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Session Proposal: Mapping Earth’s Changing Surface and Overlying Vegetation Structure with Radar, Lidar, and Stereoimaging (AGU25)

GC074
Mapping Earth’s Changing Surface and Overlying Vegetation Structure with Radar, Lidar, and Stereoimaging

Session ID#: 251281

Session Description:
Earth’s surface topography and vegetation structure and changes provide information about climate change, natural hazards, ecosystem structure, and water availability. Precise measurement of both and their changes has wide ranging applications including for geologic hazards, ecosystems, cryosphere, hydrology, and coastal geomorphology. Lidar, radar, and stereoimaging are all methods for determining surface topography and vegetation structure. Each method contributes unique and complementary measurements. Lidar measurements provide canopy height and ground models but can be sparse. Stereoimaging provides digital surface models over broad areas. Both lidar and stereoimaging require clear sky. Radar provides broad area coverage while penetrating clouds and can indirectly measure vegetation 3-dimensional structure. This session will cover needed spatial and temporal scales to meet science challenges. Abstracts that demonstrate needed measurements or the fusion of measurements that address the science challenges are encouraged as are ones outlining data fusions benefits and techniques.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
8175 Tectonics and landscape evolution [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8488 Volcanic hazards and risks [VOLCANOLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Andrea Donnellan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Convener:  Craig Len Glennie, University of Houston, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, Houston, TX, United States
 
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