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Advances in Active Remote Sensing for Hydrology and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Session ID#: 158593

Session Description:
Advances in the effective measurement and monitoring of water and vegetation structure and mass are driven by developments in active remote sensing instruments and techniques. These instruments are capable of providing measurements of global water storage, soil moisture, water level, wave height, vegetative canopy water fraction, and vegetative structure at novel spatial and temporal scales. In response to previous NASEM decadal surveys, there has been increased motivation to use these sensors to improve our ability to model and understand the global water cycle and terrestrial ecosystems. We invite abstracts using observed or simulated data from sensors including, but not limited to InSAR, polarimetry, scatterometry, altimetry, laser mass gravimetry, GNSS, and LiDAR, demonstrating advancements in hydrological and terrestrial ecosystem monitoring. This session also seeks to address challenges and uncertainties related to 3- and 4-D resolution mapping through the use of data fusion and novel algorithms applied to active remote sensing instruments.
Co-Organized:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1223 Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1890 Wetlands [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Jessica V Fayne, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Roger Michaelides, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States and Sarah W Cooley, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Roger Michaelides, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States
 
Remote Sensing by CYGNSS for Terrestrial Hydrology and Ecosystems (Invited) (1050445)
Christopher S Ruf, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, United States, Clara Chew, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States and April Marie Warnock, SRI International, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
NASA’s Surface Topography and Vegetation Study and the QUAKES-I/SAR-Fusion instruments: Mapping our Changing Earth in 3D (Invited) (1051524)
Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Variations in behavior of InSAR triplet phase closure and inferred deformation across land surface types in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley in California and Baja California, Mexico (1091871)
Rowena B Lohman and Olivia Catherine Paschall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Retrieval of Snow Grain Size During Melt Season from UAV Lidar Intensity (1095163)
Chelsea Ackroyd and McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Assessing spatial interpolation methods for space based GNSS-R measurements using CYGNSS data (1098669)
Rajeswari Balasubramaniam, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jonas Seerveld, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Computer Science and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Christopher S Ruf, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Spatial downscaling of GRACE products by capturing the seasonality using LSTM in Krishna river. (1118357)
Sai Srinivas Gorugantula, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India and Bvn P Kambhammettu, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Civil Engineering, Hyderabad, India
 
Soil Moisture Estimation from CYGNSS using Machine Learning (1128817)
Rajasweta Datta, University of Canterbury, Geospatial Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand, Matthew Wilson, University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment - Geospatial Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand, Delwyn Moller, Department of Electrical Computer & Software Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and Christopher S Ruf, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, United States
 
First Results From the Rongowai Airborne GNSS-R mission (1129620)
Delwyn Moller1, Christopher S Ruf2, Rajasweta Datta3, Scott Gleason4, Xiaoyou Lin5, Mike Laverick1, Stephen Musko6, Andrew O'Brien7, Matthew Wilson8 and Chris Seal1, (1)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Department of Electrical Computer & Software Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)Ohio State University Main Campus, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (8)University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment - Geospatial Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
 
Too many trees? Finding the point where vegetation density obscures valid deformation measurements using polarimetric InSAR (1130190)
Elizabeth Wig, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Roger J Michaelides, Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, Kevin M Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, CO, United States and Howard A Zebker, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Transferability of Lidar-Derived Aboveground Biomass Models in Piñon-Juniper Woodlands of the Western United States (1134102)
Jessie Eastburn and Michael Campbell, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Characterization of reservoir ice phenology using an automatic detection algorithm based on Sentinel-2A (1150713)
Doris Domart1, Daniel Nadeau1, Yves Prairie2 and Tadros Ghobrial1, (1)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)UQAM, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
Characterizing the Model Domain for GEDI04_A Aboveground Biomass Density Algorithms (1157497)
James R Kellner1, John David Armston2, Laura Duncanson3, James Bryan Blair4, Jamis Bruening5, Tiago de Conto5, Steven Hancock6, Sean Healey7, Michelle A Hofton5, Scott B Luthcke8, David Minor3, Paul L Patterson9, Hao Tang10 and Ralph Dubayah5, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (7)Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Lab, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, United States, (10)National University of Singapore, Geography, Singapore, Singapore
 
Assessing Tree Growth and Biomass Dynamics in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve Using GEDI and Airborne LiDAR Data (1162243)
Adriana Sofia Parra, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Marc Simard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Mapping the Planting Schedules of Rice Paddies using Unsupervised Classification of Sentinel-1 SAR Images (1174267)
Lauren McGiven, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States and Marc Muller, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Demonstrating Spaceborne P-band Signals of Opportunity Reflectometry (1187095)
James L Garrison1, Benjamin Nold2, Dallas Masters3, Conor Brown4, Jordan Bridgeman4, Justin Rhys Mansell2, Manuel Alejandro Vega5 and Jeffrey R. Piepmeier5, (1)Purdue University, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, (3)Muon Space, Mountain View, United States, (4)Spire, Inc, San Francisco, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
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