Multi-scale Remote Sensing to Capture and Characterize Floral Resources: What is Possible?
Multi-scale Remote Sensing to Capture and Characterize Floral Resources: What is Possible?
Session ID#: 119289
Session Description:
Flowering phenology informs us about a plant's health and has implications for restoration and biodiversity. In addition, flowering phenology is a valuable indicator of resource availability for fauna and migratory organisms. Remote sensing allows us to move from the flower to broader spatial scales, however, unique challenges arise that require a diverse set of methods, sensors, and products (e.g. the eye of a citizen scientist, Phenocam, drones, satellites). We welcome submissions from researchers who leverage and translate remotely sensed metrics across spatial and temporal scales and existing data networks to capture floral resources for broad applications in the fields of agriculture, remote sensing, macrosystems ecology, and phenology. In particular, we are interested in research that addresses these questions: Can we detect flowering directly and at what scales? What are appropriate surrogates for flowering (e.g. climate, greenness)? How do geography and/or land cover type influence our ability to remotely sense flowering?
Index Terms:
0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0430 Computational methods and data processing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
Primary Convener: Amy Hudson, USDA-ARS, Office of National Programs, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Conveners: Dawn M Browning1, Shawn Taylor2, Mallory L. Barnes3 and Martha Farella3, (1)USDA Agricultural Research Service, Las Cruces - ARS, Las Cruces, NM, United States(2)USDA-ARS, Office of National Programs, SCINet, Beltsville, MD, United States(3)Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States
Primary Liaison: Melanie Kammerer, USDA-ARS Office of National Programs, SCINet, Beltsville, MD, United States
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