INS 12 -
Science From a Distance: Using Remote Sensing to Answer Critical Ecological Questions in Drylands
Organizer:
Tara B.B. Bishop
Co-organizer:
Daniel E. Winkler
New technologies are offering unprecedented opportunities to study earth’s ecosystems from local to global scales. Integrating remote sensing into ecological research opens the door to inaccessible territories where traditional surveying and collection methods would be too time consuming and costly, and sometimes physically impossible. Utilizing remote sensing can work to better inform decision makers by using information such as harnessing real-time data, incorporating historical data with present conditions to include in modelling future outcomes, and informing whole system processes at landscape scales. New approaches to face challenges in dryland remote sensing can integrate accurately this wealth of potential data. This session includes research from across and applicable to the Southwest in the United States and Mexico and showcases usage of remote sensing in dryland ecology to show how researchers are answering questions about ecosystem structure and function from a distance.
Remote sensing of vegetation photosynthesis across drylands of the Southwest United States
William Smith, University of Arizona;
Joel A. Biederman, USDA-ARS;
Xian Wang, University of Arizona;
Dong Yan, University of Arizona;
Fangyue Zhang, University of Arizona;
Matthew Dannenberg, University of Iowa;
Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey;
Scott Ferrenberg, New Mexico State University;
Steven Lee, New Mexico State University;
Russell L. Scott, USDA-ARS;
David J.P. Moore, University of Arizona
Modeling dryland insect outbreaks: From remote sensing to ecophysiology
Douglas Lawton, Arizona State University;
Ted Deveson, Australian Plague Locust Commission;
Allan Spessa, Australian Plague Locust Commission;
Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne;
Peter Scarth, University of Queensland;
Cathy Waters, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Arizona State University;
Arianne Cease, Arizona State University
