GC093
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in the Americas

Session ID#: 82022

Session Description:
While countries in the Americas face challenges linked to increasing populations and vulnerability to natural disasters, the region’s nations have also sought to leverage Earth observations (EO) for the benefit of society on a whole. This is evidenced by the growing number of governments that have invested in EO satellites which are, in turn, contributing to the global body of knowledge related to the monitoring of agricultural production, changing land use and ecosystems, disasters, and water resources. Taking that into context, this session will highlight efforts related to EO research and capacity building activities in the region, focusing on lessons learned in terms of data-driven decision making. The session will also address decision-making by local communities and indigenous groups, in consideration of how local and indigenous populations are particularly vulnerable to environmental changes. Submissions are welcome from researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers working on these issues in the Americas.
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Primary Convener:  Betzy E. Hernández, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and Cindy Schmidt, NASA DEVELOP National Program, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Distinction of deforestation drivers in the Amazon using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) C-band data (507708)
Andrea Puzzi Nicolau1, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova2,3, Robert Griffin3,4 and Kelsey E. Herndon2,5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Estimating Crop Planting Delays and Phenological Variation caused by Extreme Rainfall Events in the US Lower Mississippi River Basin using Earth Observation Systems (510119)
Aaron Shew, Arkansas State University Jonesboro, Jonesboro, AR, United States, Aniruddha Ghosh, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jesse B. Tack, Kansas State University, Agricultural Economics, Manhattan, KS, United States and Lawton L. Nalley, University of Arkansas, Agricultural Economics, Fayetteville, AR, United States
 
Improving seasonal precipitation forecast for agriculture in the Orinoquia Region of Colombia (516230)
Katia Fernandes1, Angel Munoz1, Julian Ramirez-Villegas2, Diego Agudelo3, Lizeth Llanos3, Alejandra Esquivel3, Jeferson Rodriguez3 and Steven Prager3, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia, (3)Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Colombia
 
Testing the Capabilities of Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Quantify the Carbon Storage of Temperate Deciduous Forests (519695)
Octave Lepinard, Middlebury, Vermont, United States and William H Amidon, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United States
 
NASA DEVELOP Feasibility Studies in Support of the NASA-SICA Partnership (552350)
Kenton W Ross1, Amanda Clayton2, Sean McCartney3, Steve Padgett-Vasquez2, Christine M Lee4, Dalia Kirschbaum5, Karen N Allsbrook2, Lindsay Rogers1 and Michael L Ruiz1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, National Program Office, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Goddard Space Flight Center – SSAI, Greenbelt, VA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The SAR-CBC Project: Experiences and Lessons Learned from Recent SAR Capacity Building Activities (570746)
Franz Josef Meyer1, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova2, Eric Anderson3, Emil A. Cherrington2, Paul Rosen4, Susan E Owen4, David B McAlpin5, Simon Zwieback6 and Robert Griffin7, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) Pole-to-Pole of the Americas in support of conservation and sustainable use of living resources in the sea (Invited) (583611)
Enrique Montes1, Gabrielle Canonico2, Maria T Kavanaugh3, Patricia Miloslavich4, Eduardo Klein5, Benjamin Best6, Sennai Habtes7, Elva G Escobar-Briones8, Gregorio Bigatti9, Maikon Di Domenico Dr.10, Yasmina Shah Esmaeili11, Guilherme Corte11, Erasmo Macaya Dr.12, Nuno Simões Dr.13, Edlin Guerra-Castro Dr.13, Carlos Barboza14, Ana Carolina Mazzuco15, Gil Rilov16, Nicolás Moity17, Maritza Cárdenas18, Cesar Cordeiro19, Eleonora Celentano20, Edgardo Londoño-Cruz21, Daniela Yepes-Gaurisas15, Eulogio Soto22, Maria Gabriela Palomo23, Juan Carlos Azofeifa24, Brian Helmuth25, Fernando Lima26, Rui Seabra26, Kristin Wilson-Grimes27, Alana Jute28, Omar Defeo29, Angelica Gutierrez-Magness30, James Emmett Duffy31, Jonathan Lefcheck31, Abigail Benson32, Tylar Murray33, Daniel Brooks Otis34 and Frank E Muller-Karger34, (1)University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, (5)Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, (6)EcoQuants, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas, United States, (8)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Limnology and Oceanography, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, (9)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, (10)Universidade Federal Do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, (11)Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, (12)Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, (13)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, Merida, Mexico, (14)Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (15)Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil, (16)Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel, (17)Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador, (18)Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (19)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, (20)Universidad de la República, Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Montevideo, Uruguay, (21)Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, (22)Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, (23)Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (24)Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, (25)Northeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nahant, MA, United States, (26)Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, (27)University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, St Thomas, United States, (28)University of West Indies, St. Augistine, Trinidad and Tobago, (29)Universidad de la Republica, Unidad de Ciencias del Mar, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, (30)National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (31)Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States, (32)USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (33)University of South Florida, ST. Petersburg, United States, (34)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Improved forest monitoring in tropical countries, with a focus on the Amazonian region (Invited) (585540)
Louis V Verchot, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Palmira, Colombia, Katia Fernandes, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, David Saah, University of San Francisco, Environmental Science, San Francisco, CA, United States, Glenn Hyman, SIG-GIS, Raleigh, United States, Jean-Pierre Wack, SIG-GIS, San Francisco,, CA, United States, Steven Prager, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Colombia, Carlos Gasco, CIAT, Cali, Colombia, Jose leandro Fernandes, CIAT, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Marina Piatto, IMAFLORA, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil and Sidney Novoa, ACCA, Lima, Peru
 
