Time Sensitive! AEOIP GEDI Webinar 10/21/2022

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Time Sensitive! AEOIP GEDI Webinar 10/21/2022

by ORNL - mthornton » Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:26 am America/New_York

The Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP) will hold their 2022-2023 kick-off webinar on October 21, 2022, from 9 to 10:30 AM Eastern Time. This webinar will highlight the GEDI mission overall, its data products, applications, and current projects. It will also present applied research using GEDI by Dr. Bryan Pijanowski from Purdue University and Juan Isaac Badouin from Rubisco and Precision Agriculture.

Registration for the event can be found here.

Webinar Highlights
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) produces the first high-resolution laser ranging observations of the 3D structure of the Earth. GEDI makes measurements of forest canopy height, vertical structure, and surface elevation, improving our ability to understand how the Earth behaves as a system and make science-based decisions regarding critical resources. Mapping 3D ecosystem structure using GEDI allows us to quantify the amount of carbon stored in Earth's vegetation, estimate carbon fluxes resulting from land use and climate change, and characterize habitat quality among other applications. This presentation will highlight the GEDI mission overall, data products, applications, and current projects. Ms. Schwelling will provide science highlights, describe data product development, and share a variety of resources tailored for data users. Dr. Pascual will discuss current calibration and validation activities within the mission to drive the next releases for height and biomass products. He will provide a practical overview of GEDI data processing scripts available for users.

To conclude, two examples of GEDI data applications will be discussed. Dr. Pijanowski will highlight research at the Center for Global Soundscapes using three ISS sensor platforms (GEDI, DESIS and ECOSTRESS), a variety of other space-based remote sensing platforms (e.g., ICESat-1/2, MODIS, Landsat), and in situ data to build a multi-sensor biodiversity modeling framework that has been applied to 28 of 32 major biomes. He will tell us about his explorations and summarize the work he has conducted around the world analyzing over 4 million soundscape recordings from places such as Borneo, Mongolia and the Caribbean Sea. In additiona, Mr. Badouin will discuss VINDREW (Vision Intelligence Networks for Developing Research in Ecosystems of the World), a project to estimate carbon capture and storage in ecosystems at the macro level (e.g., country) using GEDI and Sentinel data and at the micro level (e.g., farm or a single tree) using drone images processed with artificial intelligence and allometric equations based on field data. The presentation will highlight a use case in Mexico in which the VINDREW analysis suite is used to perform agave population counts as well as biomass quantification in the states of Guanajuato and Jalisco.

The Applied Earth Observations Innovation Partnership (AEOIP) 2022-2023 webinar series will highlight available Earth Observation missions and data, demonstrate the utility of Earth Observation data to address land management needs, and share successful applications of Earth observations into operational land management decision-making.

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