a poster on Wednesday April 24th titled "Mapping pasture and rangeland degradation in the Southern Cone of South America using Landsat."
Minkyu Moon publishes in Remote Sensing of Environment
PhD candidate Minkyu Moon and LCSC PI Mark Friedl just published an article in Remote Sensing of Environment titled: "Long-term continuity in land surface phenology measurements: A comparative assessment of the MODIS land cover dynamics and VIIRS land surface phenology products."
There is a lot of demand for a long-term record in land surface phenology (LSP). In this paper, the authors compared data from the Collection 6 MODIS Land Cover Dynamics product with data from the newly developed VIIRS LSP product in terms of their long-term continuity. The results from this study show that the VIIRS product provides excellent continuity with the MODIS record.
Eli Melaas joined Indigo Ag
Congratulations to Eli Melaas, a longtime LCSC researcher, who joined Indigo Ag as a Remote Sensing Data Scientist. At Indigo Ag, Eli is a part of the GeoInnovation team, creating infrastructure and understanding directed toward creating a living map of the world’s food supply.
LCSC at LCLUC Science Team Meeting in April 2019
Members of LCSC group will travel down to Rockville, Maryland in early April to present project updates at the 2019 NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC) spring science team meeting. Doug Bolton, a post-doctoral research associate, will present results from the Multi-Source Land Imaging (MuSLI) component of the LCLUC Program. His talk is titled "Progress on Moving Multi-Source Land Imaging of Seasonal Dynamics in Land Surface to Production (Type 1)." As a part of her NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF), PhD candidate Radost Stanimirova will present a lightning talk and a poster titled "Assessing pastureland degradation in the Southern Cone of South America using spectral mixture analysis." Leticia Lee, a second year PhD student, and Mark Friedl, LCSC PI, will also be in attendance.
Find LCSC at AGU Fall Meeting 2018
Are you going to be at AGU this fall? Come by and say hi to our LCSC team. We are presenting on diverse topics and in diverse presentation formats.
Douglas Bolton
B33K-2817: Monitoring vegetation greening at alpine treeline ecotones using airborne laser scanning and Landsat time-series
Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:40 - 18:00
Mark Friedl
GC14B-08: Mapping Annual Land Cover and Phenology from MODIS: Global Data Sets Supporting Modeling and Global Change Science (Invited)
Monday, 10 December 2018 17:45 - 18:00
B22A-01: Towards A Moderate Spatial Resolution Data Record of 21st Century Global Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Cover Change (Invited)
Tuesday, 11 December 2018 10:20 - 10:35
Eli Melaas
B51H-2019: Using PhenoCams and Landsat to improve understanding of photoperiod control on spring phenology of deciduous forests in the Eastern US
Friday, 14 December 2018 08:00 - 12:20
Minkyu Moon
B22C-03: Attribution of Surface Energy Balance Changes Induced by Springtime Phenology
Tuesday, 11 December 2018 10:50 - 11:05
Radost Stanimirova
B23J-2665: Mapping Continuous Fields of Bare Ground, Grass, and Woody Cover in the Southern Cone of South America using Landsat
Tuesday, 11 December 2018 13:40 - 18:00
Jonathan Wang
U13B-19: Shifting plant functional types in the rapidly warming high northern latitudes (Invited)
Monday, 10 December 2018 14:35 - 14:38
B14C-01: Regional shifts in productivity resulting from multi-decadal trends in Arctic and Boreal land cover change
Monday, 10 December 2018 16:00 - 16:15
Mark Friedl and Eli Melaas to attend NSF Macrosystems Biology project meeting
Mark Friedl and Eli Melaas will be attending the NSF Macrosystems Biology PhenoCam Project meeting at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona October 24-26. The NSF Macrosystems Biology project strives to understand the role of phenology in mediating ecosystem-atmosphere coupling and feedbacks at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
Jon Wang will give two invited talks in Montreal, Canada
Jon Wang, LCSC PhD candidate, has been invited to give a talk at the University of Quebec at Montreal's Center for Forest Studies on October 17th as well as a talk at McGill University Department of Geography on October 18th. The talk, which is titled "Regional shifts in productivity and plant functional types resulting from long-term trends in Arctic and Boreal land cover change", showcases Jon's latest work as part of the Above project.
