Southwest Watershed Research : USDA-ARS Pacific West Area Remote Sensing Workshop

The PWA Remote Sensing Workshop was held on 29-30 April 2009 in Albany, California. The workshop was designed to interest PWA scientists using, planning to use, or thinking about using remote sensing (RS). The objectives of this workshop were

1) information sharing, including both applications and state of the science; and

2) planning for future remote sensing research in PWA.

The objectives were addressed through a unique workshop format that included Q&A sessions, facilitated discussions, a poster session, invited speakers and breakout sessions.

A full workshop report can be downloaded here.

Workshop Agenda

29 April Wednesday
1-4pm		Kick-off: Opportunities for interaction were offered as follows: 1-2pm MODIS and ASTER Q&A– Facilitators French and Hook 2-3pm Ground-based remote sensing Q&A– Facilitators Clarke, Marks, Seyfried and Holifield Collins 3-4pm Facilitated discussion on 2 topics (held in parallel): Cropland research – Facilitators Johnson, Hunsaker and Walthall Wildland research – Facilitators Bubenheim, Carruthers and Moran
4-6pm		Poster Session: The poster session focused on critical research related to remote sensing.
30 April Thursday
8am-noon		Andrew Hammond, PWA		Introduction
		Glenn Bethel, USDA FAS		USDA Remote Sensing Applicationsand Image Library
		NASA and ARS scientists presented examples of NASA/ARS collaborations
		Charlie Walthall, USDA ARS		Opportunities and Challenges for Remote Sensing Research
		Simon Hook, NASA JPL		Areas of Potential Collaboration with JPL
		Chris Potter, NASA Ames		Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling of Western Rangeland Production and Water Dynamics
		Lee Johnson, NASA Ames		Satellite Mapping for Irrigation Management
		Marc Kramer, NASA Ames		Spatially explicit plant and insect modeling for decision support
		Andy French, USDA ARS		Satellite Land Surface Temperature & Emissivity
		Mark Weltz, USDA ARS		Estimating Conservation Benefits on Western Rangelands.
		Mark Seyfried, USDA ARS		Remote Sensing and Complex Terrain
		Susan Moran, USDA ARS		Satellite Mapping and Modeling Rangeland Soil Moisture
		Danny Marks, USDA ARS		LiDAR- Derived Canopy Structure for Environmental Assessment & Modeling
1-3pm		Breakout sessions: Breakouts will be organized to develop a strategy for remote sensing research in PWA based on our critical research needs. Breakout discussion questions: · How can we best facilitate remote sensing in each unit? · How can we maximize inter-unit research collaborations and technology transfer? · What are some ideas for proposals to NASA Applied Sciences Program and other funding sources? · What are new RS initiatives to send to ONP to have on hand in case opportunities for new funding arise?
3-5pm		Plenary session: Breakout summaries. Assign writing tasks for workshop minutes and define action items.
Poster Session
#	Presenter		Title
1	Ray Carruthers		Decision Support for Western Weed Management
2	Zachary Sugg		Hydrologic Impacts of a Native to Exotic Vegetation Transition in a Semiarid Grassland
3	Frank Martin		Remote Sensing in Strawberry Production
4	Dong Wang		Satellite-based Near Real-time Assessment of Water Requirement of California Crops
5	Mark Seyfried		Efforts at Quantitative Remote Sensing for Applications in the Intermountain West
6	Dong Wang		Infrared Canopy Temperatures of Early Maturing Peach Trees Under Deficit Irrigation
7	Dan Long		Combined Spectral Index for Sensing the Nitrogen Status of Dryland Wheat
8	Doug Hunsaker		Remote Sensing for Crop and Water Management in Irrigated Agriculture
9	Chandra Holifield Collins		A Remote Sensing Approach for Determining Vegetation States Within Ecological Sites in Semi-Arid Rangelands (Proposed Research)
10	Alberto Pantoja		Potential Use of GISto Determine Farming Impact in Climate and Climate Impact on Invasive Species in Alaska
11	Corey Moffet		Postfire Shrub Dynamics Determined from Very Large Scale Aerial (VLSA) Imagery
12	Sarah Swope		Mapping the Distribution and Abundance on the Invasive Weed Centaurea Solstitalis Using Hyperspectral Imagery
13	George Mueller-Warrant		Landsat and MODIS Imagery for Remote Sensing Classification of Cropping Practices in Western Oregon
14	Dennis Corwin		Salinity Assessment of the Red RiverValleyUsing MODIS and Electromagnetic Induction Direction Soil Sampling: Phase I
15	Dennis Corwin		Protocols for Mapping Soil Salinity (and Other Soil Properties) at Field Scale Using EMI ECa-Directed Soil Sampling
16	Kelly Thorp		Driving a Crop Growth Simulation Using Canopy Spectral Reflectance Estimates of Leaf Area Index
17	M. Susan Moran		Long-term Geospatial Data Sets at USDA Experimental Sites for Climate Change Studies
18	Christopher Potter		Remote Sensing and Modeling of Carbon and Hydrologic Fluxes in Northern CaliforniaWatersheds