Primary Convener:
Amanda Whitehurst, NASA Headquarters

Convener:
Yadira Bordlemay Padilla, NASA Headquarters
Amber Emory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Gerald Bawden, NASA Headquarters

Chair:
Amanda Whitehurst, NASA Headquarters
Gerald Bawden, US Geological Survey
Yadira Bordlemay Padilla, NASA Headquarters
Amber Emory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The innovative technologies of NASA’s remote sensing missions enable greater knowledge of the forest ecosystem and improved management of our natural resources. With the new data and research from missions like GEDI and NISAR, the STV Incubation Program, as well as airborne remote sensing instruments and missions, scientists and resource managers will have more available active remote sensing data than ever before for understanding the forest ecosystem. This session seeks projects that use these innovative technologies and highlight how they can improve our resource management capabilities, aligning with the NASA Earth Science to Action Strategy, to improve the feedback between research and applications. Abstracts may use active remote sensing metrics for forest ecosystem management with direct applications to the public and commercial sectors including the tracking of change, improvement of data products, and fusion with other datasets to improve ecosystem knowledge and applications.

Index Terms
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
0480 Remote sensing
0498 General or miscellaneous

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering