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Session Proposal: From Air to Orbit: Integrating Field, Airborne, and Satellite Observations for Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring (AGU25)

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From Air to Orbit: Integrating Field, Airborne, and Satellite Observations for Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring

Session ID#: 250826

Session Description:
Airborne data and field measurements from NASA campaigns such as BioSCape, AVUELO, and SHIFT offer unique insights that complement and enhance satellite measurements and extend analyses that are only possible with field data. These campaigns provide in situ data for key variables describing ecosystems, terrestrial vegetation and soils, and planktonic and aquatic macrophytes—supporting improved analysis and enabling multi-scale studies. We invite submissions that explore how airborne campaigns contribute to advancing terrestrial and aquatic research in support of current (e.g., EMIT, DESIS, PRISMA, PACE) and upcoming (e.g., SBG) spaceborne missions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, scaling, methodologies, and scientific findings related to ecosystem function and biodiversity across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Submissions leveraging multi-sensor and/or multi-temporal data from these or other relevant campaigns are encouraged.
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Erika Podest, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Dana Chadwick1, Erin Lee Hestir2 and David Schimel1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States(2)University of California Merced, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States
 
Airborne and Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Capture Belowground Microbial Communities and Physicochemical Characteristics in Invaded Grasslands (1857769)
M Ny Aina Rakotoarivony1, Kianoosh Hassani2, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf3, Benedicte Bachelot4, Robert G. Hamilton5 and Hamed Gholizadeh2, (1)Oklahoma State University, Department of Geography, Stillwater, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Geography, Stillwater, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Stillwater, United States, (4)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, United States, (5)The Nature Conservancy, Pawhuska, United States
 
How Imaging Spectrometer Specifications and Deep Learning Metrics Influence the Assessment of Spectral Diversity and Biodiversity Relationships (1865045)
Manisha Das Chaity1, Ramesh Bhatta2 and Jan A van Aardt2, (1)Rochester Institute of Technology, Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)Rochester Institute of Technology, Imaging Science, Rochester, United States
 
Airborne and In Situ Campaigns Cover the Earth's Climate and Floristic Variation (1866308)
David Schimel1, Andres Baresch2, Natalia Leonor Quinteros Casaverde3, Yoseline Angel4, Ewa Czyz5, Erika Podest6, Philip A Townsend7, Dana Chadwick8, Kimberley Rain Miner6, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD9, Tristan Goulden10, Jasper Slingsby11, Ting Zheng7, Henry Frye7, Kyle R Kovach7, Samantha R Weintraub-Leff12, Venkata Shashank Konduri13, Anabelle Cardoso14, Adam M. Wilson15, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson8, Scott J. Goetz16, Charles E Miller17, K. Fred Huemmrich18, Peter C Griffith19, Philip G Brodrick20, Christiana Ade8, John Chapman21, Robert O Green8, Ryan Pavlick22, William W Turner23, Michael E Schaepman24, Andreas Hueni25, Michael Rast26, Marco Celesti27 and Bimal Kumar Bhattacharya28, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)City University of New York & The New York Botanical Garden, Biology, New York, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Earth Science, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (9)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (10)National Ecological Observatory Network, Airborne Observation Platform, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (12)National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States, (13)Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States, (14)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, United States, (15)University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, (16)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (17)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (18)University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, United States, (19)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (20)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (21)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (22)NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, (23)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (24)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Zurich, Switzerland, (25)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (26)International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland, (27)University of Milano - Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy, (28)Indian Space Research Organization- Space Applications Center, Ahemadabad, India
 
Assessing geodiversity and spectral diversity across spatial scales in the Cape Floristic Region (1901847)
Kathleen Grant, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Philip G Brodrick, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Remote Sensing for Biodiversity: Insights from the BioSCape Campaign (1910971)
Adam Wilson, University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, Erin Lee Hestir, University of California Merced, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States, Jasper Slingsby, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Anabelle Cardoso, University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, United States and BioSCape Science Team
 
Capturing Lake Mendota Seasonal Phenology with an Airborne Hyperspectral Field Campaign (1913026)
Sophia Karina Skoglund1, Brendan Heberlein2, Min M Oo3, Helen Schlimm1, James Sustachek1, Robert Holz3, Philip A Townsend2, Katherine D McMahon4, Grace Wilkinson1 and Paul C Hanson1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Bacteriology / Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
 
Toward Validating Digital Twins of Complex Shrubland Ecosystems for Next-Generation Airborne LiDAR Studies. (1917446)
Ramesh Bhatta, Rochester Institute of Technology, Center of Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States, Manisha Das Chaity, Rochester Institute of Technology, Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States and Jan A van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, Imaging Science, Rochester, United States
 
ELEVATE: CO2 Fertilization Experiment in a Costa Rican Neotropical Forest (1924838)
Gabriela Shirkey1, Ashley Agatep2, Gabriella Dauber2, Chad Daniel Deering3, Chris Doughty4, Javier F. Espeleta2, Rosie Fisher5, Lianlei Fu2, Gregory R Goldsmith2, Holland Hatch2, Mengqi Jia6, Amy Liu7, Jose Vargas Murillo8, Katie Nelson9, Christine S. O'Connell2, Alexandria Lynn Pivovaroff10, Erika Podest11, Sally van Riper2, David Schimel12, Florian Max M Schwandner13, Abigail L. S. Swann14, Matthew Snyder2, César Terrer15, Manuel Camacho Umaña16, Gaku Yokoyama17, Cassandra Zalman2 and Joshua B Fisher2, (1)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering & Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway, (6)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, (7)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (8)Universidad Nacional, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Heredia, Costa Rica, (9)McGill University, Department of Biology, Quebec, Canada, (10)Occidental College, Department of Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States, (15)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (16)Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Agronomía, Centro de Investigaciones Agronómicas, Laboratorio de Recursos Naturales, San Pedro, Costa Rica, (17)Kyushu University, Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Bridging Scales in Terrestrial Ecology: A Scalable, Modular Tool for Harmonizing Spectral Data Across UAS, Airborne, and Satellite Sensors (1926916)
Cibele H Amaral1,2, Ty Tuff1,2, Nayani Thanuja Ilangakoon1, Tyler McIntosh1, Sky Gennette3, Matthew Bitters1, Erick Verleye1,2, Janushi Shastri1, Pavan Appanna1, Casey Jenson1, Nate Hofford1, R. Chelsea Nagy2, Megan Cattau3, Carol Adele Wessman4 and Jennifer Balch2, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Earth Lab, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, ESIIL, Boulder, United States, (3)Boise State University, Human-Environment Systems, Boise, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, EBIO, Boulder, United States
 
Seeing the physiology in the trees: the potential of resolving physiological information from spectroscopic signals (1934137)
Andres Baresch1, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD2, Erika Podest3, Philip A Townsend4, Helene C Muller-Landau5, Natalia Leonor Quinteros Casaverde2, Ewa Czyz6, Liliana Londoño7, Yoseline Angel8,9, Monica R. Carvahlo10, Rachel Collin11, Brendan Heberlein4, James Vergara Cortez12, Carlos Jaramillo12, Elliott Marsh4, Jessica McLean12, Laura Puente13, Caroline Troy12, Joseph Wright S.14, Benjamin Poulter15 and David Schimel3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, P{asadena, United States, (7)Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, United States, (10)University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, United States, (11)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Calzada de Amador, Panama, (12)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama, (13)Smithsonian Tropical research Institute, Panama, Panama, (14)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama, (15)Spark Climate Solutions, San Francisco, United States
 
From leaf to orbit: the technical and social evolution of field campaign scaling diagrams (1946016)
Peter C Griffith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and K. Fred Huemmrich, University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, United States
 
Following the Wildflower Blooms: Multiscale Spectroscopy from Flower to Orbit (1953842)
Yoseline Angel1,2, Evan Lang1,3, Dhruva Kathuria1,4, Ewa Czyz5, Dana Chadwick6, Erika Podest7, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD8, David Schimel6 and Alexey N Shiklomanov9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, United States, (4)Morgan State University/NASA GSFC, GESTAR II, Greenbelt, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Earth Science, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States
 
Multi-Scale Remote Sensing of Genetic Variation in Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) (1961247)
Erin Carroll1, Alyssa Phillips2, Roxy Cruz-de Hoyos2, Daniel Sousa3, Moisés Expósito-Alonso2 and Ben Blonder4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)San Diego State University, San Diego, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
 
