GC076
Science and Technology towards Achieving Surface Topography and Vegetation Structure Measurements
Session ID#: 161922
Session Description:
The 2017 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space identified the Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) as a targeted observable for maturation. STV will acquire high-resolution, global height measurements, including bare surface land topography, ice topography, vegetation structure, and shallow water bathymetry. These measurements will serve a broad range of science and applications objectives that span solid earth, cryosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere disciplines. A common set of measurements could meet many of the community needs serving a wide array of disciplines. STV objectives would be best met by new observing strategies that employ flexible multi-source and sensor measurements from a variety of orbital and sub-orbital assets. Science and application objectives focusing on Solid Earth, Vegetation Structure, Cryosphere, Hydrology, and Coastal Processes would be best met by new, 3-dimensional observations from lidar, radar, and stereo photogrammetry. Simulations, experiments, data analysis and technology development in interferometric SAR, lidar and stereo photogrammetry approaches, platform options and system architectures will all mature STV toward an observing system. This session invites submissions on science and technology maturation activities for STV. The complete STV report from the first incubation study team can be found at
https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-stv/
Index Terms:
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4355 Miscellaneous [NATURAL HAZARDS]
8194 Instruments and techniques [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener: Craig L Glennie, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States
QUAKES-I Airborne Spatial and Temporal Topography and Analysis for Achieving Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) Goals (1067229)
Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Instrument Systems Implementation and Concepts Section, Pasadena, CA, United States, Curtis Padgett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Joseph J. Green, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Robert Wayne Zinke, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Department of Earth Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Stephen DeLong, U.S. Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Resolving Beach And Dune Dynamics Through GNSS, InSAR And Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)Topography Measurements (1071918)
Pietro Milillo1, Brett F Sanders2, Daniel Kahl3, Pratyusha Gonnuru4, Jochen E Schubert5, Bernd Scheuchl2, Paola Rizzoli6, Jose Louis Nueso-Bello6 and Nicola Gollin6, (1)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (4)University of Houston, Houston, United States, (5)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
An OSSE Framework for STV Multi-Mission Design and Performance Evaluation (1073076)
Marco Lavalle1, Robert N Treuhaft1, Razi Ahmed1, Ilgin Seker2, Brian Hawkins3, Eric Loria2 and Shashank S Joshil4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
An Novel Terrain Detection Method For Automated Processing of Laser Scanning Point Clouds (1075277)
Xin Xu1, Federico Iuricich2 and Leila De Floriani1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Clemson University, School of Computing College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Science, Clemson, United States
Evaluation of Lidar Data Collected from Different Platforms and Spatial Scales for Use in the Measurement of Forest Structure (1075864)
Keith Krause, Battelle, Boulder, United States, Jan A van Aardt, Rochester Institute of Technology, Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Crystal Schaaf, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States and David Orwig, Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, United States
Water Column Compensation using Submersible Vicarious Calibration Targets for 3D Bathymetric Lidar (1076044)
Kevin W. Sacca1, Alexandra Katherine Wise2 and Jeffrey P Thayer1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Assessing Surface Topography Change Towards the Study of Earthquakes (1080644)
Solène L Antoine1, Zhen Liu2, Yann Klinger3 and Arthur Delorme3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
Land Surface Roughness Investigations Using Airborne Lidar and Stereo Photogrammetry (1094178)
Tianlin Wang, Ohio State University, ElectroScience Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, United States, Alexandra Bringer, NASA Goddard Flight Center, Columbus, United States and Joel Johnson, Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, United States
Measuring surface topography and vegetation changes in complex terrain with lidar and photogrammetry (Invited) (1114162)
Joel B Sankey, US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Temuulen Sankey, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Emerging tools and techniques for surface topography change related to land-surface processes and hazard cascade (Invited) (1115173)
Marin Kristen Clark, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, A. Joshua West, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Dimitrios Zekkos, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States and Josh J Roering, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
Advances in Vegetation Height Estimates from WorldView Multispectral Imagery Using Deep Learning (1122160)
Jordan Caraballo-Vega1, Paul Montesano2, Mark Carroll1, Christopher S R Neigh3, Minh Tri Tri Le4, Konrad Wessels5, Margaret Wooten6 and Zachary Williams1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, United States, (5)George Mason University, Geography and GeoInformation Science, Fairfax, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
LiDAR Uncertainty Quantification for Topo-Bathymetric Earth Science using Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion (1128505)
Alexandra Katherine Wise1, Kevin W. Sacca2 and Jeffrey P Thayer2, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
High-resolution Topography and Orthoimagery along the Creeping Section of the San Andreas Fault, California: Structure-from-motion Results from the QUAKES Imager (1134126)
Robert Wayne Zinke, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Earth Science, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ryan Applegate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Curtis Padgett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Joseph J. Green, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Stephen DeLong, U.S. Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Technology Maturation for the Decadal Survey Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) Observable: Concurrent Artificially-intelligent Spectrometry and Adaptive Lidar System (CASALS) (1151273)
David J Harding1, Guangning Yang1, Jeffrey Chen1, Mark Stephen1, James P Mackinnon1, Jon Ranson1 and Philip Dabney2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Remote Sensing of Fault Slip, Fault Creep, and Landscape Change: Implications for Surface Topography and Vegetation Measurement Needs. (1157512)
Stephen DeLong, U.S. Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Chelsea Scott, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jack G Willard, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States, Morena Hammer, USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, United States, Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Joseph H Powell, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Modernization of Bathymetric Surveys using USV with Multibeam Sonar System (1174596)
Ting Yu Liu, National Cheng Kung University, Department of Geomatics, Tainan, Taiwan, Chi-Ming Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Department of Geomatics, Tainan City, Taiwan and Chung-Yen Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
Influence of Flight Altitude, Scan Angle, and Surface Characteristics on UAS-LiDAR Ground Height Measurement Accuracy in Juncus roemerianus Scheele (Black Needle Rush)-dominated Marshes (1178565)
Michael Amelunke1,2, Carlton Peter Anderson1, George Raber1,2, Margaret Claire Bell Waldron1 and Gregory A Carter1,3, (1)University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Geospatial Center, Long Beach, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Long Beach, United States, (3)University of Southern Mississippi, School of Coastal Resilience, Long Beach, United States
Mapping Variations of Forest Structure across California using Lidar Observations from GEDI Mission and Deep-learning Model Predictions. (1178676)
Samuel Favrichon1, Dr. Sassan Saatchi2, Jake Lee3, Yan Yang3, Steffen Mauceri4, Fabien Hubert Wagner5, Ricardo Dalagnol6 and John David Armston7, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Remote Sensing Division, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of Queensland, St Lucia, United States
Addressing Underestimation in Global Forest Structure Mapping (1184483)
Jake Lee1, Samuel Favrichon1, Steffen Mauceri1, Yan Yang1, John David Armston2 and Sassan S Saatchi1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Improving Tree Stem Mapping using Airborne LiDAR with Genetic Algorithms (1188247)
Johanson Onyegbula1, Laura Wade2, Theodore Elliott Hartsook2, Sushil Louis3 and Jonathan A Greenberg1, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States, (2)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Computer Science and Engineering, Reno, United States
Examining Different Photogrammetry and LiDAR Methodologies for Monitoring Coastal Elevation and Shoreline Changes (1199039)
Jose Pilartes-Congo1, Marina Vicens Miquel2, Isabel Antoinette Garcia2, Michael J Starek3 and Philippe Tissot4, (1)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Conrad Blucher Institute, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (3)Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, United States, (4)Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science, Corpus Christi, United States
