Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

Modeling Carbon Dynamics and Their Economic Implications in Two Forested Regions: Pacific Northwestern USA and Northwestern Russia

This research project was drafted to compare two significant forest regions, the United States Pacific Northwest and the St. Petersburg region of Russia, with the overall objective of determining the relative importance of land-use versus biogeoclimatic factors in controlling spatial and temporal patterns of carbon dynamics. Our laboratory's involvement in the effort is to provide the remote sensing components of the land cover maps that drive the carbon flux modelling process. Specific details of our work in each region are available as two separate web pages:

Western Oregon Vegetation (WOV) Mapping

Land Cover Mapping of the St. Petersburg Region of Russia

RELATED WEB SITES:

• NASA's Land-Cover Land-Use Change Program
• H. J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research site
• Pacific Northwest: Regional Carbon Stores
• Pacific Northwest: Land-Cover Land-Use Change

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

This research being funded in part from NASA Earth Science by grant # NAG5-6242 as part of the Land Cover-Land Use Change Program.