INS 7 - The Future is Hyperspectral

Organizer(s)

• KD

  Kyla Dahlin

  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Co-Organizer(s)

• SS

  Shawn Serbin

  Brookhaven National Laboratory
  Upton, New York, United States
• BP

  Benjamin Poulter

  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Greenbelt, MD, United States
• KH

  K Huemmrich

  University of Maryland baltimore county
• DS

  David Schimel

  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Pasadena, California, United States
• PT

  Philip Townsend

  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Moderator(s)

• AP

  Alana Post

  MSU Dept of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences

Air- and spaceborne sensors have played important roles in ecology for decades. Currently, the NSF-funded National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is opening new avenues for ecological research by providing high spatial resolution hyperspectral imagery, along with lidar, from sites around the United States. However, due to the limitations of airborne campaigns these data are collected at most once per year per site. Looking forward, the NASA-led hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and thermal infrared (TIR) satellite mission, ‘Surface Biology and Geology’ (SBG), expected to launch in 2027, will revolutionize remote sensing science with the ability to monitor a host of key terrestrial and coastal ecosystem properties beyond what can currently be measured. Together with numerous upcoming and synergistic missions including the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Hyperspectral Mission (CHIME), the German Spaceborne Imaging Spectrometer Mission (EnMAP), Italy’s Precursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa (PRISMA), NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission as well as the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), and sensors currently installed on the International Space Station like Japan’s Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) and Germany’s DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS), there will be a range of future opportunities for diverse, near real-time global spectroscopic remote sensing. These data, combined with an ecological remote sensing research community with the skills and background to use them, will significantly advance ecology as a data-intensive science. For this session we asked ten early and mid-career terrestrial ecologists to answer the question “What can you imagine doing with SBG-type data?”

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Let's brainstorm about a hyperspectral satellite mission!
  

  Presenting Author: Kyla M. Dahlin – Michigan State University

  Co-author: Shawn P. Serbin – Brookhaven National Laboratory

  Co-author: K Fred Huemmrich – University of Maryland baltimore county

  Co-author: Benjamin Poulter – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  Co-author: Philip Townsend – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Co-author: David Schimel – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Using big satellites to monitor small plants: Exploring the potential of SBG-like data for monitoring grassland plant diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Hamed Gholizadeh – Oklahoma State University

  Co-author: Adam Dixon – World Wildlife Fund

  Co-author: Kimberly Pan – Oklahoma State University

  Co-author: Nicholas A. McMillan – Oklahoma State University

  Co-author: Christian Rossi – Swiss National Park

  Co-author: Robert G. Hamilton – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-author: Samuel D. Fuhlendorf – Oklahoma State University
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  How does hyperspectral improve our understanding of climate-biodiversity interactions?
  

  Presenting Author: Cibele Amaral – Earth Lab, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  A spectrum of spectra? Describing the major dimensions of plant hyperspectral variation
  

  Presenting Author: Shan A. Kothari – Université de Montréal
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  SHIFTing into the time domain: exploring ecosystem phenology with imaging spectroscopy data
  

  Presenting Author: Dana Chadwick – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Co-Author: Phil Brodrick – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Kerry Cawse-Nicholson – Climate Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Frank Davis – UC Santa Barbara

  Co-Author: Kelly Easterday – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Regina Eckert – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Michelle Gierach – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Christine Lee – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Piper Lovegreen – UC Santa Barbara

  Co-Author: Andrew J. Maguire – NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

  Co-Author: Conor McMahon – UC Santa Barbara

  Co-Author: Charles Miller – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Kimberley Miner – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Cassie Nickles – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Franchisco Ochoa – UCLA

  Co-Author: Mark Reynolds – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Ryan Pavlick – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Benjamin Poulter – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  Co-Author: Natalie Queally – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Claire Saiki – UCSB

  Co-Author: David Schimel – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Co-Author: Fabian Schneider – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Co-Author: Alexey N. Shiklomanov – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  Co-Author: David Thompson – NASA JPL

  Co-Author: Philip Townsend – University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Probabilistic urban tree inventories with mixed-pixel imaging spectroscopy
  

  Presenting Author: Jonathan P. Ocón, M.A. Geography – UCLA

  Co-Author: E. Natasha Stavros, n/a – Analytics Hub, Earth Lab, CIRES, University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Justin Robertson – Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

  Co-Author: Steven Steinberg – Los Angeles County Information Services Department

  Co-Author: Thomas Gillespie – UCLA Geography
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Integrating spectroscopic remote sensing with ecology and the tree of life to infer belowground process, detect forest pathogens and monitor plant biodiversity across ecosystems
  

  Presenting Author: Jeannine Cavender-Bares – University of Minnesota
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - The times they are a-changin': Using hyperspectral data to understand the seasonal and inter-annual variations of canopy traits
  

  Presenting Author: Xi Yang – University of Virginia
• 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Discussion (until session ends)