Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
202 E, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 8 - GIS, Remote Sensing, and Spatial and Image Analysis
1:30 PMThe use of species distribution modeling in evaluating spatial criteria for IUCN Red List assessments
Holly A. Porter-Morgan, The New York Botanical Garden
1:50 PMIncorporating effects of landscape heterogeneity on pathogen dispersal into spatially-explicit disease models
Alicia M. Ellis, UNC-Charlotte, Ross K. Meentemeyer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
2:10 PMSpatial variance in abundance of two lemur species along environmental and disturbance gradients in two tropical dry forest landscapes
Anne C. Axel, Michigan State University, Brian A. Maurer, Michigan State University
2:30 PMDevelopment and implementation of a remote sensing-based land-cover classification system to evaluate changes in watershed land cover and the associated response of wild trout populations
Christopher R. Derolph, NC State University, Stacy A.C. Nelson, NC State University, Halil I. Cakir, NC State University, Thomas Kwak, NC State University, Montserrat Fuentes, NC State University, Ernie Hain, NC State University
2:50 PMPredicting change in invaded urban brownfield plant communities with remote sensing methods
Ildiko C. Pechmann, Rutgers University Newark, Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University Newark, Frank Gallagher, Liberty State Park, Francisco Artigas, New Jersey Meadowlands Comission
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMDetecting competition at the stand level using distance and size correlations of tree crowns
Stephan Getzin, University of Jena, Kerstin Wiegand, University of Jena
3:40 PMSpatial variations in salinity stress across a coastal landscape using chlorophyll fluorescence and vegetation indices derived from hyperspectral imagery
Julie Naumann, US Army Corps of Engineers, Donald Young, Virginia Commonwealth University, John E. Anderson, US Army Corps of Engineers
4:00 PMDevelopment of a multiple criteria index for the assessment of watershed conditions in two National Parks
Ernie F. Hain, NC State University, Stacy A.C. Nelson, NC State University, Damian Maddalena, NC State University, Christopher R. Derolph, NC State University
4:20 PMForest cover change and illegal logging during the post-socialist transition time in the Ukrainian Carpathians
Tobias Kuemmerle, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jan Knorn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Oleh Chaskovskyy, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Patrick Hostert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
4:40 PMThe Digital Transferscope: A new software tool for the analysis of digital aerial photographs for land cover change
Stephen H. Roxburgh, University of New South Wales and CSIRO Forest Biosciences, Michael C. Fallon, University of New South Wales

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