Land Surface/Land Cover Characterization
Opportunities/Problems
1. Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling
- Vegetative stress across scales (disease,
water)
2. Biogeochemical modeling
(Chuck Wood, Ray Hunt, John Dixon)
3. Global change issues
(Steve Boss, John Dixon, Mark
Anderson, Bob Buddemeier, Will Gosnold, Kevin Price, Ed Martinko)
4. Protection of biodiversity in agriculturally
dominated landscapes
(Tony Joern, Kathy Keeler)
These are the issues that work into
the four above collaborative ideas:
- Matching user queries for data
- (eg. finding maximum NDUI for area)
- Dissemination of results and how data
will be used
(Bruce Maxwell, Rob Dzur)
- Definition and classification of land
cover, including temporal dimensions
- Integrated spectral libraries
- Spatial attributes of remote sensing
data
- Functional characteristics
- Fuzziness
- Canopy attributes
- Ancillary data
(Rob Dzur-thresholds of homogeneous/heterogeneous,
Kevin Price, Bruce Gorham, Ray Hunt, Tom Loveland, Jim Merchant, Betty
Walter-Shea, Richard Aspinall, Kathy Keeler, Bob Buddemeier, Tim Warner,
Ed Martinko, Bruce Maxwell, Mark Jakubauskas, Bob Weih, Gabriel Senay)
- Great Plains calibration/validation
measurement & observation network
- Precipitation/temperature transect
- Consolidate field measurements w/
satellite observations (historical future)
- Identify sites - metadata
- Climate regions framework
- Extrapolation point moving to regional
(Kevin Price, Jim Merchant, Ed
Martinko, Tim Warner, Ray Hunt, Will Gosnold, Betty Walter-Shea, Gabriel
Senay, Bob Buddemeier, Ralph Davis)
- Land use change
- Social cause and implication
(John Thomlinson, Rob Dzur, Tom
Loveland, Richard Aspinall)
- Comparison of Great Plains to other
temperate grass areas i.e. Mongolia
(Kathy Keeler)
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