Apologies for cross posting. Final Call for Papers
Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes and Vegetation Biophysical Properties Special Paper Session for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), April 15-19, Boston, Massachusetts The estimation of carbon fluxes between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere has important scientific and political implications. Remote sensing has proven a valuable tool for directly or indirectly estimating terrestrial carbon fluxes at landscape, regional, continental, and global scales. Remote sensing is also effective in estimating vegetation biophysical properties including vegetation biomass, leaf area index (LAI), fractional vegetation cover, and phenology that are explicitly used for estimating ecosystem carbon fluxes in empirical approaches or process-based biogeochemistry models. This session will focus on the use of remote sensing data and techniques for estimating ecosystem carbon fluxes and vegetation biophysical properties at various spatial and temporal scales. This session will include, but not limited to, the following topics: (1) Scaling-up site-level measurements on ecosystem carbon fluxes (e.g., eddy covariance measurements) to regional or continental scales using remote sensing data; (2) Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes at landscape, regional, or continental scales using remote sensing data and techniques; (3) Detecting land use/land cover change, disturbances (e.g., fires, and insect defoliation), and extreme climate events (e.g., droughts) and understanding their impacts on regional carbon budgets by combining remote sensing and other techniques; (4) Estimating vegetation biophysical properties including vegetation biomass, LAI, fractional vegetation cover, and vegetation phenology at landscape, regional, or continental scales using optical or microwave remote sensing. We also encourage submissions simulating ecosystem carbon fluxes at regional or continental scales using empirical or biogeochemistry models driven by remote sensing data (e.g., vegetation indices, LAI, vegetation phenology). Abstract submission details are available at the AAG website (http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm). If you are interested in participating in this special session, please submit your abstract through the online submission system by October 31, 2007. After you submit you abstract, please send me an email containing: (1) Your name, affiliation, presentation title, and abstract; (2) The PIN number assigned to you by the online submission system. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions for the special session or the abstract submission procedures. Dr. Jingfeng Xiao Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University CIVIL 550 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051 Tel: (765) 496-8678; Fax: (765) 496-1210 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~xiao3
