GC106
Use of Earth Observations in Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in the Americas I

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 08:30-09:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Carlos Gasco, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, Sylvia Wilson, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Chairs:  Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Carlos Gasco, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, Sylvia Wilson, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
08:30
Welcoming Remarks
08:36
GC106-01
The Advance of Real-time Deforestation and Fire Monitoring in the Amazon (Invited) (665235)
Matthew Finer, Amazon Conservation, Washington, DC, United States
08:42
GC106-02
Analyzing the Impacts of Deforestation on the Hydroclimate in Northwestern Belize Tropical Forests (757672)
Danielle Ruffe1, Colin Doyle1, Timothy Beach2 and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach2, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, Austin, TX, United States
08:48
GC106-03
A Near Real-Time Mine Alert System using Sentinel 1 data (767045)
Sidney Novoa1, Lucio Villa2, Milagros Becerra2, Daniel Castillo3, Andrea Nicolau4, Kelsey Herndon5, Nishanta Khanal6, Brian Zutta7, Karis Tenneson8 and David S Saah9, (1)Conservacion Amazonica - ACCA, Lima, Peru, (2)Conservación Amazónica-ACCA, Lima, Peru, (3)Programa Nacional de Conservación de Bosques - MINAM, Lima, Peru, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, SERVIR Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA SERVIR SCO, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (7)Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States, (8)USDA Forest Service, RSAC, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (9)University of San Francisco, Geospatial Analysis Lab, San Francisco, CA, United States
08:54
GC106-04
Evaluating long-term change in the biogeography of Large Marine Ecosystems of the Americas derived from dynamic satellite seascapes. (746440)
Enrique Montes, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Maria T Kavanaugh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Chris R Kelble, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory - NOAA, Ocean Chemistry Division, Miami, FL, United States and Jonathan Lefcheck, Smithsonian Institution, Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States
09:00
GC106-05
Mapping High-Conservation-Value Forests in Agricultural Zones: An Example from Ucayali, Peru (772974)
Naiara Pinto, Pasadena, CA, United States, Savannah Cooley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui, World Wildlife Fund - US, Washington DC, DC, United States, Lyndon D Estes, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Karis Tenneson, Spatial Informatics Group, Pleasanton, CA, United States and Brian Zutta, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Alameda, CA, United States
09:06
GC106-06
The Value of Land Cover Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection Collection 1 Science Products for Applications in Land Cover Science (705030)
Jennifer Rover, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Christopher Barber, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
09:12
GC106-07
Deforestation drivers in Colombia Andes: a case study in Antioquia's province (760940)
Jennifer Calderón Caro, Luz Maria Morales Gómez and Ana María Benavides, Botanical Garden of Medellin, Medellín, Colombia
09:18
GC106-08
Increasing Situational Awareness Through Real-Time Classification of Amazon Fire Events (750975)
Douglas C Morton1, Niels Andela2, Paulo M Brando3, Yang Chen3 and James Tremper Randerson3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
09:24
GC106-09
ADVANCES ON EARTH OBSERVATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO MAP UNOFFICIAL ROADS IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON BIOME (Invited) (751644)
Carlos M Souza Jr1, Júlia G. Ribeiro2, Jonas P Botelho Jr.2 and Frederic T Kirchhoff2, (1)Imazon, Belem, Brazil, (2)Imazon, Belém, Brazil
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