Global Water Sustainability Tools from Earth Observations for the Americas (585941)
Jim Nelson1, Jason Biesinger2, Norm Jones2, Daniel P Ames2, Riley Hales3, Gustavious P Williams2, Angelica Gutierrez-Magness4, Chris Edwards3, Kyler Ashby5 and Rohit Khattar3, (1)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (3)Brigham Young University, Civil & Environmental, Provo, UT, United States, (4)National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (5)Brigham Young University, Civil & Enviornmental, Provo, UT, United States
 
Applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Monitoring Peacetime Deforestation in Colombia’s La Meta Department (586878)
Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Andrea Puzzi Nicolau, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, Leah Margaret Kucera, NASA SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States and Robert Griffin, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
An Observation and Modeling Analysis of the April 16, 2011 North Carolina Tornado Outbreak (607511)
Caitlin Kelly, Mechanicsville, VA, United States
 
Applications of NASA Earth Observations to Monitor Water Quality in the Indigenous Communities of Madre De Dios, Peru (610713)
Matthew Collins, Albuquerque, United States, Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Andrea Puzzi Nicolau, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova, Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States and Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
MOCUPP: Productive Landscape Monitoring as a responsible agro-export model (618375)
Cornelia Miller Granados, Christian Vargas Bolaños and Heileen Aguilar Arias, Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología, San José, Costa Rica
 
Potential Impacts of Future Land Use Change on Ecosystem Services in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (618962)
Betzy E. Hernández1, Emil A. Cherrington2, Robert Griffin1, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova3, Eric Anderson4, Ashutosh S Limaye5 and Daniel Irwin6, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Advancing the use of Earth Observations in ecosystem service modeling for natural capital accounting in Costa Rica (621867)
Lingling Liu1, Justin Johnson2, Irene Alvarado-Quesada3, Christopher Anderson1, Kate A Brauman4, P. James Dennedy-Frank5, Gillian L Galford6, Rafael Monge7, Rafael J. P. Schmitt8 and Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer1,9, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, St Paul, United States, (3)Banco Central, San Jose, Costa Rica, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (7)Ministry of Environment and Energy, San Jose, Costa Rica, (8)Stanford University, The Natural Capital Project / Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States, (9)University of Minnesota, St Paul, CA, United States
 
Using Synthetic Aperture Radar to Map Oil Palm Plantations in San Martin, Peru (623400)
Naiara Pinto1, Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui2, Zizhao Zhang3, Sudipto Banerjee3 and Brian Zutta4, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)World Wildlife Fund - US, Washington DC, DC, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Biostatistics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
 
What can land use scenarios tell us about meeting conservation commitments in the future? The case of Belize (628384)
Emil A. Cherrington1, Betzy E. Hernández2, Robert Griffin2, Elma Kay3 and Ivanna Waight-Cho3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Belize, Environmental Research Institute, Belmopan, Belize
 
Use of Earth Observation data for assessing change in mangrove cover across the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System-World Heritage Site (629360)
Francisco Jose Delgado1, Emil A. Cherrington2, Robert Griffin3, Betzy E. Hernández3, Eric Ross Anderson2, Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova2, Rebekke Muench4, Kel Nicolas Markert5, Emily Caitlin Adams6, Ashutosh S Limaye7 and Daniel Irwin8, (1)Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Exploratory analysis of ground-based data in the field and multi-resolution satellite imagery to project land use and cover changes over deforested areas as detected by Terra-i (630748)
Paula Andrea Paz1, Alejandro Coca-Castro2, Jhon Jairo Tello3, Louis Reymondin3, Mark Mulligan4, Jorge Perez3, David S Saah5, Karis Tenneson6 and Glenn Hyman7, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Kings College, London, United Kingdom, (3)International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia, (4)Kings College London, Geography, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States, (6)Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States, (7)SIG-GIS, Raleigh, United States
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