Phytoplankton Community Composition in Inland Waters from Airborne and Satellite Hyperspectral Data (1964275)
Samantha Sharp1,2, Ryan E. O'Shea3, Liane S Guild4, Alicia Cortes5, Alex Forrest6, Jeremy Kravitz7, Lisl Robertson-Lain8,9, Sifiso Mpapane10, Rabelani Mudzielwana11, Humeshni Pillay10, Glynn Pindihama11, Geoffrey Schladow12, Marie Smith13 and Juan Luis Torres-Perez14, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, United States, (4)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Davis, CA, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States, (7)Pixxel Space Technologies, El Segundo, United States, (8)University of Cape Town, Dept. Oceanography, Cape Town, South Africa, (9)Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Cape Town, South Africa, (10)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (11)University of Venda, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Thohoyandou, South Africa, (12)University of California Davis, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Davis, United States, (13)Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Earth Observation Research Group, Cape Town, South Africa, (14)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, United States
 
AVUELO Endmember Diversity, Its Relationship with the Dimensions of Biodiversity, and Implications for Current and Future Imaging Spectroscopy from Space (1967492)
Natalia Leonor Quinteros Casaverde1, Yoseline Angel2, Andres Baresch3, Elliott Marsh4, Helene C Muller-Landau5, Philip A Townsend4, Philip G Brodrick6, David Schimel7, Erika Podest8, John Chapman7, Michael Bernas7, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD9 and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Scientific Team, NASA AVIRIS Team, (1)Southeastern Universities Research Association, Washington DC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
 
Integrating Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Dendroecology to Investigate the Dynamics of Plant Traits and Forest Carbon (1968765)
Ethan Shafron1, C. Alina Cansler2, Jackson Carrasco3, Ewa Czyz4, Carissa DeRanek5, Scott Ferrenberg6, John S Kimball7, Ryan Pavlick8, Fabian Schneider9, Philip A Townsend10, Ting Zheng10 and Ashley Ballantyne11, (1)University of Montana, Systems Ecology, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of Montana, Missoula, United States, (3)Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of Montana, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, United States, (7)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, United States, (8)NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, (9)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (10)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (11)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
 
SHIFTing from Flora to Fauna: Combining Bioacoustics and Imaging Spectroscopy to Track Seasonal and Spatial Patterns of Riparian Animal Vocal Activity (1969852)
Conor McMahon, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Natalie Queally, University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States
 
Advances in NEON Airborne Observation Platform Data Products (1974586)
Venkata Shashank Konduri, National Ecological Observatory Network/Battelle, Boulder, United States, Samantha R Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States and Tristan Goulden, National Ecological Observatory Network, Airborne Observation Platform, Boulder, United States
 
Imaging Spectroscopy Reveals Global Variation in Leaf-Economics Trait Relationships (1976252)
Philip A Townsend1, Ewa Czyz2, Benjamin Dechant3, Henry Frye4, Kyle R Kovach4, Helene C Muller-Landau5, Prabu Ravindran1, Ethan Shafron6, Jasper Slingsby7, Ting Zheng4 and Sarah Graves8, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (6)University of Montana, Missoula, United States, (7)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (8)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Forest & Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States
 
Landscape scale functional traits and functional diversity explained productivity across contiguous United States (1976641)
Shuwen LIU1, Philip A Townsend2, Yuhao Feng3 and Jin Wu3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (3)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Spatial Patterns of Three California Native Oaks Across Heterogeneous Landscapes using Imaging Spectroscopy and LiDAR (1977782)
HsinJu Li, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Joseph P McFadden, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Leander DL Anderegg, University of California Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, United States
 
“Trees within LAC”: Environmental Monitoring and Education through Citizen Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (2023–2025) (1988233)
Mariana Savino1, Ana B Prieto2, Claudia Caro3, Andrea Ventoso1 and Josefina Gonzalez1, (1)GLOBE Program, GLOBE LAC Regional Office, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2)Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina, (3)Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru
 
Integrating Imaging Spectroscopy and Avian Functional Diversity for Biodiversity Monitoring (1998457)
Festus Adegbola, University at Buffalo, Department of Geography, Buffalo, United States, Adam Wilson, University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, Stuart M Evans, University at Buffalo, Department of Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, Christopher Larsen, University of Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, United States and Heather Williams, University of Buffalo, Biological Sciences, Buffalo, United States
 
eDNA and Canopy Signatures Track Biodiversity Across the Western Cape's Managed and Disturbed Landscapes (2005226)
Madeline Slimp1, Sean Johnson2, Jacob Nesslage3, Jabulile Malindi4, Meghan Hayden5, Ayesha Hargey6, E. Natasha Stavros7, Matthew W Rossi8 and Rachel Meyer2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, (4)University of the Western Cape, Johannesberg, South Africa, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States, (6)UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (7)WKID Solutions, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States
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