Scaling Carbon Flux to the Site Level in the Context of Validating Products from Earth Observing Satellites

Principal Investigator(s): David Turner

The workshop was held at the H.J. Andrews LTER site near Blue River Oregon on May 21 and 22, 2001 with support from the LTER Network Office. Twenty people attended, including participants from Brazil, Hungary and Korea. The workshop was intended to promote data exchange between the remote sensing community — which has begun to produce global land cover, leaf area index, and net primary production products — and the field sites where relevant validation data is being produced. Specifically, the workshop was aimed at fostering participation of a variety of field sites in the LTER sponsored NPP Demonstration Project. The more general context was the evolution of the Global Terrestrial Observing System which will ultimately provide policy makers with assessments of status and trends for variables such as global NPP.

Products:

Products from LTER/GTOS Workshop 1. Web page that includes links to PowerPoint presentations given at the meeting, list of attendees, and meeting summary (see below). http://www.fsl.orst.edu/larse/bigfoot/gtos_home.html 2. A paper in the peer-reviewed literature reporting results of the meeting (see abstract below). Turner, D.P., Ollinger, S., Smith, M.L., Krankina, O., Gregory, M. 2003. Scaling Net Primary Production to a MODIS Footprint in Support of Earth Observing System Product Validation. International Journal of Remote Sensing. In Press. 3. A pending proposal to NASA (see abstract below). Organizing a GTOS Net Primary Production Assessment Network. NASA. 1/2004- 12/2006, $700,366 (PI:Turner, CoPIs: Cohen, Gower, Running) 4. A planned proposal to NSF Organizing a GTOS Net Primary Production Assessment Network. NSF. 1/2004- 12/2006, (PI:Turner, CoPIs: Cohen, Gower, Running) 5. A follow-up special session at the 2002 AGU Fall meeting. Application and Validation of MODIS Land Products (Organized by David Turner and Steve Running).

Start Date: November 30, 2000

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