Friday, August 16, 2019: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
M108, Kentucky International Convention Center
Organizer:
Jonathan Salerno
Co-organizers:
Andrea E. Gaughan
and
Forrest Stevens
Moderator:
Jonathan Salerno
In 1998, the U.S. National Research Council published “People and Pixels” to assess the science linking remote sensing and humans. Two decades later, people-pixel approaches are widespread in ecology and geosciences. The spatial and temporal grain for environmental and human data continue to become more refined and increasingly accessible to the public. The advancement of open source tools, web platforms, and computational infrastructure make it easier for researchers in a wide range of disciplines to integrate people and pixel data. Yet, progress on the quantification of human wellbeing (i.e., health, vulnerability, resilience) has not kept pace with technological advances. This disconnect is relevant not only to human behavioral and development sciences, but to all coupled-systems science.
This Inspire session is organized around innovative, novel approaches to quantify human wellbeing aided by remote sensing. We are particularly interested in approaches that combine remote sensing and in situ human-based observations, for example participatory mapping or child anthropometrics, and techniques for application across spatial and temporal scales. Candidate approaches might quantify links between ecosystem health and human wellbeing in a landscape experiencing a grassland-to-woody vegetation shift and with a human population reliant on natural resource gathering. Approaches could quantify links among climate via satellite-based sensing, maize foliar disease via unmanned aerial surveillance sensing (i.e., drones), crop yield, and food security in smallholder farming systems.
The session will focus on rural systems in the tropics and subtropics, and all operationalizations of wellbeing and methods of measurement are welcome.
Unmixing our methods to link land functions and environmental change to food insecurity in a southern African savanna context
Forrest R. Stevens, University of Louisville;
Andrea E. Gaughan, University of Louisville;
Narcisa Pricope, University of North Carolina Wilmington;
Jonathan Salerno, Colorado State University;
Joel Hartter, University of Colorado;
Lin Cassidy, University of Botswana;
Michael Drake, University of Colorado;
Ariel Weaver, University of Louisville;
Nicholas Kolarik, University of Louisville;
Kyle Woodward, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Environmental change, human wellbeing, and wildlife conflict: Using remotely-sensed data to examine the impacts of protected areas on human livelihoods
Karen Bailey, University of Colorado;
Jonathan Salerno, Colorado State University;
Forrest R. Stevens, University of Louisville;
Andrea E. Gaughan, University of Louisville;
Timothy M. Bowles, University of California Berkeley;
Lin Cassidy, University of Botswana;
Narcisa Pricope, University of North Carolina Wilmington;
Joel Hartter, University of Colorado
Moving from a landscape footprint to spatial thumbprint: Applying remote sensing to create unique signatures of household-level land use
Andrea E. Gaughan, University of Louisville;
Michael Drake, University of Colorado;
Karen Bailey, University of Colorado;
Kyle Woodward, University of North Carolina Wilmington;
Forrest Stevens, University of Louisville;
Narcisa Pricope, University of North Carolina Wilmington;
Lin Cassidy, University of Botswana;
Nick Kolarik, University of Louisville;
Joel Hartter, University of Colorado;
Jonathan Salerno, Colorado State University
